While not necessarily a specific SEO/SEM or Web marketing tool, a very vital part about a Web site is that it is viewable within many browsers. Below is a link to view your site in over 70 browsers across many platforms - Linux, Windows, Mac OS and BSD (many versions of the browsers listed below are available to view in multiple platforms - that is how they come up with over 70 browser views).
Browsers/Version(s)
- Firefox (1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0)
- Internet Explorer (4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0)
- Dillo (0.8)
- Epiphany (2.14, 2.20, 2.22)
- Flock (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0)
- Galeon (1.3, 2.0)
- Iceape (1.0, 1.1)
- Iceweasel (2.0, 3.0)
- Kazehakase (0.2, 0.4, 0.5)
- Konqueror (3.5)
- Minefield (3.0, 3.1)
- Mozilla (1.7)
- Navigator (9.0)
- Opera (9.23, 9.24, 9.25, 9.26, 9.27, 9.50, 9.51)
- SeaMonkey (1.1, 2.0)
- K-Meleon (1.1)
- Safari (1.3, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0)
- Camino (1.6)
The Site is called, simple enough - Browsershots. To visit Browsershots click here - Test Your Site in Over 70 Browsers Now.
Please note that since this is a free service it may be a bit slow and require that you sit in a queue for a few minutes and then only hold your browser screenshots for a limited amount of time as to conserve resources and allow all users an opportunity to use this free service.
Thursday, 3 July 2008
New SEO Tool - Search Radar
I was checking out new search engines and stumbled upon, Search Radar. It is a unique engine that can help with SEO by showing word clouds (they call them tag clouds) and list views around your search results. Search Radar describes itself like this:
Search Radar is a unique tool to assist you in your web searches. A typical search will return thousands of matching pages in the search results. Locating the right page that matches your query intent is a hit-or-miss process of figuring out the magic combination of keywords. Search Radar assists you in this process by providing you with a list of relevant keywords and phrases for your search query that you can use to refine your query. In addition to the list of relevant queries, Search Radar also provides you an excerpt that helps you know more about how the suggested phrase is related to your original query.
Take it for a spin and see what you think - Search Radar
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Discount on Best of the Web (BOTW) Listings
One of my favorite directories is running a July promotional offer that offers 20% of their standard pricing. This is probably one of the best directories to submit to for direct traffic and SEO efforts. While it tends to be more expensive than most, you get what you pay for. The July offer information is listed below (BOTW marketing message):
- CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED -
To coincide with the summer heat, we’d like to offer a deal that’s just as hot. Our valued customers certainly deserve the opportunity to save big from time to time. So from now until July 31st, you can SAVE 20% on All NEW Submissions and Sponsorship Advertising in the Best of the Web Directory and BOTW Blog Directory.
During the sign up process, when prompted, enter the following promo code and instantly save!
Promo Code: FIREWERX
Get Started today and Save 20% on:
* Directory Submissions - Discount on both the annually recurring and/or the one-time review fee.
* Blog Directory Submissions - Save on the one-time review fee for blogs.
* Monthly Sponsorship Ads - Save on the monthly rate for all new sponsorship ads.
* Blog Advertising - Discount on all new sponsorship ads in the Blog Directory.
The promo code may be used multiple times for multiple products and services throughout the month of July. Remember to act now – this amazing deal ends July 31st, 2008, so be sure to take full advantage!
And just in time for your summer planning, we are pleased to announce the recent launch of BOTW Local. BOTW Local provides users with information on businesses in their community - where they are looking for local solutions. Sign up today for your FREE Business Profile page, and get your business in front of the growing local marketplace.
Cheers!
Best of the Web
- CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED -
- CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED -
To coincide with the summer heat, we’d like to offer a deal that’s just as hot. Our valued customers certainly deserve the opportunity to save big from time to time. So from now until July 31st, you can SAVE 20% on All NEW Submissions and Sponsorship Advertising in the Best of the Web Directory and BOTW Blog Directory.
During the sign up process, when prompted, enter the following promo code and instantly save!
Promo Code: FIREWERX
Get Started today and Save 20% on:
* Directory Submissions - Discount on both the annually recurring and/or the one-time review fee.
* Blog Directory Submissions - Save on the one-time review fee for blogs.
* Monthly Sponsorship Ads - Save on the monthly rate for all new sponsorship ads.
* Blog Advertising - Discount on all new sponsorship ads in the Blog Directory.
The promo code may be used multiple times for multiple products and services throughout the month of July. Remember to act now – this amazing deal ends July 31st, 2008, so be sure to take full advantage!
And just in time for your summer planning, we are pleased to announce the recent launch of BOTW Local. BOTW Local provides users with information on businesses in their community - where they are looking for local solutions. Sign up today for your FREE Business Profile page, and get your business in front of the growing local marketplace.
Cheers!
Best of the Web
- CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED -
Sunday, 29 June 2008
15 Top SEO Websites
Recently (June 2008) eBizMBA created a list of the 15 Largest Search Engine Optimization Websites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. With this disclaimer - although no traffic metrics are completely accurate we do believe the data below to be useful for gauging relative audience size.
