Live Search Webmaster Tool Issues

It has been reported that Live Search Webmaster tool has been upgraded that it now looks like a legitimate help for webmasters who care about the appearance of their websites on Live Search. The announcement of the update has been greeted with excited although many were open about telling the issues.

A quick guide on the new features can be found at SEOMOZ, where it has been revealed that the linkomain tool which used to work at MSN Search but doesn’t anymore, can be applied within this tool.

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List of SEO Tools I Use

There are a lot of SEO tools available on the web. Whether they’re free or not, these tools provide search marketers a better understanding of websites and measurement of their performance in relation to search engines. The following list of tools are the some of the SEO tools I use currently and in the past.

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

Keyword Suggestion
Google Keyword Suggestion (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal)
SEO Book keyword suggestion tool (http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/)
Keyword Discovery (http://www.keyworddiscovery.com)
WordTracker (http://www.wordtracker.com)

Miscellaneous
Header response checker (http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php)
Google Sitemaps Generator (http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp)
URL Redirection Check (http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php)

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)

Is Rating SEM Companies A Good Idea?

There has been a discussion about a site that provides ratings on various SEO and paid search companies through a website called SEMCompare. This website allows the public to provide feedback on services of search engine management companies by writing the pros and cons of working with these companies.

Actually I have mixed reactions for this service. At one end I would like to recommend the best ones by highlighting their achievements and recommending their services. In this way, the public will be notified who are those who are best in the industry and those who produce low-quality work and waste customer money by identifying them through the reviews within the site. There has been a thorough discussion about companies that don’t live up to expectations and unless a proper platform for everyone to see, business owners have to rely on forums or recommendations from friends to determine which SEM vendor to choose. Let the business be run by competitive ones for the benefit of website owners.

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New Link Analysis Tool: Link Diagnosis

If in case you’re looking for tool that analyzes your competitors links, try the new link analysis tool from Link Diagnosis. It prides itself by using Yahoo! API, and displays information about a website’s inbound link sources, the PageRank value, anchor text and more.

Another interesting report it features is the type of links our websites acquired. They may be Good, which means it passes link juice into our site, Missing or Nofollowed, which are links that don’t pass link juice.

Before we just get the numbers. Now, we can dig beyond the number of links and helps us assess the type of links that point into our site.

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Restoring Removed URLs From Google

Sometimes we need to remove our pages from search results and keep them from showing up there. Discontinued product, a bio of a colleague who just left the company or any irrelevant content are some examples of web pages we don’t want to show up on search results.

We might wonder what happens if we ask Google to remove our URLs from its index database, and continue to allow it to be crawled and indexed through existing links from other pages within our sites. SE Roundtable has a short story about this.

If we remove pages from Google index, we must also ensure that it won’t crawl back there by enforcing redirections, robots.txt or any means of blocking the crawling of such pages. Otherwise, Google will place these pages back to its index database 90 days after it is removed.

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