Find out your site's ranking in search engines!

Now you've been working real hard to make your blog worthy of visits. You've been applying all the different search engine optimization techniques you could lay your hands on. Now its time to find out how your blog, web site or a page ranks with the major search engines. Here's how you can find out your blog's ranking;

• Visit this page
• Enter the keywords that you think should make your site/page appear in a search engines search results page in the first text box.
• Enter the URL of your site in the next text box.
• Next comes the text box that says " Your Google™ SOAP API Key*:". You only need an API Key if you include Google™ in the search engines list ). (What's a SOAP API Key?). The fact is that if you don't know what a SOAP API Key is its of no use trying to figure out what it is or where to get it? (Google is not giving out anymore of them). The problem is without this key you can't use this online tool to find out your rankings with Google. (Don't loose heart as yet, MSN, Yahoo! and Ask are still there to query).
• If you do have that key, you can click the "Remember my key" so that on your next visit you don't have to manually enter it again. It'll be remembered by the cookie placed on your system.
• Next select the search engines you want to query (exclude Google if you don't have the key) by clicking the check box next to each search engines name.
• Next select the number of top sites you want your search to be limited to. You can select from 40 to 1000 as the number of top search results to query for your site.
• Last thing left for you to do is to press the "What's my rank?" button.
• Google Rankings will go to work; querying the selected search engines for the listing of your site (if search engine is queried for the key word you entered in the first text box). It will display results as they become available.
• You can modify your search for another keyword and repeat the process (until either you give up or you find yourself listed with the search engine(s).

If you don't find your blog listed in the search engines, don't loose hope. keep adding that great content (content is the king) and tweak your site a bit. maybe next time you'll find yourself enlisted and hopefully some traffic will follow.

Free Search Engine Simulator!

Want to see how a search engine crawler sees your page? Yeah optimize it before that crucial visit. Here's step by step guide to find out how your page is seen by a search engine bot;

• Visit this page
• Enter your complete URL in the only text box on this page (including http://).
• Press "Submit Query" button (or the "Reset" button if you have made a mistake and want to redo typing).
• You'll be taken to a new page with the relevant information.
• The first text box will show the URL you just typed.
• The second text box will show the Title of your page.
• Next comes Meta Description, as extracted from your site.
• Next is Meta Keywords text box.
• And last one is the complete text found on your page.

Well thats all there is to it folks. Hope you found some useful insight into your site as seen by search engine bots. Keep visiting for more related posts.
Have a nice day!

Find out which pages of your blog are being indexed by search engines!

Want to know exactly which pages from your blog/site are being indexed by search engines? Well here is a free online tool that helps you find out exactly that. Here are the steps to you should follow to achieve that:

• Visit this page
• Enter your blog/site URL in the first text box.
• Enter 3 more URL's in the next 3 text boxes. Your URL will be compared to these ones. Or you could enter web addresses of 3 more of your blogs or web sites (convenient hun?)
• Enter the numerical access code in the small text box.
• Press "Submit" button.
• Search Engine Saturation shows the number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website. This Search Engine Saturation tool is useful in determining which pages of your website are already listed in Alltheweb, AltaVista, AOL, Google, HotBot and Inktomi.
  
• Results will be shown on a new page.
• Results are displayed in a table form, with search engines displays as columns and number of pages indexed by each along the rows. Totals are also shown in another column.

A real useful tool for evaluating your performance. You can also see which search engine is more friendly towards your type of pages. You must give this tool a try. I highly recommend it. It will give your ego something to boast about.

Is your blog ranked in search engines?

So you are itching to find out what's your blog's/web site's rank in search engines? Are you in top 50 or not? Well I've found a tool for you that will let you find that out. Oh, and yes, its absolutely free. No download and installation either. Its online, available whenever you're online. So here are the steps to check your blog ranking;

• Visit this page
• Enter your blog/site URL in the first text box.
• Enter the keyword (or phrase) that you think should make you appear on search results when typed into the search engines search box.
• Enter the access code into the small text box.
• Hit "Check Rank" button.
• Search Engine Position Tool will query the major search engines and check if your website appears in the first 50 of a search engine result for a specified keyword.
• Results will be shown on a new page.
• Positions from these search engines will be shown; Google, AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, FAST and AltaVista.

I hope that you find yourself in the top 50 ranks (if you are already there, what are you doing over here; it is me who should be visiting you instead. Leave your contact info).

Increase your blog's visibility with meta tags!

