Posts tagged ‘SEO tools’
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October 9th
9Cool SEO tools roundup
Excerpt: Some of the cool SEO tools I've come across the last few days I just had to share with you: Google Tutor has released a very cool Google Insights bookmarklet: Once installed you should see a bookmark cleverly titled ‘Google Insights Bookmarklet’ on your bookmarks menu. To use the bookmarklet s…
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June 6th
14SEO Link Analysis 1.0.3!
Excerpt: I've been receiving "complaints" from quite a few people the last few weeks that my SEO Link Analysis plugin for Firefox stopped working on Yahoo! Site Explorer. It took some time, (actually it took 20 minutes, but it took some time to find that time) but I've fixed it now, so go download the new ve…
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June 4th
14PageRank Sculpting with nofollow, the final words
Excerpt: Matt just did a huge post with updates to Google's SEO documentation, and mentioned a new page about nofollow. This page features one block of content that is the final word on whether using nofollow for PageRank sculpting is "allowed" or not: Crawl prioritization: Search engine robots can't sign…
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May 4th
14Traffic estimation with Google's traffic estimator
Excerpt: I was reading Aaron's excellent post on the value of a #1 ranking in Google, and decided to do a quick check on one of my most important keywords in the Google traffic estimator, vs. Google Analytics, and I was once again astonished by how incredibly bad the estimator data is when noone is bidding o…
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March 31st
21Cool new Rank Checker by SEObook
Excerpt: Aaron just pinged me that he has this great new Rank Checker available on SEOBook. I haven't tested it yet, but since it's Aaron's, it should be good anyway! Check out the video: …
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March 22nd
67PageRank sculpting - Siloing and more
Excerpt: PR sculpting seems to be "all the rage" at the moment. Tracking the conversation back seems to get me to an article by Dan Thies of september 4th last year, pointing back to an interview with Matt on SEOmoz. It's been a whole load of buzz lately, coming up at SES again a few times too much, and I th…
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February 4th
6Finding crawl issues with Crawl Score
Excerpt: A while ago I got an email from Dan Frost, who found me through DaveN's blog, if I wanted to participate in the beta of Crawl Score. Crawl Score is an online service to detect crawling issues with your site. It crawls your site, and generates sitemaps for for instance Google and Yahoo! while doing t…
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January 22nd
16Find out who's scraping you!
Excerpt: Sometimes you just need to know who is linking to a blog, or even better, your competitor's blog, or who's scraping it, and you'd actually like that data in a format you can use. I thought I'd make a list of the sources you can use to gather link-data from, outside of the "obvious" Yahoo SiteExplore…
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January 20th
27Playing with the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header
Excerpt: Ever since the announcement on the Google Blog and more recently Yahoo's announcement that they've enhanced their support for it, I've been meaning to play with the X-Robots-Tag header. This HTTP header allows you to do what you'd normally do in a robots meta tag, in an HTTP header, which has some p…
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January 11th
14Technorati Ping Bookmarklet
Excerpt: Sometimes I don't want to run my growing set of tools to ping Technorati, but simply want to ping one or a few posts, without having to go to the manual ping form. So I've created a small simple bookmarklet which let's you ping the current page: [code lang="js"] javascript:(function(){var%20r=es…
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January 1st
22Technorati Authority Booster
Excerpt: I was reading a post on Sebastian's Pamphlets about increasing your Technorati Authority, which was based on an another blog post. The idea is simple: compile a list of blogs that link to you, and that aren't indexed by Technorati. Then ping Technorati with all those pages. The first post wanted …
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December 11th
119SEO Link Analysis Firefox Extension
Excerpt: Remember that Greasemonkey script that I recently updated? Well, maybe you should just forget about that... I'd been working on a version of that script which works on Yahoo Site Explorer and MS Webmaster portal too, and now I've gone even one step further: I've bundled the three of them, and turned…
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December 7th
8Personalized search disabling not working?
