Archive for the ‘SEO Tools’ Category
Baby got back links?
By Kyle Henrie | July 30, 2008
Building quality backlinks is a great way to ensure search engine success. With an emphasis on “quality”, a tool called the Backlink Builder can help you get backlinks in all the right places.
Backlink Builder asks you to supply a keyword or theme, and then returns relevant websites that contain phrases like “add link” or “add site.” Make acquaintances with as many out as your heart desires, and know that you’ve given a huge boost to your online campaign.
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Search Engine Keyword Position Tool
By Kyle Henrie | July 1, 2008
Trying to keep track of your site’s ranking for every keyword or phrase can turn into a full time job. That’s even more true if you intend to keep tabs on multiple search engines. Shazam! The Search Engine Keyword Position tool to the rescue!
Just enter your site’s address and a key word or phrase, and it’ll determine where you stand with Google, Yahoo, and MSN. You could hardly ask for a quicker or easier way to gauge your search engine success.
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No-Cost SEO Tools to Help You Increase Your Website Traffic
By Kyle Henrie | June 3, 2008
The right SEO tools can work wonders for your search strategy. You can save time, effort and investment, not to mention improve your rankings. A big thank you to Marketing Sherpa for providing the background for each of these.
Google Advanced Search
Cost: Free
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Description: This tool can be found by going to Google, clicking “Advanced Search” and then clicking the “+” symbol next to “Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more.” Now you should see a field titled “Where your keywords show up.”
This lets you limit a search to:
o Anywhere in the page
o Title of the page
o Text of the page
o URL of the page
o Links to the page
The big one is “links to the page.” By selecting this option and searching for your competitors, you can find which sites are linking to them. You can also limit the search by date to uncover the links that have been created most recently.
Google Trends
http://google.com/trends
Cost: Free
Description: Google Trends reveals keywords’ historic search volume on Google (but not the exact figures). Say you’re torn between two keywords. Type them into the text box, separate them with commas and click to see which has received the most search traffic over time. The data dates back years and is illustrated with graphs.
Use the tool to:
Decide on a keyword, i.e., should you go with singular or plural?
Search engines return different results for singular and plural forms of a noun. So, a tractor manufacturer might rank well for the term “tractor” but not for “tractors.”
Rank Checker
http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/
Cost: Free
Description: Rank Checker is a Firefox plug-in that takes keywords and reports your rankings on:
o Google
o Yahoo!
o MSN
o Google in other countries
If you check your rankings by typing in search engines and sift through results, stop now. This tool automates that process.
SeoQuake
http://www.seoquake.com/
Cost: Free
Description: SeoQuake is a Firefox plug-in that’s great for researching your search competition. It can resort search results based on a range of factors, including:
o Number of Web pages
o Number of links from Yahoo!
o Number of links from MSN
o Alexa rank
o Domain age
o Links from del.icio.us
Today’s Hot Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X
Cost: Free
Description: Another Google Trends feature is Today’s Hot Trends. You can access it by clicking “More Hot Trends” on the Google Trends homepage. “It’s been talked about for a while, but I don’t think a lot of people are using it,” Reynolds says.
Today’s Hot Trends is updated every hour and shows the top 100 fastest-rising search terms on Google.
Yahoo! Search Assist
http://www.yahoo.com/
Cost: Free
Description: When you’re using the search box in Yahoo!, you might notice a gray textbox of terms that appears when you start typing a phrase. The words in the box are Yahoo!’s suggestions for related keywords, loosely based on word content and search volume.
The difference between this tool and many others is the fact that Yahoo!’s suggestions are not based on character order alone. For example, typing “bug” into some tools will only return keywords that begin with “b-u-g” like “buggy” or “bugs.” Yahoo!, on the other hand, returns “fashion bug,” “bugs bunny” and “bed bugs.”
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Search Engine Spider Simulator
By Kyle Henrie | May 29, 2008
Sometimes you put a lot of work into your website and then find out that the search engines can’t see the content (i.e. Flash). The problem usually occurs because everything rendered on the client-side may not be visible to search engines (i.e. JavaScript).
This tool simulates the search engines spider by displaying the contents of a web page exactly how a search engine spider would see it. Give it try!
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Link Popularity
By Kyle Henrie | May 16, 2008
What is link Popularity? Link popularity is a general representation of the total number of web pages which link to a website (or individual web page). Most of the major search engines support the “link:” operator. Type in “link:” (without the quotation marks) in front of the URL about which you want to learn.
What does this tool do? This tool will query all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) when you enter the “link:” operator with your chosen URL. It will return the total link count for each URL.
Why is link popularity important? Link popularity is important because it is a major factor used by search engines in determining a site’s position in search results. Generally, a site with more inbound links will be positioned higher than a similar site with fewer links. Other factors that are considered include anchor text.
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Site Link Analyzer
By Kyle Henrie | May 16, 2008
Keeping track of links is an important pastime, and it just got easier than ever. Examine any webpage’s outbound links (or its internal ones) by using the Site Link Analyzer tool.
The tool only requires that you enter an address, decide which type of links you’d like to learn about, and make the same choice regarding nofollow attributes. It’ll then return relevant links’ URLs and anchor text, effectively giving you all the link-related figures a person could want. Use this time-saver to your advantage and optimize your online campaign.
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