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		<title>Suggested SEO Tools and how to use them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>It is very easy to conceptualize and create your own website in any way you can imagine. But, it is equally difficult to optimize it for <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization" class="kblinker" title="More about seo &raquo;">SEO</a> and get it to the top rankings in the search engines. There are so many small things and details, which you have to consider like the structure of your website, the content, the unique and general keywords, the headings, the title tags and the Meta tags, the anchor texts and the links.</p>
<p>When you are <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/vbulletin-services/">optimizing your site for the search engines</a>, you have to do many things, which are repetitive in nature. These SEO tools make it easier for us to perform these tasks.</p>
<p>There are many other advantages of using the SEO tools like:<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/seo-tools.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-812" title="seo-tools" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/seo-tools-150x150.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
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<li>They save your time, as they are able to perform the      tasks within minutes.</li>
<li>They make your optimization convenient as they      automate the SEO at every step, thus making your optimization better      organized and more efficient.</li>
<li>They use proven techniques, which give good results      and hence you don’t waste time in using ineffective methods.</li>
<li>They allow you to multitask, that way you can perform various tasks simultaneously.</li>
<li>They allow you to analyze all the data.</li>
<li>They can even work automatically.</li>
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<p>Your work history is automatically saved, as the SEO tool collects and archives the information and other changes that you have made, so that you can see at a later stage, if you have made any mistakes. The most important point being that they are automatically adjusted according to the needs if the SEO environment changes.</p>
<p>Now that we are aware of the benefits of the SEO tools, lets us talk about the different types of SEO tools. Depending upon the type of work they are able to perform the SEO tools can be classified as:</p>
<p><strong>Keyword Discovery Tools</strong>, which are important to find the keywords that your site needs.</p>
<p>Some of the popular keyword discovery tools are:</p>
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<li><a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">Google Adwords External Tool</a> is very relevant as it gives the actual number of the searches a keyword has generated per month.</li>
<li><a href="AdCenter Keyword Group Detection" target="_blank">AdCenter Keyword Group Detection</a>, which is a Microsoft’s tool that helps in analyzing the words or phrases.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.seomoz.org/term-extractor" target="_blank">Term Extractor</a> extracts the keywords form any given URL.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.searchmarketingmaven.com/top-seo-keyword-research-tools-part-1-keyword-volume/" target="_blank">Keyword Volume Tools</a> give you an estimate on how many clicks and search traffic has a particular keyword generated. Some of the popular keyword volume tools are:<span id="more-791"></span></li>
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<p><a href="http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/">SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool</a> uses the word tracker’s API to get an estimate on the volume generated by the keywords.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/" target="_blank">Keyword Density Tools</a> help in analyzing how much the keyword is targeted in the specific webpage. The most popular keyword density tool is—</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seomoz.org/term-target" target="_blank">Term Target Tool</a>, which takes the URL and the keyword and tells you how much you have scored.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/" target="_blank">Backlink Tracker Tools</a> keep track of how many sites are linking to your site. Some of the backlink tracker tools are:</p>
<p>Yahoo “<a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://brandonsheley.org&amp;y=Explore+URL&amp;fr=sfp" target="_blank">linkdomain:</a>” query prepend, where by typing the link and the domain name, you are able to get the number of links that domain has.</p>
<p>Sign up for <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en" target="_blank">Google Webmaster Tools</a>, You&#8217;ll be able to see every backlink to your site if you submit a sitemap.</p>
<p><a href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Site Explorer Tool</a> is the Yahoo’s backlink tracker tool, which keeps and eye on both the inbound links and the outbound links.</p>
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		<title>Search engine optimization services for your online business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>When an online company makes the decision to get a <a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/<a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vbulletin</a>-services/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>professional SEO service</a>, the aim is to have more traffic coming to their website from the implementation of a good search engine optimization service. Not only will they have a higher traffic rate, but they will also have that traffic being converted into customers and thus increasing revenue. Search engine optimization services and the use of search engine optimization company can significantly aid a business that is looking to <a title="Marketing" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/" target="_blank">market their online company</a>. As a matter of fact search engine optimization is become essential as most business owners for these online companies do not know how to make there web pages keyword and content friendly so that they have a good ranking in search engines and generate traffic.</p>
<p>There are many companies that extend a <a title="SEO" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> service and are on high demand by online companies who wish to make there website and company do better. There will be lots of people who claim that they can help to optimize a web-page, but as a online company owner, you must be wary and vigilant in your search for a search engine optimization company, because some of them will try to incorporate some forms of black hat methods that may work for a brief period and then result in your website being penalized or worse; banned. You must therefore ensure that you select a professional SEO company that offers good search engine optimization services.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Search-Engine-Marketing.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-676" title="Search-Engine-Marketing" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Search-Engine-Marketing-293x300.jpg" alt="" width="293" height="300" /></a><br />
