20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches. For millions of people Google is an indispensable search tool that they use every day, in all facets of their lives. From work or school, research, to looking up movies and celebrities to news and gossip, Google is the go-to search engine. Google normally searches for pages that contain all the words you type in the search box, but if you want pages that have one term or another (or both), use the OR operator -- or use the "|" symbol (pipe symbol) to save you a keystroke. Directory. Subscribe via RSS. Either/or. MORE >>

You can also find it on social media today and a number of other blog directories. Each time I learn about a new blog directory or resource site, I get my blog listed on it as soon as possible, in order to build up backlinks to the blogs, and also to expose it to a wider audience. If you post on a regular basis and you think of your blog as a professional platform, it’s worth your time to get it listed on different blog directories. Blog Social Media backlinks blog blog directory Taylor EllwoodMy blog is now on Alltop. You can find it in the Marketing section. MORE >>

One of my favorite tech blogs, The Next Web, has a great list of Ten Ways To Find Relevant Google+ Users to Circle. Find People On Plus – A great directory, search by any keyword. Women of Google+ – an awesome an early directory of women on the G, since there weren’t that  many of us to begin with. Read the whole thing, which includes more description of each of the ten sites they describe, but here are my top three: Recommended Users – grouped into categories. Example: Journalists. Look for your members! Example: Civil Engineers. Have at it. MORE >>

You may have read a lot about search engine optimization techniques, but they weren’t enough to take your website to a high rank in Google. Here are are 4 key factors on how you can get hold of a good position in Google: Blog for Other Blogs. Link Submission to Link Directories. Another way to get Google’s vote is through link submissions. There are several link directories you can submit your link to , and they are really helpful in exposing your website to web users. It is because they are not entirely complete. H2 Tags. Participating in Forums. MORE >>

So you have a couple of websites, which have been getting organic traffic from Google for a couple of years. You check your site analytics program and find that the traffic from Google has suddenly disappeared. This is a typical case of a Google penalty and it is a nightmare for a webmaster of any website, however large or small it might be. If you keep your eyes open on any webmaster or SEO forum, you will find many people complaining about being hit by a Google penalty. Most of them are clueless about the reasons that led their websites being penalized at Google. MORE >>