Five Apps: Increase your website traffic with SEO tools
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Five SEO tools that will increase visitors to your website
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Whetherrnyou are creating a personal blog or a large scale portal site, Search EnginernOptimization (SEO) is essential to getting visitors to your site. Although itrnis possible to perform SEO manually, the process is often made easier throughrnthe use of SEO tools. Recently I launched two new non-technology related blogsrn(www.poker-run-boats.com and www.howicruise.com). As such, I have beenrnspending a lot of time lately evaluating various SEO tools. While I don’t claimrnto have looked at all of the available tools yet, here are five tools that Irnhave recently checked out.
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1. Web CEO SEO Suite
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WebrnCEO SEO Suite a relatively high end SEO tool. The product is based aroundrnan entire collection of individual tools.
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Like most of the products on the market, Web CEO SEO canrnanalyze your search engine rankings and your keyword usage, but it can do farrnmore. For instance, there are tools for helping you to find link partners orrnmanage pay per click campaigns.
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Perhaps the best thing about Web CEO SEO Suite is thernProject Manager. The Project Manager allows you to create a separate “project”rnfor each Web site. I’ve worked with some SEO tools that are only valid for arnsingle site, or that make you start over each time you launch the tool. ThernProject Manager lets you keep track of the work that you have done on each ofrnyour sites.
rnrnWeb CEO SEO Suite sells forrn$499, but a free 30-day trial is available for download.
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2. Traffic Travis
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TrafficrnTravis is a free tool for analyzing and optimizing your Web site. When yournfirst install Traffic Travis, you have to create an account and validate yourrnE-mail address. After doing so however, you can begin entering the details ofrnyour site.
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One of the nice things about this tool is that it shows yournany existing warnings for the pages that make up your site. Doing so can helprnyou to ensure that your page is set up in a way that the search engines arernexpecting.
rnrnAnother cool thing thatrnthis tool does is keyword analysis. You can examine not only your own keywordrnrankings, but also those of your competitors.
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3. All in One Submission Tool
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Allrnin One Submission Tool is another search engine optimization tool. Thisrntool is geared heavily toward helping you to submit your site to the variousrnsearch engines.
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One of the cool things about this tool is that it minimizesrnthe amount of data that you have to manually enter into the tool. Much of thernrequired information can be extracted from your Web site (assuming that itrnexists).
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Once a site has been submitted, you can use the variousrnanalysis and ranking tools to try to improve your search engine rankings.
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The only real down side to this tool is that not all of thernfeatures are available in all versions. For example, the tool can automaticallyrnbuild a Google site map, but the site map feature is only available in thernenterprise and platinum versions of the tool.
rnrnAll in One Submission Toolrnsells for $69.90, but a free trial version is available for download.
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4. SEO Administrator
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SEOrnAdministrator is an SEO tool that seems to have all of the basics covered.rnIn addition to being able to monitor your rankings and check link popularity,rnthe utility also features tools for keyword suggestions, HTML analysis, andrnsite analysis.
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All in all, this tool seems to work really well with thernexception of the HTML Analyzing Tool. For whatever reason, I could not get thatrnparticular feature to work.
rnrnSEO Administrator sells forrn$49.00, but a free trial version is available for download.
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5. Ignite SEO
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IgniternSEO is a tool for helping you to optimize your site’s search enginernrankings. Like most of the other SEO tools, this tool can perform a full blownrnanalysis of your site. However, one feature that was somewhat unique was arnsearch engine simulator. The tool is able to crawl you site as a search enginernwould and show you what a search engine would see.
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The tool also contains another feature that could prove tornbe extremely beneficial. It features a training section that teaches you how tornuse the tool. All too often the various SEO tools assume that you already knowrnhow SEO works.
rnrnIgnite SEO sells forrn$199.00, but a free 14 day-trial version is available for download.
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