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If you are an active blogger, you must be reading and processing plenty of information daily. You save some of this information by copying-pasting to whichever notes you are managing or by bookmarking the page or saving the link. You go by most of the information to forget about it forever. With such flood of the information you should have plenty of hacks on how to process it quickly and efficiently. Today I am adding one more to your arsenal: a tool for fun web annotating. Yooper is a nice FireFox addon that lets you easily highlight text on the page and the easily save it online. The best features of the tool are those that allow to quickly copy all page highlights and also to easily search through all your previously made highlights. Lets see it in action. Install the addon here , re-start your browser and notice a new toolbar in your FireFox status bar: The first thing you want to do is to login to Yooper using your open ID (I was using Google). Once you are logged in, you will notice that the very first icon in the Yooper toolbar becomes green. Now, just go test it. Open any page and highlight key sentences and phrases as you read. You will see that parts of the text you highlight becomes yellow (you can change the default color if you want to): Once done, click the green icon in the toolbar and choose “View the summary”: You will be taken to the page summary where you can see all your previous highlights, copy any of them and share any of them: You can search the highlights (the feature runs pretty smoothly!): Some points you need to be aware of: The tool won’t highlight the text if you copy it (it is assumed that you selected the text for another purpose); You can disable automatic highlighting (Which is what I ended up doing because there was too much “extra” highlighting I didn’t need); The tool is highly customizable: you can change the color, disable auto-highlighting, etc. I wasn’t able to get some of the features work properly (for example, “Share by email” link doesn’t copy the highlights to email body) but overall the tool turned out quite useful. Let me know what you think! Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Easier Annotate, Recap and Re-Blog Pages with Yooper

Hitwise has just released the summary of all U.S. searches conducted for four weeks ending March 27.  While we were not surprised that both Google and Bing’s market shares went down, what’s quite surprising is the fact that both Yahoo and Ask.com gained a significant percentage of  all the searches. Google search accounted for 69.97%, down from 70.95% in the previous month. Yahoo search increased to 15.04%, up by 3%, Bing search with 9.62% down by -1% and Ask.com’s searches increased by 21% from 2.84% to 3.4%. On a positive note, Google remains to be the greatest source of traffic to key U.S. industries, while Bing saw continued growth among search verticals. Automotive, Business and Finance, Entertainment, News and Media, Shopping and Social Networking categories increased their share of traffic from search engines. Google’s upstream traffic was greater in Automotive, Shopping and Travel Categories. While Yahoo Search was big with the Automotive industry. Bing also enjoyed double-digit growth in the said three industries. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Yahoo Searches Gain 3% of Market

One of the most tedious link building tasks is looking for backlink opportunities. There may be plenty of ways to do that but the first thing I usually do is learning who links to my competitors. This way I both get a deeper look into the niche, analyze competitors’ link building tactics and find some backlink opportunities for myself. The easiest way to start is to actually grab the top ten domains ranked first for your main keyword and research their backlinks using your favorite backlink checker. This is exactly what Site Finder , one of the most useful features inside SEJ Tools , does. Site Finder allows you to enter a keyword phrase and then it automatically finds and ranks domains that link to the top ten Google results for that keyword phrase. It then uses a combination of ranking factors to determine how valuable a link from one of the returned domains would be to your site… So, just give it your main key phrase and the tool will return the table containing the following data: Domain name of your potential backlink provider; The site “quality” (represents the summary of the below listed metrics); Connections (number of competitors the site links to); ACRank (powered by MajesticSEO ); mozRank (powered by SEOmoz ); Page authority; Backlinks (Number of backlinks from that page). You can hide any of the metrics: You can also configure the number of rows displayed per page or use the search option to filter the table by a keyword. Additionally, you can also hide any of the lines or add it to the link manager . You can also see the list of your top competitors and some summarizing data for each of them (like Google position and retrieved backlinks): Lastly, you can export the whole table to a CSV or a PDF file. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Find More Backlink Opportunities with Site Finder (SEJ