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Keyword Tools – Favourites

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:20:56 +0000

If you are not driving traffic to your blog – you are getting traffic through organic search engine results. Using keyword tools can improve you ranking in the results. Here are a few of my favorites – including my personal most favorite – Scribe. Not all of these four are free – and yet for me – I have found them easy to use – which makes them useful.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool because Google’s contextual targeting technology can automatically match your keywords (ads) to web pages in Google’s Display Network that are most relevant to your business – Google Adwords can help you do so may things. Including finding JV partners – and learning how others are using the keywords to their advantage.

I give my a huge thumbs up to Scribe. I have been using it since February – and it has made a tremendous different to how I set up my own blog. It’s simple and it’s actually fun to use. It’s like a learning tool for best SEO practices. Scribe is a plug in for word press (and it works for Joomla and Dropul). It’s not free – but – for a coach who doesn’t have a lot of extra time – provides huge value. In addition to the integrated keyword assistance – it has the additional benefits of helping you to do things like advance keyword research and linking in sites and social media. Scribe’s semantic analysis, also saves me time – because I can get useful takes in seconds – instead of needing to spend time deciding on tags. I actually am at the point now that I can’t think of being without this tool.

WordTracker is excellent for helping you to find and dig deep into the ‘long tail’ of keywords. Which of course makes it easier for you to rank closer to the top of the page for that keyword string. Wordtracker has a free trial that is worth the taking.

SPyfu subscribers and free-access visitors start at the same point. Go to http://spyfu.com and start with the search box. Enter your domain or keyword. Your free access to the site opens a bunch of results :

Stats of the domain’s spending, clicks per day and organic value from their content
Ten Best Paid Keywords during each month
First 10 paid keywords
Top ad competitors
First 10 organic keywords from the most recent month
Top organic competitors

Stats of the keyword’s cost per click, clicks per day, search volume and search results

This can be lovely information for keyword research because when you know how much a keyword costs, you can take that into account when you are writing search optimized content for your website. If a keyword is cheap and gets very little traffic, all things being equal, you probably don’t need to include it in your content. On the other hand if it would be expensive to buy the traffic on the keyword, you should definitely consider trying to get that traffic organically and include it in you content.

Ads run on this keyword
Top 50 organic results on this keyword
Categories to lead you to related keywords
View the cached page of the results page we used to capture this data.

With a paid subscription, you can see how different changes reveal the advertiser’s strategy.

If in the end you have way more time on your hands – and you are looking for a more expansive list of keyword tools;you could always check out this Gigantic List of keyword tools.

Happy Keywording!

Link Directories

admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:12:05 +0000

Getting your website or blog listed in high quality web directories can be a time consuming task. There are organizations that will do this for you such as PageRankSubmit.com as well as some others – or if you are like me, you might be interested to to know that you can get direct, targeted traffic and one way links from directories by directly submitting to them. Doing this exercise may improve your search engine rankings and Google PageRank. I am just beginnin this process – and here are some of the directories that I am submitting to:

Clarib Web Directory
Info-Listings
BetterWebDirectory
JamJaa
Illumirate
Free Website Directory
DirectoryVault
Link Nom

Web – Search Optimization Tools

Admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:34:39 +0000

The Blurb: Search Optimization Tools List

The Product Links: See Below

What it does: This list will help with a lot of SEO opportunities

Check Yahoo WebRank
Allows you to check the Yahoo WebRank of up to 5 URLs at a time. Class C Checker
class C IP range checker. Domain Age Tool
Determines the age of the domains entered. Domain Stats Tool

Enter domain and getdomain age, number of pages indexed, and number of backlinks.

HTTP / HTTPS Header Check

Allow you to inspect the HTTP headers that the web server returns when requesting a URL.

Link Price Calculator

Show value of text link ad.

Redirects And HTTP Headers Checker

Checks for redirects on a domain

URL Rewriting Tool

Creates Mod-Rewrite rules to convert dynamic URLs to static looking URLs.

Website Keyword Suggestions

Provides keyword suggestions along and keyword traffic estimates for the entered website.

Alexa Tools

Alexa Page Ranking Cut & Paste or browse file for domain list – Displays Alexa Ranking. Good for checking large number of domains.Alexa Rank Tool 3 month, 1 week, today Alexa Rank.

Alexa Ranking

Cut & Paste or browse file for domain list – Displays Alexa Ranking. Good for checking large number of domains.

