Website, Server & Domain SEO Tools
There are literally hundreds of considerations to keep in mind when optimising for search engines. The following tools help you to understand the way in which the search engines view your website, what they pick up about you from your server, the importance of your domain and much more.
Search Engine Spam Detector
What does this tool do? This tool analyzes a web page, searching for characteristics that search engines could consider spam. If you don’t know what “search engine spamming” means or if you want to know how this tool works, you can read the Spam detector FAQ.
What type of tricks does it find? The tool tries to detect three main methods: keyword stuffing, doorway farms and hidden text. Any trick based on Javascript or on CSS positioning/layering will not be detected (for now). Search engine spam detection is very difficult to accomplish and this tool can’t recognize all the existing tricks/methods; it isn’t perfect and it sometimes fails.
Why was this tool created? To persuade webmasters and SEO to think: If somebody has been able to create a simple tool capable of intercepting some techniques of spam, imagine what a team of engineers, working for a search engine, could do!
http://tool.motoricerca.info/spam-detector/
Domize
Find domain names quickly
Check Server Headers
Check server headers and verify HTTP status codes. There are seven HTTP status codes that we are primarily interested in from an indexing and search engine marketing perspective. It is recommended that you verify your URIs are returning the proper Status-Code in the Server Header.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/check-server-headers/
Search Engine Spider Simulator
A lot of Content and Links displayed on a webpage may not actually be visible to the Search Engines, eg. Flash based content, content generated through javascript, content displayed as images etc. This tool Simulates a Search Engine by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it. It also displays the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) by a Search Engine when it visits the particular webpage.
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php
Psychic Who Is
Domain name suggestions based on your previous searches and related terms.
Class C Checker
The Class C Checker tool allows you to check whether some sites are hosted on the same Class C IP Range.
You might want to use the Class C Checker if you own several cross-linked sites. If you do, it may be more efficient (for SEO purposes) to host them on different Class C IP ranges.
Additionally, if you are going to get new links from different sites, you may want to see whether they share the same Class C IP range. Again, this could make a difference for SEO purposes.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/class-c-checker/
Search Engine Optimization Analysis Tool
This SEO Analysis Tool is to help you analyze and measure the ranking potential of your web pages. It doesn’t only analyze the Meta Tags of your pages, rather it tries to use the same spider technology as the search engines spiders them self.
http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer.html
Search Engine Genie Rank Checker
The Google Position Checker tool that we have developed will automatically query Google’s search engines. It checks if your URL appears in the first 1000 results for your chosen keywords. If the URL is present, it will output what position it occupies.
http://www.searchenginegenie.com/google-rank-checker.html
Domain Age for SEO
A website’s age is one of the major factors used to rank it in the search engines. Use this tool to find the age of any domain, including your competitors’ or ones you might want to purchase. Older domains may get a slight edge in search engine rankings.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/domain-age/
Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker
A lot of us lose out on valuable search engine traffic due to incorrectly configuring our redirects. It is very import that when a search engine comes to crawl your website it is able to follow any redirects you have set up.
Suppose you have a website http://www.foo.com and you create a redirect such that whenever any visitor types in the URL http://www.foo.com he is automatically redirected to http://www.foo.com/widgets/, If the Search Engine is not able to follow the redirect it would think that http://www.foo.com has NO contents, http://www.foo.com would end up ranking very badly in search engines.
This tools help you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly.
http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php
Page Size Extractor
Page Size Extractor is a tool for checking the overall size of a webpage, including content and images. Want to check exactly how large your site is? And what is contained within it? Enter in the URL and go for it!
http://www.prioritysubmit.com/seotools-page-size-extractor.html
Alexa
Learn about the top sites on the Internet as determined by Alexa
Future Page Rank PR
This tool will query Google’s various data centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a given URL. Usually all data centers will output the same, but if queried during an update, you might get a glimpse of any upcoming changes in your chosen URL’s PageRank value.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/future-pagerank/
Check Yahoo Web Rank
Find out the Yahoo WebRank of your and your competitors websites.
Yahoo WebRank is basically a rank assigned to a URL by Yahoo on a scale of 0-10. It was introduced a couple of months ago as a Beta feature of the Yahoo toolbar, since it was an experimental feature it is no longer available as a part of their toolbar.
You can just search for “Yahoo WebRank” in your favorite SearchEngine to know more about it.
This tool help you evaluate the importance of a URL as perceived by Yahoo.
http://www.webconfs.com/check-yahoo-webrank.php
Bust A Name
There are still good domain names available, find them with this domain tool
Web Page Analyzer
Free web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/index.html
Indexed Pages
This tool will query all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista, and AlltheWeb) when you enter the “site:” operator with your chosen URL. It will return the total link count for each URL.
You will notice that the totals vary greatly from search engine to search engine; this is because the figures shown represent the number of links that are crawled by that search engine (which will vary based on the size of their database).
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/indexed-pages/
Compete
Track your competitors.
Fuzz Find
Searching the web couldn’t be easier! Get the most relevant results through this web search engine mashup that combines the power of the major search engines and social bookmarking sites.
http://www.fuzzfind.com/search.html
Domain Stats Tool
This tool helps you get all kind of statistics of your competitor’s domains. The statistics include Alexa Taffic Rank, Age of the domains, Yahoo WebRank, Dmoz listings, count of backlinks and number of pages indexed in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN etc.
