Thursday, September 18, 2008

The behavior of Google SERP

Traffic coming from search engines is traditionally considered to have the highest value since search engines have emerged on the web. Thousands of webmasters work hard every day to make sure their sites are better optimized for better search engine rankings. It's no secret that the amount of work and money needed for desired results largely depend on the niche of the search queries a site is optimized for, and their search volume. Moreover, sites in different niches require different promotion techniques. It is natural that the competition between market players drives the optimization technology forward.

Additionally, search engines never stop developing. Ranking algorithms are constantly improving, server capacities are increased, SERP (search engine result page) moderation has been introduced, and so on. As a result, optimization techniques which brought guaranteed results yesterday may be not at all efficient today.

This report focuses on analyzing Google's SERP to spot the variations observed in different niches and with keywords of different search volume. [read more]

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Complete Blogging Tools

Here is a collection of useful and valuable free blogging tools that you can use to check your blog performance and enhance your blog rankings. Visit all the free blogging tools and discover what they can do for you and your blog.

Search Engine Tools

search engine tool

Domain Checkup Tools

domain checkup tool

  • Alexa Traffic Rank Checker - Instantly check your website’s Alexa traffic rank.
  • Reciprocal Link Checker - Make sure your link exchange partners still have your links. You may check it with this tool.
  • Domain Name Availability Checker - Check whether the domain name you have in mind is still available for registration.
  • Domain Whois - Get more information about a domain name with this tool.
  • Broken Link Checker - Use this tool to detect and correct broken links in your website.
  • Domain Name Lookup Tool - The Domain Name Lookup tool lets you find out more about domain names including Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, number of backlinks, age of domain name etc.
  • IP Locator Tool - The IP Locator Tool helps you determine the country of origin of certain IP address.
  • Link Price Calculator Tool - The Link Price Calculator estimates how much you should pay and charge for a link in certain pages of your website.
  • Ping Test Tool - The Ping Test Tool lets you check for an active connection.
  • Reverse IP Lookup Tool - Reverse IP Lookup Tool lets you search for domain names hosted on your IP address. Just enter a domain or an IP address to get a list of domain names that share the same IP address.
  • Server Status Checker - Use this blogging tool to instantly check for the status of any website.
  • Website Speed Checker - Check the loading speed of your website with the Website Speed Checker tool. Too slow? Perhaps you need to optimize the page or move to a faster server.

HTML Blogging Tools

html tool

  • Source Code Viewer - This tool lets you see how a website is scripted and coded.
  • Meta Tag Generator - Meta tag generator helps you create a functional meta tag you can use in your blog. Google don’t use meta tags but there are still some search engines that do.
  • Meta Tag Extractor - Find out what meta tags are used by your competitors with the Meta Tag Extractor tool.
  • Link Extractor Tool - The Link Extractor Tool will enable you to extract links from a specific web page with associated anchor text, HTML code, attributes and Google pagerank
  • HTML Optimizer Tool - This tool lets you optimize your HTML code to make your website load faster.
  • HTTP Header Extractor - The HTTP Header extractor extracts the HTTP Headers of a server. Find out exactly what your browser reads.

Miscellaneous Blogging Tools

miscellaneous tool

  • Browser Detail Tool - Use this tool to find out your IP address and hostname, your browser details (User-Agent, Cookies Enabled, Java Enabled , JavaScript Status, Screen Width & Height, CPU class/type, Screen Colour Depth, Window Width & Height) and browser headers.
  • Google Adsense Calculator - Google Adsense Calculator predicts changes in your earnings depending on Impressions, Click Rate and Cost Per Click.
  • Google Adsense Preview - Google Adsense Preview tool will display some sample ads targeted for your website by Google Adsense.
  • Link Shortener Tool - The Link shortener is a tool that lets user to make a long web address short and easy to remember link for that web address.
  • List Cleaner Tool - The List Cleaner Tool will give you the capability to clean and remove duplicates from a list in a matter of seconds.
  • md5 Encrypt Tool - The md5 Encrypt Tool is a simple online converter tool to encode any inputted text to md5 encryption.
  • Unix Time Converter - The Unix Time Converter is a useful tool when dealing with UNIX internal time formats. You can use this tool to convert UNIX internal time formats to a date or Vice versa.
  • .htaccess URL Rewrite Tool - The .htaccess URL Rewrite Tool will convert your long and dynamic address into a short and search engine friendly URL.

If you found these free blogging tools useful, go ahead and book mark them, share them to your friends and let them know about it.

Enjoy Blogging!