Search engine ranking
Here’s a handy tool that checks how many mentions you have in 6 of the top search engine indexes at once.
It also gives you an option to check your results against up to 3 competitors if you choose to do so.
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Pagerank Tool
If you don’t use Firefox with the SEO plugin this is a good alternative, it’s a free pagerank search tool. One use for this tool is to help discover websites that you might want to try to get links from to increase your traffic.
The higher the Google pagerank of the page linking to you, the more pagerank you will inherit. This tool will show the page rank of each of the search results. The search is sortable by pagerank or relevance.
Reciprocal Link Checker
Have you exchanged links with other websites? You may want to check them periodically. There’s no reason to continue to link to a website if they are no longer linking to you (if that’s why you added their link in the first place) It can be bad for your PageRank and takes up space you could use for other links.
This online webtool allows you to enter your URL and a list of sites that are supposed to link to you and it will check them all for you. Save your list in a text file and come back to check again periodically
URL Trends
URLtrends is another website that allows you to measure a number of metrics comparing your website to the average website. Some of the trends followed are Number of incoming links, pagerank, Alexa ranking, Search engine results and more.
Free SEO Content Management System
This is a freeware search engine optimized content management system. What that means in a a nutshell is that it’s software you can use it to build a website from a database. The key benefit is that it’s a very quick way to generate a large number of pages and also very easy to change your whole site in a minute or so.
They claim that their templates are highly SEO compliant and more importantly, all use CSS.
It even has advanced options to enable PayPal for an e-commerce site and code generators to create CSS tables from spreadsheets, thumbnail photo albums, and lots more.
Some features (from the website):
- 90% quicker than WYSIWYG editors.
- Optimized hand code quality pages.
- Instantly apply wide range of FREE template designs
- Reliable, hacker free pages.
- FREE code generators. Table, photo albums etc.
- Safe mode for beginners; full html access for experts.
- All menus, SEO, accessibility tags built automatically.
- Unlimited number of sites from one install.
- Preview website before release.
- Content 100% separate from design.
Text link calculator
If you are interested in selling a text ad on your site but don’t know what to charge, try this pricing tool for a start.
It uses some kind of algorithm which takes things such as back links, page rank, website traffic and more in to account. It’s certainly useful as a baseline and when I tested it on one of my sites it came up with a number very close to an unsolicited offer I had recently received. (perhaps they used this tool to come up with their offer)
Keyword Density
If you have a website about hand made watches but it doesn’t show up in Google when you search for “hand made watches” you may want to check your keyword density of your web page.
If Google can’t figure out what your page is about it will be hard to get it to rank highly.
Here’s a keyword density tool to check your website.
You may want to make adjustments to ensure that the most relevant and important keyword words and phrases show up at the top of the list.
Tip:
The keywords don’t have to be in the main body text, even placing them in the image ‘alt’ tag will help.
SEO for Designers
Web designers are often unaware of SEO or feel it doesn’t relate to their field, but if you are going to optimize your site for search engines surely it happens at the design stage. Webdesignerwall.com has a great rundown of what web designers should know about SEO, including an overview of Search Engine Optimization and a list of the most common SEO mistakes web designers make.
Get a free SEO review of your website
SEO analyzer from Raven Seo tools gives you a great quick rundown of your website in terms of it’s Search engine optimization qualities; in plain English. It will check your site for multiple design elements that enable good search engine ratings and will offer up suggestions on how to make your site more search engine friendly.
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