Informenter - A Must have adon for SEO professionals

Though I don't prefer using many tools and I seldom use any tools or adons (I am a 100% believer in mannual SEO work). However informenter is an adon I'd strongly recommend to every SEO professional. As a SEO you may need to sign up at verious sites be is an Article directory, blog, PR or forum site. After registeration you may require submit various forms say for example article or directory submission.

Making these process fully automatic will cause quality issues like changing or anchors, using different combinations of fields etc. All such things can be done by using of semi automatic tool called informenter. Informenter comes as an adon for firefox and is minimises the typing work upto 90%. you will definitely love this adon. Go explore it more to know more features.

Top SEO tools - Must have webmaster SEO tools

These are the tools that will not just help a webmaster in carrying out a SEO campaign successfully but also make you undestadn some uncovered aspects of SEO like what rol does a header part play in the optimization, page speed, page download time optimization and lot more.

In this post I will only mention the tools name, to know more either search online for the tool or send me any particular query you have regradin a tool.

DigitalPoint Tools
GSiteCrawler
Hubspot Grader
Majestic SEO
Open Site Explorer
PostRank
SearchMetrics
SEOBook Tools
SEOChat Tools
SEOEng
SEOmoz Tools
Compete Search Analytics
Google Insights
KeyCompete
Keyword Discovery
MSN AdCenter
SEMRush
Spyfu
Wordtracker
WordZe

ANALYTICS:
ClickTale
CoreMetrics
CrazyEgg
Enquisite
Google Analytics
Hubspot
Omniture
WebTrends
Yahoo! Index Tools


SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLs:

BuzzLogic
BuzzStream
Hubspot
KnowEm
Nielsen
PostRank
Radian6
Scoutlabs
Search.twitter.com
SearchMonitor

SEO Tools - Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker

301 or permanent redirect is what always recommended when you want to move a pag or domain to give all the value of the current backlink, rankings etc to the new page or domain. Here I am found a tool that allows you to check if the redirect is search engine friendly for implemented properly.

http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php - Checks if page has any redirect and the redirect is implemented properly.

Few other helpful URLs to implement 301 redirect:

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php
http://www.somacon.com/p145.php
http://roshanbh.com.np/2007/12/301-redirect-in-php-and-htaccess.html
http://www.weborum.com/301-redirect.php

Ways to Improve Alexa Rankings & Traffic

Adding one more post to the Alexa series, here I am posting tips to improve alexa rank and alexa traffic for a website. As explained earlier Alexa ranking is based on number of times a website is browsed by people having alexa toolbar installed at there computers. Here are few tips that can prove to be helpful in increasing your alexa rankings:

1. Install alexa toolbar at your office and hoe computers.
2. Add your website as default home page.
3. Add alexa rank widget to your website or blog. It helps for visits where alexa toolbar in not installed.
4. Ask friends, relatives etc to rate/review your site at Alexa.
5. Write content with main topics related to Search engine marketing or online marketing, webamsters tips etc. People in this field normally has Alexa toolbar installed and thus this will help get little benefit in alexa ranks.
6. Promote your website the more it will get browsed better alexa ranking will it achieve. Try to improve traffic from search engines and referral websites.

Let me know if you know some more techniques to improve alexa rankings.

TOP 10 tools for SEO success

In today's post I will tell you 10 must have tools for every search engine optimisation professional and of course these tools are very much crucial for SEO success of any website.

Google Analytics
Google Webmaster Tools
SEOmoz's Page Strength Tool
Sitening.com's SEO Analyzer
Mike's Marketing Tools
Summit Media's Spider Simulator
SelfSEO Page Speed Checker
Dead Links Checker
WEBCEO
Feedburner

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Top SEO tools

PAGE ANALYSIS:

1. SEOmoz Page Strength Tool - A useful tool that gives an overall look at the strength of a page.



2. Sitening’s SEO Analyzer - See if your pages are structured to achieve high search engine rankings.


3. Self SEO’s Page Speed Checker - Test the load time of your pages and your competitor’s pages.


4. GoogleRankings.com - Check the use of keywords and phrases on your site.


5. Popuri - See several items such as PageRank and inbound links all at once.



6. Keyword Density Analysis - See how frequently you are using certain words and phrases.


7. Meta Tag Analyzer - How are search engine spiders seeing your meta tags?


8. Code to Text Ratio - Check for code bloat.


9. Strongest Subpages Tool - Finds the 30 strongest subpages on your domain.


10. Similar Page Checker - Avoid duplicate content.



11. SEO Analysis Tool - Measures the ranking potential of a page.


12. WebSitePulse - A few different tools to test your sites performance.


13. Website Grader - Get a score for your site and even compare it to competitors if you want.


14. Watchfire WebXACT - Test for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.

STATS:

1. Google Analytics - The leading free stats program.


2. AWStats


3. StatCounter


4. AddFreeStats


5. OneStat


6. Smart Tracking



7. Alexa - See where your site ranks.

BLOG STATS:

1. FeedBurner - Stats on your feed and your subscribers.


2. pMetrics - from Performancing.


