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Introduction

Webmaster tools are web sites or programs that assist you as a web designer to do you work either easier or better.

Many of them help you to

  • prepare your site prior to submission to search engines
  • Check if your site is already listed
  • Submit your site

Prepare your site for Search Engines

General

In order to be indexed and listed your site must have good content.

Keywords

Your page must contain your keywords in strategic positions. See Site promotion.

You should list your keywords in a keyword Meta tag in the head section.

Some Search engines no longer require this, but others do. And many of the tools listed also require this.

To be effective keywords should appear on the page 3 to 8 times.

Use a keyword counting tool to help you with this task.

Try to use alternative words to your main keywords

If you want to get American viewers, use some American spelling, e.g. Color in place of Colour

 

Keyword Density Analyzer

This tool requires that your

  • Page has been uploaded to the web
  • Your page has a keyword meta tag

Use the tool on all your pages.
Also use the tool on any good ranking competitors page to see there keyword analysis. Use this information to help you optimise your pages.

 

 
 

More Keyword tools

http://wordtracker.com WordTracker suggests alternative keywords that you can use on your site, to help promote your site in search engine listings. You can also obtain by e-mail Wordtracker top 500 keywords currently in use by search engines. There are 2 versions - with or without adult search terms.
http://inventory.overture.com/ suggests alternative keywords that you can use on your site,
http://www.keywordcount.com KeyWordCount counts the more frequently used words on a web page so that you can decide which keywords to use. You can mask words such as: a, the, for. Etc.
http://inventory.overture.com/d/ searchinventory/suggestion/ Keyword Tool. How many times the keyword and related keywords was searched for last month.
http://www.webjectives.com/keyword.htm Keyword Density Analyzer
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm http://www.downloads.madaboutpool.com Downloadable Keyword Tool - Provides lots of info.
http://northernwebs.com/set/spider_view_da.html Page Word counter- Very good

Are you Listed

A Tool that checks if your site is listed on the top search engines: RapidSeek, Excite, HotBot, Looksmart, MSN Internet Locator, Google, Altavista, Overture, NorthernLight, Lycos, Yahoo.

If you are listed you can visit the search engine via the provided link and see the results list.

Is Your Web Site In The Search Engines? Find Out Here - it's FREE!
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Site Optimisation

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Search this site for a word or phrase. Place phrases inside "double quotes"

 

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Free Site Analysis

Free Search Engine Checker

Free Meta Tag Generator

Free Search Engine Submissions

Find broken links on web sites   Xenu's Link Sleuth

W3C free linkchecker service at http://validator.w3.org/checklink

Search Engine Position Analyzer

Check to see if your site is in the first 50. Scroll down the results page to obtain the code for this Checker.

Search Engine Position Checker

Google Excite Altavista Aesop

 

This section contains links to downloadable or online webmaster tools that makes many webmaster tasks much easier.

Counters and Statistics

Check to see what your Web site host provides in the way of counters and statistics.

I have had very good reports from Open University students for Bravenets counters
http://www.nedstat.com/EN  
http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/  
http://www.bcentral.com/products/fc/default.asp Small neat counter, various colours. Daily counter given in a ca lender style format
http://top.addfreestats.com/ Free stats
http://www.digits.com/ Free counters and Commercial Counter with Statistics here. I have had very good reports from Open University students for counters
http://sm6.sitemeter.com/default.asp Free stats. I am using this on my Tenerife information site. The only visible bit is the small revolving cube graphic on every page. Lots of stats via there web page, and some free weekly statistics e-mailed to me. GOOD
http://www.goldstats.com/free/ Free stats. I am using this on my Tenerife information site. The only visible bit is the dirty great banner at the top of the home page. This gives me better stats but I would have to put that banner on all my pages to obtain the required information. If you can put up with the banner on every page it would be V GOOD

Site Ranking or Popularity

Page Rank - Free

A very useful tool is the Google toolbar. This tool ranks your site with a number between low ranking 1 to high ranking 10 if the site is indexed on Google. Check your site's rank agaist you competitors. You need the advanced features for the ranking, read the small print about privacy. The advanced features do track your movements.

google toolbar

Download from http://toolbar.google.com/

Traffic Rank - Free

This tool from Alexa ranks your site in a range from top site 1 to bottom site in the millions.

Alexa Toolbar

The Alexa toolbar is similar to the google one, but is appearrs to be invading ones privacy more that the Google toolbar. A search on a search engine will find the download page if you require it. Definatly read the small print. The above Traffic Rank tool provides site information that the tool bar does but is not as readily available.

Alexa toolbar

Search Engine Rankings

Search Engine Rankings - Instant, online reports of web site rankings in 7 top search engines, including Google, Yahoo (Web), AOL Search, MSN, AllTheWeb (FAST), AltaVista, Teoma, and the top 3 web directories; Yahoo Directory, Open Directory, and LookSmart - FREE!

Note how your additional searches are displayed in the results window. You can then printout the results of several searches.

 

http://www.echoecho.com/toolposition.htm Check your sites ranking on several search engines.
http://www.linkpopularity.com Find out how many sites link to your web site in 3 top search engines. Useful for site promotion
http://www.stickysauce.com/searchenginetools/ Check out if your meta tags are correctly formatted to allow best search engine placement. The analyzer returns a form with details on your tags and keywords along with any (if any) recommendations and solutions

Web site Optimisation

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ Enter a URL and your web page is checked for download time. Advice on how to improve your page download time is given.

Misc.

http://watson.addy.com/

Dr. Watson Version 5.02 (Not Microsoft's Dr.)
FREE online service to analyze your web page on the Internet. Does all requested checks in one go

  • HTML syntax
  • Verify regular links
  • Verify image links
  • Word counts
  • Spell-check (American) non-HTML text. Suggests alternative spellings.
  • Download speed,
  • search engine compatibility,
  • link popularity.
http://deadlock.com/promote/search-engines/tools.html Web Site Garage - Check your load time, dead links, link popularity, spelling and HTML code.
META Medic - Check your META tags
http://www.panicware.com/popupstopper.html Popup Stopper
http://www.bcentral.com/products/link_checker.asp Checks for links on a web page
http://northernwebs.com/set/spider_view.html Link checker
http://www.analog.cx/docs/meaning.html

Analog 5.32: How the web works

Analog is one of the top free analyser programs that can read a web sites raw logs and output in readable format.

Colour

Tools to help you choose a colour scheme

http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wizard.asp
http://kohaistyle.com/scripts/quickcolor/
http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html
http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html
http://www.juicystudio.com/services/colourcontrast.asp
http://www.serve.com/apg/cgi-bin/colorpicker.cgi
http://colorfilter.wickline.org/
http://www.vischeck.com/
http://h40099.bbn-stage.europe.hp.com/country/ie/eng/color/art_hp_colour_wheel.html
http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html

 

 

 

 

Starting Your own Web Business

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