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There are so many tools to slice and dice and analyze your website for search engine optimization purposes, but really, what does it all mean? This tool was designed to give marketers a quick, one-stop, bird's eye view of just how "strong" a given page on your website really is. The analysis is based upon a number of interesting factors, including the number of human-created mentions your website has (del.icio.us tags, Alexa Rank, mentions at Wikipedia, etc.), how old your website is, the quality of your site's inbound links and a variety of search engine-based results (the number of pages indexed, internal link percent, PageRank, etc.).
For example, the Web Digest For Marketers (WDFM) home page rated a score 5.5 out of a possible 10. We scored big because our site ranked #1 in Google for the first four keywords in our home page title and because the WDFM site is more than ten years old. We scored well for our Alexa ranking and not so well for some other factors. While the tool is basing its results upon the creators' own selection of what is and is not relevant to "page strength", it is a good way to quickly determine where your site needs improvement.
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Position Pro is a fee-based tool that will help you optimize your website pages for search engines and then will submit your site to the search engines for you. It spiders your site like a search engine, providing writers (and technologists, too) with reams of search marketing data. Your site's pages are given scores, which helps you learn which pages are considered highly relevant for what terms. Plus, you'll also receive a biweekly trend analysis and positioning report. There is a small learning curve, as phrases like "index value" can confuse even the most metrics-minded marketer.
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Use this tool to figure out where you live in your "keyword neighborhood". Quintara is a search engine that displays your results both visually and as a standard list. For example, we wanted to see who's in the "hood" of Web Digest for Marketers. So we did a search for the keyword phrase "Web Digest for Marketers". In the top panel of the split screen we saw a collage of keywords, with "Web Digest for Marketers" in the center surrounded by related words such as "publisher", "email newsletter", "directory", etc. In the bottom panel we saw a standard results page of the top website results according to Google, many of which were our own site (since we were searching for ourselves).
Then the fun begins. By clicking any of the words in a keyword collage, you change the context and direction of your search query. New keywords relating to the expanded search appear, and the text results change on the fly as well. We narrowed in to "email newsletter" and then were served up results like SEOChat, ClickZ, WilsonWeb and other Internet marketing resources. Instead of typing new keywords to expand or redirect a search, you manipulate clusters of keywords on your computer screen to refine your search. The top sites on your highly targeted list of results are the closest neighbors in the topical link neighborhood.
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Here you can run your site through its paces with a suite of tools that cost you zippo. These include a keyword ranking tool, a site inspector tool that checks for bloated pages and broken links on your site, a tool that will show you how your Flash site is indexed by the major websites, a spider simulator tool and a tool that will show you only sponsored results for your keywords of choice on Google and Overture. Bookmark this one.
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This tool pulls apart your home page (or any URL you enter) and breaks the content down into search engine spider food - i.e., the text, tags and links as a visiting search engine spider sees them. Run your home page through the paces to see your page title, description, metatags (if any), all HTML text on the page, your keyword density by most common one-, two- and three-word phrases and all links on the page. If your home page has lots of bells and whistles, you may be surprised at how very little of it a search engine spider actually sees.
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Your choice of keywords will make or break your SEO project. Choose words that are too popular, and you run the risk of getting lost in the shuffle. Choose words that are less popular, and chances are no one out there is really using them to search for your product or service. There is an art to drilling down to the right keywords for your site, and those who consult on this topic (such as this editor) have a variety of tricks and techniques up their sleeves to give them the "keyword edge". One edge worth noting is the Keyword Research and Analysis package offered by this company. For the fair price of $99.95(US), you will receive: 1) A keyword discovery list of 200 to 500 major and minor keywords relating to your website/business; 2) a report which details the popularity of the top 100 keywords in your report according to the major search engines; and 3) a competition metrics report which quantifies the top 10 bid prices for your top 100 keywords on Google and Overture. The site also features lots of tips and resources for those who prefer the DIY approach. As a matter of fact, if you sign up for their email list, you will receive a no-cost copy of their "Search Engine Optimization Fast Start" ebook.
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You say you've optimized your site backwards and forwards and you're not sure what to do next? Why, optimize your PDFs, of course! Seriously, if you do publish white papers, research reports or other informative tomes on your site, you may have overlooked their optimization as a way to boost your search engine rankings. Did you know that in Adobe Acrobat 6 there are two places to input search-engine indexable content? To learn how to do it -- and do it right -- visit this site.
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This site provides three very useful SEO tools in one handy location. Review your site copy with the keyword density tool, which will tell you, by percentages, the words and phrases that are most important on your site. The spider simulator tool delivers up the text and links on your site as a search engine spider sees them (which might be quite different than what you expect). The HTTP header viewer tool gives you a look at your site header from a technical perspective. Of course, you can take a look at the sites of your competitors, as well, to see how you stack up. There are other tools here, but these three are the cream of the crop.
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This is like the Swiss Army knife of keyword research tools. As it was created by SEO consultancy SEO Book, it combines the results from or links to all the useful SEO keyword research resources out there into one single interface. The tool will display keywords and phrases related to the one you are researching, according to Overture, WordTracker and KeywordDensity. You will also see the estimated monthly search volume for your word/phrase on all the major search engines, Google Trends for that word/phrase, a visual map of the related keyword universe (which is pulled from visual search engine Quintara), a link to the Google AdWords tool that will tell you how much you have to bid for that keyword to rank #1 for 85% of queries - and how much traffic x number of dollars will drive to your site - and on and on and on. The site is full of other interesting SEO tools, so take a look around while you are there.
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Marketers are more than waking up to the SEO implications and possibilities of RSS feeds and blogs. One of the leading brains in this niche specialty is Stephan Spencer, who is founder and president of Netconcepts. His presentation at a Search Engine Strategies conference on "Blog and Feed Search SEO" has been blogged and tagged and fed across the Internet, so the 50+ slide Powerpoint presentation he posted on his blog seems to be the seminal word on the subject at the time of writing. In it you'll find tips and tactics for optimizing your blogs and RSS feeds for SEO purposes.
For example, for best SEO impact your RSS feeds should be full text, not summaries. Also, while the end user of your RSS feeds might prefer to personalize the content that he/she receives from you, those customized feeds are not as compelling from an SEO standpoint, as you are not reinforcing the same content across multiple sites. It's better to blast out one big fat feed than lots of itty-bitty feeds, if SEO is what you have in mind. These are the tradeoffs that you must consider. There are also dozens of tips for optimizing your blog. For example, your author bios (or your own) should appear in the column next to related articles, because footer links in blogs are not taken seriously by search engines. Within his blog you will find sections relating to RSS and Blog SEO, so you can click along to additional/updated content as well.
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