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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 05/11/06 08:06
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Cinnamon Thunder
<cinnamonthunder@gmail.com> writing in news:e3shfm$kas$1@ctb-
nnrp2.saix.net:
> Does any of you have experience in SEO software packages that analyzes
> your pages optimization, ranking etc. etc.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks
As others have suggested, doing it yourself is probably a better idea.
Here's a tool I find quite useful
<http://www.checkyourlinkpopularity.com/> Link Popularity Check. The
tool checks various search engines to see what how many links there are.
It's not the best tool, but it can give you some insight. The program is
free, because they want you to buy Arelis4, a program that crawls the
Internet looking for similar sites and sending out template link exchange
letters. I think the idea of sending someone a personal note to ask for
a link is a good idea, but I can recognize a template one from miles away
and don't do business with them.
Raw web logs - they look like Greek, but, infact they are just plain text
files that have delimited data. You can import them into a spreadsheet
or database and then analyze them yourself. If you want a program to do
it, I found Surfstats <http://www.surfstats.com/> to be quite good.
What you want to look for:
1. Error pages - fix them
2. Referer - this can tell you how people are getting to your site. A
good thing to look at is the actual referrer string, and paste that
referrer string into a browser to see what the person who came to your
site saw.
3. Time spent - if they took time to look around, or just left
immediately.
I would also suggest using presentationless semantic markup. It's easier
on the bots, easier on users (especially those on a slow connection),
easier for the developer.
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Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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