Entries from March 2010 ↓

I’ve just come across this freebie web tool that gives you a quick and dirty method of checking if your site is under a duplicate content ‘penalty’ i.e. is your content being pushed into the supplemental results because the pages are too similar.

Give it a try

Oh, and don’t forget you can always use copyscape.com to check your sites content against your competitors which is a great way of ensuring your saying something unique and discovering who’s poaching your sites content.

I have a friend from a while back who’s recently become an in-house SEO for a niche retailer who has asked if i could help provide an independent eye on the project with the view to creating some workable actions because he’s been thrown in at the deep end and can’t see the wood for the trees. Always eager to spread the knowledge, I took a few hours the other night to go through the site and produce some ideas for him, a list that I think might be useful for someone else who’s site is stuck in a rut.

Note: I’m having to be ambiguous as I haven’t had the go-ahead to promote the domain and I hope the genericness of this post will help broaden its reach and help you identify with the issues without the relevancy to a foreign product. Continue reading →

I’ve just found two new cross browser testing tools that more importantly work on Windows 7 and Vista.

The first is Internet Explorer Collection, a group of stand along applications that gives you the ability to test across multiple versions of IE.

The second is IETester, a ribboned Office 2007 style browser that performs all of the usual functionality.

Give them a try!

Redfly Marketing have announced an update to their Google Global Toolbar for Firefox. This great little tool enables you to quickly and easily view Google results in different countries which when combined with standard link building tools should help you to source new link goodness in foreign languages.

Njoy

I need to close some browser tabs as ive got around a months open with ‘things i really need to read’ so i thought instead of abandoning them to the depths of my browsers bookmarks i’d drop them into a blog post for review later (i promise myself).

Link Building Tool Lists

http://searchengineland.com/a-big-roundup-of-link-building-tools-13400

http://wiep.net/talk/tools-plugins/more-link-building-tools/

http://link-building-tools.ontolo.com/

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/dofollow-video-sharing-sites/8763/

Content inventory worksheets

http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=2832

http://link-building-tools.ontolo.com/LinkBuildingOutreachWorksheet.html

http://link-building-tools.ontolo.com/download-link-qualification-worksheet.html

http://wiep.net/link-value-factors/

http://www.searchrank.com/blog/2009/09/value-of-inbound-link-factors.html

http://searchengineland.com/a-guide-to-qualifying-link-prospects-for-relevance-value-potentiality-17637

http://tools.seobook.com/backlink-analyzer/

http://www.soloseo.com/tools/linkSearch.html?keyword=chesterfield+sofa

http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php

http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php

http://searchengineland.com/30-link-builders-discuss-backlink-analysis-for-campaign-design-part-1-35275

Well, this has to be a record, four posts in one day!

Here’s the latest bit of news, you can now download the new beta of IE9, Microsoft’s latest version of Internet Explorer.

Fingers crossed for full CSS3 support and that it’s Acid proof.

Download IE9 Beta Here

Theres a cheeky post on Digitalpoint that states by using identi.ca and its sister sites you can automate the re-posting of 100s of links back to your blogs from all over the world.

Aside from generating new links to new blog posts which is all good and well, the post also splits the target sites by country and if you’re into multilingual link dveelopment then this is sure to be a quick win!

Of course, the only ballache is signing up for all of the accounts.

Good Post!

Chris Baggott of StoneTemple.com has put together a fantastic summary of an interview with Googles ‘Mr Spam’, Matt Cutts.

Its a brilliant article and certainly has lots of take-home information that you can use in your SEO.

Check it now!

Welcome to my big ass social bookmarking list. Can I open this content by firstly saying… I NEED YOUR HELP TO VALIDATE THIS INFORMATION. The aim of this page is to get your asisstance in validating the information below, adding the qualifying information for each bookmarking site (PageRank, MozRank, Alexa Rank, Do Follow, Link Type [Anchor Text or Url], Notes, Country of Origin and Niche). This list of open for additions and removals and all information is welcomed. If you plan on requesting an addition, please send all of the qualifying information with your submission and an example of a dofollow link in action i.e. a profile page or post. If you’re interested in helping out simply pick a site, sign up, note down the metrics and email the results to markrush@gmail.com. Any nofollow links can still be useful to help associate your brand with keywords through citation (mentioning your brand name in the pages text) so dont discount these as they are useful. Continue reading →

Heres a quick tip for you, when searching for directories to submit to think about the following:

1. If you sell sofas instead of submitting to shopping>home>lounge consider >shopping>antiques and collectables as chances are theres fewer out bound links from that page i.e. think latterally and source a related folder with fewest outbound links – Googles search suggestion tool will help you identify the appropriate latteral terms.
2. Look at MozRank instead of PageRank as PR is all whack at the moment (how down with the kids am I lol).
3. Take advantage of the description box and max it out as it will increase the pages relevancy to your term (this works even better if you’re submitting multiple micro/feeder sites to the same directory location).
4. Dont spam the title box.
5. Dont bother with Meta information, its not used often.
6. If you can add an article to a category do the same with a good title and looooong description.
7. Try and adapt your link title to match the folder’s name i.e. a category about Furniture has my link with the anchor “Antique Furniture Sofa and Chairs”

Enjoy!