Google Releases Official Buzz Share Buttons

Google’s next order of battle for Google Buzz – Share Buttons. If you’ve felt envious of sites such as TechCrunch and Mashable which were quick enough to come up with their customized Google Buzz Share Buttons, Google will now let you do the same without having to hack through some codes and all. And it’s also the official Google Buzz Share Button. So Google announced that starting today expect to see Buzz buttons around the web particularly on sites such as The Huffington Post, Glamour, YouTube, Blogger, MySpace, GigaOM and more. These buttons will make it easier for you to share and post interesting items you encounter around the web to your Google Buzz account. In addition, independent sharing widget provides such as “Share This,” “Shareholic” and more have started implementing the Google Buzz share button. If you want to have a Google Buzz button on your own sites/blogs, you can easily do so by getting the codes from buzz.google.com/stuff . You can customize your button in a few clicks, copy the Javascript code, paste it to your blog/site code and you’re good to go. And while you’re there, you might also want to grab the code for putting a follow me on Buzz button as well. This will make it easier for your friends and fans to follow your Buzz posts. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Releases Official Buzz Share

3 Simple Tools to Find Hidden Links (and Text)

Like on-page linked text analysis in general, identifying grey areas like hidden links (and text) should be an important and thoroughly considered step. You will want to research hidden links: (!) When you need to diagnose a recently hacked site; (!) When you need to test a web design (some hidden text may be totally innocent and only appear illegal); (!) When you need to identify the reason of the possible penalty; (!) When you want to resd possibly rearch your competitors’ grey tactics (and possibly report them); (!) If want to find out if your hidden links can be found manually by search engineers or competitors; (!) Etc. For the sake of an expriment I have hidden a link in my blog sidebar and will now try to find it using the three methods listed below. To hie the link, I created a new div class of links that have the same color as the site background and used it for my link: Now, what wil the tools say? 1. Spam