Alexa Related Rank Check

Input up to ten domains – get 1 week, 3 month average & 3 month up/down Alexa Ranking.

Backlink Tools

Backlink Check Tool Shows anchor text for your sites backlinks.

Code Validation

Atom & RSS Feed Validator RSS feeds validatorW3C Markup Validation Service Official W3C compliance validator

Combined Keyword Suggestion Tools

Adword Keyword Generator Combine words script with stemming for PPC systems.Combine Words Combine words script for PPC systems.

Combo Search Engine Ranking

Search Engine Placement Check Enter URL/Keyword – Displays top 30 for 11 Search Engines.Search Engine Position Checker Enter URL/Keyword – Displays top 50 for 9 Search Engines.

Search Engine Positioning

Enter URL/Keyword – Displays top 100 for 5 Search Engines.

Search Engine Ranking Report

Input key phrase list & get Google & Yahoo Rankings.

Compare Search Engine Ranking Tools

Dogpile Search Comparison Shows top results from 3 search engine.Google-Yahoo-Ask Search Combines search results from Google, Yahoo! & Ask Jeeves.

Myriad Search

Domain Tools

Bad Neighborhood Checker Checks if you’re linking to bad neighborhoodsBrowser Screen Resolution Checker Check what you Website looks like in different

C Class Backlink Analyzer Tool

Shows your links for differnet Class-C site.

Class C Checker

Class C IP range checker.

Class C Range Checker

Unique Class C IP Checker – Cut & Paste or load up a file.

DNS Report

Checks your domain and does email test.

Domain Age Tool

Determines the age of the domains entered.

Domain Dossier

IP to host, host to ip, traceroute, whois zone file. Hot Tool!

Domain Stats Tool

Enter domain and getdomain age, number of pages indexed, and number of backlinks.

Free Site Monitor

Server monitor and alert service

HTML Header Viewer

Shows HTTP headers the web server is sending.

HTTP / HTTPS Header Check

Allow you to inspect the HTTP headers that the web server returns when requesting a URL.

IP Address Report

Bulk class C IP address checker.

Redirects And HTTP Headers Checker

Checks for redirects on a domain

Sandbox Detection Tool

Checks to see if your site is effected by the Sandbox.

Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker

Enter URL – Check your redirect to see if it is SE friendly

What Is My IP Address

Shows the IP of your computer or routers.

Exchange Link SEO Tools

One Way Link Verify

Track your one-way links – Shows status and PR.

Online Free Reciprocal Link Checker

Enter links – Reports back which ones are up, down or unreachable.

Site Link Analyzer

Lists internal and external links for input URL.

Google Ranking Tools

Free Google Keyword Ranking Tool Search with list of keywords from differnet Google search sites.

Google Datacenter Watch Tool

Shows the differnet Ranking results for different datacenters.

Google One Line Results

Google displays each results as one-liners with anchor text the title.

Google Rank Position

Shows Google rank position, PR, numbmer of entries indexed, DMOZ and Google Dir status.

Google Rankings

Enter URL/Keyword – Searches the first 1000 entries.

Google Sitemap Tools

Online XML Sitemaps Generator A free online Google XML Sitemaps Generator

Internet Bookmarking

Del.icio.us – Social Bookmarker Social bookmarkingYour Personal Web File Social bookmarking

Keyword Suggestion Tools

Free Keyword Search Tool Displays keyword data using Wordtracker and Google search results.Free Meta Keywords Tool Reads meta keywords and hotlinks them to 3 keyword mining tools.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool

Keyword tool from Google that provides Specific and Similar keywords.

Google Suggest

Google keyword completions when searching.

Keyword Generator

Keyword searches from Espotting Media’s (

) PPC database.

Keyword Research Tool

Tool returns similar keywords found in the meta keywords of sites searched by your choice of 9 search engines.

Keyword Suggestion Tool

Keyword searches from Overture and Wordtracker (Wordtracker displays singular/plural & correct order).

Search Term Research

Searches Overture data for 16 countries and more.

Website Keyword Suggestions

Provides keyword suggestions along and keyword traffic estimates for the entered website.

Keyword Tools

Keyword Density Analyzer

Enter URL – Displays 1, 2, and 3 word combinations.

Keyword Density Analyzer

Enter URL/Keywork – Displays density each different page component.

Keyword Density Tool

Enter URL – Generators keyword phrases from your webpage one, two & three words long & displays density.

Ontology Finder

Provides synonymous terms to keywords – Use these in your webpage text.

