Using a simple tool like Yahoo Site Explorer or Google Webmaster Central can help you find links coming in to that specific URL or to your site as a whole. You get it. You need to develop a presence on social media to help you grow your small business and form that all-important relationship with customers. Or if it’s even working? MORE >>

Free Craft Fair is less a marketplace and more of a Yahoo-type directory. The word “handmade” evokes feelings of warmth, of comfort, of craftsmanship. Earlier this summer, I mentioned some cool niche sites serving the artisan community in my 19 new additions to a large ecommerce list.  Folksy is a U.K.-based and Europe focus. MORE >>

Not: Experimenting with pay-per-click by using Google Adwords , Yahoo! The techniques that are effective to keep and get new customers continues to radically change. In 2012, they will evolve even more. Here is what’s going to be hot (and what’s not) in the year to come. Direct Selling. Deal-a-Day Websites. Giving Your Pitch. More Mobile. MORE >>

An interview with Michael Alter from Yahoo Finance : Small business confidence for August 2011 is down to 48%…driven by lack of consumer demand and dearth of funding. We asked several CEOs leading up to the speech what bold steps Obama could take to reduce the 9.1 percent unemployment rate. MORE >>

In GMail they are called labels; in Outlook they are folders and labels; and other email programs like Thunderbird and Yahoo have folders. process a lot of emails, and here is how I keep mine manageable: When I sign up for something, I use my “throwaway” email address (my Yahoo address). Classify Your Email. Informational. MORE >>