Category Archives: Smart Traffic Reviews

Smart Traffic Reviews: Getting to know Bing

The main goal of Bing is to help users’ complete tasks with fewer keystrokes and clicks. Above all instances, their top priority is to deliver the best kind of results, thereby improving user experience in general. This entails the inclusion of a range of tools allowing for the narrowing down of search results.

Among them are changes made to Bing’s Webmaster Tools arsenal. Here is a walk-through for account users should follow. First things first, register an account in Bing but if you already are a registered user then congratulations and welcome to Bing Webmasters Tools. Here are some important tips that you must consider upon using the Webmaster Tools…

Smart Traffic Review on the new Google SERPS: Crowded or Useful

Combine page title, website address and a handful of relevant description. Mix in rich, creamy snippets and juicy site links. Sprinkle in some +1 buttons. Add colorful Images and a little bit of Videos to spice up the flavor then serve with steaming hot Instant Preview on the side. Voila! You now have the new Google search results interface.

Earlier this month, we reviewed the Google +1 button for websites. This time around I am quite pleased to announce that Google’s very own seal of approval has become turbo charged. True to its passion for producing quality results in the shortest time possible, Google has now made the loading time for this feature a lot faster. Where liking a particular button used to take a couple of seconds, it has now become almost instantaneous. And the best part about it? You need not go through all the trouble of appending long codes to your site…

If you have been operating an online business for some time, chances are you are already employing a search engine marketing technique (SEM) of some kind. Your site might already be sitting comfortably on page one of Google SERPS for a particular set of keywords. All looks good but you should know better than to sit back and relax. A solid presence on the Web is not permanent once you have achieved it. Rankings do not necessarily take care of themselves. Given that the virtual world is a constant state of flux, it is a must to know the latest trends to stay in the game…

Given the nature of the Internet, people who use it expect to get results in the shortest time possible. Perhaps this is the reason why search engines continue to refine the data that they provide on their search engine results (SERPS) pages. As the searches get more sophisticated, the technology that facilitates should be more so. In Google’s case, there have been tweaks made to existing algorithm and enhancements like Instant Preview. However, there is an element to this list of results that far surpass these two. Ladies and gents, allow me to reintroduce to you rich snippets…

Internet users generally prefer resources with a shorter load time. And who wouldn’t? In this fast and interconnected world, quick results are necessary. That said website owners would do well to ensure that they do not make visitors wait forever for their product pages to appear completely on the screen…

Smart Traffic Reviews Historical Page Rank Checker

If you ever reminisce about the good old days of web 1.0 then SEOmoz’s Historial Page Rank Checker amy be for you. While not quite the plethora of internet nostalgia that is Way Back Machine this little tool-that-could will show your Google Page Rank from present day back to 2007…

Smart Traffic Review of SEOQuake

In the second of our Smart Traffic Reviews series we will examine one of the many SEO Tools available online. Primarily for Firefox, but now with a Chrome release, SEOQuake is a browser extension that comes with SEOtoolbar, SEObar (seen as html and css on a loaded webpage), and a bar underneath results on different search engines…

Smart Traffic Review of Google Keywords Tool

In this series of blog posts we will review different SEO resources, looking at how useful the information they provide is and where they could be improved.

Google Adwords is a pivotal tool for SEO and PPC marketing. While its main purpose is to generate revenue for Google through Pay per Click campaigns, it is recognized throughout the industry and by its owner as producing statistics that are highly useful when optimizing your website for search engines…