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The Only SEO Tools You’ll Ever Need

Search Engine Optimization is a rather complex and never ending process. You have to analyze a lot of things including what keywords people are searching for, the density of those keywords in your sites, how many sites link back to you, how popular your links are and so on. Doing all this manually can be a huge pain.

Track and Measure Success in Social Media

Social media is one of the biggest buzzwords of 2009. You can’t even turn on the news without hearing terms like tweet, poke, event invitation, or profile wall. We see it in commercials, on billboards and even celebrities, athletes and government officials are using it.

Search Engine Optimization 101

Your website may be top notch but what’s the use of an online presence if no one can find it? In this quick start guide to search engine optimization we’ll review an assortment of tactics to increase your page ranking.

SEO Tool – Website Grader

Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things such as website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective. It measures the followings factors:

  • On-Page SEO
  • Off-Page SEO
  • Blogosphere
  • Social Mediasphere
  • Converting Qualified Visitors to Leads
  • Competitive Intelligence

On-Page SEO

Metadata – Allow you to tell the search engines what your web page is about.

Heading Summary – These tags not only help human readers read the content, they also help search engine spiders better understand the content on a page and what is most important.

Image Summary – HTML helps address this issue by providing a way to specify the textual content for an image using the “alt” attribute. The alt attribute allows web pages to assign specific text as the “alternative” content for images for those that cannot view the images themselves. This can be search engine crawlers or text-only web browsers.

Interior Page Analysis – This sort of interior page analysis can reveal exciting opportunities for you to target specific keywords or visitors. You can then create landing pages optimized towards converting those visitors into customers.

Readability Level – This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content.

Off-Page SEO

Domain Info – Most experts agree that you should register your domain for a long time, because search engines factor domain “stability” when looking at your pages.

Google PageRank – “Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote”.

oogle Indexed Pages – The Google web crawler will visit the website periodically and look for new content for its index.

Last Google Crawl Date – Google will periodically crawl websites looking for new and updated content.

Traffic Rank – Alexa is an online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the Internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings.

Inbound Links – Having links to your website from authoritative resources on the Internet helps you rank higher in search engines since these links are an indication that your website is trustworthy and contains good content.

DMOZ Directory -The Open Directory Project.

Yahoo! Directory – We recommend that every business have a listing in the Yahoo! Directory.

ZoomInfo – ZoomInfo is a business directory and search engine.

Blogosphere

Blog Analysis – Blog Feed

Blog Ranking – Technorati, It measures the popularity of a given blog as compared to all other sites that have been submitted to its system.

Social Mediasphere

del.icio.us bookmarks – A website that has many users bookmarking it is generally popular and will get more traffic.

Digg.com Submission Summary – Very popular articles can make it to the front page of Digg, resulting in more traffic to your website.

Converting Qualified Visitors to Leads

RSS Feed

Conversion Form

Competitive Intelligence

Keyword Grader

Competing Websites

10 Latest WordPress Plugins

1. WP AJAX Edit Comments

WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.5+) allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.

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2. SEO Ultimate

SEO Ultimate is an all-in-one SEO plugin that caters to your needs of Title Rewriting, Noindex Managing, Editing of Meta tags, etc.

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Clean Photo Gallery Website Layout

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5 Ways to Market Your Blog With Twitter

blog with twitterIt’s no surprise that Twitter has quickly risen in popularity among social networks. Few national and local newscasts can go an episode without mentioning the powerful tool. It’s almost become a competition to see who can gain the most followers or who can follow the most celebrities.

As a blogger, there are many different ways you can promote your website through Twitter.Here are 5 ways to market your blog with Twitter.

Promote your blog posts.

Use your Twitter account to share posts with your followers. There’s several different Twitter applications available that will automatically update your Twitter status when you publish a blog post. The power of it comes when your followers then share/retweet your blog post to their followers.

Virtual Weight Loss

Virtually put someone on a diet in Photoshop!

Create an Online Magazine With WordPress

magazine with wordpressMany of us have dreamed of writing for a magazine or even being a magazine editor. However, now with WordPress you can be the writer, editor and owner of your very own magazine. With a few steps you can have the magazine designed, laid out and have writers who are writing articles for your own online publication. Below I’m going to go through the steps of starting your own Magazine with WordPress.

The first thing you’ll have to do is find the right them. If you go to WordPress’ website, you can get some basic magazine themes. If you’re looking for something a little more flashy, just search for themes and find one to your liking.

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