What is the most important aspect of website optimization after good content and well placed Meta Tags?

According to Google- High Quality linking is a significant factor in Google’s ranking algorithms. In fact, Google has dedicated a fair number of posts in its blog to educate us about the importance of having good quality backlinks.

Just Imagine having great- Interesting and relevant content on your website and not ranking anywhere near the top 10 search results. Ouch!!!!! Its time you check the number of backlinks to your website and assess their quality. Continue Reading

There are enough SEO Tools and browser toolbars on the Internet to confuse you with choices. I came across website Grader on a professional community & decided to give it a check and was mighty pleased with way the results were presented. It was simple and clean.

Website grader is a Free SEO Tool from Hubspot Company which measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. For a SEO beginner, this tool is great to use as it points out the necessary changes to be made to the website.

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If you’re a Web Developer or a Search Engine Optimizer, chances of you not hearing about Meta Tags don’t exist and If you’re a budding SE optimizer, Optimizing Meta Tags is one of the first lessons you’ll learn.

Every time I optimize a website I check who my competitor’s are. Everyone who ranks above me for the keyword I am optimizing is competition. Simple. When I started SEO, I managed to get hold of some good books & some great websites offering tips on search engine optimization. One common tip I learned was: Make sure that Meta Tags are optimized to be search engine friendly. Second, Its good to know what keywords your competitor is optimizing. If they are on top, you must be missing out on something important.

Hence, the Inspiration for this post. This post contains some great Meta Tag Analyzer Tools. These Meta Tag Analyzer Tools help in analyzing a web page and check for search engine compatibility. Most of these Meta Tag Analyzers use the same spider technology as search engines do. So, you can use these Free SEO Tools to check the effectiveness of your Meta Tags. More Importantly, Grow as a Search Engine Optimizer. Continue Reading

Keyword Popularity

is Defined by the daily number of searches the keywords get. It can be calculated as a monthly or a annual number.

Before going ahead, I suggest reading

• How to Do a self keyword analysis.
• Importance Of Keywords in SEO.

Following is the list of FREE Keyword Suggestion / popularity tools. One can compare the results from two or more tools to attain accuracy in optimizing their website for the correct set of keywords. You can see which keyword combinations are more popular and also get ideas for more keyword combinations. These keyword popularity/ suggestion tools use results are extracted from many sources.

• Google Adwords: Enter one keyword or phrase per line to see what related word searches your ad will show on. Google Adwords is one of the most popular tools, but shows the keyword popularity for google only.

• Spacky: A monthly keyword search volume tool. Gives results for Google, Yahoo & Bing. A very nice tool & does give accurate results for all 3 major search engines.

• Self Seo: Those keyword popularity results are extracted from two sources – Keyword Discovery and Overture.

• Word tracker: Generates up to 100 related keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume.

• Digital point keyword suggestion tool: This is a handy little tool will show you the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often.

• Submit express key tracker: You can enter one keyword / key phrase per line and Maximum is 15 per query.

• Webmaster toolkit: Simply enter the sort of word of phrase you wish to be found under, and the tool will suggest some additional words and phrases you can think about using.

• SEO centro: Search engine optimization tool that will help you choose relevant and popular key terms related to your selected keyword.

• Webconfs keyword suggestion tool: This tool tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates.

• SEO Chat: Simply enter a key term and this tool will query information from several Google searches, which it will use to determine popular and re-occurring terms used by websites in the same industry.

• 7Search: Enter a keyword to view most popular searches during the previous month that contained this keyword.

• SEO tools: This tool grabs the top queries from Google Suggest, Google search result counts, and links through to our SEO Book keyword suggestion tool.

Also Read,

• 21 Free Keyword Density Analyzer tools to optimize your website

PS: If you guys have any more free keyword popularity/ suggestion tools, feel free to email me the links along with your name and website/blog link from the Contact Form.