11 Tools to Help your Website
September 1, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Business Advice
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If only websites were like the ball field, “If you build it.. they will come.” Unfortunately that is not the case, websites and blogs take work, from promotion and design, to general upkeep of the progress. Here are some useful tools to help you track your websites progress, these will work for both bloggers and web site owners.
1. A free program to help you check your site and others for broken links: Xenu’s Link Sleuth
2. These sites let you test for backlinks to your site. Not all of them will be accurate every time, but you get a general Idea: IWebTool, DomainPop, BacklinkWatch
3. It sometimes becomes important to know where the servers of your hosting company are physically located. Because, some search engines like Google have the ability to filter search results based on their physical location called geotargeting. This could be used to determine why your site is showing in only a certain country. This link can also be used to research the country location of a particular competitor’s website: Geotargeting Website To Country Tool
4. In order to track the location of the visitor or a customer to your website: Many website stats programs include this, all free, the most accurate two are Feedburner and Google Analytics
5. If you use adsense, this free tool will let you upload your Adsense reports and help chart them in a easier to figure out chart. Adsense Charts
6. This tool lets you enter in your web address and shows you the type of ads Google would send to your site. Adsense Sandbox
7. This firefox plugin can help with may areas of your site, the most useful feature is the load time test, once it is installed on your browser, visit your website and click on the little green check, or red circle saying error, a split screen will appear, now hold the shift button and refresh, on the bottom screen (hint- hit the “net” tab when you open up the bottom screen. This will show you exactly how long each item on your page takes to load, and how long it took to load initialy, I try to aim for a total of 9 seconds on Cable internet. Firebug
8. Last but not least, another firefox plugin to monitor your site, this tool encompasses many tools in one, you can check for back links, highlight no follow links, and see the websites page rank, alexa, and Compete. As well as showing the page rank of sites next to the google search. SearchStatus
Next week I will write about setting up a sweet home office at Century furniture.
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5 people have left comments
I use the SEOQuake extension for FireFox in addition to a few that you mentioned above.
I’m going to check out the AdSense Charts site, thanks for the info.
BeachBum
Thanks Beachbum, I am glad you liked it! The charts are pretty neat!
Thank you for all this information. I haven’t heard of most of this. Although I’m all that new to blogging, I am new to a lot of what I see on blogs. It makes me dizzy most of the time. LOL!! Again, thanks!
Thank you very much for providing the best tools, i have heard about some tools but got to know about some new tools here. This where very helpful and i have installed SEOQuake also its amazing.
Your welcome! Glad everyone likes it!