Oct 10 2009

Top Ten SEO Tools to Help in SEO Needs

Category: Search Engine Optimizationadmin @ 3:22 pm

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) needs constant effort from webmasters so that they can be successfully implemented in a website. Once the methods are executed, the site owners have to wait at least few months to see the changes in the search engines.

Why wait to see the results when it is possible to find out how the SEO techniques have been used in the website. There are SEO tools to help in this analysis. Here are some important and helpful tools.

Keyword Analysis Tool

The Internet market is flooded with SEO tools that helps in keyword analysis. Basically, this tool helps to compare a site with the top ten sites in search engines based on a particular keyword. The technique would allow the site management to know exactly where they stand vis-à-vis the other sites when users type a particular keyword.

A Meta Search Engine

A Meta search engine can act as an SEO tool as it can send queries to actual search engines and get valuable information on search engine ranking. For instance, Zippy is one such Meta search engine that provides ranking statistics on top search engines accurately.

Sitemap Generator

A few years back, programmers used to create high-end scripts to help in analyzing the sitemap of major search engines. For example, generating a Google sitemap was necessary to understand the optimization results without wasting precious time. This was done through “Python”-based scripts. Now, SEO tools such as Nuah, can help in generating an accurate sitemap of Google without tough programming.

This tool also helps in analyzing the page ranking, keywords, and descriptions without additional effort. Similar to Google sitemap generator, there are other tools to help generator sitemaps of Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista, etc.

Link Checker Tool

Link management is one of the toughest analyses in managing the SEO ranking of a site. However, the Internet has come up with special SEO tools to help check links – whether they truly exist or not, whether they are valid or not, and whether they are legally viable or not.

The link validation tool can scan all the links associated with the website within minutes. It catches expired links, illegal links, and useful links with precision. Once this job is done, webmasters can easily work on the links so that search engine rankings are not affected by dubious links.

Tool that Provides Hosting Information

It is important to know some basic hosting information about the website without much effort. For instance, any SEO expert would feel happy to know about how popular the site is in the Internet or the number of pages that have been indexed by search engines.

Locating the country based on IP addresses or analysing the Meta tags can be very useful to decide on the SEO methods to be used in a site. For such tasks, special tools have been invented by SEO wizards. Widexl, is one such useful SEO tools to help in these analysis.

Tools to Examine Backlinks and PageRanks

Backlinks and PageRanks need to be managed well and constantly updated to maintain SEO ranking. However, it is not possible to complete this task without efficient tool such as iWebTool. In this case, the RSS feeds are scanned and examined along with Backlinks and PageRanks to analysis if the feeds are appropriate or not.

Tool to Examine Page Ranks

Some websites employ special SEO tools such as Ezer, to keep track on the page rankings and their immediate updates across data centers. This tool helps to get instant information on page rankings of various other sites along with comparing analysis.

Link Management Tool

It is equally important to know what other sites are doing in the SEO market. For instance, many SEO tools can provide data as to how many sites are linking to a particular site and how many links are pointing to a particular page of a website. These link management techniques help webmasters decide on the keywords, landing page design etc.

Link Harvester is one such efficient tool that finds out homepage links, inbound links, deep link ratio, etc. within minutes.

Meta Tag Analysis Tool

SEO tools such as Firefox SEO Extension tool offers exact information on Meta tags of any site without any hassle. No programming or elaborate method is used to generate the Meta tag data. The analysis is user-friendly as it represents the tag beautifully.

Long-Tail Search Analysis Tool

Long-tail search has become quite popular in search engines as more and more users try to retrieve specialized data from the Internet. However, many don’t really know the utility of SEO tools which decipher the long-tail search options. The HitTail is one such useful tool that helps users trying long-tail search.

With so many tools in hand, SEO management has become easy and methodical to pursue that allows websites to stay right at the top without tedious toiling.

