There’s a wealth of information on search engine optimization, so much that it will make your head spin. There are a few tried and tested sure-fire ways to give your rankings a boost, and some are very fast and easy.

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I recently discovered a cool little utility called Rank Checker, created by the guys over at SEOBook. This useful utility quickly tells you your search engine ranking (Google, Yahoo, and Bing) for any keyword and website!  This is a real time saver, and can be handy if you’re trying to optimize your site. Unfortunately, SEOBook does force a compulsory registration on you to get the tool, but never fear – you can always use a throw-away mail account to ensure you don’t get spammed.

A lot of you may wonder why I would even ask such a question. Google is all good, right?  They can’t possibly be as evil as Walmart, right?

Well, no one said Google was evil. What I am saying, however, is that Google is slowly pushing more and more of their competitors out of business.  While this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it could turn into a bad thing quickly. When there’s no competition, there’s trouble. Just ask the people who live in small towns where a Walmart has moved in – what happened to all the other little local shops?  The mom and pop hardware store? Where did they all go?  They all went out of business, because of Walmart.

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So you’ve created a new website, and you want to make sure Google finds it so that you can get search traffic. Back in the day, you had to submit your website to the search engines and it could take months. Luckily, there’s now a much faster way to make this happen.

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Let’s face it – the latest offering from Google is nothing short of a disaster. Privacy concerns aside, do we really need another social networking tool?  The answer is no – so here’s a quick way to disable Buzz.

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The best way to get Google to crawl your site and index your pages is to have a sitemap. Even better is a dynamically updated xml sitemap, but how do you create one?  The easiest way is to use a sitemap generator.  Input your site’s URL, and let this application do all the work – in just a few minutes (depending on the size of your site), you’ll have an XML sitemap ready to download.  So now what do you do with it?

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Sometimes webmasters and site owners want to know how well Google likes their site. This is important from an SEO perspective, but also just for curiosity’s sake. There are a couple of easy ways to check your PR:

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