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As for site optimizaton...
This is from a newsletter I get weekly or daily..
SEO Trade Secrets - 8 Great
Tools for Search Engine Optimization
By Glenn Murray
1) Choosing Keyword Phrases (costs approx USD$7.50 per day)
To decide what keyword phrases to use, subscribe to 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
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) Test to See How Search-Engine-Friendly Your Site Is
Search engines send out spiders (or robots) to investigate your site. These tools allow you to see your site from the spider's point of view.
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http://www.1-hit.com/all-in-one/tool...ine-viewer.htm - Enter your URL and it gives you a summary of the things you could improve.
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http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go? - Poodle tells you how many links the spider will see and investigate.
4) Find Out How Many of Your Pages are Indexed
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
No need to waste time clicking through hundreds of Google search results looking for your site. This tool 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
The Google Toolbar is an indispensable tool. 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 tool 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
Google News Alerts and Google Web Alerts 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
If you're new to
SEO, the first thing you should do is chëck out Google's guide to
SEO. If you already know the basics, there are a number of forums you can subscribe to to post questïons. These forums are frëe, 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 frëe. The best forum seems to be Forum 3 - Webmaster World, but Forum 28 at SearchEngineForums is ok too. If all else fails, you can try sending Google an email, but don't hold out much hope of help here. They'll eventually answer, but there's no guarantëe on the quality of their response...
This is just a snapshot of the tools available out there. Doubtless there are better tools available, but these will certainly get you started.
Enjoy!
About The Author
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.
I hope it helps..it really helped me alot..
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