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First Webs, Inc. |
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Rockford; Chicago; the World |
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SEO Software Tools Reviewed by First Webs, Inc.
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The Internet has many
great tools to make the tedious work of SEO go faster.
Below is a list of the ones we subscribe to. As in
any tool, results will vary from search engine to search
engine. We do not necessarily recommend these
tools for your applications, nor do we have any reason
to believe they are superior to new ones appearing every
week. We do not assume any liability or
consequences because they have been listed on these
pages. |
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TheDowser. One of the latest tools in keyword research. Import
Wordtracker data for analysis, research in
Oveture, Google, and Enhance. Check
out this fantastic product. View this
page
for more info. |
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Wordtracker is a popular tool amongst search engine optimizers.
Marketing on the web is all about search engine ranking. Wordtracker helps you choose the right internet marketing keywords
that will help your search engine placement and ranking. Use Wordtracker's 350 million plus word database for keyword research. Fairly new to Wordtracker is Keyword Researcher - a tool to that
replaces many of the old standbys like Simple Search, Precision Search, Comprehensive Search, and Misspelling Search.
http://www.wordtracker.com |
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Trellian's
Keyword Discovery |
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Keyword Discovery (KD) from
Trellian compiles keyword search statistics from over
180 search engines world wide, to create a very powerful Keyword Research tool.
KD supports a very clean and simple user interface, while allowing one to obtain historical data as well. KD has redefined the KEI from 1 to 10 in terms of
a Richter scale. It takes a little getting used to, but when combined with SEO
ToolKit v2.0 one has a pretty powerful suite of tools that takes into account a whole lot more than just the traditional KEI found in other tools.
SEO ToolKit v2.0 has more than 15 separate SEO tools bundled in one package
including a Rank Checker, Link Checker, and Submission Tool. The more expensive Enterprise version allows Internet Marketers to use the tools on an
unlimited number of domains. |
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Keyword Research Technology
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KeywordSpy is a keyword search engine tool that generates keywords for ad campaigns
in the most popular search engine sites in the Internet. KeywordSpy generates information by using
keywords in identifying key competitors that may be advertising in the same search engine.
Keyword Spy
provides instant access to over a billion keywords, as it has the most comprehensive keyword
database today which is updated on a daily basis.
KeywordSpy has 100 percent search results accuracy
on keywords and instant downloading capabilities plus enhanced user interface for ease of use. With
KeywordSpy one can create effective ad campaigns to increase business exposure and revenue by 100x
over with just a few clicks. |
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Marketing Sherpa is a publishing house that provides great articles on business as well as SE. When released, member subscribers
are able to view research articles Free for about 10 days. Then the articles are archived for paid purchase. |
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The
Overture Advertising Center is a great source for
preliminary research on keywords. Now called
Yahoo!Overture, this center is a must for PPC campaigns
in Yahoo! Overture. View keywords, keyword counts,
and bids. |
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SEOChat.com is a great site for website marketing,
website promotion, technology, and SEO News. They
also have downloadable free tools - 14 of them in fact.
While they may not be as comprehensive as the better
known tools, they are a "quick source" when you don't
have access to your desktop. For easy access,
we've cut and pasted many of the tools into one page on
this site. Feel free to use them! |
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GoogEdit makes it easier to manage Google AdWord Lists. Taking in a
keywords list, it cleans it up for use in AdWords campaigns:
removes invalid characters (quotes and brackets, leading, trailing, and
doubled spaces), removes duplicates, makes all entries lower case, sorts
the list. Visit
http://googedit.com/2/edit-adsense-word-lists-easily-with-googedit/ |
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Enter
keywords you want to target, then a US ZIP code, a
radius and other controls to generate a list of terms
you can use to localize AdWords targeting. The terms
created probably are useful for Yahoo, as well. However,
be aware that both Google and Yahoo already give you
some tools to localize without having to generate a list
of keywords linked to cities. Possibly this tool is most
useful if you don't want to make use of Google or Yahoo
tools.
