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Sunday, December 31, 2006

SEO Elite Updated

One of my favorite pieces of web marketing software is Brad Callen's SEO Elite. This latest update (Version 4) features a redesigned and much improved user interface.

SEO Elite is made up of a number of "projects". Specifically:

Project 1: Analyze Backlinks Using A Specified Search Engine.
Project 2: Get Links To Your Website. (NEW)
Project 3: Analyze AllinAnchor, AllinText, AllinTitle.
Project 4: Verify That Link Partners Are Still Linking Back.
Project 5: Find Where Your Website Is Ranked For A Given Keyword.
Project 6: Find How Many Web Pages Are Indexed.
Project 7: Find Possible Authority Websites. (NEW)
Project 8: Submit Articles To Article Directories. (NEW)

But it's Project 7 - Find Possible Authority Websites - that holds the most interest for me. One of the most significant factors in doing well with Google is getting inbound links from sites which Google have a high regard for. In other words, "authority" sites.

With Project 7 you simply enter a keyword phrase and the number of sites you want to analyse, and SEO Elite will give you a detailed report on which sites link to the sites you are analysing. If you find that a number of the top ranked sites are linked to from a particlar authority site, and your site isn't, then it's a safe bet that getting a link from that authority site will be of great benefit to you.

I've only started playing with this tool. I ran a report on "website designer" for which I'm currently sitting on position 19 on Google (US). Already I've identified a number of authority sites which link to the top 5 sites and not to mine. So using this information I'm formulating a plan to improve my rankings on those keywords. I've been on page 1 in the past, but the top few sites seem to remain pretty constant.

As a research tool, SEO Elite is a real gem. Well done Brad!

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Some Handy Free Tools

Here's a couple of free tools/services which I've found quite useful:

Social Bookmarker

Just add this snippet of HTML to your page to create a link for your visitors to bookmark your site at any of the popular social bookmarking sites:



The link will look like this:

Social Bookmark This Site

Generate RSS Feeds for Clickbank Products

This tool will create an RSS feed for related Clickbank products. Just enter a keyword list, your Clickbank ID and the code is generated for you. Once you have that code you can use it to display a list of products on your website or blog. When a visitor clicks on one of the links your Clickbank ID is included in the URL so if the visitor makes a purchase you earn a commission.

The same people who created the feed generator have a tool to convert your RSS feed into JavaScript, HTML or PHP which you can place on your website. You can see how I've implemented this on my Resourse Library page which I created in a few minutes.

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