So I just posted this video on the MOJOnomic site. Essentially, this video helps you use a FREE keyword research tool find a new niche and gauge the competition. A lot of people ask me the same questions when they’re entering a new market.

Is there a enough traffic and interest in the niche?

How competitive is that niche?

Well, you’ll be glad to watch this video if those are the questions you’re always asking. And as an added bonus it shows you how to find & explore entirely new niches for you to get into.

I hope you enjoy and any feedback or comments is always an added bonus for me!

I‘ve done a post before where I talked about creating SEO friendly URLs with WordPress but this is something a bit different. For some people that have quite a few posts already with their WordPress blog it’s tough to just completely change your URL structure. Even with 20-30 posts you easily have most of those already indexed with the search engines so from an SEO standpoint you need to setup a 301 redirect.

URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, domain redirection and domain forwarding, is a technique on the World Wide Web for making a web page available under many URLs.

Well for anyone in this situation there is a plugin available for WordPress that can help you fix this problem in 3.8 seconds

With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.

Enough with the talking already and on with the downloading!

DOWNLOAD: Dean’s Permalink Migration for WordPress

Installation

1. unzip and upload the file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate it on your Admin Panel->Plugin Management page.

Usage

1. goto admin panel->options->PermalinksMigration.set the old permanlink structure of your site.
2. goto admin panel->options->Permalinks.change the new permalink structure to what you want. (personally I recommend /%category%/%postname%/)
3. Done,enjoy it.

A big thanks to Dean Lee for his awesome contribution to the WordPress community!

Search Engine Strategies – San Jose 2008

Whew, so the first day of Search Engine Strategies is finally complete.  What a crazy day, I have so much in my brain right now it’s almost overwhelming.  There are so many things I can apply to what I am doing currently, let alone what I haven’t already implemented.

The sessions I sat in today we’re extremely valuable to me.  I was able to get an insiders look from high end experts deep inside the search engines themselves as well as reputable website conversion experts such as Bryan Eisenberg from Future Now and Grok Dot Com.

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Can Cuil play with the Big Boys?

I have mentioned a site I visit regularly quite a few times on my blog.  It’s called SEOmoz. Masterminded by Rand Fishkin and his crew they come up with some awesome info about SEO as a whole.

Anyway, after my post yesterday I thought maybe I was a bit harsh on Cuil.  I started reading around to see what others thought.  Of course I went to my valuable resources, which SEOmoz being one I noticed Rand Fishkin had come up with a very extensive review of Cuil.  I thought I better share it the all ya’lls.

I don’t know if you’re like me but I am a huge visual learner.  If I see it, it just clicks for me.  Another reason I like SEOmoz so much.  You can take the time to read the post or just skim through it and see the major points through the visual aids.

Here is what caught my eye instantly…

Rand Fishkin came up with his own system that broke down all the major elements a search engine should have and ranked them accordingly.  If this image doesn’t intrigue to read further then I apologize I made you read this far.  If it does, you can continue reading SEOmoz’s latest blog post -

Comparing Search Engine Performance: How does Cuil Stack Up to Google, Yahoo!, Live & Ask”

Just to clarify… I honestly just like SEOmoz and their knowledge they so willilngly share.  I don’t know Rand Fishkin or any member of SEOmoz I am just spreading the love.

I hate that I feel like I have to do that ya know…  Some people are just lame and get a kick out taking things out of context.

Anyway, enjoy the awesomeness SEOmoz brings with this featured post.

What do you guys think about this?

Let’s face it Cuil sucks.

Do a search for anything you’re interested in… I’ll guarantee that the images that show up next to your results make no sense.  Also, what’s with changing the flow of how the results show up.  The top 3 search engines all serve up their results the exact same.  Why?  Because that’s what we’re used to.

But no, Cuil spits them out in 3 columns and you have the option to choose 2 columns.  What is this like a WordPress blog or something?  I feel like I’m searching through a wordpress theme directory or something.  It just doesn’t look right.

Anyone who honestly thought they would even compete with Google needs some serious help.  Look at Yahoo! for a minute.  I mean if Yahoo! can’t find away to become a bigger search engine then Google then how the hell do you think Cuil is going to do it overnight.

Oh sorry I forgot Cuil is backed by $33 million in Venture Capital and was started by ex-employees of Google.  Whoa!  I guess I didn’t realize that.  Well in that case yeah I think Cuil is going to be bigger then Google. You idiots.

They forgot that Google is backed by billions & billions of dollars.  Oh yeah and the fact that Google… well is Google.  How could you honestly think that they would out do Google.

Anyway, if I see one more post about how Cuil is going to take over the world one Google at a time… I might blow a gasket.

Can I get a hell yeah or something?  Is anyone with me?