Archive for April, 2009

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As the site says,

“This tool generates unique charts that are rarely seen outside of R&D labs of the best search engines out there: it shows backlink discovery by month. We hope you will enjoy playing with this tool as much as we enjoyed making it! It currently ignores subdomains, but in the future we might produce this data for subdomains too!”

Example from SEO Book Website

You may ask what is this and why should I care? Well for those experienced in the ways of SEO this is a very interesting and unique tool. One thing search engines do is track the velocity of backlinks to any given site. The idea is that if this accelerates very quickly there may be some unnatural manipulation (i.e. paid links) happening and it may need to be checked out. Many times a news article, press releases, blog post, software releases, outside factors like lawsuits, provocative images, etc. etc. can create a very rapid backlinking situation, but in those instances that this is not the case the engines may take action and what may result is a devaluing of all backlinks or possibly even an outright site ban.

If this tools delivers what it is promising, this will give you incredible insight into what the engines are possibly seeing and allow you to throttle your link building efforts to appear as natural as possible.

Check it out here – Majestic Backlink Monitor

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Twist – See trends in Twitter.
Twitter Search – See what’s happening — right now.
TwitterVision – A real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter.
Twitterholic – Top Twitter user rankings & stats.
TweetWheel – Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other!
TwittEarth – Live Twitts all over the world in 3D!
TweetStats – Graphin’ your stats.
TweetVolume – See how often words or phrases appear on Twitter.

Have fun!

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SAD, BUT VERY TRUE….:-)

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Stumbled on this great free online sitemap maker while looking for new online SEO tools. It is pretty fast and thorough and seems to have good uptime (for now).

Check it out here – Free Online Sitemap

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Recently at SMX West, there was a session called, ‘SearchScape’ and a representative from Hitwise (other representatives were there including some from comScore and Nielsen Online) discussed some recent data on longtail keyword searching trends. Here is what Bill Tancer (Hitwise) had shared with the group:

Words/Query – 2009, 2008, 2007
1 word – 20.4%, 21.1%, 24.5%
2 words – 23.6%, 24.9%, 25.7%
3 words – 21.8%, 21.9%, 20.7%
4 words – 14.9%, 14.5%, 13.3%
5 words – 8.7%, 8.2%, 7.5%

Basically, from Bill’s recent data you can see the real value in longtail keywords as the number of keywords people are typing typing in the search engines is increasing from 2007 – 2009.

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