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| By Clare Lawrence 29th October 2003 | | | | Keyword density |
| Clare is the CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading | | | | Writing keyword rich copy isn't the easiest task in |
| UK Domain name registration service. | | | | the world, but to get a good ranking, your keyword |
| I use several tools to monitor the performance of | | | | density has to be right, not too low, not too high ( |
| my own websites, by regularly reviewing their | | | | between 3% and 7%). The following is a good article |
| progress I can see what works and what does not. | | | | on the subject and contains a link to a good density |
| Ranking tools | | | | tool. |
| Where is my listing? | | | | The article |
| Want a tool that can tell you which page your site | | | | The tool: |
| appears on by keyword? | | | | Selecting keywords |
| Top25web searches domain names by keyword for | | | | Not sure which keywords will bring what traffic? |
| the following search engines:- Google, Alta vista and | | | | Wordtracker has a great site — try their free |
| inktomi, drilling down for the first 500 entries on each | | | | report first, if it works for you, the sell a days usage |
| search engine. | | | | from £4.00 ($6.00). |
| How many of my websites pages are indexed? | | | | I hope you find these tools helpful, I use them on a |
| Do you have a large site? — it can be a pain | | | | daily basis and find them very helpful. |
| using the site: command in google, the following tells | | | | Every thought of a question you wanted to ask |
| you how many of your pages are indexed in Fast, | | | | Google? |
| Google, Alta Vista and MSN creates a pie chart of | | | | Google answers works by you posting a price for |
| the % of your pages indexed in each of the engines. | | | | each question - the higher the price the more likely it |
| Meta — Tag analysers | | | | will be answered. Higher bids also get more thorough |
| Meta tags are much less important than they used to | | | | explanations. Payment is by credit card and prices |
| be, though the Title tag is still very powerful. | | | | start from $2.00 |
| The following are my favourites:- - select the | | | | This is a good place to get started with web site |
| website analysis option from the left hand, this is | | | | optimisation. Typically an experienced researcher will |
| particularly good at telling if you've got the right | | | | spend an hour or so looking at your site for £40-50. |
| combination of keywords in your tags and which | | | | This compares very favourable to the £100's you |
| keyword should be where. - this analyses your tags, | | | | can pay elsewhere. |
| and gives a narrative opinion — excellent being | | | | A good tip is to read the last few weeks of |
| the best rating. | | | | questions - most likely there will be questions very |
| Traffic statistics | | | | similar to yours. |
| Good traffic statistics are essential for your own site, | | | | The answers given often are full of links to sites |
| but how to get information on rivals traffic?, Alexa | | | | which are both reputable and amongst the leaders in |
| makes use of its own database of user and converts | | | | their field. |
| these to a traffic ranking. | | | | The site is also full of helpful questions and answers |
| The Alexa site can be found at | | | | on domain names and web tools |
| Good HTML | | | | I hope you found this ariticle helpful, my site now has |
| Google and other search engines have problems with | | | | a glossary full of similiar ones. |
| poor html — so cleaning up the glitches in your | | | | |