Quick Tools for SEO
Below you will find a few quick tools for your general search engine optimization use.
Check your web site's rank on Google
The following tool will help you determine at which position(s) your web site ranks in Google's search results for a given keyword phrase.
This tool will tell you how often a keyword phrase is searched for on the 3 major search engines (Google, yahoo! and MSN), along with displaying some alternate/related keywords to your original phrase. It will also link to various other web sites around the internet that are talking about the specific keyword phrase in question, giving you a better idea of the keyword popularity.
Find the HTTPS status codes of a URL. This lets you see if a page is being 301 or 302 redirected, for example. You can also read up on how create 301 redirects that are search engine friendly.
Aaron Wall (SEO Book) has created a tool for checking the health status of your website. Tool features include the ability to see missing Title & Meta tags, duplicate Title tags, duplicate descriptions, redirect status, indexed home page and error page handling. A good tool for on-page SEO efforts.
Check a domain name's back links through Yahoo! Site Explorer
Quick and dirty web based tool allows you to quickly eye ball what a web site's back link anchor text looks like. This can be good for keyword research.
Find out what keywords your competitor's web page is using in a snap. This tool can be good in finding out what keywords to target over your SEO campaign, try entering a web site that ranks well and see what you come up with!
Allows you to quickly search for pages deemed "important" by Google on a specific keyword phrase in combination with many common search modifiers, "Add, submit, directory, list, forum... etc."
SoloSEO provides a good interface tool for checking Google's date based filters. This tool is useful because it allows you to see how quickly a site's new pages are being indexed, which can tell you how much trust Google has in your site - the more trust, the easier your site can rank for competitive keyword terms.
See what Google Adsense ads appear for certain keywords in preview mode
Check the age of your domain name (usually the older the better), what other sites are hosting on the same IP, who owns the domain, etc.
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