SEO Dance

Good Keywords is a freeware program that is a one stop SEO tool for finding keywords from various sources. Just simply put in your keyword, choose which research listing to use (like Overture) and click the go button. Good Keywords then does the rest by sending the query and returning a list of popular keyword phrases. I have a game website, so I used the keyword puzzle games to see what keyword suggestions would pop up with Overture.

There are some useful suggestions that the next time I am writing about a puzzle games I might consider using. Good Keywords also has a tool “link website and popularity” that will return the PageRank, Alexa ranking, and other SEO related information for a website. Also you can search for misspellings of keywords that turn up frequently in search results.

Good Keywords has been freeware since it was first introduced in 2000. It’s a small simple download that can be a great SEO tool to have that is much easier to find than some bookmarked webpage that offers keyword results.

Good Keywords

While I haven’t used Web Dev Notes reminded me what a useful tool it really is. It’s great to find out at a glance information about your visitors to your website. The information is presented in graphical format, so it’s easy to understand.

It is through Google Analytics that I learned one site receives the majority of visitors through searches while another receives the majority from referrals. I have two different methods of promoting these sites. The one that receives referrals I am much more active with commenting on blogs and taking part in contests and memes. The other site because of the content I try to use keywords and depend on search traffic.

Google Analytics is a free service and is invaluable to find out information about your visitors. You can find out the average time spent on your site as well as your bounce rate. Explore the pages that are exit points for your visitors. It’s some interesting data that can be a great asset when setting up an SEO campaign.

Once the code is installed, you should start seeing stats within 24 hours. Sign up and start receiving useful data about your website that can be invaluable in your next SEO campaign.

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HitTail is a free service that makes it easy to track your long tail search results. When your website is displayed in a search result, HitTail records the information where it can immediately reviewed.

HitTail shows real-time search hits, so there’s no waiting period to find out exactly which search results your web pages are popping up in. Long tail search results are phrases that might not be as popular search terms as shorter keywords but can still drive traffic to a website. HitTail will help you see which long tail search results are already in place in your website.

It’s amazing to see some of the long tail search results. Some users type in quite a few words in a search result but doing so hopefully returns the exact results they are looking for. A search for “free download of Nanny Mania” is much more specific than just simply “Nanny Mania.”

It’s interesting to see just what keywords your posts or webpages will turn up in. It’s a fun tool that gives some very useful information. We all know the importance of search engine traffic. With HitTail it’s easy to find out the search engine results, and since you can reproduce the search you can see exactly where you webpage falls in the results list.

HitTail is one of my favorite SEO tools and can provide a lot of useful information. You can upgrade your HitTail plan, but the basic free service is worth checking out.

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Does you website make the grade when it comes to search engine optimization? With WebsiteGrader.com you can find out if your website receives a passing or failing score.

Just enter your website into the appropriate box and fill in related keywords to your site. You have the option to enter competitor’s websites to get a side-by-side comparison. Enter your email and click Generate Report. In about a minute or so, the results will be displayed on screen. An email sent to you will also include the link to the report.

Your SEO score will be at the top of the result. The score means that your website scores that percentage higher than all other websites that have been submitted to Website Grader. Each section has a summary with some useful information and tips on improving your website score. This free service makes a nice way to get a glance at how your website compares to others on the web.

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If you use the Mozilla Firefox brower, then you probably already know that you can add plugins that can add functionality. Many plugins and tools can be installed to your Firefox browser that enhance your web surfing experience. One add-on that can offer insight into optimizing your website is SEO for Firefox.

This SEO tool will return some valuable information about a website. Once the plugin has been successfully installed and the Mozilla brower restarted, you can access this powerful feature through the Tools menu. Alternatively, you can right-click on a website and select SEO for Firefox, the Look up this page to quickly access information about that website.

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Yahoo! Site Explorer is one of the SEO tools most preferred due to its record of backlinks. Now this Yahoo! service has been bejeweled with more coveted features:

Site Authentication using META tags: For those of you who cannot upload an authentication file to your site, such as a blog, you will now be able to authenticate your site in Site Explorer by including an authentication key as part of a META tag on the home page of your site. This is in addition to the existing mechanism of putting a file on your site home directory.