Excerpt: I always use my own plugin to disable personalized search when searching Google, both in Dutch and in English. Now I was doing one of my fvorite queries: [webdesign nijmegen], and I found my site for AlthA at #1, so I showed it to a friend, and he saw another site at #1, and mine at #2. I logged out…
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November 25th
2Get the number of popular digg posts for a URL
Excerpt: Sometimes, for instance when you're building a domain-info tool, you want to know the number of posts on that site that have made it to the Digg frontpage. After playing a bit, I came up with this pretty easy code: [code language="php"] function FrontpageDiggs($url) { $result['source'] = "http:…
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October 24th
2Big hunkin' list of Mac Tools for SEO's and Webdevelopers
Excerpt: I've been wanting to do this list for quite a while, but I finally put myself to doing it: a big list of all the web development and SEO tools I use on my Mac. It's a page, I'll keep updating it when I find new apps that are worth mentioning there. If you have any applications I've missed or should …
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October 20th
7Good deal on DealDotCom
Excerpt: Today's deal on DealDotCom is actually a very good one: Link Assistant's Rank Tracker for $47 instead of $87. It's quite easy for checking rankings if you don't have a big rank tracking system at your SEO company, and I even know some pretty big companies that use this tool all the time... For $4…
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October 1st
3Two nice bookmarklets
Excerpt: Seth had a nice bookmarklet in a post today, it shows all links on a page. I altered it a bit to make the links clickable, and it works quite nice. So here's a bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){as=document.getElementsByTagName("a");str="<ul>";for(i=0;i<as .length;i++){str+="<li>…
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September 17th
7Nice and cheap internet marketing products?
Excerpt: DealDotCom is creating quite the hype at the moment... They're promoting themselves as the Woot! of internet marketing, or for the Europeans among my readers: the iBood of internet marketing. I'm very curious as to what they have to offer, as this looks quite tempting: If you're involved in Interne…
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September 13th
6Searching for freshly indexed pages
Excerpt: function addOpenSearch(url) { try { window.external.AddSearchProvider(url);} catch (e) {alert("You need to use Internet Explorer (7.0 or later) or Firefox (2.0 or later) to install the OpenSearch plug-in.");}}The post Matt did about better date search inspired me to create OpenSearch plugins which a…
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August 4th
2WordPress version detection
Excerpt: Sometimes you're browsing around and wondering whether a blog is a WordPress or not (at least I am)... So I created a small script that detects that, and show the version of the WordPress as well. A useful tool for all you blackhats out there too perhaps? Go grab the Show WordPress version Greas…
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July 28th
32Why you should not use XML Sitemaps
Excerpt: First of all: I do want you to use Google Webmaster Tools. It's an incredible useful toolbox, so please, please use it. If you're not using it at the moment, check out my post on how to use Google Webmaster Tools. I do think though, that XML Sitemaps (whether it be Google sitemaps or otherwise), a…
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July 13th
5Searching with Google: country based results made easy
Excerpt: Dave Davis dropped me a line to tell about the Google Global Firefox extension they have just released, which allows you to search Google with geo targetting for different countries without having to edit the URL by hand. It's quite useful, I dare say, so check it out!…
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July 9th
7Readable nofollows
Excerpt: I noticed that on Dave's great new layout, his nofollow comment links where unreadable... This was caused by my greasemonkey script setting a pink background but not changing the text color and so forth. I've now changed it to do that, so I can read the name's in the comments. So if you're using thi…
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July 2nd
36Google Search URL parameters cheat sheet
Excerpt: I've been playing around with the URL parameters Google has to offer a lot lately, mostly after the de-personalized search stuff. I've now built a list of these parameters and created a PDF cheat sheet file with all of them in there. Included in this PDF are links to the documentation for the values…
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June 14th
51Google de-Personalized Search for Firefox and IE7
Excerpt: I've done it myself, I've created an OpenSearch plugin which adds &pws=0 to the query and thus shows you the clean results. This plugin easily allows you to search without having personalized searchresults, without logging out of Google. It'll work with Firefox 2+ and IE7. Here it is: Google …
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June 14th
2De-personalising Google Searchresults
Excerpt: James e-mailed me that he has created a bookmarklet which you can click on if you've done a search, and found out that you're still logged in. It will then do the same search again with &pws=0 added to the query, giving the "normal" results, as mentioned on SEL. Thanks James! Now someone else…
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June 7th
2"Plumbing the web" - duplicate content issues at Google Webmaster Central
Excerpt: The girls and boys over at Google Webmaster Central have been busy on the Google Developer Day. Now that's all nice, but when I was searching for something on their blog for "nofollow", I got 4 results: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/come-see-us-at-ses-london-and-hear.html …
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May 24th
7Yahoo SiteExplorer API giving "wrong" results?