So you want to be listed in search engines! Well you'll need to add some meta tags to your site/blog template. Here is a way to generate some meta's for free;

• Visit this page
• Enter your site's description in the first text box.
• Add some keywords that describe your blog in the next text box (comma separate each keyword).
• Add the number seconds after which your blog/site should be refreshed by the browser.
• Select the action that search engine robots perform. Choices are index this page and follow all links, don't index this page and don't follow the links, index this page but don't follow any links and don't index this page but follow the links.
• Next enter the copy write notice.
• Next enter Author's name (your name).
• Next text box is for generator (the software that was used to generate the page)
• Next text box is for the language in which the site is displayed.
• Last text box is for the search engine robot. It specifies the number of days after which your site should be visited again by the search engine crawler.
• Press the generate button (or the reset button if you have the energy to go through he process all over again.
• All your meta tags are generated and presented in the last text box. now all you have to do is to copy them into your site's template (or main page).

Well that's all folks for now. Hope this tool help bring some more traffic to your site. Happy blogging!

Free link popularity checker!

Want to find out how popular your blog is? Want to find out how many sites are linking to you? Want to see your blog compared to some other blog on link popularity charts? Well here is how you achieve all the above;

• Visit this page
• Enter your sites URL in the first text box.
• You can enter 3 more site addresses in the next 3 text boxes.
• Enter the access code being displayed in the text box next to it.
• Hit submit button.
• You'll be taken to a new page.
• The first thing you'll notice is a color chart that shows the number of incoming links against different colors for easy recognition.
• Incoming links are gathered form these search engines; Google, AOL, HotBot, MSN, Yahoo, FAST and Alta Vista.
• You can also view link popularity of 17 other sites (other than those you entered) and these include Microsoft, apache, hotscripts etc. (The stats for these sites do put our stats to shame).

Well! that was it folks. Go check those stats. If they are disappointing, start working on your blogs with more vigor. And you'll see some better stats next time you use this online tool.

Free Keyword density analysis!

Want to find out what keywords represent your blog? Well here is a free online tool for doing just that.

Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site's theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help achieve higher search engine positions. Keyword density needs to be balanced correctly (too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, too high and your page might get flagged for “keyword spamming”).

The keyword density tool is useful for helping webmasters and SEOs achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms. Use the keyword density analyzer to determine the optimum keyword density for your web site's keywords.

Just follow the step by step guide below to perform a keyword density analysis on your blog site;

• Visit this page
• Enter the complete URL of the page you want to analyze (don't forget to include "http://" at the beginning of the URL)
• In the next text box you'll see some words to ignore while analyzing the page for keywords. These are words that are not important for keyword analysis. If you feel you need to add some more words, type them in the text box (separate each word with a space).
• Enter the minimum and maximum character length to be ignored in the next 2 text boxes. This will further filter out irrelevant keywords.
• Hit "Analyze" button (or reset button if you are willing to do all the typing again)
• The Keyword Density Analyzer will read the page you specify and give a report what words are used and how many times they are used. Report will be presented in a three column table with these heads (arranged in descending order); word, repeats and density.
• You'll also find the total number of unique words and total number of words found at the specified URL.

That's all folks. Perform a keyword density analysis. See for yourself how does your page appear to search engine bots. Optimize to get some better ranking.
Have a nice day!

Check your blog's page rank!

Do you want to find out how important a particular page of your blog is on the internet? Well there is a way to find out out. Follow the step by step instructions below and see the results for yourself:

• Visit this page
• Enter the URL(s) (don't forget to add "http://" before each URL) of the pages you want to rank check. You can add a maximum of 20 URLs.
• Enter the Access code in the text box.
• Click "Get PageRank" button.
• If you want to change the URLs to page rank click "Reset" button.
• Page rank will be shown on a scale of 10 (with 0 being least important and 10 being the most important)

Well thats it folks. Its was such a simple task.
Happy blogging and a nice day to you. Keep visiting.

Submit your blog to Search engines!

Following is a list of some Directories and Search Engines where you can submit your blogs (and hopefully some traffic will follow):

• Web Directory Hit LInks
• 2AddLink Web Link Directory
• Directory-474
• 71K.NET - Web Directory
  

Register your blog at 'Blog Top Sites' directory!

Blog Top Sites is a directory of blogs. It ranks blogs according to number of unique visits that a blog receives per week. At the beginning of each week, everyone is reset to zero. This helps keep the playing field even and allows new sites to make an impact on the rankings quickly.

Blog owners can register their blogs at Blog Top Sites. At the time of writing this post, about 5103 blogs were registered with them. They may get some extra traffic that way. Blog Top Sites claims to have sent about 3 million clicks to the blogs listed with them.

Blogs are listed under different categories. So if you are looking for something to read, you may find some blogs to check out.

