Sep
22
useful Tools for SEO
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I recently got penalized for too many blog comments linking back to a site, and got totally de-listed from google. Don’t let it happen to you. How do i plan to fix it? lots of new content, directory / one way legit website links with ‘bland’ anchor text keywords – ie, “my website”, “visit our website”, and the actual URL as anchor text to make it look more natural. Think this has happened to you? These tools can help;
http://www.backtype.com/
check blog comments linking back to your site.
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm
check for too many blog comments.
Apr
3
Is your site optimized?
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DomainTools.com, a favorite amongst myself and my colleagues, offers a wonderful tool for SEO. This goes beyond whois info, and gives you an “SEO” Score.
I ran it for a website that I’m building, and it was awful generous (94%) , considering i have no content on the site and no products, its just a shell:
Check your site’s score out using http://whois.domaintools.com/mydomainname.com. I should note that they point out what you can do to improve your score, including adding ‘alt’ tags, creating anchor text, etc.
I got curious and did a few of the big SEO ‘guru’s sites:
http://whois.domaintools.com/mattcutts.com 67% *
http://whois.domaintools.com/shoemoney.com 96%
http://whois.domaintools.com/seomoz.com 87%
http://whois.domaintools.com/seobook.com 80%
http://whois.domaintools.com/wolf-howl.com 91%
http://whois.domaintools.com/searchenginewatch.com 85%
What are your thoughts on how they score SEO?
* note: this tool only scores domains, no root directories. Mr. Cutts blog is in the /blog/ directory, so, lets “cutt” him a little slack.
