Tools for search engine optimization
Here are some intresting links for SEO from Lee Odden of Online
Marketing Blog.
How old is the site? Sandbox = time
http://www.archive.org
http://www.123promotion.co.uk/tools/age-of-website.asp
Is your site a resource?
http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go Sites with content usually rank high, Spider simulator tool to see how much content is on the site/pages
Does the site have unique content?
Subscribe to copyscape.com and it will send you urls of duplicate content to the site you’re monitoring, Swiss army knife of seo tools: http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/
Change up anchor text
Google allinachor:keyword phrase, make sure you don’t use the same anchor text http://www.webconfs.com/anchor-text-analysis.php
What are the related phrases?
http://www.kwmap.net
What does the backlink neighborhood look like?
Aaron Wall’s hub finder
http://www.linkhounds.com/hub-finder/hubfinder.php
What are the current your rankings?
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/
(need google and yahoo api)
http://www.webuildpages.com/ses/
Domain server tools
Check Domain Name ownership - http://www.whois.sc/yourdomainhere.com,
check to see if a domain or ip is in any spam http://www.databasesdnsstuff.com, Checks for different class c blocks http://www.ip-report.com
Competitive information
www.googspy.com - what types of adwords terms are being bid on, top competitors by industry, Extension for firefox masks your indenty http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/switchproxy
Check backlinks
www.webuldpages.com/tools/tool #5, Check past 1000 links http://www.linkhounds.com/link-harvester/
Keyword information
http://labs.google.com/sets - find related terms, Ontology tool http://www.gorank.com/seotools
Header and page level info
Lets you know server response http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/server-header.php
Spidering and indexability
xenu link slueth - checks for broken links also good to make site maps, Also several tools at Rand Fishkin’s site, seomoz.org
Firefox extensions
SEOpen
web developer
search status
roboform
search keys
IE View
Web CEO
ranking reports
critiques
compare sites
links report
Analytics
ClickTracks
analyze traffic paths of tagged visitors
visual interface
LiveSTATS - deepmetrix.com
website stats, easy to use, visual and numeric reporting
Productivity
roboform.com - autofill form. handles multiple profiles
useful for submissions and linking, marketleap.com - also offers trend reports
Link popularity - competitor comparison
search engine saturation
keyword verification, Assess link popularity - optilinksoftware.com
optispider - spiders one web site. comapres link text to page topic and title tag
Keywords
Keyword idea generator - more useful for PPC - ranks.nl/tools/keyword_combinations.html
keyword density - compare pages ideas for keywords - keyword-helper.com
Domain analyzer - urltrends.com
multi purpose tool - you can receive a notification when any of the info changes - use to monitor competitors
Other resources for tools:
Bob Mutch
Digital Point
Bruce Clay
SEO Chat
Tags: SEO Tools, SEO, search engine optimization, Optimization Tools
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