Flash and SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

A well known problem for sites that use Flash is that they have a lot of trouble getting well indexed in search engines. Imagine if all the text on your website was a single Jpeg image; Google would not recognize or be able to index the words in that image, that’s essentially the same problem […]

SEO Report

Here’s a pretty decent SEO (Search Engine Optimization) report generator to help you find out what you can do to make your site more search engine friendly. Input your website address and it will give you a pretty comprehensive report on many aspects of your site including the following:(from the site)

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Backlinks checker

GC Website Analyzer is a freeware tool you can use to check multiple websites’ Google page rank, Alexa traffic rank as well as the number of back links to that website found in each search engine. I haven’t used it myself, but it looks like it might be a useful tool.
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Check keyword popularity

If you are optimizing a website or page for a particular keyword, you might want to check if a variation on it is more popular. Google duel allows you to pit two words or phrases against each other. I tried “web tool” vs. “webtool” and found that the former is a clear winner with 1,250,000 […]

Google Pagerank explained

There is a lot of talk about Google PageRank This is a score from 0 to 10 that Google assigns to your website and is an indication of how important Google thinks your site is. This can significantly affect how highly you rank for in Google searches for particular keywords.

You can check a site’s PageRank […]

Keyword optimization tool

Conventional wisdom is that to get your site ranking well on Google, you need to (among other things) optimize your web site or at least a page for a particular keyword or keyword phrase.  But how do you decide which is the best keyword to go for? Let’s say you sell jewellery, would it be […]

Track your keyword ranking in excel

There are many ways to check and monitor your keyword ranking for a particular site or a webpage in Google. But some of them restrict the number of keywords you can check. If you are a Microsoft Excel user you can download the Keyword Ranker macro for Excel here.  You will need to have […]