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At HubSpot, we’re huge proponents of giving away quality content for free.  Why?  For the same reasons any business should.  Whether it be in the form of webinars, videos, eBooks or blog posts, creating useful, valuable content establishes your company as a thought leader in its industry and – yes – most importantly, it helps [...]

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Taking a cue from Google, whose Apps Status Dashboard is showing whether some of their applications are having stability issues, Facebook has launched Platform Live Status, a tool that can save developers a lot of headache.
It shows whether the Facebook Platform is currently working well or not, providing graphs for average API response time and [...]

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“KGen” (Keyword Generator) is a FireFox extension that allows you to see what keywords are strong on the current web page. Overall, it’s a good way to perform quick on-page keyword analysis that will help you:

To get an idea which words your competitor focuses on;
To get more keyword and post ideas.

After installing the tool and [...]

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Do you use FireFox but want to make sure your site looks good to the users of other browsers? Well, this is a good move, here are a few basic tools to make this task easier:
Browser Shots
Browsershots tool makes screenshots of your web page in different browsers.
When you submit your web address, it will be added [...]

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Google has added an element to their latest homepage test that instructs people what to do after they’ve entered a keyword. The sentence “Press enter to search,” now appears under the box where you type in your keywords – where the old submit buttons used to be.
Here’s a screenshot. (Click image for a larger view.)

The [...]

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Google recently launched a new feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds to discover new web pages. This helps Google index new webpages faster than traditional methods.
As a result, you’ll want to make sure that your robots.txt file allows Googlebot to crawl your feeds. To learn more about robots.txt from Google’s standpoint, click here.
In other [...]

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Anchor Intelligence has released its click fraud report for the third quarter of 2009. It paints a different picture than the Click Forensics report that was recently released. Where Click Forensics saw an increase, Anchor Intelligence saw a decline.
Overall, click fraud was 23.2% in Q3, down 14.3% from 27.1% in the second quarter. Anchor Intelligence [...]

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Okay, so Google Flu Trends has been around since November of 2008. But Google has found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity.
Check out the world map below to see how Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity. It is intense in Canada and Norway. It [...]

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If you’ve paid attention to tech news over the past few weeks, chances are you’ve heard about the deal between Google and Twitter; and the deal between Bing, Twitter, and Facebook (I know, confusing).
These deals essentially boil down to Google and Bing getting access to real-time status update feeds. These will be displayed alongside traditional [...]

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When individuals or companies are new to SEO they often wonder if SEO is a one-time thing, or if it’s an ongoing process.  In order to stay on top of your game, you need to keep an eye on your rankings over time and adjust accordingly; but there is a lot of core SEO strategy [...]

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