Tools

Here are some tools provided by the W3C in the domain of Quality Assurance: validators and other test tools. Almost all of these tools are web-based, are available both as downloadable source, and as free services on the w3.org site.  read more »

SEO for Firefox is basically just an Extension that you load into Firefox and it ads some links below each of your search results on search engines.

It shows many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a more holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market right from the search results.

According to http://www.seobook.com the Firefox SEO tool has the following features:

PR: (Google PageRank) an estimated measure of global link authority  read more »

WordTracker has a great Keyword Research Guide http://www.wordtracker.com/keyword-research-guide.html. It is a free eBook. Just because it is free, doesn’t mean it isn’t good. This thing is chock full of helpful information. Newbies as well as old dogs need to check out WordTracker’s Keyword Research Guide.

I found this great tool today. The SEOmoz Page Strength Tool is really interesting. It will tell you:

* The Relative Importance/Visibility of a Webpage
* The Potential Strength/Ability of a Page to Rank in the Search Engines
* Data on Popularity, Links & Mentions of the Page Across the Web

The tool is designed to satisfy the curiosity of webmasters, surfers and web marketing professionals seeking a better metric to quickly assess a site/page’s relative importance and visibility. Check out SEOmoz Page Strength Tool here http://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php.

I found a great Keyword Selector Tool. Using keywords in your article is extremely important. Keywords are the words that people will use to find your site.

If you are not sure what keywords to use. Overture has a keyword selector tool http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ that works great. All you do is enter a term related to your site and the tool will show you related searches that include your term and how many times that term was searched last month.  read more »

Overture Bid Tool - Sometimes it’s nice to find out how much advertisers are paying per click on particular words. This can be extremely helpful when you are trying to decide on a blog topic.

Wouldn’t it be helpful to know that advertisers are paying up to $7.00 for the keywords credit cards. While something like gardening is only paying $.10. This can be a huge factor in how much money your blog earns.  read more »

The Google keyword tool generates other keywords for you. You type in your keywords and the keyword tool tells you what other keywords are related.

The tool also reports the keywords Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends.

The Google keyword tool will also do site related keywords. All you do is enter in your webpage URL to find keywords related to the content on the page.

Some great stuff. Be sure to try the Google keyword tool.

Feedo Style allows you to add a scrolling feed ticker to your blog or website.

The scrolling feed is pretty nice looking and you can set it up to include your favorite RSS feed.

Check out the scrolling feed ticker at Feedo Style.

Eh List is a nice little site. I suggest you head on over and give it a try. Eh List will tell you how many of your pages are indexed by Google. Eh List will tell you how many back links you have. Which is a nice way to see who exactly is linking to your site. They provide URL’s so you can actually check out the sites if you want.

Eh List will do the same for blogs. It will tell you which blogs are linking to your site.

It will tell you all of the above for Yahoo as well. Check out Eh List, it definitely provides some interesting information.

I found a really nice Keyword Difficulty Tool. You type in your keyword and it shows you a graphic of how difficult your chances are of ranking with those particular keywords. It ranges from very easy to very difficult.

The keyword difficulty tool will also suggest different keywords to try. This is a nice little tool. I wouldn’t depend on it 100% when deciding on keywords, but I did find it a helpful tool to add to my SEO toolbelt.

Did you know that you can check the page rank of every page by using the Google toolbar? If you haven’t tried it, make sure you do it is awesome. But what if you want to show your visitors, who aren’t using Google’s toolbar, your great page ranking?

Blogflux has a tool that will show visitors what your page is ranked. It is called the Page Rank Checker. You can check the rank of any of your pages. It also gives you a snippet of code that you can put on your page to proudly display your page rank.

A great tool to use is WordTracker. With WordTracker you can find what keywords are being searched often. It will also tell you different variations of those keywords. WordTracker will also tell you how much competition is out there for your selected keywords.

I don’t usually trust the competition figures they give, I usually do a little research on my own to see how many pages are actually optimized for a specific set of keywords.  read more »

Google gives rank to every site on the web. This is called a page rank. It usually takes a lot of time, traffic and link backs to ever get a good page rank. Google is ranked a 10. The highest you could probably ever hope to get to would a PR6 or PR7. Seven would really be pushing it.

You can download the Google toolbar which will tell you the ranking of every site you go to. Pretty cool little toolbar. I’d recommend it.  read more »