It’s been quite some time since we had a new broken link checker reviewed here. At last I’ve come across something simple, fresh and useful! Pinger is a great FireFox addon that checks all (or selected) links on a page and does it very fast! To use it, you just need to: Right-click anywhere on the page and select “Ping all links”; Select any links on page and click either “Ping all links” or “”: After running through the page links, the tool returns a summarized report: The above statuses stand for the following: Link returned HTTP code between 200 and 300, meaning it’s ok Returned code was either 404, or some of other ‘can’t get here’ Every link has 45 seconds to open and return header

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Pinger: Fast and Fun Page Link Checker (FireFox)

Google has just rolled out a new search feature that would benefit those who search using non-English language. If you’re one of these people you’d be glad to know that Google search now features a virtual keyboard that would let you type search keywords in your own language.

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Google Integrates a Virtual Keyboard to Search

And beats its pants off. I was asked to speak about “Capitalizing on the Twitter Revolution” at Pubcon. So I talked about Facebook

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Why Facebook Marketing Slaps Twitter Marketing In the Face

If you liked Facebook’s popular “Like” functionality and want to engage your Facebook fan page users or just random Facebookers, you will love the plugin we are sharing today. You may have noticed that since last week we have been giving our readers the ability to “like” our posts on Facebook.

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A Cool Wordpress Plugin to Integrate Facebook “Like” Functionality

Last month I shared one of my favorite recipes on tracking local search data with Google Analytics for wordpress.

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Local Search Recipe: Making KML Files and GEO Sitemaps Are a Piece of Cake.

It’s all about happiness metrics A while back I wrote here about how search engines go about discovery , the act of finding your pages. I thought we should continue that with a look at how they crawl and index them as well. With a twist, we’re going to discuss the uber fast world of real time.

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Crawling and the real time web

Understanding thy competition is a golden rule in any kind of business, ranging from online marketing to politics to running the local mom & pop corner grocery store. Joanna Lor d has put together a pretty good wrap up of competitive intel tracking and signals over at SEOmoz this morning : Competitive Intelligence: Purpose & Process , with an emphasis on the evolution and growth of a brand or business. In the current economic rebound and online marketing landscape where new outlets like Facebook (let’s face it, Facebook is the Internet for A LOT of normal Americans), Foursquare and Twitter along with new emerging social and search oriented trends and disciplines such as guest blogging, blogger outreach and integrated PR strategies, brand evolution in competitive intel is a fluid and dynamic field

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Competitive Intelligence in SEO & Social Media

Welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – it was one of those weeks devoid of ‘ah-ha’ moments nor any real drama-du-jour. Sheesh… c’mon people, pick it up out there would ya? That being said, as always, there were plenty of interesting and entertaining posts.

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Weekly Search & Social News: 04/28/2010

Optimization for local listings is an important way to attract business for many companies and organizations that are jumping online these days. There are plenty of blog posts outlining how to optimize your listings in the local search engines and with your chamber of commerce, but where can you turn to further build your local presence

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Build Links Locally: Strategies to Improve Local SEO

A few of the mainstream search blogs still offer up some morsels of meaty metrics, but many bloggers have turned from meat to “designer milk.” I can’t say I blame them, but I’m not going to keep looking to them for the best data, testing, link-building advice, etc. The state of the search marketing blogosphere looks something like this: Most SEO blogs tend to repackage basic information. A handful dole out some frightening misinformation

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4 Ways To Find Superb Blogs That Nobody’s Talking About