ere are some essential course everyone knows and uses
free tools that will help this search engine. However,
make the effort of paired with Good Keywords
optimizing your websites for (described above), you can
search engines faster and more quickly find the ratio of a given
efficient. keyword's popularity versus its
competitiveness. Doing a simple
1. Good Keywords search on the keywords you choose
(http://www.goodkeywords.com/) - using Good Keywords, will quickly
As the name implies, this is a show you how many pages are
tool for helping you find good competing for that keyword. The
keyword phrases. The very first total number of results are
step of optimizing a site for displayed in the upper right hand
search engine traffic is to corner of the page. If you
select your target keyword discover that a keyword has far
phrases. You have to do this too much competition, you will
before you do anything else. want to return to Good Keywords
Using this software, you can and look for a more specific
enter a simple keyword and get keyword.
suggestions for a more specific
phrase. You can also get search 3. Broken Link Detector
stats from Overture US for the (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenu
previous month. This is only a link.html) - Having a neat, clean
portion of total searches on all site structure free of broken
search engines, but it does give links is key to getting good page
you an idea of the popularity of rankings, as well as getting all
search terms. of your pages indexed. This free
software spiders your site and
2. Google gives you a report of broken
(http://www.google.com/) - Of links and orphaned pages (pages
that are not linked to any other quickly check the number of
page). backlinks pointing to your site,
with results from Google, Hotbot,
4. Robots.txt Generator MSN, and Yahoo.
(http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools
/robots-generator/) - Use this 7. Google PageRank Indicator
site to quickly generate a (http://www.google-pagerank.net/)
robots.txt file that tell search - Find out your site's Google
engine spiders where to search, PageRank even if you do not have
and where not to search, your Google's Toolbar installed. Also,
site. download code that will display
your page rank on your site to
5. Free Site Map Generator users who don't have Google's
(http://gsitecrawler.com/) - Free toolbar.
software that spiders your site
and creates an xml format 8. Page Rank Predictor
sitemap. An xml format sitemap (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools
helps search engines spider your /future-pagerank/) - Predicts
site. Once your sitemap is future page rank for your site.
created and uploaded to your
site, go to Google Sitemaps 9. Directory Submission Tool
(https://www.google.com/webmaster (http://www.123promotion.co.uk/di
s/sitemaps/) and submit your rectorymanager) - Submit your
sitemap information, so Google site to multiple web directories
will know where your where to simultaneously.
look for it.
10. Keyword Density Calculator
6. Link Popularity Checker (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools
(http://www.marketleap.com/publin /keyword-density) - Submit any
kpop/) - Website that lets you URL and get a report on the
keyword density for up to three own site, as well as checking out
separate keywords. This is a the competition.
helpful tool for optimizing your
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