See
www.5minutesite.com. (from Search Engine
Watch.com May 27, 2005) |
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Spotted via
fantomaster, this is a very cool tool for site
owners indeed. It brings back Google results and
provides a ton of extra information about the pages
listed. Want to see the pages indexed on each Google
data center? Need WHOIS info for page? Want a simulation
of how a search engine spider might see the page?
Traffic data from Alexa? This and more is offered. Check
out the
About page for a fast rundown on everything.
Visit GoLexa at
http://www.golexa.com/.
(from Search Engine Watch.com May 27, 2005) |
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At
www.urltrends.com, this tool lets
you enter any URL and get back data about it, such as
backlinks from major search engines and any trend data
about link popularity and other factors it may have
accumulated. It appears that if someone researches a
URL, that URL is then automatically monitored.
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HTML Validator is a
Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside
Firefox and Mozilla. See it at
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/.
Although you don't need to have your html code validated
to get ranked, this tool will let you check for html
errors - which we all know could lead to search engine
indexing problems. |
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Newsletters and Subscription Services on SEO/SEM
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The
AMA
(American Marketing Association) newsletter at
www.marketingpower.com offers search engine
marketing and industry news. A great source!
Join the AMA and subscribe to a number of valuable
Special Interest Group forums. |
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Planet Ocean's Search Engine News provides very
helpful tools, tips, and articles in pdf for the
webmaster and search engine optimizer. |
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Internet
Search Engine Database offers great content, tools,
and an RSS feed on recent news. Their feed is on
this site. Go to
Overview and click on the link in the orange box on
the upper right. |
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Search Engine Watch news
by Danny Sullivan and related ClickZ SEO/SEM articles
are recognized as one of the oldest and most valuable
subscriptions for tips and accurate information. |
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Pandia news feed in RSS
format. Headlines from major search engine news.
On this site, go to
Overview
and click on the link in the orange box on the upper
right. |
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Web Marketing Today by
Ralph Wilson is a great source for simple to read,
understandable concepts on almost any subject on the
Internet marketing. Ralph offers a content packed
annual newsletter subscription
Web Marketing Today Premium. It's well worth
the investment! The Wilson Web
Marketing Info Center contains links to 13,000+
articles and resources about every imaginable aspect of
e-commerce and Internet Marketing. |
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Thomas Brunt's Outfront
forum and
www.outfront.net
offers the FrontPage Webmaster Community many reasons to
come back and browse their listings. Many, many
archived tips on using FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Flash,
CSS, MySQL/PHP, and more. Need database help?
You can find it here! |
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The PowWeb forum at
www.powweb.com
is a great source for webmaster tools and tips.
PowWeb provides quality, value hosting running on Unix
(Apache) systems. Check them for your small business
hosting needs. PowWeb is your source of the open
sourced OSCommerce eStore. |
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Other Useful and Mostly Free Tools for SEO Work
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Advanced Web Ranking:
Advanced Web Ranking is a tool
that will help you check your web site position on all
major search engines. It saves you hours of tedious work
while monitoring your web site's search engine position. |
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Axandra Search Engine
Submission Software: Axandra develops
top-rated software tools for search engine submission,
web page optimization and link popularity. Free
downloads available. |
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Marketleap: Offers
free search engine marketing tools. Check link
popularity, keyword verification, and number of pages
you have indexed in search engines. |
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SEO Help:
Free search engine optimization
tutorial, glossary, internet marketing articles and
freeware. Offers free affiliate link "cloaker" and
AdWords keyword permutation generator. |
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Seotie:
Monitors site inclusions
into DMOZ and alternative directory structures and
notified upon inclusion. Tracks infinite urls. |
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Webmaster Toolkit:
A collection of free online
tools and resources for search engine optimizers,
webmasters and web designers. |
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More SE Tools, Web Design, and HTML Tools
nilsem.com Tool Kit #2 |
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