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SEO — 46 Comments
12
Mar 10

SEO Tracking Tools by EasySEOTracking.com

Today I would like to review the tools that will help you to answer the questions that SEO specialists ask during their everyday work:

Does my site appear in Google search results?
Did my site appear in search results previously?
How does my latest changes affect the overall SEO project?
Why do my competitors appear in the first positions on Google’s search results?

Does my site appear in Google search results?

You can check it by going to Google SERPs Checker, enter the keywords and your site URL: Continue reading →

Link Building — 55 Comments
21
Feb 10

16 Free Link Building Tools & Tips for Strategic Linking

This is a guest post provided by AAA Linking, a link building service company & linking resource.

Here is a list of great link building tools & tips to help you discover and obtain relevant backlinks.

#1 Backlink Watch - One of my favorite link building tools. It’s a very simple way to check a website’s backlink URL’s, anchor text and total OBL’s (outbound links) on the same page as that link.

Quick Tip – If a website is ranking for a particular keyword, you can punch that site into backlink watch, and skim the outputs for all anchor text links saying that particular keyword to get a good idea of what type of sites and which sites are giving them links saying their/your desired terms.

#2 Analyze Backlinks - Another gold mine for exploring a competitor’s backlinks. This one provides more valuable options that allow you to filter out same domain URL’s and to search for factors such as target keyword mentions surrounding the links.

Quick Tip – Same as the tip for Backlink Watch, but add the factor of looking for that keyword on the page as well. Because surrounding content of links can sometimes be just a valuable as the link itself.

#3 Bad Neighborhood Text Link Tool – Great way to see what type of links a website accumulates, whether it be yours or a potential link partner.

Quick Tip – If a potential partner wants to exchange links with you, check and see if all their backlinks are legit. Because, yes, guilty by association is a search engine ranking factor.

#4 SoloSEO Link Search Tool – Quite possibly the easiest way online to find relevant backlinks that are fairly easy to obtain.

Quick Tips – My favorites are “list * keyword * sites”, “recommended links” keyword”, “favorite links” keyword”, “favorite sites” keyword”, intitle:post keyword, keyword guest writer, keyword guest blog post writer, keyword submit content, keyword submit article, keyword submit post, keyword add article, keyword “suggest * url”, keyword “suggest * site”

#5 Link Appeal Tool - Is a link from your website really worth it? Find out with this tool how valuable your website is based on several factors.

Quick Tip – Aim to get links from sites with higher value than yours.

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SEO / Web Design — 6 Comments
2
Feb 10

Perform a Quick SEO Analysis Utilizing 2 Free SEO Tools

If you ever find yourself at the point where you just aren’t sure what basic SEO needs to be done for a website, consider using these two free SEO tools that will scan your website for ranking barriers and influencers. Within 10 minutes you can damn-near know everything your website needs to be fully optimized.

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Link Building — No Comments
4
Jan 08

Google Webmaster Guidelines and Link Building Pt.3

PART 3 of 5 – Submitting your Sitemap in Google’s Webmaster Tools

Step 3 is a doozy.

Google says “Submit a sitemap as part of our Google Webmaster tools. Google uses your sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your WebPages”

Google is about theme. Even though your site may have your targeted keyword various times and in various formats, Google wants to see that the whole website’s theme is relevant to the keyword also.

So, creating a site map is a must. (If you site has a theme)

There are many ways to create a sitemap. For a full tutorial on creating one, visit sitemaps.org or Google’s sitemap page. Or you could go to XML Sitemaps and they will generate ones for you, for free.

Sitemap - Google Webmaster Tools

Once you have created your sitemap, you will submit it to Google Webmaster Tools. Google may ask you to verify that you are the site owner (or someone that can edit the site) before you can benefit from all the features of Google’s Webmaster Tools.

Once you have submitted your sitemap to Google’s Webmaster Tools, Google will verify that you have submitted your sitemap.

Keep in mind; this doesn’t automatically get all your pages indexed in Google. You have to get an indexed page to link to your pages for them to be indexed. Submitting your sitemap just makes it easier for the Googlebot to crawl your whole site.

For more information regarding sitemaps, visit any of these resourceful sites;