Tag Archives: ToolsAPI and Dataset Sheet – Building Quick Useful ToolsPosted by willcritchlow I recently wrote a post on hacking together a linkbuilding tool where I set myself a challenge of learning a bunch of new technologies in 2 hours in order to be able to build a basic linkbuilding tool. I learnt just enough YQL, xpath, Python and Google App Engine to do the job. Since then I’ve put this to use in at least one tool that’s actually helping me and my team do our jobs better. Inspired by this (and encouraged by Kate Morris, a recent addition to the Distilled team), I started putting together a cheatsheet of the basic YQL and xpath I had learnt. In the end, it turned into that plus inspiration of APIs and datasets that could make great starting points for tools (either for research or for creating linkworthy content): Download it: API and data cheatsheet
Or link to it: API and datasource … Read the rest SEO With Google Webmaster Toolsby Stoney deGeyter In Part 3 of the Google Webmaster Tools series we started looking at the Your Site on the Web stats. We covered top search queries. In this post we’ll finish working our way through this section of Webmaster Tools.
You’ve never been able to get decent or accurate backlink counts (the number of other sites linking to your site) by running a link command search on Google. Such a search generally only shows a fraction of the links to any given page Google Webmaster Tool’s link reports are far more accurate. Not only do you get a total number of incoming links to your site, Google will also give you the number of incoming links on a page by page basis. Google doesn’t tell you if these are links that are … Read the rest 10 Random Search Tools To Keep In Your Back PocketNote from Ann: While SEJ features regular round-ups and reviews of various useful (mostly free) tools, it is always great to check lists shared by others. I for one found a few new tools I am willing to check out here: Feed CompareFeed Compare is a handy tool that will allow you to check the number of RSS subscribers for any given website/blog. I have found this extremely helpful for when I am doing competitor research to understand how much credibility and industry authority a specific site has. It is also nice to see short and long term RSS subscriber counts to do an internal check for the growth of your blog.
Bulk PageRank and Alexa CheckerThis was very helpful when creating the Link Builders Toolkit, it allows you to pull the site PageRank and Alexa Rank for as many urls as you would like to check. I have … Read the rest SEO With Google Webmaster Tools – Part 3: Your Site on the Webby Stoney deGeyter
OK, so you’ve got your site set-up and configured in Google Webmaster tools. Now it’s time to start looking at the data. Google Webmaster Tools allows you to view some basic stats and data for your site. It’s not nearly as robust as Google Analytics–not even close–but it does provide some quick and easy data that you can use to assess your site and correct problem areas.
This section of Google Webmaster Tools gives you information on what keywords people are using to find your site. Before discussing this in more detail I want to caution anyone from using this information incorrectly. Just because a keyword query isn’t listed here doesn’t mean it is not … Read the rest Top 3 SEO Tools to See How Well You Do in SEOSEO has proven to become a great factor in the success of a website. Have you ever wondered how successful your SEO campaign is? Well there are several tools around the web that measure that success, some are accurate enough to provide you the details that you wanted while others seem otherwise.. So let me give you the top 3 tools that we use to keep track of our progress when it comes to internet marketing campaign including SEO. Let’s start first at number 3 down to number 1. #3 SEO Tool: SiteYogi One of the sites we found is SiteYogi. Now don’t misunderstand the Yogi part with Yogi Bear. Yogi in Yoga means someone who knows that the entire cosmos is situated within his own body. Much like it’s built for, SiteYogi determines the site’s inner cosmos or what we say its capability to become successful in internet marketing … Read the rest |
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