Link Popularity Tools

Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer Blacklink analyzer that shows URL and anchor text.Check BL URL & IP & Find Age Tool Shows unique domains linking to you.

Free IBL Check

Input Keyword – Calculates Inbound Links Required for First Page SERP.

Link Appeal

Enter URL – Rates for link appeal.

Link Popularity & Site Analysis Tool

Shows links/pages for Google/Yahoo/MSN/Ask/Alexa

Link Popularity Analysis Tool

Analysis your backlinks in every which way.

Link Popularity Tool

Statistics regarding a site popularity

Report Bot

Checks Links on 5 Search Engines, PR, Alexa Ranking, DMOZ.

Required Text Links Estimator

Input keyword – Shows inbound links for top 10 sites on Google, Yahoo & MSN.

Uptime Bot

Off-page (popularity) stats

Misc Tools (8) Back to the top

Adsense Ad Display Input URL shows AdSense Ads for that web page.Check Yahoo WebRank Allows you to check the Yahoo WebRank of up to 5 URLs at a time.

Search Engine Index Checker

Enter URL – Shows number of pages for 5 Search Engines.

Site Wide Cache Check

Checks for cached pages and provides cache date.

URL Rewriting Tool

Creates Mod-Rewrite rules to convert dynamic URLs to static looking URLs.

URL Trends

Full page popularity stats

MSN Ranking Tools

MSN Position Search MSN Search for up to 15 keywords on one domain.MSN Rankings MSN Beta Rankings – Search Engine Rankings.

Page Rank Tools

Datacenter Quick Check Checks datacenters for BL, PR and Ranking.Future PageRank Tool View PR during updates on 18 data-centers one screen one search.

Page Rank Tool

Shows PR on the differnet Google datacenters.

Pay Per Click Tools

CPM and CPC ROI Calculators CPM and CPC return on investment calculators.Overture Bid Amounts Overture bid amounts for keywords

Related Page Rank Tools

Backlink Checker Input webpage – Returns number of inbound links for each PR position.Google PageRank Calculator Input keyword – Shows PR and Backlinks.

Google PageRank Prediction

Looks at your URL and predicts PR

Google PageRank Report

Cut & Paste – Shows PR for unlimited sites.

Page Rank Grid Calculator

Construct the relationship of your website pages & calculate PR.

Page Rank Search

Google search results with PR bar and inbound links.

Page Rank Search Results

Displays Google results with PR – Simular as the Prog tool.

Pagerank Calculator

Mark Horrell’s Pagerank Calculator

PageRank Lookup

Cut & Paste – Shows PR of up to 100 URLs.

PageRank Search Prog

Displays Google by pagerank – IMPROVED Prog Tool.

RSS Tools

Cut And Paste Feed Builder Easy to use RSS feed generatorRSS Feed Generator Easy to use RSS feed generator

Search Engine Position Tools

Cool SEO Tool G/Y/M/A ranking, pages, backlinks, allinanchor, & domain age.McDar Keyword Analysis Tool Enter URL/Keyword – Displays PR/Backlinks/Pages for top 10.

Page Report

Shows pages, BL, PR, unique domains etc.

PageRank Finder

Enter Keyword – Displays PR, BL’s & allinanchor.

Pages Indexed Backlinks Domain Pagerank Allinanchor Keyword Density Tool

Shows pages, BL, PR, Allinanchor, keyword density, etc.

PulseRank

Tracks Ranking movement on Google for 1000 keywords.

SERP Checker

Enter Keyword – Displays PR and backlinks for top 10.

Text Link Ad Value Tools

Keyword Difficulty Tool Rates difficulty of ranking on Google for key phrase.Link Price Calculator Show value of text link ad.

Link Pricing Tool

Analyses Web page for value of text link ad.

Link Value

Calculates link value per month rental.

Toolbars

Google Toolbar For Firefox Download File – Toolbar displays PageRank has Google Search.Google Toolbar For IE Download File – Toolbar displays PageRank has Google Search.

Mozdev GoogleBar

Download Files – DL the Mozdev Googlebar and add the PR bar for both Mozilla and Firefox.

PR Toolbar Widget For Macintosh

Download File – PR Toolbar Widget for Macintosh.

Search MSN Toolbar

Download File – Toolbar for Beta MSN Search.

Yahoo Toolbar For Firefox

Download file – Toolbar for Yahoo Search.

Yahoo Toolbar For IE

Download file – Toolbar for Yahoo Search.