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Oct 06 2009

SEO Tools to monitor your website

Category: Social Media Optimizationadmin @ 11:24 am

You can’t just put your website on the net with right keywords and all the right touches and expect your traffic and ranking will remain constant. As the web is an ever changing landscape, you have to keep track of your own web results like what is happening with the competition and also the best and highest ranked sites. There are many useful tools to help you find out what exactly is happening. 

Keyword Tools

Website Analysis/Optimization Tool

Alexa Tools

Link Popularity Tools

Google Ranking Tools

Yahoo Ranking Tools

Pay Per Click Tools

SEO Information and Resources

Other SEO Tools

1. A tool which you can use to test your own website links or other websites for broken links:

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

2. With this tool you can check search engines for the number of back links to your URL i.e. other web pages linking to your site:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/

3. It sometimes becomes important to know where the servers of your hosting company are physically located. Because, some search engines like Google have the ability to filter search results based on their physical location called geotargeting. This could be used to determine why your site is showing in only a certain country. This link can also be used to research the country location of a particular competitor’s website:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/website-country/

4. In order to track the location of the visitor or a customer to your website:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/

5. In order to check the Yahoo! web ranking of your’s or your competitor’s website use :

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/webrank/

6. Here is a link to check the web ranking of a website using a Mac or Apple computer:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/pagerank-mac/

7. You need a Google AdSense account for using this. This link provides you with charts and reports which will help you analyze traffic, clicks, and results from your AdSense advertising

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-charts/

8. If you have an AdSense account, you can analyze your website address or another website address to see what Google ads will be displayed when the customer selects certain website names or keywords:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/

9. This link will take you to a cooperative advertising network where you can join to display and

share your ads with other website owners:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/

10. You can add the Search Functionality on your website which uses Google. This works only if your site is listed in the Google Index.

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/search/

11. Here are some links to free website counters which you can use on your website to track your traffic and hits:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/counter/

http://www.amazingcounters.com/?ref=gad033

http://www.cyber-counter.com/signup.php

http://www.statcounter.com/free_hit_counter.html

http://www.free-counters.net/

 

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Oct 05 2009

Google Webmaster Tool For SEO Experts

Category: Search Engine Optimizationadmin @ 12:59 pm

I just finished watching a video that shared some updates on what’s happening at the major search engines lately. Since webmasters are always interested in learning more about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, I thought it would be good to share a neat trick using Google’s webmaster tools.

The first time I heard about Google webmaster tools, it was known as Google sitemaps. That was very little that we can do with it, except upload a sitemap so that a new site can be included in Google’s index quicker. After toying with it for a couple of days, I find it a hassle to generate those sitemaps. If a website is destined to grow, that would mean taking up more time submitting those sitemaps. Strapped for time as it is, I figured it would be better to just concentrate on building more content for my websites.

It’s still hard for me to refer to Google’s new toys with a new name but I guess it’s a much more suitable name, now that so many new tools have been added. To begin using the tool, login to the control panel using a valid Google username. If you do not possess one, just sign up at the site google.com/webmasters. After logging in, enter the URL that you would like to obtain more information about. You’ll be required to verify that you own the site. To do so, you can either add a META tag or upload a HTML file. Verification is instant and you’ll see your verification status as Verified if it’s successful.

Upon verification, all kinds of interesting tidbits about your site will be available. The one that interests me most is the page analysis (Statistics > Page Analysis). This allows any webmaster to view information about external links. In other words, Google learns about a website’s general theme from external text links. You’ll be able to see all the keywords that other people have used in the text links that link to your site.

Many webmasters have already discovered the “secret” that anchor texts should be used in text links. Anchor texts look something like Anchor texts. There are many ways to obtain keyword targetted external links. One popular way is to submit to web directories.

In many instances, web directories allow webmasters to submit their sites for free. Some web directories become more established and may charge a small fee for a site submission. However, fees are usually one-time payment and are better deals compared to text links that require monthly subscription.

So, take a look around the webmaster community and spot SEO friendly web directories and start submitting some links. Your competitor may be doing exactly the same thing and I don’t know about you but I hate to lose. See you at the number 1 spot!

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