3. pMetrics Plugin- Extending pMetrics.



4. IceRocket - Free stats program for blogs.
   


5. Technorati - See who’s linking to you.

STATS PLUS:

1. Crazy Egg - Provides visual data about your visitors.



2. Mint - An extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program.

WEBMASTER TOOLS:

1. Google Webmaster Tools - Lots of information that shows you how Google sees your site.


2. Web CEO - A collection of a number of useful tools. Free and paid editions.

CHECK AND TRACK SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS:

1. Sitening’s SERP Tracker - Test your page’s optimization.


2. Search Engine Rankings Checker - From Mike’s Marketing Tools.


3. Google Banned Checker - Has the largest search engine in the world banned your website? Find out here.



4. Number of Pages Indexed - How many pages do you have indexed by search engines?


5. Website SEO Checkup - Make sure you’re ready to get high search engine rankings.


6. GeoTargeting Detection Tool from SEOmoz - Determine how well your site is targeted to country specific search engines.

GOOGLE PAGERANK:

1. PageRank Prediction - You need a minimum of 100 backlinks.


2. Smart PageRank - Check your PR.

REPUTATION AND BUZZ MONITORING:

1. Google Alerts - Have preset alerts sent to you by email.



2. co.mments - Monitor comments on blogs.


3. Conversation Tracker from BlogPulse


4. Trend Search from BlogPulse


5. Keotag - See if blogs are using your company name in the tags of their blog posts.


6. BoardTracker - Watch for mentions of your company in forums.

LINKS:

1. Dead Links tool from W3C - Find broken links.
   


2. Link Popularity Checker - From Mike’s Marketing Tools.


3. Xenu’s Link Sleuth - Find broken links.
   


4. Backlinks and Anchor Text - See who’s linking to you and what anchor text they are using.


5. Reciprocal Links Checker - Do you have agreements with others for reciprocal links? Check them here.

SPIDER SIMULATOR:

1. Summit Media’s Spider Simulator



2. Spider View


3. Webconfs.com Spider Simulator

CSS ANALYSIS TOOLS:

1. Clean CSS - Formatting and Optimizing


2. CSS Tidy - Optimizer and parser.


3. CSS Redunancy Checker - Redundancy is easy to do with CSS. Fix it with this.



4. CSS Analyzer - A validator plus.

VALIDATORS:

1. HTML - Validator from W3C.


2. CSS - Validator from W3C.


3. RSS - Validator from W3C.

WEBSITE PERFORMANCE:

1. AlertSite Website Performance Monitor


2. KeyNote


3. WebWatch Bot


4. IPCheckPoint

GOOGLE ADSENSE:

1. Free Charts and Graphs



2. AdSense Notifier - Shows your AdSense stats in the status bar.

BROWSER COMPATIBILITY:

1. BrowserShots - See screenshots of your page in a number of different browsers.


2. Ready.mobi - Test your site for use with mobile browsers.

OTHER:

1. Geotargeting - find the location of your host’s servers


2. Find Your Site’s IP Address

Top Searcn Engine Optimisation Tools for your SEO success

Top Searcn Engine Optimisation Tools for your SEO success: Lot is talked about using tools for search engine optimisation and doing it manually. Some webmasters hate using tools whereas some don't. Here I present you top ten search engine optimisation tools that you can use for you sites success. These tolls are reaaly very effective for gaingin good ranking in search engines.

1 – Google Analytics : Its one of the most popular web-stats and traffic analysis tool available for free. Provides you infomration like no of visiors, page views, referals, referrin keywords and search engines, refering sites and lot more.
http://www.google.com/analytics/

2 - SEOmoz's Page Strength Tool: One of the leadin search engine optimisation firm providing you lots of SEO tools.Their Page Strength Tool shows you the "relative importance and visibility" and the "potential strength and ability of a page to rank in the search engines."
http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength

3 - Sitening.com's SEO Analyzer: Sitening.com's SEO Analyzer will help you to build the right framework. Sitening.com's SEO Analyzer can be found at: http://www.sitening.com/seo-tools/seo-analyzer/

4 - Summit Media's Spider Simulator: This tool tell spider reaction to your website and lets you analyze how a search engine reacts to your pages and what can be done to boost your usability.
http://tools.summitmedia.co.uk/spider/

5 - Xenu link sleuth : Cheks for broken links in your site. You can also chekc broken links offline by providin gthe folder you have stored your websites, thus you can check site for broken links before uploaoding the website.
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

6 - GoogleRankings.com: Chekc your sites ranking for particualr keyword in all majo search engines.
http://www.googlerankings.com