Other SEO Tools:
Link Popularity Tool
Search engines view a link from website ?a? to website ?b? as a vote by ?a? for ?b?, therefore the pages with the most votes in a topical niche are the authorities on the subject. This means that search engine spiders visit pages with lots of relevant incoming links more often and they rank higher in the result pages. A link popularity development campaign is the process of gathering the email addresses of webmaster who control link pages on related websites and contacting them to either suggest they link to your website in a one way link, or that you both link to each other in a reciprocal link. Both the topic matter of the websites and the actual text of the incoming links that point to your website are important to ranking well.
Link popularity tools help you manage the process of finding relevant links pages, gather the email addresses of the webmasters and sending the emails. Some popularity tools also aid the process of setting up and managing a reciprocal links page on your site to link back to your link partners. It is important to remember that whichever tool you use, if you use one, you must tray to make every email as personal as possible; no one likes to receive form emails. AutoLinksPro is a decent desktop link popularity managment tool.
Keyword Research Tool
In order to boost your traffic through search engine optimization you need to know what terms users search for most frequently, this is the first step and all other SEO work is based on the keywords list you develop in this step using keyword research tools. There is one free tool available on the web from a major provider that provides actual numerical data about how many people search for various search terms. That tool is Overture?s keyword suggestion tool, built for potential advertising customers the numbers and the keywords are heavily edited and are often quite inaccurate. The interface is also quite limited.
The other option and the only one chosen by professional SEOs is WordTracker. WordTracker is a subscription based keyword research tool that allows you to view real numbers and keywords from two large Meta search engines, Dogpile and Metacrawler. Membership is cheap, under $10 a day, and you can join for as little as a day. This is plenty of time for you to gather your keywords and email them to yourself using the easy interface.
Meta Tag Generator
Even though meta tags are declining in their usefulness they are still a good idea for some of the smaller search engines that still rely heavily on them. A meta tag generator is a software tool that creates the html for all the various meta tags with your keywords in it, some tools do this automatically by scanning each page to find the most important keywords and some tools ask you to input your desired keywords.
Ranking Software
Most search engine optimization campaigns are made up of lots of keywords, so to monitor how your website ranks in various search engines for each keyword or key phrase you can use ranking software. Some search engines do not recommend the use of automated tools for ranking checking, but I have never heard of a problem arising from the use of ranking software. These tools track a list of keywords through multiple search engines to compile a history of where your website ranks.