Check
Google Position and Rank
http://www.googlerankings.com/index.php
Free
Professional SEO tips - keyword rank tracker and density
analyzer
http://www.gorank.com/analyze.php
Keyword
Popularity Calculator for Google
http://ecommerce.insightin.com/tools/keyword_popularity_calculator.php
SEO
Optimization Tips
http://www.seochat.com/c/b/Google-Optimization-Help/
Search
Engine Simulator
http://www.1-hit.com/all-in-one/tool.search-engine-viewer.htm
Keyword
Density Analyzer
http://www.webjectives.com/keyword.htm
Google
Sets
http://labs.google.com/sets
Search
engine Listing And Submission Directory
http://www.isedb.com/
SEO
Trade Secrets - 8 Great Tips for Search Engine Optimization
by Glenn Murray ©Copyright 2004
About
80% of website traffic comes through search engines.
And
research shows, if you're not on the first 2 pages,
most people
won't find you.
This
article isn't about how to achieve a high ranking. That
topic has been done to death over the past few months.
We all
know the basics now... Submit your site to the major
search
engines, scatter a generous helping of the right keyword
phrases
throughout your site in real sentences, then get a lot
of other
relevant sites to link to your site. That's it.
This
article is about what SEO tips to use to make your job
easier.
1)
Choosing Keyword Phrases (costs approx USD$7.50 per
day)
To decide what keyword phrases to use, subscribe to
www.wordtracker.com
for a day and do some analysis. Simply
enter a keyword and WordTracker tells you how often
people
have searched for that keyword in the last month or
two, how
many competitor sites are using that keyword, and how
many
searches it expects in the next 24hrs.
2)
Measuring Keyword Density (free)
To measure the density of the keyword phrases on your
page,
go to http://www.gorank.com/analyze.php
and type in the domain
and keyword phrase you want to analyse. It'll give you
a
percentage for all the important parts of your page,
including
copy, title, meta keywords, meta description, etc. The
higher
the density the better.
3)
Check How Search-Engine-Friendly Your Site Is (free)
Search engines send out spiders (or robots) to investigate
your
site. These SEO tips allow you to see your site from the
spider's
point of view.
- http://www.1-hit.com/all-in-one/tool.search-engine-viewer.htm
Enter your URL and it gives you a summary of the things
you
could improve.
- http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go? -
Poodle
tells you how many links the spider will see and investigate.
4)
Check How Many of Your Pages are Indexed (free)
Go to just about any search engine and type
site:www.yourdomain.com. The search engine will then
tell
you how many of your pages it has indexed.
5)
Monitor Your Position in Google (free)
No need to waste time clicking through hundreds of Google
search results looking for your site. This SEO tip allows
you
to enter a keyword and a domain name, and it searches
Google
to see where your domain is positioned. Go to
http://www.cleverstat.com/google-monitor-query.htm
to
download the setup file. Then just install.
6)
See How Important Sites Are (free)
The Google Toolbar is an indispensable SEO tip. One of
the things
it can tell you is the "importance" of every
site you visit
(in Google's eyes at least). You've probably heard a
bit about
PageRank or PR. PR is Google's measure of the importance
of a
site. Basically, the higher your PR, the higher your
ranking.
This SEO tip gives you a snapshot of the PR of every site
you visit.
Go to http://toolbar.google.com.
TIP: It's good to get links from other sites with high
PR
- especially if they contain the same keywords as your
site.
WARNING: Apparently the Google Toolbar monitors your
internet
usage. As yet, it's unclear what it uses this information
for.
7)
Monitor What Sites are Linking to Yours (free)
Google News Alerts (http://www.google.com/newsalerts?hl=en)
and
Google Web Alerts (http://www.google.com/webalerts)
will
tell you who's linking to your site. Simply set up an
alert
to be notified when Google finds www.yourdomain.com.
8)
Getting Help (free)
If you're new to SEO, the first thing you should do
is check
out Google's guide to SEO at
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html.
If you already
know the basics, there are a number of forums you can
subscribe
to to post questions. These forums are free, and they're
frequented by countless SEO experts. And when I say
"experts",
I mean EXPERTS! Some of these people do SEO all day,
every day.
And like many technical experts, they're only too happy
to help
– for free. The best forum seems to be
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3,
but
http://searchengineforums.com/Forum28
is ok too. If all else
fails, you can try sending Google an email. Go to
http://www.google.com.au/contact/index.html,
but don't hold
out much hope of help here. They'll eventually answer,
but
there's no guarantee on the quality of their response...
This
is just a snapshot of the SEO tips available out there.
Doubtless there are better available, but these will
certainly get you started.
Enjoy!
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Glenn Murray heads copywriting studio Divine Write.
He can be
contacted on Sydney +612 4334 6222 or at glenn@divinewrite.com.
Visit www.divinewrite.com
for further details.
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