Almost everyone knows the link:"yoursite.com" google command for trying to see what pages are indexed for their site. But did you know that there were several other google commands that could come in handy that will let you "know" some great things that you may be missing?

Below are some great google commands that I use for my SEO endeavors....

link:yoursite.com

This little command will allow you to see who is linking to you (or...

What do Lou Holtz and I have in common? As an avid college football fan, I have to say that this is perhaps the most exciting job that has come my way in a long time. Here is how it went down.

I spoke with this woman and her husband from Merrill Lynch and we got in the discussion of what I do (it was a casual conversation). Anyway, she was looking to bolster her website and go national b/c things were kind of waning due to the economy.

Her husband mentioned that...

~Funniest "Tweet" I have seen in awhile- From Darth Vader's account-"I don't care if there *is* mistletoe, if I catch my kids french kissing again, I swear I'll disown them!

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~Like Google Trends....only better than google trends because you will be ahead of the game...for once...

Twitscoop - Search twitter, see what's hot right now

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I really like to to theorize about SEO and how things really work versus what others say work. Call me a tinkerer (is that a word?), a tester, or a dreamer, but I always seem to question conventional thinking.

So, as a segue, most webmaster's think of SEO as a top down kind of problem.

Here is what most people teach....

Find a long tail keyword, optimize the keyword on your pages...now get links for that keyword and hope to get ranked...that is the crib...