SEO Tool News

And, The Search Engine with the Best Results is ...

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:38:31 GMT

By participating in the new search engine experiment you'll:

Discover without prejudice which of the top (Google, Yahoo, or MSN) engine's results you really prefer.
More importantly, you'll be contributing to the larger sample used in finding out the answer to the defining question question of the search engine wars: who really offers the overall most relevant results? (Spoiler: preliminary tests indicate it's not Google).

A few things about the experiment

The test is totally blind, meaning no amount of prejudice can affect the outcome.

We plan to run the experiment indefinitely with the latest test results always publicly available.

Since search engines are constantly updating their indices and algorithms, we will also be reporting results over time to account for the fact that the search engine with the highest result relevancy could be X one month, and Y the next.

If you'd like more information on the test and the implementation, please feel free to ask via comments.

Finally, we've made best effort but do not make any guarantees concerning accuracy of test results.

Now take the test already.

SEO Tools For Sale

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:41:58 GMT

Eugeniu Amarii mailed me to tell me about his set of SEO tools for sale over at 123seotools.com. I don't plan on buying them, but any interested parties can contact him.

Link Popularity Checker

Search Engine Saturation

Keyword Density Tool

Pagerank Calculator

Keyword Suggestion Tool

Spider Test

Website Comparison (OnPage SEO Factors)

Suggest Link Tool

Link Presence Checker

Google Keyword Suggestion

Google Rank Checker

Google Mass Domains Rank Checker

Google Mass Keywords Rank Checker

Google Best Keywords

Google Advanced Rank Checker - more options language, country etc

Google Ultimate SEO Tool - extracts keywords from page and shows ranks

Quality, original, and free SEO tools can attract a high amount of natural linkage for a marketing/SEO/webmaster site. Though, Eugeniu Amarii's tools do lack somewhat in terms originality to attract much attention, as an entire toolset they're probably link worthy enough as a one-stop resource.

Jim Bodkin's The Neat-O-Backlink Tool

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:57:38 GMT

Jim of WeBuildPages has released The Neat-O-Backlink Tool. The tool lists a decent sample of backlinks to any given URL. Listing backlinks in itself isn't new, what makes this tool interesting compared to other SEO tools, is that it provides the individual anchor text for each backlink.

The tool doesn't appear to be totally comprehensive (likely for bandwidth considerations), and has a few speed & technical problems, but overall still offers a good overview of the type of backlinks and anchor text pointing to a URL.

Feedshot - Free Feed Submission Tool

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:47:14 GMT

ThreadWatch notes, FeedShot -- a automatic feed submission service -- the service is free and will submit your RSS/Atom feed to the all the major RSS based search engines.

Although most regular search engines will ignore manual and automatic submissions, many RSS based search engines still rely heavily on them.

Syndication is a very sound method of promotion, and one much underused by many SEOs. It's worth checking out if you have any feeds.

Turn News Feeds into SEO Campaigns

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:48:40 GMT

SearchViews have released a potentially useful SEM tool:

It's called FeedCast and it's an all-in-one campaign creation and management solution designed specifically for companies with breaking content. This includes blog networks, newspaper publishers, classified advertisers and pretty much any business who needs to quickly distribute time-sensitive information to a wide audience.

Essentially it auto-magically converts new syndicated content to managed SEM campaigns. I'd imagine many sites will have proprietary stuff to do this type of thing already, but I think this might be the first 3rd party service on offer.

SEO Book's New Search Bias Analysis Tool

Sat, 17 Sep 2005 05:35:04 GMT

Aaron Wall, of SEO Book has released a free, open-source authority finder thingy tool:

"I wanted to create a tool which cross compared the search results from the major search engines to find the most authoritative results for a query (hence the name authority finder)."

Could be used to gain a few insights into the algorithmic differences between the search engines?