Users who have registered their blog(s) with Blog Top Sites are provided with a control panel. Here they can add blogs, edit earlier added blogs and view some site stats like Unique Visitors Today, Page Views Today, Unique Visitors this Week, Page Views this Week, Unique Visitors this Month, Page Views this Month, Total Unique Visitors, Total Page Views, Total Hits Out. You can also view unique visitors and page views for the last 31 days in graphical form.

You can also see top 150 tags (out of a total of 10064 unique tags) that blog owners have used to describe their blogs. You can use this information to make your blog easily search able, thereby driving some traffic to it.

Another feature is that you can also view some site stats like page views and unique visitors for all blogs for the past 31 days, in tabular and also in graphical form.

Here are the links to the various pages;
Blog Top Sites home page
Registration page
Control Panel (for registered users)
Top 150 Tags page
Site Stats page

Pay them a visit and register your blog with them. Little things do count in blog wars.

Who's Online?

Want to show how many users are currently viewing your blog? Where are they logged-in from? Want to show the world how popular your blog is? Don't want to spend money for to achieve these feats? If the answer to all these questions is 'Yes', then read on. This post is about such an on-line service provider.
Here is the step by step guide to enable such service for your blog:

• Goto this page.
• Here you'll see a single text box which says "My URL". Enter your blog's URL here.
• Click the button which says "Track my visitors".
• A javascript code will be shown. Click in the text box. Whole code snippet will be selected.
• Paste it into your blog (select an appropriate location; different blogs have different methods for pasting code)
• A link will appear in your blog showing the number of visitors currently on-line.
• If you click the link, a new web page will open in your browser. It will show a Google map along with the location of the visitors location highlighted.
• This code shows the number of visitors who had logged onto your site since the last 5 minutes.

You can see a sample at the bottom of this page.
Hope I've been of some service to you bloggers out there. Thanks for stopping by and reading the post. Keep visiting for more such stuff. Happy blogging!

Let the world know that you have posted!

So you have been sweating in front of your screen, punching in characters after character. Your fingers are tired but you are satisfied. You have let that new idea out of your system. Now only one thing is left. Let the world know that you have something worthy to share and let that traffic flow in.
So how do I do it? There are many ways to do it. One way is to ping the online directories that keep tracks of postings and feeds from around the world. People visit these services to dig stuff they are interested in.
So what do I have to do? Here's a way to ping 24 services from a single place.

• First you visit this web page.
• (You must register with BlogFlux to be able to use this service. Its worth it because that way you also register your blog in their directory).
  
• Enter your blog details like blog name and its URL
• Next select services to ping. Following services are supported;

1. Blo.gs
2. Feedburner
3. Blogdigger
4. Syndic8
5. Weblogalot
6. Newsgator
7. Weblogs
8. Feedster
9. Blogrolling
10. BlogStreet
11. Newsisfree
12. Google Blogsearch
13. Technorati
14. My Yahoo
15. Moreover
16. Icerocket
17. TopicExchange

• Some specialized services are also supported, such as;(ping them only if they are relevant to your post)
  

1. Audio.weblogs.com
2. Rubhub
3. Odeo
4. Blogshares
5. Geourl.org
6. A2b.cc
7. Sourceforge

• Then there are some services for non-english languages. Languages supported are; Chinese, Danish, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.
• Links are provided to each of these services. You can visit them individually. Links for checking all services with one click (saves you some calories; not good for those on weight reduction diets). Another link for inverting the selection is also provided.

That's it bloggers. Hope I've been of some help to you. Keep visiting for more stuff.

Free color picker!

Color Schemer ColorPix

Want to change the color of an element of your blog? The problem is you can see the color you have in mind on your monitor screen but the value that your blog page understands is hexadecimal. What's the solution? Read on and from now on you can tweak your blog pages according to your wishes; no need to rely on the defaults provided by the themes. Show your individuality. Everything counts.

ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats.

You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way.

Best of all, there's nothing to install - just download the tiny app and off you go. So grab it now, it's FREE!

Product Features

• Minimize ColorPix to the system tray, and keep it out of the way until you need it.
• Set ColorPix to launch when Windows starts up.
• Click on any color value to copy it to the clipboard. Press Ctrl-C to copy the HEX color (without the '#' sign).
• Press any key to lock or unlock the current color and the magnifier.
• Click on the '+' icon to keep ColorPix on top of all running applications.
• Click on the 'Magnifier' button or press Ctrl-M to show/hide the built-in magnifying glass.

ColorPix Screenshots

ColorPix Window

This is the actual size of the ColorPix window. When you move your mouse over your screen the color values on the left and the color swatch on the right will change color depending on the pixel under your mouse.

ColorPix Window with Magnifier

Expanding the ColorPix window to show the magnifier lets you zoom in on your screen underneath your mouse.

You can also control the zoom percentage, up to 1600%.

Download link

Website

ColorPix page