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Here’s another SEO tool I would love to see built.

Site Theme Keyword Cloud Generator

This tool would allow someone to enter the URL of their site in order to have a keyword cloud built based on the keywords found throughout their site.

The tool would spider a certain number of pages (Lets say 10-100), and return a keyword cloud.

Heres an example of a keyword cloud that blinklist.com uses

It would be great to be able to visually see the theme of a site.  This would could be used to analyze your competitors or to just get a rough idea of how a search engine might see it.

If anyone wants to team up to make this tool.  Let me know.  I’ll fund it if someone wants to manage the building of it.  This would be a great free SEO tool.

For those of you who don’t already know, Aaron Wall (Seobook.com) released his “SEO for Firefox” extension (SFF) a few weeks ago.  It has gotten some really great reviews so far.  I started using it last week and it has already saved me a good amount of time.

In Aaron’s own words:

SEO for Firefox pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a more holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market right from the search results.

If your a link builder it can be a real lifesavor.  It’s also great for researching domains for acquisition.

Out of the box, SFF only pulls pagerank automatically.  If you dont mind your searches being slowed down a bit you can default it to include actual data of things such as Age, Yahoo Backlinks, Links in DMOZ…

Even with all the options defaulted on, SFF will show you the search results first and then add the additional data in real time as you sit there browsing. There is still a slight slowdown in browser performance but you can customize it to show only the info you need which will speed it up.

I’m packing for SES San Jose and didnt have a bunch of time to write a comprehensive review, but take my advice and download it.  It will definitly save you some time.



Here’s a screenshot

Hello Fellow Link builders,

I’m sure a lot of you had heard the news that Yahoo was building a system to allow people to easily gather both inbound link and indexed page data, but it wasnt until today that I actually searched for it, found it, and used it.  And I have to tell you I am extremly impressed. They even include an api for using the information in our tools. Kudos to you Yahoo. 

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

If you havent been there yet, go there now.  If you like the Google backlink command you are going to love using Site Explorer.

As of today Textlinkbrokers has 11,416 pages indexed and 84,729 backlinks.

It would be awesome if someone built a Firefox extension to access this great tool.  If someone knows of one, let me know.

RapidKeyword has a new feature that will pull related keywords from Googles Beta Suggest Program.  I dont use RapidKeyword too often myself but it does have a nice array of ways to dig up keywords. 

There is also a Trial Download on their site http://www.rapidkeyword.com/

Search Engine Genie has written a very usefull article on checking backlinks in Yahoo, MSN, and Google. It provides a nice workaround to Googles broken link: command.

Here’s a great search engine tool. Faganfinder.com has collected the link, similar, cache, and other commands for many of the best search engines into a single handy interface. A very nice tool.

Here is a great list that has been around for a while of all of the major Google ranking factors. This is great information for all of you newbies and some of you pros as well.

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/google-ranking-factors.htm

Aaron Wall over at www.seobook.com has an excellent directory of seo blogs to help quench your thirst for knowledge.

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Hello everyone,

There is a great new report that marketleap is offering to see the link popularity trends for a website.  If you are not familiar with marketleap they are one of the most popular tools for checking your link popularity.  Especially now that the Google Links: tool is giving poor data.  Marketleap gives you a much more detailed view of the links coming into your site.

If you are currently using Arelis to find link partners you have probably been frustrated with the time it takes to use the backlink grabber function.  Currently in Arelis you must search one site at a time to import backlinks.  This process can take hours and hours.  With our new tool it will do a keyword search and pull in all the backlinks for the top 20 sites. It then emails you a .csv file that is exportable into Arelis. This tool should save hours of work.  It is in Beta right now so we would be happy for any feedback.  If you have any feedback email me at jarrod@textlinkbrokers.com

Textlinkbrokers Backlink Grabber tool

Well Duncan Carver has done it again.  I just saw this new link management tool that he is releasing for free and had to do a quick blog about it.  From initial glance of the feature set it seems to be a very well rounded tool with features that you would expect to get in a much more expencive script.  For $0 you cant go wrong.  I’m going to download it tonight and try it out on some of our sites. ...…