SearchRank Blog: SEM/SEO Tools Archives

How Is Your SEO Health? Find Out With The Website Health Check Tool

Aaron Wall has launched a new tool called, "The Website Health Check Tool." The tool is designed to discover any major SEO related issues that your site may have including things like indexing, duplicate content, canonical URL issues and so on. The tool queries Google to grab pages you have indexed in Google, and looks for issues amongst the first 1,000 results.

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New Tool From SEOmoz Combines Popular Search and Trends Sources

With all the great sites that exist that allow one to discover rising trends and buzz worthy terms through popular searches, have you ever thought it would be nice to have a tool that would combine them all in one place? Well, your wish has come true. SEOmoz has released a new tool that aggregates the data from a variety of sites into one place. They call it, Popular Searches.

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Marketing Sherpa To No Longer Publish Buyer's Guides for SEO and Paid Search

I have learned that Marketing Sherpa has no plans to publish future guides to selecting SEO and SEM firms. They have been publishing the guides for the past five years, initially dealing with SEO but then later launching a separate guide for paid search. Historically, the guides have not only listed firms offering SEO/SEM services but also provided practical advice on what search marketing is as well as advice on how to select a firm. Anne Holland confirmed that future guides would not be published due to the inherent difficulty in providing qualitative evaluations of each SEO and SEM service as well as the fact that they will be focusing more on their Benchmark Guides.

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Keyword Discovery Releases Free Keyword Research Tool

Keyword Discovery is our keyword research tool of choice. It offers the most robust features and probably the cleanest data compared to any number of keyword research tools on the market. Don't believe me? Well now you can try it for yourself. The fine folks over at Trellian have just released a free version of their tool.

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Have You Seen the New Features at Keyword Discovery?

Keyword Discovery is definitely our keyword research tool of choice here at SearchRank. Not only does it give its users access to one of the largest databases of keyword data on the planet, it is loaded with features. Trellian, announces today enhancements and new features to what is becoming the most popular keyword research tool on the market. This includes keyword database update, plural search feature release, import to any Keyword Discovery keyword database, and a Dutch keyword database is now available.

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List of Keyword Research Tools

Prior to any search marketing campaign, keyword research should take priority. This is the process of not only selecting keywords and phrases that are relevant to one's business but ones that people are actually searching for. While a portion of this requires good old common sense, actual data and statistics are a necessary ingredient in developing a good list of words to target. I have assembled a list of the most popular keyword research tools, some of which are paid services while others are free.

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A New Tool for Alexa Data Junkies - Alexaholic

Are you an Alexa data junkie? If so there is a new tool for you that is called what else - Alexaholic. From their site, "Alexaholic blends Alexa website traffic graphs with a lightweight ajax-enhanced interface to satisfy hard-core Alexa traffic chart junkies – aka Alexaholics. Webmasters, SEO/SEM specialists, and domain owners can compare and measure website statistics for up to five domains at once, switch traffic chart types and ranges without page loads, and generate report pages that are easily bookmarked and shared."

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New Features at Trellian's KeywordDiscovery

Trellian has announced new features in the KeywordDiscovery keyword research tool which include eBay Shopping Keywords , Data Quality & Skew, News Search and Market Share Analysis. They are unveiling this updated version at the Search Engine Strategies Conference that is currently taking place in San Jose, California. Read on for detailed information.

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Aaron Wall Develops Market Research Extension for Firefox

A new extension is available for the Firefox browser called SEO For Firefox. It has been developed by Aaron Wall, famous for his SEOBook e-book publication who is also half owner of Threadwatch, a popular blog style forum. The tool pulls data from a number of sources to offer "a more holistic view of the competitive landscape" to search engine marketers.

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ClickTracks Offers Free Site Analytics

Have you been itching to check out some of the web analytics programs that are out there but not willing to invest your hard earned dollars? Well wait no longer. ClickTracks, one of the best analytics programs on the market today, is offering a free version entitled ClickTracks Appetizer which includes a hearty plateful of powerful features likes an overlay view, path view, page analysis and even some basic visitor labeling tools. They will also be turning on features from the paid versions once a month to allow business owners to get a taste of even more ClickTracks.

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New PageRank Tool That Screens 78 Data Centers

Are you obsessive over Google's PageRank (PR) scores? Then you will be happy to know that there is a new tool called Live Pagerank which will check the PR score of any given URL across 78 different Google data centers. That's right - 78! Simply enter the URL you wish to check and wait. Additionally they offer a LivePR indicator that can be installed on your web pages as well as a Firefox extension to go along with your browser.

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Jill Whalen's Favorite Firefox Extensions

Jill Whalen, one of the pioneers of SEO, puts out a weekly newsletter that is always packed full of great information and juicy tidbits. This week she provides a list of her "must-have" extensions for Firefox browser. Being a new Firefox user myself, I found this portion of the newsletter especially interesting and asked her if I could re-publish those here. So with no further ado, here they are.

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