SEO TOOLS

Although there isn’t much progress with the search engines ranking (we are still in the sandbox), SEO Tools website ranking on MSN is improved. The below screenshot was taken from Web CEO (another seo tool that I use to monitor my seo actions results)

In one of my previous articles I talked about how to get a one way text link by publishing articles.

Although to publish an article is a free way to get a link to your website, many webmasters are not using this method at all. Most of the webmaster prefers to get a paid link rather to deal with articles. For long time, SEO experts are urging webmasters not to rely on paid links only. Most of the SEO experts are claiming that it is just a matter of time till Google will try to eliminate this phenomenal.

Google is doing the best to deliver a relevant search results to the end user. The paid links gives Google hard time with their algorithm in their effort to calculate the websites ranking. Google encourage webmasters to mark their paid links. On his blog Matt Cutts, a Google’s employee, mentioned that Google is going to be looking at paid links more closely in the future.

What does it mean and how it will infect the websites ranking its hard to say.
No one can tell how Google is going to recognize for sure a paid link in opposed to a legitimate ad. It’s up to you to calculate your SEO actions. My advice is to be on the safe side.

Today I checked if SEO Tools website is been listed on the search engines results pages (SERP). I was happy to find out that the first entry to the SERP was finally made. You will find that MSN search engine (powered by windows live) is the first to include your website in its SERP. It’s very rare that Yahoo will list your website before MSN and almost impossible that Google will be the first due to their sand box effect.

Do not underestimate MSN search engine. Although most of the traffic from search engines you will get from Google, MSN and Yahoo are still a good source for traffic. The fact that MSN search engine usually is the first to include a new website in its SERP, give you a good indicator whether your SEO efforts on the right track. Much better than to wait 6-9 months to get out of Google’s sandbox.

I check on a daily basis the changes in the SERP for all of my websites. You can imagine that I don’t browse each search engine and check my ranking for each keywords phrase. If you are looking for a FREE SEO tool for this task (and many more), download web ceo free of charge. You don’t get a trial version, you get a complete product with few limitations. In spite of the limitations, a beginner SEO guy will find this tool very useful. I believe that an intermediate SEO guy will consider to purchase the full version of web ceo. Its highly recommended that you will try this great tool.

Below you will find a screen shot from my web ceo. As you can see SEO Tools website is now been ranked #121 for “seo tools” keywords. Only 120 positions from the top

One of the most effective things that improve any website ranking is the total number of one way text links it has. Text link, in oppose to banners are “readable” by search engines. Any SEO beginner learn this fact in day one. Text link not only vote for a website, but imply to the search engines about its content. In this article I would like to discuss about the efficiency of articles submission as a way to get a one way text link.

Today you will find many articles directories on the web. Most of them will allow you to post your article free of charge. The idea is simple, you contribute a content in return to a link to your website. Many webmasters are using those articles directories as a source of content. An easy way to enrich their website with refresh content. Its a win win situatuation where both parties are happy. If webmasters likes your writing, you will get more and more free one way text links.

You will find that to write an article can be an easy task if you are familiar with your website topic. Alternatively you can hire a professional writer that will do this job for you. In both ways its worth the effort. Each article will eventually gain your website some one way text links.

Some people are claiming that due to the Google’s duplicate content filter, articles submission is not effective any more. I don’t agree with this argument. However, I wouldn’t recommend to publish on your website the articles that you are submitting on other websites.

You have to make sure to submit articles while keeping the same “density”. Don’t submit ten articles in one day and then rest for thirty days and then submit again mass of articles. In SEO you have to keep things natural as possible. You have to stay below radar otherwise your ranking will be dropped or even your website be banned by the search engines.

There are lots of articles directories on the web. Though it will be wise to start with the most popular, keep submit your articles to any directory that you can find. It can take hours to submit one article to several directories but consider it as a long term investment.

There are some tools in the market that makes the articles submission more easy. I use SEO Elite for this purpose also. Using SEO Elite to submit my articles save lots of time and effort. With SEO Elite you need to enter the article content only once and from that point SEO Elite does most of the work. It simply the submission process and for me its save lots of hours of work.

Few weeks ago, in my previous article (Advanced SEO Analysis - Using “allinanchor” and “allintitle” Google operator), I explained how we can use Google allinanchor & allintitle operators to learn more about our SEO progress and our competitors’ progress.

Let’s check again the results. I will use again SEO Elite to generate the allinanchor report.

Cool !!!! “SEO Tools” website is ranked #25. At this point you will not find “SEO Tools” website in Google SERP. It’s because the Google sandbox effect that I talked about.
I believe it will take some time until “SEO Tools” website will be seen in the SERP. Anyway, it’s nice to see that we are having a progress.