It will probably help you figure out why some of your competitors are ranking better than you.
http://www.webconfs.com/domain-stats.php
Domains Bot
Dynamically checks the availability of domain names for 6 TLDs: .com, .org, .net, .info, .biz, .us.
Page Rank Look Up
You can check the PageRank for a website by using the Google Toolbar (represented by a horizontal blue and grey bar). This tool streamlines the process. Enter a list of URLs and it will return the PageRank value for each one.
About PageRank Google PageRank is a general representation of a website’s popularity; it is primarily based on link popularity. Websites with a high PageRank value will tend to have more traffic and higher positions in search engines (although many other factors are also taken into consideration).
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-lookup/
Instant Domain Search
Dynamically and really fast checks the availability of domain names for 3 TLDs: .com, .org, .net.
http://instantdomainsearch.com/
Domain Age Tool
This tools displays the approximate age of a website on the Internet and allows you to view how the website looked when it first started.
It also helps you find out the age of your competitor’s domains, older domains may get a slight edge in Search Engine Rankings. This tools has been build using Archive’s Wayback Machine.
http://www.webconfs.com/domain-age.php
Domain Tools
Whois lookup and Domain name search.
http://whois.domaintools.com/
SEO Browser
See your website like a search engine sees it.
http://seobrowser.com/index.php?address=www.3q.co.za&action=Parse+URL
Url Re-Writing Tool
Static URLs are known to be better than Dynamic URLs because of a number of reasons.
- Static URLs typically Rank better in Search Engines.
- Search Engines are known to index the content of dynamic pages a lot slower compared to static pages.
- Static URLs are always friendlier looking to the End Users.
Example of a dynamic URL: http://www.widgets.com/product.php?categoryid=1&productid=10
This tool helps you convert dynamic URLs into static looking html URLs.
Example of the above dynamic URL Re-written using this tool http://www.widgets.com/product-categoryid-1-productid-10.htm
http://www.webconfs.com/url-rewriting-tool.php
Page Size Finder
The concept of “page size” is defined as the sum of the file sizes for all the elements that make up a page, including the defining HTML file as well as all embedded objects (e.g., image files with GIF and JPG pictures). It is possible to get away with page designs that have larger page sizes as long as the HTML file is small and is coded to reduce the browser’s rendering time.
This tool will help to determine HTML web page size.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/page-size/
Google Trends
Learn about the trends on the web.
Quantcast
Real audience data.
Robots.txt Generator
Use this tool to generate a simple robots.txt file for your website. This file allows you to hide files or directories that you don’t wish the search engine spiders to find. This generator tool is designed to create the text for the file for you; you can then make changes afterward should you deem it necessary. Generating a robot file with this tool is ideal if you wish to block certain directories or files from search engines.
To use the generator tool, enter the required information below and click the button. You will then be shown the text for the file. Copy this to a file called robots.txt and place on the root of your website (in the same place as your home page).
Imposing Restrictions
You may impose restrictions on which web pages to disallow indexing. By default, most users will want to allow all directories except their /cgi-bin/ directory, which commonly holds scripts, and their images directory /images/. To enable all web pages, select Yes to “Enable All Webpages,” then enter each web page or directory path in the exclusion box, one per line.
Example: “http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/” (Excludes the /cgi-bin/ directory)
Example: “http://www.yourdomain.com/images/” (Excludes the /images/ directory)
Example: “http://www.yourdomain.com/welcome.html” (Excludes the /welcome.html web page)
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/robots-generator/
AW Stats
AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
Website To Country Tool
Many people wonder why their websites dont rank well in Country specific Search Engines, most of the Search Engines (including Google) determines country of the website based on the physical location of the website’s IP Address. You would probably rank well in a Country Specific Search Engine if your website is hosted in the same country.
This tools helps determine the Country in which the specified website is hosted.
http://www.webconfs.com/website-to-country.php
Zeitgeist
Search patterns, trends and surprises.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist.html
Top Search Terms on ZDNET.
http://downloads.zdnet.com/topsearch.aspx
Domain Name Soup
The domain name wizard will give you lots of options to search for available domain names. If you are after a domain name that is taken, you should not give up. People often think that all the good domain names are taken, that others have search through all the available domains and chosen the best, but there is no such thing as a list of all available domain names as domains are just constructed of combinations of letters. There are 308,915,776 combinations of six letter domains and 8,031,810,176 combinations of seven letter domains and that’s not including using numbers or hyphens. The domain name wizard will help you to come up with ideas for yours.
Once you’ve entered your phrases and submitted it, this will show example results from each of the pages. Click on one of the pages to view those results.
http://www.domainnamesoup.com/domain-name-wizard.php
Graphical Search Engine Comparison
The Graphical Search Engine Comparison Tool allows you to perform your own comparisons, and displays the results visually, making it easy to see both the rankings and comparative positions of pages in search engine results. URLs are represented by small circles, and these circles are connected by a line if the page appears in both engines you’re testing. Mouse over a circle and the full URL of the page is displayed. Click on it to open the URL in a new browser window.
The ranking tool fetches the top results for a query from search engines. You can compare the same search term on two engines, or two unique search phrases on the same engine to see which ranks better. You can also enter a specific website, to see if and where the site appears within in the top search queries.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/graphical-search-engine-comparison/