Toolbox

Some of Our Favorite Tools: Favorite Tools

Tools to Find Links: Getting links from powerful websites will help you in search results, but remember to aim for quality not quantity:

How to find Juicy Links – SEOMoz offers a “Juicy Link Finder” tool that will recommend sites for phrases that you want to rank for.

How to Determine the Strength and Quality of a Website – LinkVoodoo has a quality score calculator that will help you determine whether or not  a site is work links from, and more important a offers a good indicator of a website’s online presence.

Yahoo Site Explorer shows all the links that point to your website… or your competitors.

How to Assess the Strength of Your Incoming Links – Link Diagnosis gives an in-depth analysis of links pointed at your website including anchor text of the link and the estimated strength of the link

Tools to Find Stolen Materials: You have worked hard to find photography that shows off your area and write keyword rich content, do you know if someone has taken it and is using it on their website? Not only is this poor form, but it can possible effect your search rankings. Use these tools to find stolen or duplicate content and photos:

How to Find Stolen Images or Image Duplication – TinEye

How to Track Duplicate Content or Stolen Content – Copyscape

How to Watermark Your Images – Picmarkr

Tools to Track Your Competitors: It’s a no brainer that you want to know what your competition is up to, and chances are they are keeping an eye on you as well. See how your competitors are rankings by using these tools:

How to Track Your Competitors in Search Engines – SEMRush

Get notification about new mentions, found in Google, for both your website and your competitors – Google Alerts

Tools for Keyword Research: If you don’t know what phrases your customers are using to find your product, how do you know what to words optimize your site for? Keyword research is the basis of search marketing; by using multiple tools you will be able to make smart decisions for a strategic search marketing plan:

How to Research Regional and Season Keyword Phrase Trends – Google Insights to Search

How to Check Your Search Rankings – ExactFactor

Keyword Research Tool – MSN AdCenter Labs Keyword Forecast Tool

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

Keyword Research Tool -  SEMRush

Keyword Discovery Tool – Trellian

Keyword Research Tool – MSN Demographic Tool

Tools for Website Design: Developing and designing a website takes planning, testing, and then retesting until you get it right. Use these tools create a user friendly website design that will convert: 

How to Visualize Visitor Behavior – CrazyEgg

Top-Notch Visitor Behavior Visualizer – Clicktale this even creates videos of users moving through your website. Very compelling!

Create Better Color Schemes for Your Website – Kuler by Adobe

ClickTale – Video of Visitors and Click Heatmaps

Tools for Making and Distributing Videos:

How to Distribute Online Videos Easily – Tubemogul

Quick and Easy Videos for Your Website – Windows Movie Maker and Slideroll

Tools for Analyzing Your Website

Find Broken Links on Your Website – Xenu

Create Sitemaps and Organize your SEO Elements – GSiteCrawler

Tools for Fun:

It is well known that the power of TripAdvisor and reviews is huge, but did you know that there is a widget that will help hoteliers manage and optimize their information? There is – and you can learn about it here: TripAdvisor Review Widgets for Your Hotel Website

What can’t Google do? Google Voice offers a unique Google number which will ring to whichever phone you choose – your home, your office, your cell, or all at once! There are thousands of hundreds features and benefits, find more here: How to Get a Personal Phone Number and a Powerful Control Panel from Google

Word Clouds are just fun. Use this tool to create your own word could from your website or a site with a RSS feed: How to Create Word Clouds – Wordle