Searching online

Date: 05 December 2008
Author: taylor
Last updated: 17/08/2007 14:36:55
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The articles below discuss how to speed up online searching and how to become more productive and efficient at searching.

Refining your search

"Time waiting is money wasted" is an adage that will be familiar and all too real to most entrepreneurs in today's hectic business culture.

Search by domain

How often has an internet search taken you down a blind alley or up a garden path? Probably too often if your experience mirrors that of the author. But here’s a good tip for when research hits a brick wall: try searching by domain name.

Finding yourself online 

It used to be called vanity searching, but now it’s a valuable tool in keeping tabs of your online reputation, presence and image.

Keeping tabs on the search engines 

In previous articles we have examined how to best utilise search engines for market research purposes, what we haven’t looked at yet are third party site tracking tools. There are a dizzying array of tools to choose from, both as online applications and as software downloads, that make life a lot easier for the serious traffic hunter. 

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