Search engine optimization & SEO Guide

SEO Tools: Visual PageRank Overlay

Google PageRank is one factor in determining the overall search engine ranking of a website. The higher individual pages within a website rank, the higher the search engine ranking for the website tends to be. Checking page rank for each individual page and links is almost impossibly time consuming if done one page at a [...]

SEO Tools: Link Popularity Check

Inbound links, or backlinks, are very important to your search engine rankings. Search engine algorithms consider the number and quality of links back to your site as a determining factor in how popular and relevant your website is. Each backlink is a “vote” on your site’s popularity and the more votes, the higher your ranking.
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SEO Tools: Bad Neighborhood Check Tool

There are certain website that are involved in spamming or other undesirable practices that make linking to them unsuitable and could result in having your site penalized by the search engines. The Bad Neighborhood Check Tool will alert you to any sites that may be in industries that have been known historically to employ search [...]

SEO Tools: Spider Viewer

Search engine spiders see your pages much differently than you do. Though the different search engines vary in their ranking algorithms, their spiders all work in basically the same way. They read the text only, ignoring other elements like Flash and JavaScript that are there to please human readers. It can be very helpful to [...]

SEO Tools: Keyword Density Analysis Tool

One of the factors search engine spiders consider to determine ranking is keyword density. That’s one of the factors that tells the spiders the page theme and relevancy. It’s important to optimize for targeted keywords and phrases by using the terms with a certain frequency while not over-optimizing, or using the phrase too often, so [...]

SEO Tools: Link Appeal

Quality backlinks, or inbound links, to your website is vital to achieving high search engine rankings. Backlinks are the “votes” your site is getting that tells the search engine spiders how popular and important your site is. This factor is considered highly in search engine ranking algorithms. The number or quanitity of backlinks is considered [...]

SEO Tools:Keyword Density Analyzer

The free Keyword Density Analyzer from SEObench is a handy tool. Keyword density is an important factor in search engine ranking since that is one of the things spiders look at to determine the theme and relevance of a website. Optimizing for targeted keywords will help improve organic ranking as well as paid search. It’s [...]

SEO Tools: WebSite Auditor

WebSite Auditor from Link-Assistant.Com is like having an SEO guru installed on your computer. This software will take you step by step to put your website on the first page of search engine results within weeks. In their demo video, they show how they took a real-life website and pushed it to the first page [...]

SEO Tools: Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator

There is a secondary index in Google that contains pages that Google considers less important. They are displayed on search engine results pages only when no pages from the primary index match the queried search terms. The free Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator from mapelli.info shows you what percentage of your indexed pages are considered to [...]

SEO Tools: Link Popularity Tool

Backlinks, or inbound links from other websites, are important to search engine ranking. They are an indication of how popular, and thus how relevant your site is, in the eyes of the search engines. Knowing how many backlinks there are to your site is an important metric to know to optimize your website’s ranking.
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