I mentioned in recent posts my switch from the Flock browser to Firefox. Well, today I got a nice little SEO surprise. I was reading a post on SEOBook.com and found a wonderful plugin for SEO information returned in your search results.

I tried the plugin, both for Google and Yahoo SERPS. The results are great!!!

Check out the screen shot.

Feature Standouts

• Traffic estimator - (I really like this feature.)
• PR of indexed page
• How many links in Yahoo and MSN, including .edu break out
• Directory listings
• Whois – on click away.

Go here to get the Firefox plugin.

Technorati Tags: SEO, SEOBook.com, plugin, Google, Yahoo, SERPS, Firefox

UC Berkley has put many of their video-taped lectures online using youtube.com as their delivery platform. I found a lecture by Sergey Brin co-fonder of Google, discussing search engines and the Google Algo. He does a high-level history of search, Google’s algorithm and Adsense. This is very interesting stuff. Check out UC Berkley’s youtube page here.

This is the video:

Google’s “mission” at the beginning was, “Search for Kings.” Not to find a king, but create a product what is worthy of a king’s attention. Customer and product comes first! Love it! This is core to a successful business.

Check out the lecture below:

Technorati Tags: UC Berkley, video-taped, youtube.com, Sergey Brin, Google, search engines, Algo, Adsense, Search for Kings.

I put together a short video on how to make your WordPress blog URLs search engine friendly. It’s a simple task, but can help you out tremendously in your effort to rank on the front page of the major search engines.

How it works: WordPress takes advantage of the .htacess file to do a URL re-write.

The default setting: http://www.trafficisgold.com/?p=123

URL re-write change: http://www.trafficisgold.com/2007/09/24/wordpress-23-is-now-available/

Check out the video and if you have any questions just leave a comment and I will see what I can do to help.

Technorati Tags: WordPress blog, URL, search engine friendly, rank, .htacess file, URL re-write

How can I find the Google Page Rank of other potential link partner sites?

This is a great question when deciding on a link exchange partner. This video will show you how to find the Google Page Rank (PR) of any site, using the Google tool bar.

If you don’t want to watch, here are the steps.

Go to toolbar.google.com
On the right hand side of the page, click the download button.
Run the installer.
Go to settings >> options
Select the “More” tab
Check the “Page Rank and Page info” Check Box
Accept any Privacy Policy statement
Star browsing sites
Hover the mouse pointer over the tool bar and it will give you the page rank.

Technorati Tags: Google Page Rank, link exchange partner, video, Google tool bar