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SEO "Tools of The Trade"
Search Engine Optimization
By: Stephen S Alison
Before you start optimizing your site for search engines, there
are some tools that you should arm yourself with. These tools
can become your best friends when it comes to SEO, especially
when you’re just starting out. The first and most important step
in any search engine position campaign is recognizing which
keywords you should optimize your site for, and there are
several pieces of software that are useful for this, including
Wordtracker, Optilink, Zeus, and Agent Web Ranking.
WordTracker's keyword research service is the only one on the
Internet that provides a comprehensive database of the most
popular keywords in a particular industry. It can help you
recognize associated keywords that you may have never thought
of. One of the differences between WordTracker and other tools
is that it can spot subtle differences, for example singular and
plural keywords, or often-misspelled ones, and tell you which
versions are more popular.
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Optilink has become very popular in a short period of time because
of the power it gives you over search engines. Every site that links
to you boosts your ranking, especially if its content is relevant to
yours. Optilink helps you to come up with strategies to improve your
link structure and get a better ranking. Here are some of the things
it does:
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Analyzes the link structures of your top-ranking competitors.
2.
Tells you why your competitors rank well, so you can try to copy
what they’re doing.
3.
Tells you what kind of rankings you can expect if you adopt similar
linking strategies.
4.
Helps to monitor sites you’ve exchanged links with, to ensure that
they’re still linking to you. |
Zeus has an excellent way of increasing the link popularity of
your site -- by exchanging with other sites that are related to
yours, giving you a head start on your SEO. Zeus does the work
for you, identifying sites that it thinks you should try to
exchange links with. If you look for the sites yourself you’ll
often find it’s not worth the time, but an SEO tool like Zeus
lets you do it instantly. Once you’ve got links, you can manage
and maintain them automatically.
Agent Web Ranking helps you to check your sites rankings – this
is good to see how your SEO efforts are working. Many people
just optimize and submit, thinking the work is done, but they’re
wrong. You need to continuously check your site's rankings, and
Agent Web Ranking is a reliable and quick tool for doing this.
The only real problem you might have with any of this software
is that search engines can change the way they display their
results, breaking the tools until their authors update them.
This means that most position reporting software gets outdated
very quickly. It’s not that much of an issue, though, as most
software is provided on a subscription basis with updates
included, rather than bought only once.
If you really want to stay ahead in the SEO industry, you should
try as many different tools as you can. By paying attention to
what tools others are using and learning how they work, you will
have the edge in the SEO market. So get out there, and download
these SEO tools of the trade!
Search Engine
Optimization Techniques -
The Basic SEO Rules for All
Websites. Search engine optimization isn’t rocket science, but
it can feel complicated at times. To have a successful campaign,
just follow these simple rules detailed here – they apply to all
websites.
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