Category Archives: Gadgets & Tools

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Multiple Google Alerts Using Yahoo PIPES

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on February 20, 2009. Filed under Gadgets & Tools, Online Reputation Management. 1 Comment.
Google Alerts with Yahoo Pipes

Google provides an alert service for monitoring various keywords in it’s search index as well as news, blogs and other properties it owns. This can be very useful for monitoring online reputation.  Here are 10 easy steps to create a Mega Google alerts RSS feed using Yahoo PIPES. 1. Sign up or Login to Yahoo! pipes 2. [...]

Google Webmaster Tools – Setup and Data Usage

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 17, 2009. Filed under Gadgets & Tools, SEO Tips, Site Side Analytics. No comments.

Google Webmaster Tools is a free service provided by Google which allows webmasters to have an insider’s view on how Google views a website.   Google Webmaster Tools also provides webmasters with a commnication channel with Google to provide them with info such as reporting spam in the Google index, reporting paid links (eg by competitiors ) and most crucially,  submitting a [...]

Google Bans Web Position Gold?

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on August 7, 2008. Filed under Gadgets & Tools, Measuring Success. No comments.

It seems that Google could have banned the keyword visibility tool Web Position Gold (owned by WebTrends) from automatically querying its database for natural and paid search positions.  The block seems to have occured on August 1st 2008. Google specifically states on the webmaster guidelines section of its website that tools of this sort are not allowed and [...]

Free Traffic Estimation Tools

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on June 9, 2008. Filed under Gadgets & Tools, Keyword Research. No comments.

Here are some tools I use for estimating traffic potential for keywords: Google Adwords Tool The Google Adwords traffic estimation tool gives you an estimation of traffic to a particular keyword(s) or allows you to plug in a URL for a particular site to crawl and bring back suggestions.  The figures from Adwords are displayed in [...]

This Site May Harm Your Computer

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on September 3, 2007. Filed under Code, Gadgets & Tools. No comments.
this site may harm your computer - landing page

“This site may harm your computer”, this is what Google placed underneath all my listings towards the end of last week, why?… Well basically because a hacker managed to penetrate my server and place invisible code designed to place “trojan horses” onto my users’ computers. If you’re unlucky enough to be tagged with ”This Site May Harm Your Computer” [...]