Google Ranking Factors - The Top 100

Steve Rubel had tracked down a list of the top 100 factors that affect page ranks. Some of these are blatantly obvious like having your keywords in your domain name and meta tags, but other less obvious ones like putting your keywords in bold and the font size of keywords.

Worth checking out as we all forgot the rules in the heat (haste!) of writing new posts!

Top 100 SEO factors

Statcounter v/s Google Analytics : Statcounter Increases Log File

Well, another improvement in the fight between Google Analytics & Statcounter.

Statcounter had sent a mail and posted on their new blog a message to all members that from now on the log file with all the statistics will be 500 pageloads instead of 100 pageloads that were the standard free deal until today.

I worked fine with the 100, but it’s always nice to get another freebee.

To switch to 500 pageloads simply click on the wranch image near you project name & choose Adjust log file - Change to 500 and you’re ready to go.

BackLink Watch : Check Your Site's Backlinks

From the home of DigPageRank.com - Backlinkwatch.com brings a very simple and very useful back link check tool.

Backlink watch homepage shows a few ads and a “Enter URL” field. as simple as that.

Once a url is entered you will be directed to a page that will show you all the links in 1 table that will include each links anchor text, Google PR of the page, Number of OBL from that page and any special flag in that link (such as nofollow) - which is a feature most back link checkers and link popularity tools do not bother checking.

Very nice tool, very simple, only thing that annoys is that on many pages it does not recognise the anchor text and if it does not recognise that, it does not write PR, OBL or Flags.

1 more thing if you’re working with IE load the page and continue what you were doing, because it will take a long time if you have more than 1000 IBL.

DigPageRank - PR Update Checker

One of the fastest growing websites, as far as popularity within the SEO community, this Website is not so old.

Started only at October 2006 with the sole target of showing websites PR (PageRank) in all known Google DataCenters.

Powered by ads (2 banner - 1 just added this week and many text links sold through DigitalPoint Link Sale forum, this site had gained even more popularity during this (August 2007) PageRank update, when the TBPR(Tool Bar Page Rank) Update is late to come.

The owner of this website has also the www.backlinkwatch.com we’ve discussed earlier and he seems to understand that simple tools are a crowd pleasers and he is sticking with it.

Looking forward to his next SEO Tool.

Predict Your Site's Future Search Engine Ranking

Once it was one of the most popular tools to check if a PR update is occuring, but now after adding a feature that forces you to click through 3 pages and verify image until you finished browsing all 36 datacenters they present - In my opinion it’s a waste of time.

SEO Chat are good at creating great seo tools and even their forum was once of my favorites - but 1 by 1 they rouine everything with all their security and fear of loosing PR.

My vote here is to go visit DigPageRank.com

If you’re still interested this is the link - www.seochat.com/seo-tools/future-pagerank

Keywords Selection Tool For Your Website

The foundation of a good search engine optimization campagin is selecting the best keywords that your potential viewers will use to find your website. If you select keywords which won't bring targeted traffic to your site or if you select keywords which no one searches for, all the time and effort that you spend on optimizing your web site for the search engines will be wasted. For your target audience to find your site on the search engines, your page must contain keywords that match those that your targeted audience is typing into the search queries. Here I'm going to recommend 2 very useful free websites that will help refine your keyword list. These 2 websites are http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ and https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal. Enter one of your keywords into the search box and it will generate a list of popular search terms related to your keywords. Look through the list and refine your keywords accordingly.

Bold or Italic Your Keywords To Increase Your Website Ranking

As mentioned previously, search engine optimization is about optimizing your webpage for certain keywords that you would like to position at. Besides increasing the keywords density of the page, bolding or italicizing the keywords does help in your search engine optimization effort. This is because the indexer, which is one of the components of a search engine, actually rips apart a page into various components and analyze them. These include the title, heading, bold, italic and other style portions of a page. When you bold or italic a word, the indexer will interpret this word as of higher importance and relevance than other words in the same paragraph or statement, thus helping your search engine optimization effort.