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Effective SEO Tools For Site Owners
By Mike Pham
First of all, I want to insist that this article is aimed at site owners since sometimes site owners and webmasters are different.
Suppose a realtor has a real estate website. But, she is just a newbie on the Internet and she leans on the webmaster (from hosting provider, for example) in her website's SEO campaign. In fact, that webmaster couldn't understand real estate industry deeply like her and he has many other sites to manage. So the SEO campaign wouldn't get the expected result. In most cases, the site owners will play an important role in the success of SEO campaign. However, HTML language, search engines, link popularity, PageRank seem so strange to them at first. Thus, the purpose of this article is providing the amateur site owners with some basic but effective tools and knowledge in Search Engine Optimization. This will help site owners collaborate better with webmasters or SEO firms to boost their websites' position in Search Engines.
1. Search Engines -You are a site owner and you yourself should be familiar with search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN Search to search for your competitors' sites to see how they are promoting themselves in the marketplace, evaluate the keywords, check your sites' link popularity (the number of links to your website from other sites) and link saturation (number of pages on your sites have been indexed by search engine). These search engine syntaxes aren't academic as you've imagined and you don't need to care about the complicated algorithms behind them. For example, to check whether your sites are indexed, just type site:your_site_domain in search engines. Remember that your_site_url and your_site_domain are not the same. Site domain does not include http:// while site URL must have (ex: http://your_site_domain/your_page.htm is a URL of your site).
Suppose the SEO firm, in their optimization report, would ask the site owners to exchange links with other relevant sites to improve the link popularity. The problem is: where can I find the other sites? Don't worry, search engines can assist you. Site owners can learn from their competitors about which sites they've exchanged links with by checking their link popularity.
In short, if you want search engines to help carry in business, you should make friends with them first. Search engines are always useful friends (although not easy to control!).
2. HTML basic syntax and HTML editor - Site owners don't have to master HTML language to re-design their pages. That is not their job. But basic syntaxes are always necessary.
For example, they should know to locate where the block in an html page is to insert new auto-generated Meta-tags. I've mentioned auto-generated Meta-tags because site owners don't need to code the Meta-tags either. With "Meta-tags Generator" keyword, they can find that on search engines thousands of websites are welcoming them to use their tool. Besides, the html link syntax is also worthy to remember: Look at this simple code your descriptive text which you send to other site owners for link exchange. Your website has many pages for exchanging links so it's significant to understand this link code to change your_site_url_1 to other pages and your descriptive text respectively. In addition, with the knowledge of html syntax, you can open your web pages and add the links on your own and stop calling your webmasters all the time for modifying pages with links. Today, html editors such as FrontPage, DreamWeaver can highly simplify this task in the similar way as you are working in MS Word. Just select the position in Design view (in FrontPage) and paste the link code in the Code view at the cursor.
3. Google toolbar - Google Toolbar is a useful tool for web surfers and even more useful to site owners to check PageRank. PageRank is a Google's grade (from 0 to 10) to measure the page's popularity on the net. With high pageranks, they don't guarantee a high position in Google's search results but they can tell us many things. PageRank encourages site owners in the long process of SEO. The little green color on this bar looks like fruits in the tree of our efforts and we are motivated to dig more in SEO. In addition, PageRank helps site owners to find appropriate sites to exchange links with. Search for the sites with the same level (pagerank) to foresee the success of your link exchange requests. To install Google toolbar to your browsers (Internet Explorer or Firefox), just start by typing Google toolbar in search engines and follow the first result.
In this article, I've provided the site owners with some basic but effective tools to come along their SEO campaigns. They include but not limit to search engines, HTML editor, and Google toolbar. Besides, there are others such as FTP tool, Google sitemap, Link Directory software... The important thing to amateur site owners is forgetting your main career and get your hands wet with these tools. Webmaster and SEO firm cannot do everything for you. Learning SEO tools today will never be too late and wasted.
About the Author
Article by Mike Pham of TopTrafficWholesaler.com. We are an Internet marketing services and search engine submission company offering search engine marketing and internet advertising SEO services.
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