Even if it is not completely accurate it is fun to review. You can check it out for yourself at - 15 Top SEO Websites
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Link Popularity and Ask.com
It is always hard to find a tool that can check your backlinks in Ask.com accurately. To many this is really not that important, but to some you may find this interesting. I was checking a link popularity tool on Add Me and noticed that it now includes Ask.com (in addition to Google, Yahoo!, AltaVista, AllTheWeb) and it is ACCURATE! Check it out here.
Analyze Your Backlinks for FREE!
Backlinks are very important to your search engine optimization efforts. Many people assume a link, is a link, is a link, but that thought process is completely untrue. All backlinks have different values. For instance you may get a backlink from a site that has a Google PageRank (PR) of 8, thousands of backlinks, great tags (title, meta, etc.) - essentially what would appear to be the perfect backlink (assuming your site the the backlink site have content that is relevant to each other) - compared to a site that has say a Google PR of 3, hundreds of backlinks and just okay tags. The knee jerk reaction is that the first backlink is better, but in reality the second may actually be better because of many reasons. If the first backlink is on a page that has many outbound links, which all have to share the 'link juice' then the actual value of the backlink is greatly diminished. Also, the 'anchor text' (the text used in the backlink to your site) may not be keyword rich. So, on the first backlink your anchor text may be "click here to learn more" and in the seond backlink it may be something like this, "xyz company that provides xyz service". In the second backlink the 'anchor text' may contain important keywords with which you want to rank for and by having them in the 'anchor text' greatly increases the value of that backlink regardless of the PR value. This can all get confusing fast, so below is a list of free backlink tools to help you sort through the value of your backlinks and hopefully help you build a better roadmap for your SEO efforts.
Analyze Backlinks - good tool that lets you see all backlinks (appears to be up to the top 1,000), anchor text, total links, outbound links and the title of the page - all great for better insight.
SmartPageRank | Backlink Checker - great tool that lets you see all backlinks, anchor text, PageRank (PR) and best of all nofollow (this is essential to see if the link is passing any 'link juice').
Link Diagnosis (requires FireFox with a plugin) - great tool with incredible visuals (when it works properly, sometimes you may have to re-run your reports to get them to work). This tools is by far the most advanced including a unique 'strength' number. Here is a sample of one of the reports this tool can create - click here.
Backlink Watch - Good tool with a lot of potential, but way too much advertising! Lets you see backlinks, PR, outbound links and anchor text.
iWebTool | Backlink Checker - very basic offering from a site that offers some incredible tools. Limited results and information, possibly use as a secondary source of data.
Domain-Pop | Free Backlink Checker - great tool that offers all the basics, but also allows you to analyze (and sort by) IP addresses which is also very helpful as it can identify different sites that are bunched up on a single IP (not as much value in their backlinks).
Domain Inbound Links Checker - basic level tool with minimal amount of data available, but one stand out is that the backlinks can be sorted by extension (.edu, .gov., .mil).
UPDATE!!!! (6/19/08)
I think I just found one of the best and most accurate online backlink analyzers ever! It is located here - SEOPRO - Backlink Checker
Analyze Backlinks - good tool that lets you see all backlinks (appears to be up to the top 1,000), anchor text, total links, outbound links and the title of the page - all great for better insight.
SmartPageRank | Backlink Checker - great tool that lets you see all backlinks, anchor text, PageRank (PR) and best of all nofollow (this is essential to see if the link is passing any 'link juice').
Link Diagnosis (requires FireFox with a plugin) - great tool with incredible visuals (when it works properly, sometimes you may have to re-run your reports to get them to work). This tools is by far the most advanced including a unique 'strength' number. Here is a sample of one of the reports this tool can create - click here.
Backlink Watch - Good tool with a lot of potential, but way too much advertising! Lets you see backlinks, PR, outbound links and anchor text.
iWebTool | Backlink Checker - very basic offering from a site that offers some incredible tools. Limited results and information, possibly use as a secondary source of data.
Domain-Pop | Free Backlink Checker - great tool that offers all the basics, but also allows you to analyze (and sort by) IP addresses which is also very helpful as it can identify different sites that are bunched up on a single IP (not as much value in their backlinks).
Domain Inbound Links Checker - basic level tool with minimal amount of data available, but one stand out is that the backlinks can be sorted by extension (.edu, .gov., .mil).
UPDATE!!!! (6/19/08)
I think I just found one of the best and most accurate online backlink analyzers ever! It is located here - SEOPRO - Backlink Checker
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Free Broken Link/Dead Link Web-Based Checker
Found a nice web-based free dead link/broken link checker that I thought I might share. I tested it with multiple sites and it appears to work rather well (a little slow). It also is great at identifying many codes such as:
- 404 Not Found
- 301 Permanent Redirects (SEO friendly)
- 302 Redirects
- Dead Links
etc., etc. etc.
It can be found here - Broken link checker
- 404 Not Found
- 301 Permanent Redirects (SEO friendly)
- 302 Redirects
- Dead Links
etc., etc. etc.
It can be found here - Broken link checker
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