Online Tools to Make SEO Efforts, Effortless
There are different kinds of online tools for different aspects of SEO, each having their own unique feature to provide assistance, that is, to make SEO efforts seem a little more effortless. Some came from popular sites such as SEOmoz or SEOBook. Others were from independent programmers (who do optimization techniques as well) that offer free or paid SEO tools for specialists alike. Here is a comprehensive list of popular SEO tools, arranged based on their individual specialization.
Backlinks
Quality backlinks is one of the most important factor in Search Engine Optimization. It is not enough just to have a lot of them, it is the quality along with the quantity that helps websites rank better in search engines. For backlinks, specialists commonly use tools that would help them determine the health of their links. Here are the 3 most popular ones.
Raven-seo-tools.com
Raven is an SEO tool which provides everything from content management, research and analysis, campaign management, and many more. Some of its features include a Firefox toolbar, keyword analyzer, design analyzer, link manager, and backlink analyzer. Raven offers free limited access on their services and a paid one, for full features.
Webuildpages.com: Backlink & Anchor Text Tool
Knowing who is linking and what link text or anchor text they’re using is one of the most important aspects in search engine optimization. This tool checks backlinks and shows the anchors used to link to the website.
Webconfs.com: Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer
Similar to Webconfs’s tool, this one determines the backlinks of a website and the anchor texts used as well.
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Domain
Aside from backlinks, analysis of the domain is also important. Here are some of the tools used to analyze the strength, age, and status of a website’s domain:
Centralops.net: Domain Dossier
To learn about a site’s domain and IP addresses, specialists use Domain Dossier. Among its features include WhoIs, network WhoIs, DNS info, service scanner, and traceroutes.
Webconfs.com: Domain Stat Tool
This tool shows statistics of the domain or its competitor’s. Stats include Alexa traffic rank, domain age, Yahoo WebRank, Dmoz listings, number of backlinks and pages indexed in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
seoegghead.com: View HTTP Header Tool
Much like the name of the tool is, View HTTP Header Tool checks on the domain’s HTTP header and its competitor’s.
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Keyword Analysis
Keyword research and analysis is the most important aspect in SEO. This involves doing a research of the keywords that would be most appropriate for the site and analyzing its weight or importance. Here are some tools which could be helpful to implement this.
Seochat.com: Keyword Density Tool
The keyword density tool is useful for helping webmasters and SEO specialists achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms. This tool analyzes a website’s chosen URL and return a table of keyword density values for one-, two-, or three-word key terms. In an attempt to mimic the function of search engine spiders, it filters out common stop words (since these were also ignored by search engines). It avoids filtering out stop words in the middle of a term as well.
Linkvendor.com: Keyword Density Checker
LinkVendor’s Keyword Density checker lists the most frequently used keywords of a website and calculates its percentage share in popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask Jeeves.
Webconfs.com: Keyword Density Checker – Keyword Cloud
This tool from Webconfs crawls the given URL, extracts text as a search engine would, removes common stop words and analyzes the density of the keywords. The Keyword Cloud is a visual depiction of keywords used on a website — keywords having higher density are depicted in large fonts. Ideally your main keywords should appear in larger fonts at the start of the cloud.
Web Popularity
Constant checking on the site’s gaining popularity on the web is also needed. This is to assure that the SEO campaign is still on the right track. This also serves as a way to learn if the strategy used in a campaign is effective or not. Below are the tools used to see a site’s popularity in terms of links.
Webmaster-toolkit.com: Link Popularity Checker
This tool shows how many websites are linking to the site. Website popularity is an important factor in search engine ranking. The more popular the site is, the better it will be ranked on engines like Google or Yahoo.
Marketleap.com: Link Popularity Check
Link Popularity Check is one of the best ways to independently measure a website’s online overall visibility. This tool works by calculating the total number of links, or what they call “Votes”, that a search engine has found linking to a website. This also generates useful benchmarking report to quickly show where the website stands in comparison to competitors and other major online players.
Webconfs.com: Reciprocal Link Checker
Reciprocal Link Checker ensures that the link partners are linking back to the website. It also determines the anchor text used by the link partners.
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Google PageRank Checker
Google is one of the primary search engines in which SEO specialists and enthusiasts direct their attention to. Its ranking tool – Google PageRank – determines the state of the website’s importance and popularity around the web. This in turn will be the basis if the websites is gaining success in regard to search ranking position in Google.
Selfseo.com: Check Google PageRank
Check Google PageRank is a tool used to check a website’s PR without installing the Google toolbar. This features other components such as Alexa Rank, DMOZ Listing, Google/Yahoo/MSN backlinks, AltaVista/All the Web results and Website Thumbnail.
Linkvendor.com: Multi PageRank Check
With the Multi PageRank Check, one can easily check the PageRank of a website from different Google data centers.
Margarette Mcbride
http://www.articlesbase.com/seo-articles/online-tools-to-make-seo-efforts-effortless-706057.html
Originally posted 2010-01-10 18:12:05.
Search Engine Watch labs at SES San Francisco 2010
Greg Jarboe, SEO-PR, interviews Jonathan Allen, Director of Search Engine Watch, on the subject of the four Search Engine Watch labs conducted at SES San Francisco, 2010. Each lab begins with a primer, asking the audience what issues they want to put on the agenda for the lab and then presentations and site clinics are built all around what the audience wants to learn more about. Lab instructors, including Jonathan and Greg, interact with the audience addressing their issues. SES San Francisco 2010 featured four labs on the following subjects: PPC, local, SEO and video optimization. Luminaries who took part in the SEO lab giving constructive feedback to the audience participants included, Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz, Maile Ohye of Google, and Christoph Cemper of MarketingFan.com.
Please visit: http://www.searchenginewatch.com
To learn more about attending SES, please visit:
http://www.searchenginestrategies.com
Duration : 0:4:21
Hotel Internet Marketing Experts – SEO Ranking Factors by Milestone
Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz.org gives insight on SEO Ranking Factors during a personal interveiw with Benu Aggarwal from Milestone Internet Marketing during SMX 2009 Seattle.
Duration : 0:8:1
Rand Fishkin CEO of SEOMOZ: The dark side has it’s benefits
Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOMOZ.org, talks about the wacky world of SEO and the differences between being white hat or crossing the tracks to the dark side of Spammerville.
Duration : 0:3:54
I need some good Search Engine Optimization tools. Can someone help?
I am looking for some Search Engine Optimization tools to help my site rank better. I am not interested in useless stuff or anything similar. I tried almost everything and my site only ranks high for a long tail keywords, but not for my main keywords. Recommend me some good SEO tools!
There are a lot of tools online you can use to analyze keywords, analyze your website, your competition and to help you in building links. I can recommend you these:
Google Keyword Suggestion Tool – This tool is for analyzing keywords, their search numbers, as well as finding out a lot of variations and alternative keywords.
Crawl Test Tool from SEOmoz – will analyze your site and identify the quick and simple tasks you have to do in order to increase your rank.
The Keyword Difficulty Tool from SEOmoz – will pinpoint the exact keywords that are not exploited and will be the goldmine of traffic.
Linkscape from SEOmoz – will show you which links you need to rank and which links could actually get you penalized.
There are tons of other tools and some are good and some aren’t, but if you want to save your time and money, these are the ones you should use. I have three websites with top positions on major search engines, so I know what I am talking about.
Search Engine Optimization: SEO Wars
A satirical movie trailer by an SEO for SEOs, re. “the Star Wars” thing i.e. White Hat vs. Black Hat, starring prominent bloggers in the SEM scene. See the original (in full quality) at http://bl.asphemo.us/seo-wars/
Duration : 0:2:15
