Professional SEO Specialist - janet bartoli roussos

I think it’s high time I list out those popular SEO tools out there that I like to use and recommend using - feel free to add to this list:

Keyword Ranking
WEB CEO (http://www.webceo.com/)

Advanced Web Ranking (http://www.advancedwebranking.com/)

Keyword Suggestion
Google Keyword Suggestion (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal)
Google Insight =

(http://www.google.com.au/insights/search/# )

SEO Book keyword suggestion tool (http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/)

MSN Ad Intelligence Plug-in for Office 2007 - http://www.workingplanet.com/blog/pay-per-click/microsoft-adcenter-adintelligence-plugin/

Miscellaneous SEO Tools
Header response checker (http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php)

http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/server-header.php

Google Sitemaps Generator (http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp)

URL Redirection Check (http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php)

Duplicate Page Check

(http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php )

Link Diagnosis

(http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/ )

Free Firefox Extensions
Web Developer Toolbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60)
SEOQuake (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036)

Avinash Kaushik has some great analytics learnings - after just sitting in on a web analytics 1-day conference, I actually find Avinash’s blog more educational. I don’t mean to belittle the speaker, who had a pretty impressive analytics resume, but if your presenting information based on your expertise, you should probably appear at the very least enthusiastic about the topic or site some real life examples every now and again - and please do not read your PowerPoint slides - hell, I can read - tell me something I don’t know. Continue reading »

Since I generally have an opinnion on most things, I figured I would share mine with you about Chrome. After using this browser for a couple of weeks now my overall opinion is “ok it’s not bad” .

I like that it was built from the ground up, if one tab isn’t working the entire browser doesn’t go to hell. You also have to really like the security features 

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I have been saying this for years!  To tell them SEO rankings is the most important factor,  is ridiculous in my mind - its almost always a means to an end, not the end itself.

I worked for a particular SEO VP, who shall remain nameless, that told our clients time and time again with such enthusiasm, “we can rank you on the 1st page for that keyword if you want” “we love a challenge we can get you to the top of the SERPs in no time” I pushed back on this person a little (Okay a lot, who am I kidding?), and asked “Why would you have our clients believe this is our sole purpose here? That to have our clients believe that’s all we do is rank them high on the SERPs is the be all to end all is plain stupid and so 1996.” Ever hear of conversions? or I don’t know, traffic increase month over month?

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Greatest Living SEO… just a little game here, if you go to Sri’s website where he talks about his contest he had with some old DG’ers -

Justy playin along, so far Sri has #1 spot in Google, Yahoo and… 3rd in MSN .. so time will tell.