Want to compare the traffic on your competitor’s websites to yours? Try Statsaholic, which gives you the information offered by Compete and Quantcast.
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In addition to Google Analytics, here are a couple other cool, free analytics options:
Clicktale will allow you to watch the screen of your website visitors. You can see them move the mouse, click buttons, etc. It’s amazing. The videos are not real-time, so they are saved for you to watch after the visitors have left.
Crazy […]
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Here is a good post: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/your-burning-questions-answered.html
In the post, Google answers a number of common SEO questions:
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I have been dabbling with SMF (Simple Machines Forum). SMF is a good, free forum. However, SMF is not SEO ready. It requires some tweaking for search engines. Here are a few good sites with SMF SEO advice:
Search Engine Optimization For The Simple Machines Forum
SMF Forum and SEO
Making your SMF Forum as SEO friendly as […]
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This is a list of web marketing tools that SEO friends have recommended. I haven’t tried most of them yet, but wanted to store the list here so I can check them out when the need arises.
SEO Tools
Arelis IBP (Internet Business Promoter) - A great tool for competitor back link and on-page analysis. It […]
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Google’s duplicate content penalty has received much attention from webmasters and those concerned about SEO. Most SEO advisers understand the basics of the duplicate content penalty. But how does the duplicate content algorithm really work? And what exactly constitutes duplicate content?
For example, will the duplicate content penalty be triggered if the text on a page […]
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For a while, OnlyWire was the best way to bookmark pages to multiple social bookmark sites. Unfortunately, OnlyWire seems to have been neglected lately, and a number of the social bookmark services listed in OnlyWire have become obsolete.
A number of new services provide the same service as OnlyWire. That is, you can save a […]
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There are many SEO tools online. There are many backlink checker tools online. But this backlink checker tool works better than any I have seen: Backlink Watch.
What is a backlink checker tool you ask? It’s a website where you can enter the URL for any website and the page will list all the websites that […]
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Today I ran across a great list of ways to obtain backlinks to your website. Backlinks are sometimes called “inbound links.” Backlinks give your website credibility with search enginges. To read the list, go here: The Best known ways to build links, and traffic 2008.
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SEOposition.com used, reviewed, and analyzed many of the free seo tools online and put together a short list of the top 15 free seo tools online. The Best 15 Free SEO Tools Online
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Besides Google Analytics, there are a number of free stat counters you can use to analyze your traffic.
Clicky is very similar to Google Analytics. The free version only works for under 1000 visitors per day. If you get more traffic than that, you will have to upgrade to a paid version.
StatCounter is great but the […]
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Want to learn more about SEO? Here are some good blogs to read. They include “white hat,” “grey hat,” and “black hat” methods, so use your own judgment to decide which tactics to use yourself. Search engines disapprove of methods that are not “white hat,” and if possible, search engines will seek to thwart those […]
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Great advice:
The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos
Internet Video For Marketers | 20 Ways To Get Traffic & Sales From Web Video & YouTube
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Create an annual marketing plan with these twelve ideas to drive qualified leads to your Web site over the year: Your 2008 Web Marketing Plan
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With online free seo tool Seodigger.com you can find out for which keywords your site ranks high enough to be in Google Top 20. You can analyze your own sites as well as sites of your competition. Check it out: Seodigger.com
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Here are some useful tools for generating longtail keywords for your SEM or Adsense campaign.
Combine Keywords
This tool allows you to enter three lists of words and the tool will combine the lists into every possible phrase using those words.
Local Keywords List
This tool is similar to Combine Keywords except it only allows you to enter one […]
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Here are some useful links for those wishing to learn about Sitemaps, which can be used in conjunction with Google Webmaster Tools to improve the speed that Google indexes your website pages:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/to…/protocol.html - Google Explanation of the XML Sitemap Protocol
http://www.vigos.com/products/gsitemap/ - Free XML Sitemap Program
http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp - Online Sitemap Generator (no limits)
https://www.google.com/webmasters/to…generator.html - Official Google Sitemap […]
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This Free Sitemap Generator stands above the rest because it will generate a sitemap of up to 5,000 pages. That is much higher than most free sitemap generators. The only problem is the sitemap is queued so it may take a few hours to generate your sitemap.
