Tech analysis

SheerSEO is a very basic tool for staying on top of the SEO basics for your site. It tracks your site's search engine rankings, what other sites are linking back to you, and a few other important inbound marketing metrics.

For years, Microsoft Visio has been pretty much the only option if you wanted to make flow charts, org charts, or other types of structured drawings on a computer.

Google provides a number of nice online services. So many, in fact, that it's not uncommon to have multiple Google accounts for different uses. Unfortunately, switching between those accounts can be pretty annoying.

This may be obvious to some of you, but I want to talk about how you can boost your productivity by using multiple computer monitors.

I've recently been doing some poking around for statistics about customer relationships manager (CRM) software, particularly the reasons that companies give when CRM software hasn't worked for them.

You may have heard that the Los Angeles Police Department made a $7 million deal with Google to move their email from a Novell system to Google Apps.

Simplicity is one of the most common themes on this blog. We like simple software, and we haven't been afraid to write about it in the past.

Blogger is a fairly popular blogging tool. It was purchased by Google in 2003, although it doesn't look or feel anything like other Google products.

I've reviewed a few different blogging platforms, and I want to use this post to summarize those reviews.

Apple's been making a lot of headlines recently over problems related to the antenna of the new iPhone 4. Perhaps bigger than the problems with the phone itself, however, has been the way they've dealt with the problems.

We've talked a lot about what you can do to improve your site's SEO, but we haven't really explained how to tell if what you're doing is working.

This week I'm writing a three-part series about how you should approach planning and strategy when starting a blog.

Earlier this week, I talked about how checking out your competition online can be a good way to get some ideas and identify opportunities for establishing your small business online.

Establishing your small business online can be a bit of a daunting task, and knowing where to start can be one of the biggest challenges.

Unfortunately, web apps often have rather poor documentation, particularly for the more advanced functionality. Luckily, online forums and blogs often do a great job of filling in the documentation gaps.

Earlier today I was having a conversation about SEO and website optimization and I realized that there's a very important concept that we haven't really talked about yet on this blog.

One of the biggest benefits of web applications is the ease with which one can share documents for other people to collaborate on or view. Unfortunately, this same ability is the source of a number of fears about online software privacy an security.

This blog is all about helping you find the best software possible which is why we spend so much time reviewing and discussing specific products

You may have heard over the past month about Google's new search index, Caffeine. While a ton of work and updates went into Caffeine, the main thing of interest to users is that Google's search results will be more up to date.

Have you ever wondered where websites get all of those random pictures of people smiling?

If you regularly follow new advances in credit card technologies and/or what the founders of Twitter are up to (and really, who doesn't), then you've almost certainly been hearing constantly about Square since its launch earlier this year.

Search engines can be a great way to get people to your site, but it can be really difficult to make sure that your company is projecting the right image to your potential clients.

Microsoft recently released a major refresh of its Hotmail webmail service as part of their recent push towards the cloud.

A while back I talked about how Google cares about inbound links when it comes to SEO. What I didn't mention is how not all links are created equal.

Shopify is a an online service to help people sell products online. It has a ton of customization options available, but also makes it extremely easy to start an online store in a matter of minutes.