Webmaster Tools

Webmaster Tools as of Wed, Jan 07, 2009.

Choosing Keywords | Keyword Suggestion Tools

Research which Keywords users are typing into the Search Engines.

Search Engine Ranking Tools | Keyword Ranking Tools

Use these Web Tools to Research Search Engine Keyword Rankings

• Search Engine Placement Check - Search Engine Verification Tool. Verify your keyword placement on the Internet's Top Search Engines.
• Keyword Tracking Tool - Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool. Use this web tool to track your keyword rankings over time. You'll need to create a Google Account to use this web tool since it uses Google's Web API service to track Google rankings. Your license code is good for 1,000 automated Google queries per day.
• Google Search API - Write your own program to determine your Google Keyword Search Engine Rankings.
  You'll need to create a Google Account to access the Google Web APIs service.
• Yahoo Search API - Determine your Yahoo Keyword Search Engine Rankings using the Yahoo Search Web Services API.
• MSN Search via RSS Feeds - MSN Search Engine Rankings via RSS. MSN Search provides RSS feeds of search results, so you can follow changes to the top search results on any subject by using your RSS reader. You basically add &format=rss to the MSN Search query URL. See search example below:
  http://search.msn.com:80/results.aspx?q=search+engines&format=rss will return RSS Feeds for the "Search Engines" keyword on MSN Search. Very Cool Web Tool! No License Key Required.

Link Popularity Checkers | Back Links Tools

Check Link Popularity with these free link popularity tools. Improve Link Popularity

• Link Popularity Check - Determine the link popularity of any URL. This aggregate web tool will tell you how many links point to any URL (back links) in each of the major search engines. Helpful in quantifying reciprocal links and one-way links.
• Link Popularity Checker - Determine the number of back links for any given URL. One of the factors used to determine Google Page Rank (PR).
• You can check back links yourself on each search engine using the following syntax. Note the use of link and links for the various search engines. The proper way to query back link numbers is through the search engine's respective API. Search engine API information can be found above under the headline Search Engine Ranking Tools. Also note that Yahoo usually reports the highest number of back links, followed by MSN and then Google. Google usually does not report all of your backlinks.
• Google: link:www.google.com    (3,460,000 Google back links as of 6/13/2005)
• Yahoo: link:http://www.google.com (include http://)    (68,700,000 Google back links as of 6/13/2005)
• MSN Search: linkdomain:www.google.com    (28,846,681 Google back links as of 6/13/2005)

Link Checker

Link checkers will automatically crawl through your website checking for broken links

• Online Link Checker - Free Link Checker for checking links online. The link checker only requests the HEAD of your web page and pauses 1 second between document requests. Obeys robots.txt.

HTML Markup Validation

Check your html code for valid formatting

• HTML Markup Validator - Free HTML Validation Service. Check HTML Code for conformance to W3C.
• CSS Validator - Free CSS Validation Service. Check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for conformance to W3C.

Web Analytics

Effectively analyze your web site traffic

• Web Analytics - A complete list of web analytics solutions and web log file analyzers.

Web Browsers

Free Web Browser Downloads

• Lynx - Free Text Browser for the World Wide Web. Useful browser to view what a Search Engine Bot sees when crawling the web. No style sheets or images are viewable and all text is in the same font size and color. Hidden text and small text IS viewable.
• Internet Explorer - Free download of Internet Explorer 6 and IE updates.
• Java Download - The Internet Explorer installation does not install the Java Virtual Machine. Get the free Java download which includes the Java Virtual Machine.
• Firefox - Firefox - Download the popular Mozilla Firefox Browser.
• Opera Browser - Free Opera Browser Download.
• Safari - Free Opera Browser Download for MAC users.