SEO Advice

Google has a neat tool that allows you to insert keywords and it will provide keyphrases based on the keywords you entered and tell you the competition for these keyphrases in their AdWords program and the amount of search traffic they can garner. The tool is very useful for finding related keyphrases that aren’t very competitive but are worth targeting because they get a significant number of searches.

Here is another neato web tool brought to you by Text Link Ads. This serves two purposes, first of all its an interesting tool that shows how your blog ranks to top blogs in your blog category (or a blog you specify). Secondly, its a great example of link baiting in getting other sites to link to you.

There was a great post on Search Rank’s blog, a Search Engine Marketing firm, that lists some good links to several Keyword Research Tools. Definately worth checking out; its a very comprehensive list.

Overture has two handy tools that can give you an idea of how competive keywords are based on the max bid being paid for them and the amount of searches the keyword receives. The second tool will also give you suggestions for other keywords based on the keyphrase you enter.

Max Bid Tool

Keyword Selector Tool

In my travels, I stumbled across a neat site with a bunch of seo web tools. The site owner apparantly wrote the tools as part of his “diploma thesis”. All of the tools are free to use and at this point do not contain any advertising, popups or anything of a spammy nature. Tool include:

• link value calculator
• domain popularity
• page rank check
• site analysis including link popularity

And a whole lot more. In fact, there are about 15 web tools in all. Definately worth checking out.

Link Vendor Web Site