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There is an additional option in the external keyword tool once you have a Google account which allows you to source keywords from a competitors URL or any URL for that matter, which is very cool, not just the keywords in the meta tag but content rich keywords.
To get the option, make sure your signed into your Google account and then try the external Google keyword tool, sometimes you have to try a couple of times to make the option appear. Read the rest of this entry »
One invaluable free tool for getting keyword ideas is the external keyword tool from Google. The results are based on Google search results over the prior 12 months but on a monthly basis.
When you first log in depending on where you are geographically, you’ll need to set your preferences in the edit link on the line;
“Results are tailored to English, United States Edit“,
..selecting All Countries and Territories will give you a global idea.
Well you can do some painstaking trawling through the search result pages and if you’re lower ranked that’s going to take some time and you might even miss it, with a Firefox plug in and a script you can let Google take you there in a click, which is very nice. Read the rest of this entry »
You can use certain commands when searching to find out some relevant details about a web site, here are some of the useful ones, these can be especially helpful in analysing your site and your competitors:
site:yourwebsite.com - This will show you a list of all the indexed pages with the search engine
link:yourwebsite.com – This shows a list of all the inbound or baclinks to the web site
allintitle:your title words here – This will show you a list of sites that use all of the keywords you specify in the page title
intitle:keyword – This will show you a list of websites that are using your keyword in the title
allintext:your keywords here – This will show you a list of sites that use all of the keywords you specify in the text
intext:keyword - This will show you a list of websites that are using your keyword in the text
Tags: Analysis, Commands, Search, Yellow Sausages
I used to think maintaining a sitemap was a royal pain before you could do it automatically with a range of tools. Sitemaps can have a visual html appearance so your visitors can get an overall look of your site and click through to the pages from there. But more importantly they are needed to help the search engines do their job properly of finding your pages and sticking you in their index.
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By checking your web site logs of who is coming and going you will see a number of bots and spiders referencing your pages and indexing for their masters most notably search engines, this happens all the time and at various times of day and night.
You might not want some of your pages made public – here is where you can create a robots.txt file which the bots and spiders are supposed to adhere to. The file protocol follows an industry standard and you can allow/disallow certain search engines to crawl and also protect certain parts of the URL from being indexed. Read the rest of this entry »
