Earlier this week we posted (read it here) about Google’s New Link Analysis Tool
Mike Murray of Fathom SEO posted a handy reminder on Revenews that Link Popularity is not dead yet.
It’s a very quick read and serves as a good reminder that while Google’s new tool is helpful, in the long run, it is still only a small help to most webmasters.
| Hooray for Google!The new Google webmaster console will now let you see all of your site’s backlinks as indexed by Google.
Matt Cutts posted about this last night and his post pretty much covers it all. My only thoughts are “It’s about time!” Click here to read Cutts’ post and here to read about it on the official Google Webmaster Blog |
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Just caught this on the Don’t Click This Blog
Wordtracker now offers a free keyword tool that is much better than anything Yahoo or anyone else has to offer in its price range (free)
If you are not familiar with WordTracker, check out this post for our review of it.
Rob Wood has a great post on Jamdo about the top SEO blogs and guides for this year.
Jim Boykin, Andy Hagans, and Jim Westergren are his suggestions and I agree. They should be great resources for keeping up with SEO throughout the year!
Check it out at Jamdo
The Grade A WebSite Tool is pretty cool.
Enter your URL and come keywords and it will give you a grade and some helpful information all in one place!
I found it to be helpful mostly for newbies to SEO but also to intermediates. Even one of our SEO experts found one thing to be pretty cool.
New to SEO or just need to know a certain unfamiliar term?
Check out SEO Glosssary
For some reason of late I am quite the night owl. Odds are I will be a little late to the office later this morning but I definitely thought you should check out this post on Matt Cutts’ blog. It is hot off the presses!
It is late and I think you should read the entire post but here is an overview of some things that caught my eye:
- site:operator will now display regular listings above the supplemental listings.
- Google is continuing to improve the supplemental results with more frequent indexing
- While there is nothing wrong with supplemental listings, the tried and true method of getting out of the supplemental listings is the same as always - good links to the supplemental page.
- You may notice your rankings changing more frequently as Google is now updating every day or two now, rather than once a month or so.
What are your thoughts? Have you seen any changes in your rankings or anything to alarm your?
If you are into SEO and keeping track of backlinks to you and your competitors, this is a pretty good tool.
I have not used it personally but it comes highly recommended!
SEO Elite is by far the best SEO resource around.
Keep track of links, keywords, and more.
Also, Brad Callen’s Free SEO course is better than many of the $1,000+ courses we have taken.
So check it out at - http://www.seoelite.com/
This is a nice tool for checking the keyword density of your pages (what is keyword density? click here for the answer)
After you use this tool be sure to check out the article on “How to Avoid SEO over-optimization” to put your new found knowledge to best use!
I just started using this after the 20th person told me to use it!
For those SEO gurus, this is a GREAT tool.
I love it because it works with IE and Firefox!
Interesting Article from Michael Cheney. What are your thoughts? Leave a comment with your views.
Link Swapping is Killing Your Website
By Michael Cheney
Author of “The Website Marketing Bible”
I created my first website in 1995. Shortly after it went live I realized that nobody apart from me could see it. It dawned on me that this ‘Internet thing’ is all about being part of an interconnected network of websites. I needed to start getting connected to other websites.
Much has changed since then, but it seems the desire and pressure you face as a website owner to exchange links shows no signs of fading. However, link swapping is killing your website. Here are five reasons why:
1. It’s addictive: It’s true. You might not be that far down the link-swapping path yet, but I promise you it will happen sooner or later. One day you’ll find yourself laughing like a maniac as you run a report to see how many in-bound links you have and start rubbing your hands gleefully as you reach that magic milestone you set yourself six months ago. You’ll start mainlining reciprocal links.
Internet search rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft formed an unusual alliance to support a shared standard regarding how websites are pinpointed for their indexes.
The “joint initiative” was intended to make it easier for webmasters, or website creators, to let Internet search engines know what their online pages contained, according to Google was.
Search engines could use the information gathered in the “web crawl” process to better tailor results for their users.
Yahoo and Microsoft announced they would each support Google’s “Sitemaps 0.90″ protocol instead of using different standards for submissions by webmasters.
This is a slightly old thread at ABestWeb, but I just found it.
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