Webmaster and SEO Tools Summary

May 21st, 2007 · by Dean · 1 Comment

I’d like to summarize the recent series I ran on Webmaster and SEO tools. I hope you’ve enjoyed the series and found something useful. In case you missed any of the posts here is a recap:

Part 1 discussed the Webmaster Toolkit which provides lots of useful tools to manage and maintain your domains.

Part 2 covered Google Webmaster Tools which can be used to perform tasks like submitting site maps to Google, analyzing links to your site, which search queries are effective in driving traffic to your site, and other statistics.

Part 3 covered XML Sitemaps which helps your web sites become more search engine friendly.

Part 4 looked at tools to analyze your web traffic, such as Google Analytics and Clicky.

Part 5 discussed how to maximize your feeds using Feedburner.

Part 6 looked at how MyBlogLog can be used to help build up a community around your web site, and further ways to analyze traffic to your site.

Before finishing, I would like to mention one site that I have found very useful in improving the overall search ranking of my site. Back in December 2006, Chris Pearson ran a series on SEO for everybody. That series covered the following topics:

Creating site maps to make your site more search engine friendly
Using an XHTML Sitemap for better search engine indexing
Constructing dynamic, descriptive web page titles
How to harness image search results from Google

I strongly recommend you take the advice of that series. Don’t expect to get results overnight, it may take weeks or even months, but believe me it works.

Look at my Top 5 sources of traffic between mid November and mid December 2006. Google is top, but the overall number of referrals isn’t that high.

Now compare that with the Top 5 sources of traffic for the last month. Google is still top, but the overall number of referrals has increased dramatically.

Several articles I have written now rank within the top 5 of Google. If you’ve haven’t read Chris’ series on SEO for everybody then take a look and reap the rewards.

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