SEO Tools for web site promotion

The tools and advice on this page help you find the search terms your customers use when searching for the products you want to sell.

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Overture Keyword Selector

The Overture Keyword Selector has a nasty habbit of displaying words in a search phrase in the wrong order, so they make less sense.

You will have to use your common sense to resolve this. But it is a great tool that returns the number of actual searches performed, making it much easier to track down the best phrases for website optimization.

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Google Keywords Generator

The strength of the Google Keyword Generator lies in the many suggestions it can make. however as it does not diaplay the actual number of searches performed, it has its limits.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Lodge your web site with search engines

The most popular search engines in 2006 were Google, with around 56% of all searches, Yahoo, with around 25%, MSN with just under 10% and Ask with 2.6% (AOL now uses Google).

To lodge your website with one of these search engines, click on the links below or follow the provided instructions:

 Google  http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
 Yahoo  http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
 MSN Live Search  http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
 Ask  Requires a sitemap ping. Enter the following string in your website browser and replace everything after sitemap= with the URL of your sitemap. You will find this URL in ShopFactory by clicking on "My Website" after you have published your website for the first time.
 http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.YourWebSite.com/sitemap.xml

Find out how well you are indexed by search engines

Do you want to know how many pages of your web site a search engine has indexed? Simply go to the search engine and enter the command:

 site:www.mydomain.com

in the search field. Don't forget to use your own domain name :-)

The search engine will then list all the pages it lists for you.

Link Popularity: Find out how many sites are linking to you

The more related pages link to you, the better your chances of achieving good search engine rankings.

To find out how many websites link to you, simply go to any search engine and enter the command:

link:http://www.mydomain.com

in the search field. Don't forget to use your own domain name :-)

The search engine will then list all the website linking to you.

Build up the number of links to your website

Couldn't find any links in a link popularity check? Don't be concerned. Click on the link below to find web sites which allow you to add links to them. These links will help you increase your Link Popularity.

http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php?sortcolumn=PR

The higher the PR value is, the more influence the link will have on your search engine rankings.

Be careful not to use free or low cost submission tools, which claim to link to you from thousands of websites. Search engines such as Google will regard this as search engine spamming, and may lower your search rankings as a result. 

See how your web site ranks on the Internet

Want to know how well your website compares to all the other websites on the Internet? Go to http://www.alexa.com and enter your domain name in the Site Info field on the right side. Be careful, the field on top of the page is just a normal search field.

Don't be too concerned, if you don't rank among the top one million websites. Lifting your website is a challenge, and you will lift it by attracting more customers to your website.