Tags & SEO Guide

SEO Tools: Keyword Density Analyzer

Keyword Density analysis is important to your website search engine ranking for your primary keywords. The density, or number of times the keyword is used in relation to the total amount of text, is a factor in search engine ranking since it indicates the relevance of your site’s content in regards to that keyword. Knowing [...]

SEO Tools: SEOmoz.org

SEOmoz is a subscription service ($79 to $229/mo) that offers SEO tools, educational resources, and web community for those involved with internet marketing and search engine optimization. The company offers over 20 SEO tools to analyze factors in search engine optimization such as site crawability, on-page targeting, competitive analysis, keyword difficulty and rank checking.
 
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SEO Tools: Crawl Test

There are many hundreds of bits of information on any given website that search engine spiders see when crawling your website. They see things differently than humans do but it’s what they see that is important to search engine rankings. Therefore, it’s important to know what it is they are spying so you can optimize [...]

Noah Brier

Noah Brier is the Head of Strategy of New York’s Barbarian Group, a digital marketing company with clients including Allstate, Barclay’s Bank, Clinique, Lexus, Starwood Hotels and many other big names. He was recently named one of the 100 most creative in business by Fast Company. A self-confessed geek, Brier is fascinated by the metaphor [...]

Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking has several advantages over automated search engine “spiders”. The tag based system is done by people who understand the content unlike algorithmic software attempting to parse the meaning. It also allows users to find web pages not yet noticed by web spiders allowing for faster indexing by search engines. Moreover, a page can [...]

Tagging

There have been marvelous developments on the web to enhance search capability beyond the limitations of major search engines.  Social media tagging and bookmarking have introduced the human element, providing a richness and depth that mechanical “spiders” cannot equal.
Tagging
Tagging is a means of quickly finding and sharing content. Unlike automated search keywords, tags are assigned [...]