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 occasionally
site owners and webmasters are not the same.
Suppose a realtor owns a real estate website. But, she is just a newbie
on the Internet and she depends on the webmaster (e.g.from hosting
provider) 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 part in the achievement of SEO campaign. However, HTML
language, search engines, link popularity, Page Rank seem so unfamiliar
with them at first.
Therefore,
the goal of this article is providing the novice site owners with
some basic but efficient tools and knowledge in Search Engine Optimisation.
This will assist site owners in cooperating better with webmasters
or SEO agencies to increase their web sites' ranking in Search Engines.
1.
Search Engines
-You
are a site owner and you yourself should get familiar with search
engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN Search to search for your competitors'
sites to see how they are positioning themselves in the marketplace,
analyse 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 theoretical as you've thought and you
don't need to pay attention to the complex algorithms behind them.
For instance, 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 identical. Site domain does not contain http://
while site URL must have (ex: http://your_site_domain/your_page.htm
is a URL of your website).
Assume
the SEO firm, in their optimisation report, would ask the site owners
to exchange links with other relevant websites to improve the link
popularity. The problem is: where can I find the other sites? Don't
be concerned, search engines can help you. Site owners can learn from
their competitors about which websites they've exchanged links with
by checking their link popularity.
In short,
if you want search engines to help bring in business, you should become
friendly with them first. Search engines are always beneficial friends
(despite the fact that they are not easy to control!).
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2.
HTML basic syntax and HTML editor
- Site
owners are not obligated to master HTML language to re-design their
pages. That is not their task. But basic syntaxes are always needed.
For example, they should know to locate where the block in an html
page is to add 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 worthwhile 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 is important to
know 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 insert the links at your
own and stop calling webmasters regularly for editing pages with links.
Nowadays,
html editors such as FrontPage, DreamWeaver can highly simplify this
task in the similar way as you are working with MS Word. Just choose
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 valuable tool for web surfers and even more useful to
site owners to check Page Rank. Page Rank is a Google's grade (from
0 to 10) to analyse the quality and quantity of links that point to
a page. With high page ranks, they don't ensure a high position in
Google's search results but they can tell us many things. Page Rank
inspires site owners in the long routine of SEO.
The little
green colour on this bar resembles fruits in the tree of our efforts
and we are motivated to dig more in SEO. On top of that, Page Rank
helps site owners to find appropriate sites to exchange links with.
Seek for the sites with the same level (page rank) 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 have provided the site owners with some basic but efficient
tools to come along their SEO campaigns. They include, but not limit
to, search engines, HTML editor and Google toolbar. In addition, there
exists others such as FTP tool, Google sitemap, Link Directory software,
etc... The important thing to novice site owners is leaving behind
your main profession and get your hands wet with these tools. Webmaster
and SEO firm can't do everything for you. Learning SEO tools today
will never be too late and squandered.
Article Source: Mike Pham of TopTrafficWholesaler.com.
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