Excerpt: I was working on adding a new metric to the domain info tool, being the "deeplink ratio" (the number of links to other pages than the homepage, divided by the links to the homepage * 100), when I found out Yahoo's SiteExplorer API is giving me wrong results. It returns way less links than the SiteEx…
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April 12th
23How to use Google Webmaster Tools
Excerpt: I'm a huge fan of Google Webmaster Tools, and I've written a tool for it which seems quite popular, (and might get an update soon). I've been noticing that people find my site by searching for the search term "how to use Google Webmaster Tools", so I thought I'd post a guide of how I use it on a wee…
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April 11th
7Domain-info works again
Excerpt: I got some e-mails and even a phone call that my domain-info tool wasn't working properly. The reason was that the link: command in the Live search API seems to have been disabled, and my code threw out the complete SOAP error... I've removed that. For now MSN inlinks will return no results, I'll pr…
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March 11th
38Google Webmaster Tools on steroids
Excerpt: I love Google Webmaster Tools, especially when it started showing external links. This link overview left me and quite a lot of other SEO's longing for more though, as we all wanted more info on that page. I have now created a Greasemonkey script to show the PageRank of the page linking to you, and …
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December 6th
7Technorati Greasemonkey script removed
Excerpt: In response to my previous post about unlimited API queries, I was urged by David Sifry, CEO of Technorati, to contact the Technorati developers and work out a way to get my script working through the API. I then contacted the developer team and got a great fast response from Ian Kallen, and we'v…
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December 4th
6Technorati Greasemonkey script
Excerpt: Want to see the Technorati rank and the number of inbound links for a page? I wrote a Greasemonkey script that shows you just that, it does that by opening the search page for the current URL on Technorati and finding those values on it. The first implementation I did used a script on my server, th…
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November 3rd
1Statistics detector part II
Excerpt: A while ago I started writing my Greasemonkey script to detect statistics programs, this script has been evolving since, and now has gotten it's own page, so check out the Greasemonkey statistics detector. If you find any statistics programs it doesn't recognize, please do let me know so I can up…
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October 5th
26Free competitor statistics!
Excerpt: Sometimes, while going through results for certain keywords, you will find that some of your competitors use free statistics programs. In a lot of cases, you can access those statistics, which usually contain very valuable data like keywords and referrers. Sometimes people will hide the usually obli…
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October 4th
2Have a Mint Greasemonkey script
Excerpt: This script has been replaced by a new version, which now has it's own page. I recently (as in, yesterday) bought a Mint license for this site, and am now very enthusiastic about it. Now i've always been using Google Analytics, and since i'm very interested to know what kind of stats package ot…
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October 2nd
0Update to PageRank checking script
Excerpt: The latest PageRank update from Google has not moved over to all datacenters, as Matt Cutts has said, this is because some datacenters still use old data. So i had to fix my PageRank checker and my Domain Info script, i've now given these scripts another set of datacenters to check for PageRank, a s…
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September 25th
1Domain info script
Excerpt: I've spent a lot of time the last weeks on building a domain info script, combining as much data i can gather about a domain as possible. It checks incoming links in Google, Yahoo, MSN and Technorati, and next to that wikipedia links, .edu and .gov links, PageRank, DMOZ and Yahoo directory listing e…
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September 22nd
0Getting Google's last visit date from the Google API
Excerpt: When Vanessa Fox over at the Webmaster Central Blog said they would update the "retrieved on" date even when a page hadn't changed, it suddenly became very cool info. This means you can see when a URL was last spidered, even if you don't have a Sitemaps account for the domain. This triggered me to f…
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September 19th
0Ranking checkers
Excerpt: The API's of Yahoo! and MSN are disclosing more and more of their secrets to me. I have built ranking checkers for Yahoo, MSN and Google now. The last one doesn't work correctly yet because i can't get the filtering to work. If anyone wants a tutorial for any of those API's, let me know, i'll write …
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September 17th
0PageRank checker
Excerpt: I have been enjoying myself in the last few weeks with building SEO tools, based on the different API's for Yahoo, Google, MSN, Technorati and so forth. One of the things coming out of that box is a PageRank checker, it's quite cool, because it can do an image which displays the PR of the page it's …
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August 18th
0Webmaster tools
Excerpt: Once every so often, you find a new site with some nice website tools and tutorials. If you're doing anything related to the web, you need tools, and you probably need web based ones as well, and this site offers some cool ones. A lot of webmasters earn their money using ads, so Google AdSense O…
