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

Download videos - Convert Videos form any URL

I forget to mention in my previous post - Document Conversion without installing any software that the website Zamzar also allows the feature to convert/download videos from any URL. Check http://www.zamzar.com/url/ , here all you need to do is provide the video URL say youtube.com URL of a song you want to download, select the video type, provide email ID you want to reecieve the download link and click on convert.

You will recieve the video download link in less than a 30 seconds. Go and try it out. I am planning to try the features in free registered account also.

Document Conversion without installing any software

Many a times we are unable to open a file becuase we dont have the reader for that kind of file on your system. Say for example PDF files, docx, vsd,xml and many more extesnions require particualr software ot be installed. And in case we dont have the software either we try to purchase that software of install a document converte software to conver files from one format to another.
Now all this can be done even without installing a software, I found a very good website that allows free of cost document conversions without any limitations on number of conversions. Please visit http://www.zamzar.com/ and you can convert files from one format ot another easily and quickly. I am happy with the unregistered use of the website but I think registerting for a free acount will have more advantages if you requyire to convert documents more frequently.

Few websites that you may try for document conversion:

1. http://www.zamzar.com/ - convert muyltiple file formats
2. http://www.freepdfconvert.com/ - Allows pdf ot word, excel etc type of conversions. this one is best and I am using this website form last three years. (Avoid purchasing any paid pdf converter software like Hellopdf, pdf-file, 123pdf, 123fileconvertor, Docsmartz, Investintech, quickpdf, pdfkit etc - there is no fum purchasing these software when you can get all free)
3. http://www.download.com/ - In case you dont have internet connection or have limited access to internet then you can search for free document converter utilities, Flashpaper is one such free utility from adobe that allows you to convert word to PDF free of costs.

In case you are not sure of whic software to download don'r go by the reviews ver download portals more than 90% og the positive reviews are posted by the software companies. Contact me through comments at this blog and I will send you the review for the software or the software that best suits your requirements.

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

Alexa rank of Alexa.com

I've made various pots on Alexa rank, out of curiosity I checked alexa rank for www.alexa.com and I found Alexa doesn't rank itself. Only 250+ reviews for alexa.com are available (I will also post one for alexa later sometime.

Not ranking own site is pretty strange I thought alexa would be ranked somewhere around top 100 sites. You can see various other site like Google, SEOmoz, compete do rank themelves also.

Not sure whats the reason alexa not showing alexa rank for own site, it would be interesting to see the stats if possible.

Related posts:
Alexa Rank Simplified
Ways to Improve Alexa Rankings & Traffic
Alexa ranking myth simplified

Duplicate content Penalty Doest Exist

As posted in my previous blog post IPL Cricket & SEO, one of the website from the search results has gone now. This means duplicate content penality does exist. IPL Twenty Twenty season 3 will start tomorrow and surely like previous 2 season this one will also be a successful sports event. Like last year I am sure most of the Bollywood producers other than low budgets movie producers will surely not like to relase any Hindi Movies till next one and half month.

I also have eye on how search einge will be behaving specially when youtube will broadcast live video of IPL matches.

Anuja Lath one again In Media highlights

Few months back I posted about Anuja Lath of Red Alkemi won the women enterprenuer of the year award and now this time she is covered on the fron page of India Today Magazines Womens Special "Simply Punjabi". Redalkemi is one of the most reputed SEO company in the region.

IPL Cricket and SEO

IPL 2010 is beginning on March 12 and being a cricket player in the college time I've a great interest in cricket. IPL twenty twenty is about to begin and I have been a supporter of the Mumbai Indians team from the start of the tournament. Unfortunately the team was unable to do well in both the previous seasons.

Now comming to the reason why I am making this post at SEO blog is that, I just searched for Mumbai Indians to check latest updated from the team I support. Niow when i search "Mumbai Indian" in google. top two site in the results both are having same content in fact one website is photocopy of the other.

My question here is if google doesn't support duplicate content why both the site are enjoying the top rankings. One of them should be banned.

FYI URLS are:

http://75.126.186.214/Index.aspx
http://www.themumbaiindians.com/

Now this is a query you all SEO experts needs to check and answer. :)

Please do post your comments.

Google analytics System Upgrade

Just check at google analytics blog that google analytics is going for a major sytem in comming two weeks. Posted on Feb 24th tha blogs says "​Within the next two weeks, Google Analytics will be performing a system upgrade. This upgrade is to further increase the scalability and reliability of Google Analytics to meet the demand of an increasing number of enterprises using Google Analytics. Rest assured your website traffic data will be unaffected and there will be no interruption to data collection or processing. All reports will be available and accessible to users. "
Read full post at http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/02/upcoming-system-upgrade-for-greater.html

Dmoz contacr form not working

Soetimes it happens that you wait or plan for a thing very long and when it comes to implementation you get a error that is not in your control. same happened with me I was planning to submit one of my blog to Dmoz, first of all it tooooooooooooooo looooooooooooooooooong for me to get time for submission. Once submission was done I was sure to get the blog included given the previous success rate I have with Dmoz. I was just goinf to enquire about my submisison and to my surprise the contact form for the editor of that category wasn't working. I waited for full day for it to work but it wasn't working till now. The editos of the category is SEOmike and I will try to contact him later aftewr a day or two, hopefully the form wud be working that time.