Also, check out this free sitemap generator, which also […]
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I like this keyword density analyzer because it will analyze text you paste into a text box or select the URL of a web page.
Also, I like this keyword density analyzer because you can choose to sort the results alphabetically or by the number of times a word appears in the text.
Try it here: Keyword […]
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This tool asks for the name of your site and creates a report explaining what is good and bad about your site from an SEO perspective. The tool also allows you to compare your site with a competitor’s site.
The reports are very interesting. Most importantly, the reports offer recommendations to strengthen your site based on […]
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To select a good domain name, I suggest these steps:
1. Make a list of words that represent the theme of your blog. For example: mom, moms, mommy, mother, mothers, parent, parents, kids, children, child, daughter, daughters, family, mothering, parenting, training, raising, etc.
2. Try those words in Google Trends to find a term that is […]
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Many people with new blogs or websites learn about Google’s Pagerank rating system and then wonder how they can get kinks to their new blog or site to increase their pagerank.
I came across this great guide to getting backlinks to your new blog or website. It answers the big question, “How do I build links […]
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Have you ever wondered if Text-Link-Ads would prevent you from adding a NoFollow tag to their links? I did, until I received the answer from Text-Link-Ads today. I never expected that Text-Link-Ads would admit that its business model is centered on selling a site’s pagerank to link buyers.
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Replace your blog name with an image, without harming its ability to be crawled by Google: How to replace text with an image
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Google is doing its pagerank update for all websites. See what your pagerank is using these pagerank tools.
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Here is a cool little tool to see the pagerank and whether nofollow applies to every link on a page. Visual PageRank View
Here is a tool that shows the pagerank for one domain and some other useful information: smartpagerank.com
This tool tells you the pagerank of all sites that link to your site: linkvendor domain […]
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Redirection - Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache | Urban Giraffe
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your […]
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Here is a great list of 10 Tips For Getting Backlinks:
1 - Find online forums related to your site and become part of the community (along with a suitable signature that links to your site).
2 - Add comments to blogs with a link to related content on your Website.
3 - Submit on-topic articles to […]
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UPDATE: There is a free, open source analytics application that appears to rival Google Analytics: Piwik. Check out the demo or read a review with screenshots.
Here is a great list of free Analytics tools for your website from Alex Pooley’s Blog » The Problem With Website Analytics Software:
103bees - Much cleaner interface than Google’s Analytics. […]
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Here are some SEO keyword tools. In addition to those below, go here for more lists and tools: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=493579
Good list: http://www.iwebtool.com/tools/
Like Overture: http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-playground.php
The info below is from http://www.seo-expert-blog.com/blog/ultimate-collection-of-free-seo-tools
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This appears to be a good method to eliminating the duplicate content problem with Wordpress blogs: http://www.dnseo.net/prevent-duplicated-results-with-wordpress-the-hack/
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To see what rank you are in Google under a particular keyword, use this easy tool: Google Rank Checker.
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In the old days, if you wanted links from other people’s blogs to yours, you only needed to add comments to their blog posts. However, because of comment spam, Google established a technology for blog software, like Wordpress, to prevent the link from being counted as a link for Google’s purposes. This technology is called […]
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Good SEO plan to consider:
Your 8 Week Step-by-Step Link Building Task Planner
Good directories:
DMOZ
Yahoo: http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Paintball/(PR3-5)
TYGO: http://www.tygo.com/Dir/Sports_and_Recreation/Paintball (PR2)
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Here is a cool tool to make your own Wordpress blog theme: Wordpress Theme Generator
It allows you to customize many aspects of your blogs appearance. The only feature I wish it had is round corners, but that may not be possible with CSS—images might be required.
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A good article on improving your Alexa rating/score: Alexa experiment: could changing my Alexa Ranking be so easy?
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Liz Harvey from Harvey Marketing seems to be a good SEM consultant. I heard her on the Flyte Podcast.
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Here is a good e-mail marketing blog: Flyte Blog: keyword e-mail marketing.
A good podcast recommended PHP List for advanced tech users or the easier Constant Contact, which is paid.
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I recently heard on the Flyte Podcast the benefits of article marketing. Rich Brooks recommended iSnare (cost might be $3 per article) and The Phantom Writers. I also found this list useful, which includes a link to iSnare: SEO Chat Forum
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