How Do Backlinks Help SEO? On of the most important factors of SEO optimization is the quantity and quality of backlinks, or links directed toward your site. They indicate the popularity, importance and relevance of your site so important to search engine ranking. They are also known as “inbound links”. A quality backlink to a [...]

Dictate What Spiders Crawl on Your Site You may not want search engine spiders to detect all of the files or directories on your website such as the /cgi-bin/ directory that contains your scripts, or your images directory. To hide them, you can place a robots.txt file on your website to disallow the spiders from [...]

About the Search Engine Keyword Position Tool Knowing the ranking position for keywords as they relate to a website can be a valuable metric for SEOs. By knowing the position your site ranks for a certain keyword or phrase, you can determine which keywords are paying off and which ones aren't. Developer Shed Network offers [...]

Optimizing for Typos can Help SEO Rankings Common keyword typos can be a veritable goldmine for SEOs or pay-per-click advertisers for either organic or paid search results. By using the common typos in your keyword list, you can pick up those misspelled search queries and direct them to your ad or website. The Keyword Typo [...]

Google Search Based Keyword Features The Google Search-Based Keyword Tool allows you to search keywords to get information on search volume, competition, and suggested bid by keyword, site or category. It generates keyword ideas specific and relevant to your website. By entering a website URL, the results will display a list of actual queries that [...]

How to Compare Pages for Duplicate Content Search engines now utilize duplicate content filters to decrease spam by filtering out, or removing, duplicate content from multiple websites or even on a single website. Duplicate content can be used in a deliberate effort to try to trick a search engine into returning better results or it [...]

How Does the Keyword Scraper Tool Work? Wordtracker offers a free Google Suggestion Keyword Scraper Tool that shows the top queries from Google Suggest  along with Google competing page counts. It offers some potentially valuable long-tail keywords and other terms and phrases that can lead you to even deeper results by refining the search. Clicking [...]

Using the Adwords Keyword Tool The Google Adwords Keyword Tool is a valuable free tool for keyword research. You can generate keyword ideas with descriptive words or phrases with the options of including synonyms and filtering the results. You can also search by web content, i.e. enter a website to find keywords related to the [...]

SEO Book Keyword Tool Review and Features The need for in-depth keyword research cannot be overstated. Whether optimizing a website for competitive ranking or pay-per-click advertising, keywords drive the processes. There are a lot of keyword suggestion tools that can be helpful, but you need more than just a list of keywords to do the [...]

Domain Stats Attributes Knowing how you compare to your competitors statistically can help you understand why a competitor's website may be ranking higher than yours on the search engines. It also shows you where you can improve your website to increase your ranking over that of competitors. Webconfs.com offers a free Domain Stats Tool that [...]