If you thought that just putting your website on the internet and your rank and traffic will increase think again. The internet is forever changing, you must keep track of not only your results but those of your rivals as well. Here i have listed some very useful tools to help you:
1. Find Broken Links
This tool will let you check your website and your rivals if you wish for broken URL`s:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
2. Backlink + Pr Checker
This tool will show you all your backlinks and the pagerank of the page your link is on:
http://www.smartpagerank.com/pagerank-backlinks.php
3.Wheres Your Hosting Physically Located
Search engines such as Google can filter searches based on the physical location this know as geotargeting. So it can be vital to know where your hosts servers are actually physically located. This could determine if your website is showing in only certain countries. This tool can determine the location of your rivals
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/website-country
4. Where Do Your Customers Come From
This tool will show you the exact location of your websites visitors:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/
5. Checking Pagerank On a Mac
This tool enables you to check the rank of a website using a Mac:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/pagerank-mac
6.Website Counters
Here is a few free tools to track your websites hits:
http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://www.amazingcounters.com
http://www.free-counters.net/
7.Meta Tag Analyzer
SeoCentro designed this Meta Tag analysis tool to help webmasters analyze their web pages. This search engine optimization tool analyze not only the Meta Tags but try to use the same spider technology as the search engines spiders them self.
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html
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#1 by Nick - road2blogging on January 8th, 2008
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great post, particular liked the pagerank backlink checker – dugg
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#2 by Pace on January 12th, 2008
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Nice lists. I am already using some of the tools and they have really helpful. Will try out the others also
#3 by Don on February 19th, 2008
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I think out of those about 3 can be done by google. i.e. a conjuncture with webmaster and analytics can do about 5 out of those 7 (that i know of …it cant to PR on mac or meta tag analyzer)
Good list though i will compare to the ‘google suite’ and see how they rank