Art Of Money

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. This is the final installment of my domain naming series. It’s just a bunch of tips and tool that I’ve used for brainstorming and selecting the perfect domain for your projects.
Consider that the domain name is the single most important part [...]

For a long time I couldn’t quite figure out why Google was sending so much traffic to this site for terms related to “art.” While the word is in my domain name and site’s title, 99% of the content of the site is about money, so you’d think that search engines would leave me off [...]

There’s a rumor on the web that the famous Overture keyword suggestion tool’s end is imminent as Yahoo has decided to pull the plug.
The tool was very widely used and it is great to see that a few companies have jumped in to fill the void.
I’ve been able to find three new keyword tools and [...]

It’s no secret that how to posts get attention. When I look at the stories of mine that have done well on article sites and on social bookmarking sites, they usually have a question that is being answered.
I thought it would be interesting to show you how I use Keyword Elite, to generate a list [...]

There’s money in being unable to spell!
If you have even a tinge of gray on your SEO cap, you probably know this fact very well. Black hatters can make a fortune from optimizing a page for each of an infinite number of words and spelling combinations that no sane webmaster would be caught dead having [...]

Google has released [beta, of course] an offline desktop Adwords campaign manager. Offline tools like this can be very useful as I have written about here. They are generally faster and more powerful than the web-based versions…which if you use them a lot can make a big difference.

AdWords Editor is Google’s free, downloadable account management [...]

I was a crappy speller. I hated it. Watching Akeelah and the Bee is my personal idea of torture. It’s bad enough that Starbucks is a sponsor…everyday I’m stuck with one of those 15 letter words on my coffee cup. But much to the ire of every 5th grade teacher in the world, there is [...]

MSN Labs: If you’re into search engine marketing you’ve probably heard of Google Labs, well i’ve just discovered MSN labs. Some pretty cool stuff there…more later once I’ve had a chance to kick the tires a bit more. It is much more geared towards keyword research as opposed to Google labs which is product oriented.

Okay here goes. I’ve had Keyword Elite for over a month now and it’s time to share my thoughts.
First thing is, whether it’s Keyword Elite or some other similar program or service, if you do keyword research as part of your business, you should have a professional tool. Previous to purchasing Keyword Elite [KE - [...]

From just down the road at the University of Alberta.
These are great for site and keyword brainstorming:

Dependency-based Word Similarity
Word Clusters

All the rest…there some really amazing keyword tools here.
…I love this fancy Wordpress Squible theme, but one of it’s draw backs is that if the post is too short [shorter than the cut point] then [...]