Detailed Authentication Errors: We now provide detailed errors on authentication failures, making it much easier to diagnose possible problems.

Delete URLs: For your authenticated sites, you can now delete any URLs from the index. Simply locate the URL in Site Explorer and click on the ‘Delete URL’ button. The URL and all its subpaths will be deleted shortly thereafter. This is meant to work in conjunction with the robots.txt file while providing greater responsiveness. Please continue to use the robots.txt protocol to ensure that our crawler does not crawl pages you want to keep out of our index.

Site Explorer Badge: Get a Site Explorer badge for your Website and retrieve the count of live links from the whole web. Go ahead, watch as your site becomes more popular, and show off your link wealth to your visitors.

This Yahoo! effort is one way of showing that they do care about the needs of their users. More power to Yahoo!

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Conversion is a buzzword that is sometimes mistaken to be just about getting sales from your site. The truth is there are other ways your site can convert depending on your goals, of course. The essence of conversion is being successful on making your visitors do what you expect them to do or learn when they visit your site.

And for those who expects their visitors to learn about answers to their questions. Here is one tool developed to make webmasters know what questions visitors would want to get answered when they visit their website - 103bees.
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Netconcepts, particularly, Charlie Evans, Sr. developed a Wordpress plugin for SEO tracking - Replace by Referrer.

Replace by Referrer is a free Wordpress plugin that can replace text strings in pages and posts with content specifically referred by search engines and can identify search engine specific sessions.

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For those who are still too worried about getting penalized for duplicate content, a Wordpress Plugin, DupPrevent is born.

DupPrevent claims to control NOINDEX meta tags and also includes robots.txt file, which prevents search engine spiders on crawling trackbacks, feeds and WP-directories.

But one felt that there’s not much need for this plugin because..

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Images are getting more known on helping drive traffic to a site. However, aside from writing descriptive alt tags, headings and other textual descriptions, how else do you make sure your site get the most traffic from Google’s Image Search feature?

Google Image Search can be especially beneficial to those with e-commerce sites or are using images for their e-tail business products. But how can you make this Google product help your image get your site indexed?
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Check out your site’s visitors’ demographics, which include their age and gender through Microsoft’s demographics prediction tool.

Here are the results for SEO Dance:

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There’s the pagerank toolbar, traffic analysis tools, and traffic ranking tools. These are SEOs’ tools of the trade. And we can’t avoid competition amongst them, such as that of between Compete and Alexa.

After the nudging of many traffic analysts or maybe just some rumormongers on how Compete, competes against Alexa, the two are the most popular traffic ranking tools, here’s Compete’s take on the matter:

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Always on the lookout for the perfect web statistics tool out there, today, I’ve signed up for Clicky Web Statistics.

It just took me five minutes to sign up because of its real straightforward interface. It has easy-install instructions for Blogspot and Wordpress users.

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Keyword suggestion tools can be very handy in ensuring that your site maximizes its usability. If your readers or potential traffic would like to know about a certain term but can’t remember the exact term, and can only think of related keywords, those related keywords should also be found on your site’s content.

KWBrowse is another keyword suggestion tool that Chuck Huckaby, a successful work-at-home blogger, concludes..

The usefulness of the tool is that it helps you and I as marketers break out of our tunnel vision.

AdGridWork is a contextual advertising network similar to AdWords. Only, it is FREE!

AdGridWork claims to solve…

The SINGLE biggest problem that any startup faces is finding a balance between promoting their site and managing advertising expenses.

If you want to try this free contextual ad network:

Want to Get Started?:
1. Register (takes about 30 seconds).
2. Add your site to the ‘Network.’
3. We’ll provide ‘Ad Code’ that you insert into your website markup.
4. Once it’s established that you are serving ads, we will start serving yours to other related sites on our Network.
5. You can track each of your Campaigns using our detailed metrics and modify your ads as appropriate.

Here’s how an AdGridWork ad looks:

Will this model of ad network survive? We’ll see…

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