Keyword Tool

When making decisions about marketing campaigns, PPC campaigns and general business strategies, it is wise to utilize all tools available. The more the merrier definitely applies here. One of the best tools around is Google keyword tool. Using this free application, you can learn much about the direction your business can and should go for maximum growth.

Instead of hiring a search engine optimization (SEO) firm to make your site perform better in search engines, costing you money and time, you can now use downloadable tools to improve your rankings which will increase the likelihood of more traffic to your site. SEO Elite is one of the most popular of these tools, as it has been well established in the internet community and is now into its fourth version.

Link Price Calculator

This tool will help you determine the approximate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website.

It takes into consideration factors such as the number of back links, page rank, website traffic, and so on.

Domain Tools

There are numerous free tools online that help you research and find good keyword domain names to register for your online business. Or simply to buy and resell domain names for profits. I am certain you already use a few of these from time to time.

Domain tools become almost a daily tools for most website developers and designer. Hunting for the perfect domain name became a hard work, since most of the catchy, usable and easily remembered domains names are already used. Domain Tools owns the popular whois database for researching the owner of a domain.  It also gives you a list of the taken names using the top extension but the options for various keyword combinations is a bit bizzare.  Don’t rely on them to give you great alternatives.

Link Popularity

The Link Popularity Checker tells you how many websites are linking to yours. Website popularity is an important factor in your search engine ranking.

To find out how popular your site is, just enter your URL in the box below and press the "Check Popularity" button.

You should try different methods of inputting your URL, as some search engines treat them differently.

• www.yourdomain.com
• http://www.yourdomain.com
• yourdomain.com

Code to Text Ratio

What is the Code to Text Ratio - The Code to Text Ratio represents the percentage of actual text in a web page. Our content ratio tool extracts the text from paragraphs and the anchor text from HTML code and calculates the content ratio based on this information.

Why is the Code to Text Ratio Important for SEO? The code to text ratio of a page is used by search engines and spiders to calculate the relevancy of a web page. A higher code to text ratio gives you a better chance of getting a good page ranking for your page.

Website Stats

XML Sitemaps

XML-Sitemaps.com is a site specializing in sitemap software that generates XML, HTML and TXT sitemaps for webmasters to help get better crawling from search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo!

What is "XML sitemap"?

By placing a formatted xml file with site map on your webserver, you enable Search Engine crawlers (like Google) to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.

SEO Quiz

Practice is testing our SEO knowledge daily but how about a quiz with some easy, some difficult, and some very difficult SEO quiestions? The reward for performing great at the quiz will not be the first place in Google but if you know a lot about SEO and can think creatively, the first place in Google is within your reach.

Please, take your Black Hats before starting the quiz. Your Black Hat will spoil the fun of having organic results at the quiz! Even if you don't get the highest possible score, there is no reason for drama!

META Analyzer

Although Meta Tags aren’t a requirement in optimizing a website, still they can make a difference in the ranking of websites on the search engines. There are still several search engines using Meta Tags as part of their algorithm. Because of this, it still pays off to have them on the pages of your website. Of the dozen or more Meta tags built into standard HTML, only three really have any value for web designers in regard to search engines or end users. These are the Title, Description, and Keywords Meta tags.

This tool will analyze a website's meta tags. Although the use of meta data is certainly in question, analyzing a competitors “keyword” and “description” meta values is a good way to find ideas for key terms and effective copy for your website.

Search Optimistion Directory

Keyword Density

Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site's theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help achieve higher search engine positions. Keyword density needs to be balanced correctly (too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, too high and your page might get flagged for “keyword spamming”).

This tool will analyze your chosen URL and return a table of keyword density values for one-, two-, or three-word key terms. In an attempt to mimic the function of search engine spiders, it will filter out common stop words (since these will probably be ignored by search engines). It will avoid filtering out stop words in the middle of a term, however (for example: “designing with CSS” would go through, even though “with” is a stop word).

Directory List

Having trouble finding a good SEO friendly directory list? You are not alone! Many well established website directories can take months to review your submission requests, and most of these established web directories have strict listing standards. Below you will find our free website directory listings. Most of the free web directories on this list are new, while others have been recently discovered. We will continually add to this directory list, so please check back often.

RoboForm's free one click form filler feature can quickly complete directory submission forms. RoboForm Pro is more robust and allows many site profiles. Give it a try and it will allow you to submit much faster.

Page Rank Checker

PageRank reflects Google's view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.

Page Rank Checker is a free tool to check Google™ page ranking of any web site pages easily and to display your site's PageRank™ value on your web pages. To install the Page Rank Checking tool on your site, you just need to add a small piece of HTML code to those web pages where you want to check the page rank and free PR checker tool will show the small icon that displays the current Google.com PageRank of the web page.

Article Directory List

Top article directory list ranked weekly - his site is designed to provide the Internet's best article directory rankings.

We update the rankings of article directories on this site weekly. This ranking page was inspired by Article Marketing guru Josh Spaulding. The program that generates the list and the ranking formula are currently in beta, and your input on how we can improve the list is most welcome. For further information and feedback, please feel free to read our announcement and leave your comments about the list. We will happily answer every comment.

Link Analysis Tools

Analyze your link profile compared to competing websites, and find pages which would be great sources to get links from. Many modern major search engines consider links to be signs of trust or votes for websites. Great in content links also can send a large stream of targeted high value traffic.

Competitive Research Tools With Link Information

• SEO Toolbar - Imports link data from various sources and makes it quite easy to compare sites against each other.
• SEO for Firefox - Import useful marketing data (including link counts, with links to source data) right into Google and Yahoo search results.
• Xinu - free competitive analysis tool which pulls in site age, social bookmarking data, and link data.

Press Release Sites

This is Avangate Top 50 press release submission list, most trustful sites where you can publish a press release, all of them free of charge. This list was initially created in 2007, but thanks to your comments and suggestions, we have been able to update it regularly.

So, here is the 2009 list, ordered by Google PageRank. The links lead to "Add/Submit a Press Release" or "Register" page.

Back Links Summary

Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. Also knows as Inbound links (IBL's). The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.

This tool will give you a summary of your competitors backlinks.