A “lil” intro…
As you might have already noticed, about 10 days ago Site Explorer, the free tool by Yahoo, was no longer available. I, personally, don’t considered this to be a huge loss for us, people who work on site optimization. 
Although (please note), I don’t say that it was totally useless. Any additional information that we can get about our sites or our competition helps. However, considering that this tool had not been in active development for quite some time, I doubt that it reflected much of what has been recently happening with Yahoo. Therefore it is hard to say how valid the data that we were getting from it was. Continue Reading »
We have recently spotted a new interesting and very effective tool for checking one’s site’s usability. This tool, called UserFly, is located at http://userfly.com and can be used free of charge by anybody, who registers and inserts a special JS script into site templates or directly into page code.
UserFly will record every action performed by a visitor at one’s site and will organize them by visitor sessions. Then one can play back and see everything a given visitor did with his mouse or keyboard, just as if the tester was standing behind the visitor’s back. The importance of initial and recurring Continue Reading »
Pageboss.com has rolled out their new version of basic analytical SEO tool. With the help of this tool website owners and those, who may be interested in comparing competitors’ sites, can request simultaneous ranking, page count, backlink reports from Google, Yahoo, Live Search, Alexa, and a number of other statistical online services.
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Unleash the power of social sharing!
BM Button (BM stands for BookMark) is a great FREE solution for those folks, who wish to be promoted by their visitors to a multitude of bookmarking, sharing and social news sites. It makes it so much easier to submit the pages from your site! But it is not the only benefit of having a bookmark button within your texts. One can also run some advanced reporting to analyze visitors’ responses to his or her content.
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Monitoring search results
When it comes to SEO, having the right tools is what makes all the difference. Today we are introducing our readers to a new tool – Exact Factor – that may come in handy for the website owners who would like to track the success of their online content in relation to keywords and search engine results.
Exact Factor is a free online tool that does not require any downloads and can be accessed via a quick registration. It is equipped with a simple intuitive interface that will get you started without excessive documentations and introductions. All one needs to do is to supply his or her website’s address and the key words to find out how well his or her website is situated in search result pages of the major search engines per this word or phrase. One may opt in to receive electronic notifications as the picture of the search result landscape changes. Continue Reading »
