SEO Information

Monitor Your Visibility in Google, MSN, and Yahoo with these DIY SEO Tools


This is the second part of an article series in which you'll find many tools that you can use to monitor your site's search engine position and see how your do-it-yourself search engine optimization efforts are coming along.

The following tools are for monitoring your search results in the three major search engines. It isn't an all-inclusive list, but rather a highlight of some of the tools you can use. (I'll point you to one of the master lists when we get into more general tools in part three.)

Using Your Google Site Information Page

I've covered this in an earlier article, but just in case you missed it, we'll go over it again briefly here. (If you need more help following along, you can listen to one of my recent podcasts for a convenient audio walkthrough.)

Open up your browser and go to Google's home page. Type in info:yoursitenameandsuffix. So if your site was ExactSeek.com you'd type info:exactseek.com. You can also use site:yoursitenameandsuffix to find out which pages have been indexed by Google's search engine spider.

This search will tell you pages that Google considers similar to yours. It will also show sites that it considered linked to you, and show sites that carry your full url, hyperlinked or not. It's not 100% accurate as far as telling you all the sites that are linked back to yours, but what you can learn from this is which backlinks matter.

From here you can also see the last day Google spidered your home page.

To see this in action, click on the first group of information links, "Show Google's cache of yoursitename.com" If you look next to the word "cached" one the first line, the date is expressed also.

Sometimes it seems that the cached time for yoursitename.com and www.yoursitename.com are different, so be sure and check both.

Finding Information About Your Site In Yahoo
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/tips/tips-08.html

This document will tell you how to find out what sites are linking to you, give you the results for how many pages of your site are in Yahoo, and more. Once you get to the results page, you'll be able to view your cached pages, etc.

Discovering Your Site's Status on MSN
http://search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx

As the page in the help section states, you can use site:www.yoursitehere.com to find out if a document at your site has been indexed. The results page will also give you the date of last caching.

Google Rankings
http://www.googlerankings.com

You'll need a free Google API key for this one, and the site has the direct link telling you where to get one. You'll have to enter this key in order to query the site for information on Google.

With Google Rankings, you'll be able to see where you rank within the top 40-1000 results in Google for a given keyword. I recently noticed that it also displays results for MSN and Yahoo, with links to each search engine.

They also have some other tools that will track your keywords over time, as well as one they call the "Ultimate SEO Tool" that will measure your site's keyword density.

Google Backlinks Checker
http://lilengine.com/tools/backlinks-tool.php

LilEngine.com's Backlink Checker will measure the number of links you have pointing back to your site against competing sites. Handy if you just want a quick comparison of how many links you have versus others, though how much getting more links back will help varies, depending on other factors.

Yahoo Search Rankings
http://www.yahoosearchrankings.com/

From the same folks who brought you Google Rankings, using Yahoo Search Rankings, you'll be able to see where you rank within the top 1000 results in Yahoo for a given keyword. If you just want to see your Yahoo rankings, it's quite helpful.

You can find more Yahoo tools that use the Yahoo Web API at their developer's site : http://developer.yahoo.net/wiki/index.cgi?ApplicationList..

In the next part of the article, we'll take a closer look at other tools that give you more specific information about the links pointing back to your site, keyword research, and more.

Tinu is a website promotion specialist who can teach you many do-it-yourself ways to bring more traffic to your site in addition to DIY SEO. Subscribe to her ezine at http://www.freetraffictip.com/thebook/ for more details.


MORE RESOURCES:

Earthtimes (press release)

Search Engine Optimization Inc. Announces New Addition to Senior ...
MSNBC - 11 hours ago
As CDO for Search Engine Optimization Inc. (SEO Inc.), Ed will develop new strategies for future sales growth and company expansion as well as spearhead the ...
Affordable SEO Marketing Services PowerHomeBiz.com (press release)
SEO, Inc. Hires Executive socalTech.com
NY SEO Firm Ranks High With NY Businesses WebWire (press release)
4Hoteliers - Search Engine Land
all 40 news articles


Understanding SEO Basics For Your Business
Meadow Free Press, ID - 2 hours ago
When it comes to advanced competition in your niche or in advanced seo tactics when your competitor seems immovable from the top spot on Google, ...


Save 50% on the 3-Day Advanced SEO Weekend Workshop Coming to ...
PR Web (press release), WA - 5 hours ago
Leading SEO industry educators Robin Nobles, John Alexander and Michael Marshall will be meeting on Jan. 24-26 for a special hands-on SEO skills Workshop ...


Video SEO “Posers” Piss Me Off!
ReelSEO Online Video News, CA - 13 hours ago
Online video has become incredibility opportunistic for many new businesses to enter the space, with more people claiming to be “experts” in Video SEO. ...


USA SEO Pros Beats Recession Lows
PR.com (press release), NY - 5 hours ago
As the number of jobless claims increases across the country, it would seem that many people are turning to home businesses and USA SEO Pros has the numbers ...


Linking Related Theme Pages To Improve SEO
Practical Ecommerce (subscription), Grand Junction - 21 hours ago
Consider using a technique called link siloing to improve search engine optimization for your site. The idea is to link related theme pages supporting pages ...


Baytech Releases Long-Awaited Integrated SEO / PPC Marketing Solution
Business Wire (press release), CA - Jan 8, 2009
SEO is like a foundation for all websites,” says Jennifer Lin, Marketing Director at Baytech. “Keep in mind that SEO is optimizing a website for better ...


SEO 'aids social media release success'
Digital Response Media, UK - 1 hour ago
Search engine optimisation (SEO) can help to increase the success of marketing campaigns involving social media news releases, it has been suggested. ...
PR Interview: Become a Social Media Release Convert: 8 Steps MarketingSherpa.com (subscription)
all 2 news articles


Fantastic Growth Propels USA SEO Pros into 2009
BigNews.biz (press release), MA - Jan 6, 2009
Now that the buzz of the holiday season is dying down, it’s time to get back to business at USA SEO Pros. The numbers are in for 2008, and it was another ...


SEO Consult Maintains Its Ranking as The UK's Number 1 Search ...
MSNBC - Jan 6, 2009
TopSEOs, the independent authority on search vendors, has ranked SEO Consult, the UK's leading Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) company, as the number one ...
How PPC and SEO Can Benefit Companies In A Struggling Economy Promotion World (press release)
all 19 news articles

SEO - Google News

home | site map
© Seo-Latest.com 2008