Google Buzz a failure

Google Buzz racing against time to fix biggest privacy breach in its history. Google had introduced Buzz, which is similar to social networking sites like Facebook, to its email service Gmail, but in doing so it automatically made public its users' most frequently talked-to contacts.
The tool is now facing an avalanche of complains, as it has given an easy access to user information.

Read more

New look for Alexa site info

Alexa updated its new look for site info or alexa rank info which is displayed whenever we check alexa rank for a website. From all the alexa info layout changes this one is one I liked the most. In this view particularly the search analytics tab is very good one. If you want to check the update visit this link

100 posts at SEOv

Hi All,

This is the 100th post at SEOv Blog. It started with a curiosity to learn SEO and make notes on SEO and then become a hobby. I started liking blogging so much that created around one dozen of blogs (check my blogger profile) that I update frequent despite my busy job schedule and SEO and content manager. Here I am posting few posts that got hue response in tha past:

Most commonly asked SEO interview questions
Yahoo! Pipes
carrer in search engine optimisation
seo tutorials
Learn SEO with SEOelite
SEO Webmaster Guidelines

Top Searches in 2009 - Yahoo

It was first time in last four years than "Britney Spears" was not the most searched query in yahoo. Britney Spears slipped to number fifth position this time. Below is the list of top 10 seached keywords in 2009 in Yahoo:
1. Michael Jackson
2. Twilight
3. WWE
4. Megan Fox
5. Britney Spears
6. Naruto
7. American Idol
8. Kim Kardashian
9. NASCAR
10. Runescape

Google co-founders to sell $5.5B combined in stock

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are relinquishing some of their control over the Internet search leader with the sale of 10 million shares worth $5.5 billion at current prices.
Under a plan disclosed Friday, the longtime business partners will each sell 5 million Google shares during a five-year period that will commence with the first trade.
The sales will occur periodically to lessen the chances of hurting Google's stock price.
Page and Brin, both 36, will remain Google's most influential shareholders, although they will be losing some of their clout.
The two iconoclasts own a special class of Google stock that gives them combined voting power of about 59 percent -- enough to override the wishes of all other shareholders if they wanted. The duo secured this veto power to ensure Google remained true to their values, which are summed up in the company motto, "Don't Be Evil."
After the sales, the founders' holdings will be whittled to a combined 47.7 million shares with 48 percent voting power.
Falling below the 50 percent threshold might not matter because they run Google as a ruling triumvirate with the company's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, whose shares hold 10 percent voting power.
Although the trio acknowledge occasional disagreements, they insist they always work things out amicably. What's more, Schmidt, Page and Brin have agreed to remain at Google at least through 2024.
Executives and founders of companies commonly enter into predetermined stock trading plans to raise cash and diversify their investments.
Page and Brin each currently have about $16 billion of their fortunes tied up in Google stock. By their own choice, their annual salary at Google is just $1.
"They are both as committed as ever to Google and are integrally involved in our day-to-day management and product strategy," Google spokeswoman Jane Penner said. "The majority of their net worth remains with Google."
This marks the second time Page and Brin have sold big chunks of stock since Google went public in August 2004.
Three months after the company's initial public offering, Page and Brin filed an 18-month plan that divested 7.2 million shares apiece.
Back then, Google shares were trading around $169.40. The stock is worth three times as much now, closing at $550.01 Friday after falling $32.97, or 5.7 percent.

Twitter unavailable today - II

That was a small downtime at twitter, site started working normally within few minutes. However they need to upgradw server of keep maintainenace work regular.

Twitter unavaialbe today

Popular social networking site Twitter is unavaialable right now. The message appearing below:
Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.
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SEO in 2010

Hi All,
I am just wondering where SEO industry will be say couple of years down the line. With search engines getting clever day by, algorithms of search engine getting more complex. I am sure in this year article and blog publishing ill get some negative edge from google and publishing articles and blogs will not remain a successful search engine marketing stratgey more. It will work but to take the competitive edge you will need to work smarter with all the SEO practices you know. If you have any thing particular about search engine behaviour then do let me know we can have discussion on that.

Either post a comment at tis blog or send me message at Twitter.
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Google sitelinks Dilemma

Google Sitelinks are links to internal pages of a website that google may show along with web snippet in search results. However I am curious to know if anyone has faced this situation or not. Google webmster central is showing sitelinks in the login dashboard of a site, however when I search for the site name no sitelinks are displayed.

Just confused over this for a long time. !!

Google Webmaster Central Updates

As discussed earlier in my previous posts the google webmaster central tool is the most useful tool for webmaster. It is the tool that provides the all type of information within one login. Recently google added more features to the webmaster central keywords and its posted in official google webmaster central blog as Post Halloween treat for webmasters.

Keywords interface now lists keywords list which is updated daily providing details of how often a keyword is found and also displays URLs that contain that specific keyword. List of URL will be displayed when you click on that keyword. Apart from this the keyword significance column also compares the keyword frequensy with the most popular keyword for your website.

To know more login in to your google webmaster central account.