Posts under ‘SE Tools’

I have covered how to make sure your business gets included in the three main search engines local searches. When my family is out and about, we regularly do Google searches for businesses on our phones to get directions. I can’t be the only geek that does this all the time, and I get frustrated [...]

We all know how it feels to find the perfect gift. After scouring stores far and wide, suddenly your hunt is over: the stars have aligned to bring you just what you’re looking for — and not a moment too soon. It’s a bit the same way when a search brings you to just the [...]

Google Analytics put out these helpful videos.
In the spirit of the holidays, we would like to offer tips on how to increase visibility into your e-commerce performance and your advertising spend using Google Analytics. For many, seasonality influences purchasing decisions and affects business revenues. Analytics can help keep a close eye on your advertising spend [...]

If you have found that you are getting traffic from non-English speaking viewers to your site, here is a neat tool. Yahoo’s Babel fish has been around for some time and they offer 2 different tools to translate your site.
With Yahoo! Babel Fish, your users can translate passages of text or entire Web pages among [...]

Just like the previous post, Google also has a translate tool for sites that have viewers that speak other languages than what you have written your site in.

This tool will also take your user to there site.
To install it, go to Google Translate

Then the gadget will display

Google Analytics
View Tour Video
Google Analytics has been re-designed to help you learn even more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site The new Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online. Write better ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives, and create higher-converting websites. Google Analytics [...]

Google Trends

Type in your key words and see the history of them.
This is a great tool for key word suggestions.
Run your keywords through this tool.

Google Base

Google Base is a free Google service that helps you publish virtually any kind of information — be it your latest riveting screenplay or a listing for your slightly dented 1989 Honda Accord — on Google Base or other Google properties.
To post an item to Google Base:
1. Visit Google Base.
2. [...]

MSN Live has their own set of Webmaster tools that will allow you to get properly indexed within the MSN listings. Just like Google and yahoo, MSN has their own specific processes to follow.

Click on the MSN Live Webmaster Tool link

Sign in to use the tools with your e-mail and pass word.
Click on the add [...]

If you have created a Google account, this set of tools is extremely important when it comes to getting your site properly indexed into google. Spend some time reading their faq’s.
Googles Webmaster tools provides a free and easy way to make your website more Google-friendly. See your website the way Google sees it: • [...]

Cuil allows you to submit to their new search engine.

Here is a link to their submit page.

To learn more about them, here is their blog

Technology Company Offers New Look at Search
MENLO PARK, Calif.—July 28, 2008—Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index [...]

Submit you URL to Yahoo, Enter the URL for your website or webpage you would like to submit. For any URL (directly submitted or obtained from a feed) our crawler will extract links and find pages we have not discovered already. We will automatically detect updates on pages and remove dead links on an ongoing basis.

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To use Yahoo tools you must make an account
Please get used to creating accounts

Once you have an account, you will have access to all of Yahoo’s free stuff

MSN Live also has Webmaster tools to help properly index you site within their search engine.
To use MSN tools, you will need to create an Account

You can know use MSN’s Tools.
I like the fact that you can use an existing e-mail address.

To use all of the great tools that Google offers webmasters (Thats you) you must create an account first. 
From Google’s front page look at the upper right Corner at “Sign in”.
This is an easy proccess and just follow the instructions.

From here you can start choosing what tools suit your needs.
We cover a lot of then in this [...]