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WooRank: Your Websites SEO Rank in a Few Seconds

Steven Finch — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:01:42 +0000

WooRank is a new service that summarizes your entire website in one decidedly useful shot. Highlights include:

Traffic estimation numbers using Google data, Alexa & Compete rankings
An internal site SEO analysis with a Text/HTML ratio
Off-site SEO with link counts from Delicious, Digg, Twitter & Wikipedia as well as a back link count total — Nice
It even does a Whois lookup and shows if the site is using compression

Theme Grade: Free Wordpress Themes Graded by SEO Quality and Overall

Steven Finch — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:51:52 +0000

Today I came across a great new theme directory which really tries to help users and not just show the basic themes. The directory is called ThemeGrade and instead of just showcasing the themes it also rates them in terms of general quality and seo.

Features include:

User-friendly Theme Search

The themes are grouped into many categories that it would be easy to find the themes of your choice. Are you looking for a 3-column magazine style themes that are free? Simply select “3 columns”, “Magazine Style”, “Free” and click on the search button and the themes will be shown in the result page!

Theme General Test

Each and every one of the Wordpress theme listed on ThemeGrade has undergone comprehensive tests. The general tests of a theme give you an idea of how well the designer coded the theme. When pass, the score will be added to the General test. Taking the passed score and divide it with the total tested score and you’ll get the general test score of the theme.

Theme SEO Test

The SEO tests of a theme give you an idea of how well a theme had been optimized for search engines. When pass, the score will be added to the SEO test. Taking the passed score and divide it with the total tested score and you’ll get the SEO test score of the theme.After you get the general and the SEO test score, the total score of a theme can be calculated. To do that, first, take the general test score and multiply by 0.6 and the SEO test score multiply by 0.4. Sum up the two number and you’ll get the total score of a theme.

Different Ranking Status for Themes

What makes ThemeGrade so special is the ranking system. Quality themes will be awarded either a Gold, Silver or Bronze status. The themes with the highest standard are those which score more than 90% and are awarded with the GOLD status! Ever since I outlined the details of each test, I have found out a few things that I could improve for my themes especially the SEO part.

Two New Themes will be reviewed Daily

Selecting good quality themes and reviewing them in such details take a lot of time.

Monitoring your Search Engines Positions

Augusto Alvarez — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:39:14 +0000

If you are a geek blogger like me, you would know that the having a good ranking within the most important search engines it is a big deal if you are trying to promote your blog. KPMRS (Keyword Position Monitoring Report Service) can help you with that by monitoring constantly the page rank you have with Google, Yahoo and Bing.

How to use it is very simple, you don’t even have to be registered to receive any result, you can query and get some instant results about your site and a special keyword. The free registration can also give you: Email Alerts (when position changes or when a competitor has passed you); weekly reports; and monitor for Google’s Page Rank and Alexa.

Here’s a query about my blog with a keyword that I know I have a good ranking about it:

It is pretty cool to have these results and see the differences between the search engines; and of course will be very helpful to you if you are setting up your business to evaluate the status of popularity.

Website Grader: Free SEO Tips

Steven Finch — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:36:59 +0000

Want to know how to get your Website high up in natural search results, but don’t want to pay a search engine optimization (SEO) firm just to find out what you are doing wrong? Now you can get a free, automated evaluation of your site on Website Grader. Just type in your Website address, and it will spit out a report detailing what you can do to boost your site’s SEO juice. It even gives you a grade.

Crenk scored a 97.6 out of 100. With over 2,130 pages indexed by Google and over 15,500 inbound links Crenk seems to be doing quite well compared to our competitors.

Website Grader is operated by HubSpot, a search engine and Web-marketing optimization company hoping to get leads from the site. If you use it, don’t be surprised if you get contacted by one of its sales reps trying to upsell you to one of its paid services. Hey, you didn’t really think it was free, did you?

Definitive SEO Wordpress Guide That Shows Plugins and Techniques

Steven Finch — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:45:45 +0000

Joost de Valk, a Wordpress and SEO specialist has written a basic beginner’s guide to Wordpress SEO which has to be one the best articles I have ever seen. You can find a variety of different SEO technique and it covers everything from basic technical optimisation to off site blog SEO. Make sure you head over to the site and check it out, I have already added some of the suggestion onto Crenk.

Get more traffic to your blog with 5 minutes of work

Mike Panic — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:55:37 +0000

Let’s face facts, bloggers write, for the most part, so their articles can be read. They want them read for any number of reasons,

Internet fame
Potential to make money from ads
Obsessed with statistics
Conceited
Enjoying knowing someone is reading what you wrote
Etc.

Most of us enjoy knowing that someone is reading what we as writers spent time and energy to write, the side effects of money and fame can be nice as well, but how to achieve? One simple way that I’ve found is to ask people to view your site. But how? Where? Relying on Google search results can take time and not everyone reads your MySpace bulletins or the tweets you obsessively send via Twitter, digg.com isn’t working that well and neither is Stumble Upon, and it may not be in your budget to buy ad space on a more popular site right now, so what can you do?

Email blog owners who have written similar articles and let them know about the one you wrote. Yes, it’s that simple. Don’t do this with every article you write, pick your very best and send the links to the biggest and best blogs out there. Don’t ask them to review your site or link to it, simply let them know you have written similar material that they or their readers might want to use and you like their site. Be honest and don’t make it sound cheesy.

How do you find people with similar articles? Try Google Blog Search and look for articles written in the last week or month. Does this really work? Absolutely. I used this technique last week, here’s what I did and the results from it.

They filmed part of the Transformers II movie in my town last week and some co-workers got behind the scenes photographs of the set and a video. They gave me permission to blog about it, which I promptly did. Next, I did a Google Blog Search for similar sites and found the Transformers Live Action Movie Blog, the owners email is displayed on the left sidebar. This is the email I sent him:

I saw you recently published an article & photos regarding Transformers 2… wanted to share with you one my recent articles with more photos and a video (with more videos being edited now for publication).

Thought your readers might enjoy these: http://www.randomn3ss.com/2008/06/05/exclusive-filming-of-transformers-2-photos-and-videos/

That’s it. Within a few hours, they published this article that contains a link to my site’s homepage and the direct link to the article. More than 1,000 unique visits came to that specific article over the following 12 hours from the Transformers Live Action Movie Blog. I’d call that a success.

I’ve used this technique sparingly as not to become a burden on anyone, seem pushy or ungrateful for what others have done for me. Using this method though, I have successfully had articles linking to my sites on Lifehacker.com, GetRichSlowly.org, and several other very well known high traffic blogs.

I’d love to hear about some success stories from people who give this a try. Not every email you send will have great results, but it does work. Keep an open mind too when a fellow blogger approaches you with an idea or to share content.