Once you understand that search engine promotion is not a short term deal, you should set about finding a search engine optimization specialist who understands the terms and conditions ser forth by the search engine companies, but also the strategies and methods that will result in your business being more popular and result in a higher ROI. SEO services are not just limited to keyword optimisation but also incorporate an overall revamp of your website. A <a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/vbulletin-services/" target="_blank">good search engine optimisation consultant</a> will know if the content on your webpage needs to be more user friendly, if your web page design needs to be altered to be more eye catching, they will be efficient in link building and the management of par per click programs (PPC).<span id="more-673"></span></p>
<p>The major benefit of hiring professional SEO services is that your site will have the vital tools and these experts know precisely what needs to be done in order to ensure positive results. In addition to all the various SEO techniques, the company which you hire will also help you generate a significant <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media" class="kblinker" title="More about social media &raquo;">social media</a> presence. Enlisting for professional SEO services is very affordable and just by getting onto the internet and with a few clicks of the mouse; a website owner can find all sorts of relevant information that is connected with companies that offer these types of services.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/seo-blocks.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-681" title="seo-blocks" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/seo-blocks-300x231.gif" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a>With the assistance of a <a title="SEO" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> services, online companies can now have there websites rank higher in the search engine index, thus leading more prospective customers to their websites, because the higher the rank of a website, the more likely that they will fall on the first page of a result list that is generated from a keyword search.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization and Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 18:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While at the AAF-Topeka Social Media panel discussion, a panelist made a statement that wasn&#8217;t entirely true. &#8220;Links on social networks will get indexed and help with your rankings in Search Engines.&#8221; Really, this is only half accurate. The text in the update you&#8217;ve made on your social network profile will be indexed, but the [...]]]></description>
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<p>While at the <a href="http://www.aaftopeka.org/" target="_blank">AAF-Topeka</a> <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media" class="kblinker" title="More about social media &raquo;">Social Media</a> panel discussion, a panelist made a statement that wasn&#8217;t entirely true. &#8220;Links on social networks will get indexed and help with your rankings in Search Engines.&#8221;</p>
<p>Really, this is only half accurate. The text in the update you&#8217;ve made on your social network profile will be indexed, but the search engines will not follow the link and index the site you are linking to.</p>
<p>What exactly does this mean? Let&#8217;s use <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/twitter/" class="kblinker" title="More about twitter &raquo;">Twitter</a> for example, the text and info in your &#8220;status update&#8221; will be indxed, but the search engine bot will not follow the URL you&#8217;ve linked to and index that site. Now you may ask, why even link to your websites in the first place? Even if Google doesn&#8217;t click the links, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">your friends will</span> and it gets out usefully information they may not have seen otherwise.</p>
<p>I just want to touch on the power of your friends or followers, again using <a href="http://www.twitter.com/" target="_blank">Twitter</a> as an example, but it can also be said for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> as well. When you update your status on Twitter, your followers will all have the chance to see it. Let&#8217;s say you have 1,000 followers, and each of them have 1,000 followers.  If even one person ReTweets (RT) your post, it will have a chance to be seen by their 1,000 followers &#8211; new people that you don&#8217;t even know, and if one of them RT&#8217;s it&#8230; well, you can see where this is going. So if you have a catchy headline and good information, your single post can potentially be seen by several thousand people seconds after it&#8217;s been posted.<span id="more-25"></span></p>
<p>So how can I tell if these links will be followed by search engines or not? Look for an <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_attributes.asp" target="_blank">HTML attribute</a> called the &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow" target="_blank">no-follow</a>&#8221; attribute. You can see this by highlighting a link, right clicking and viewing the source of the web page. If you don&#8217;t want to do that on every site you visit, install a toolbar add-on. I use an addon for Firefox called <a href="http://www.seoquake.com/" target="_blank">SeoQuake</a>, (they also have an Internet Explorer version but I&#8217;ve never given it a try). I&#8217;ve been using SeoQuake for a couple years, and have even had the <a href="http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f7/serp-archives-2605.html#post13774" target="_blank">developer comment</a> on our <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/forums/" class="kblinker" title="More about forum &raquo;">forums</a>. SeoQuake has several options, but the one that deals with the no-follow tag is a strike-though. In other words, if the links has the no-follow tag, <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">it will look like this</span>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.seoquake.com/" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-33 aligncenter" title="seo-quake-logo" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization" class="kblinker" title="More about seo &raquo;">seo</a>-quake-logo.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;seo-quake-logo&#8221; width=&#8221;144&#8243; height=&#8221;74&#8243; /><!--[if gte mso 9]--> </a></p>
<p>Hopefully, I’ve cleared up some misconceptions about how you&#8217;re able to get traffic from search engine via your social networks. In honor of this blog post, I’ve disabled the no-follow tag on this blog. As you now know, that means the search engines will be able to find your website  and crawl your URL if you link to it when leaving your comment.</p>
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