Webmaster Tools and SEO Software Resources
Posted By admin on May 14, 2009
Your resource for free webmaster tools and resources 35 free webmaster tools available for your use **
SEO Tools
Keyword Research Tool
Keyword Research Tool will help you research appropriate words and phrases to include in your webpage’s body text to aid in promotion. Simply enter the sort of word of phrase you wish to be found under, and the tool will suggest some additional words and phrases you can think about using.
Keyword Analyser will read the page you specify and give a report on what words are used, and how many times they are used.
Link Popularity Checker tells you how many websites are linking to yours. Website popularity is an important factor in your search engine ranking. The more popular your site is, the better it will be ranked on the search engines.
Search Engine Spider Simulator strips out the HTML tags from the page you specify and shows you how the page would look to search engine spiders.
Meta Tag Generator will read the page you specify, remove common words from it, and pick the most used words on the page. It will then generate a Meta Keywords tag using the words it has found. Extra weight will be given to words in a heading tag (<H1><H2> etc.)
Web Page Analyser will read the page you specify, and put it through a few basic tests to see if qualifies as ‘search-engine-friendly’ for the phrase you specify. It then gives a report on the good, and the bad points of the page in SEO terms.
The Top PPC Bids Checker allows you to query a number of PPC (Pay Per Click) engines to see what the top bids are for a certain keyword or phrase.
mod_rewrite RewriteRule generator will take a dynamic url given to it, and generate the correct syntax to place in a .htaccess file to allow the url to be rewritten in a spiderable format. The apache module mod_rewrite converts urls in a certain format to another format, and can be very useful in helping a site with dynamic content to be indexed. For more information on mod_rewrite, visit the apache documentation site
Link Appeal tool will calculate the desirability rating of having a link on the url you specify. This calculation includes factors such as PageRank, number of outbound links and the overall percentage of links to html. It is intended as a guideline for evaluating whether you should ask for a link on a certain page or not.
Class C Checker will allow you to check if 2 domains are hosted on the same Class C IP range. What’s the use of that? Well, links from sites that are not on the same class C IP range as your site are thought to give more weight
Web Utilities
Ping Utility sends echo requests to the address you specify and lists the responses received and their round trip time. When the utility is terminated it summarizes the results, giving the average round trip time and the percent packet loss. This utility can be used to determine whether there is a problem with the network connection between two hosts.
Dig Utility will allow you to query the Domain Name Service (DNS) database using the dig command to give you the most ‘behind-the-scenes’ information for an address. If you need less information, try using our DNS Query tool
DNS Query Utility will allow you to look up DNS information on the domain you specify.
NS Lookup
DNS Query Utility will allow you to look up DNS information on the domain you specify.
NSLookup tool is a service to look up information in the DNS (Domain Name System). Basically, DNS maps domain names to IP addresses.
.htaccess generator will generate the files you need (.htaccess and .htpasswd) to password protect a directory of your website. Just input the username and password you require, plus the exact path of the directory you want to protect. For more information about .htaccess protection, have a search on Google.
Link Checker will read the page you specify, extract the links from it and test the status of each one. If any errors are found (broken links) these are reported
Link Extractor will extract all the links from a web page you specify and list them
Cron Generator Utility will help you generate the syntax for creating a cron job.
Cron is a unix/linux function that will allow you to run a command at a specific time automatically. Whether you need it to run daily or weekly, you’ll be able to accomplish this once the task is set up through Cron. Cron in essence is similar to a task scheduler, like the one built into the Windows Operating System.
HTTP Header Viewer will show you the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with a HTTP response. This can be useful if you need to know what cookies are being set or where any re-directs are going to, along with other details such as mime-type.
chart shows you a list of common MIME types and their corresponding file extensions
MX Record Lookup tool will attempt to find out the mail servers used by an email address you specify. This can be useful if you need to check an email’s authenticity, or check who handles email for a certain address
Block List Checker tool allows you to query a number of spam-block and server boycott lists with an IP address you specify to try and ascertain if the IP address is listed as a known spammer or an open mail relay. This can be useful if you need to check the authenticity of logs or emails.
Regional Proxy tool allows you to view web sites as if you were located in a particular country or region selected from the dropdown list below. Many search engines and other sites display different results or content depending on the accessing IP’s geographic location, and so this tool can be useful if you need to know what id being displayed in a certain country.
IP Address Locator tool will give you the physical location of the computer that has been assigned the IP address you are looking for.
Domain Tools
Domain Name Checker
Domain Name Checker will help you find the domain you’ve been looking for, or check the details of an existing domain
Domain Name Generator will produce a list of possible domain name ideas based on the word or phrase you input
Domain Typo Generator will take a domain name you specify and create a list of likely mis-spellings and mis-typings for that domain. As we’re sure you’re aware it is very easy to mis-type domain names, and registering such a domain may give you some cheap extra traffic. There may even be some mis-spellings of large sites such as yahoo or hotmail left unregistered.
Expired Domain Checker is a useful tool for improving both your link popularity and your website traffic whilst saving you money too! There are many expired domains still listed in many of the big directories, with the potential to drive large amounts of traffic to your site.
What with many of the bigger directories requiring a one-off or yearly fee for listing, if you manage to find an expired domain listed in one of them you are potentially saving yourself a few hundred dollars!
The tool will check a category from your chosen directory and check the registration of each domain it finds listed there. It will then email you any expired domains it finds from that category.
HTML Tools
chart shows you the special characters in the latin iso character set, and how to access them using html entities in your code
Websafe Colour Tool will calculate the closest color in the 216 color web-safe palette to the hex colour that you specify.
Frontpage Code Cleaner
Frontpage Code Cleaner will read the page you specify, and clean a lot of the un-needed code created by Microsoft Frontpage. This helps to shrink the size of the actual page, which has many benefits.
Dreamweaver Code Cleaner will read the page you specify, and clean a lot of the un-needed code created by Macromedia Dreamweaver. This helps to shrink the size of the actual page, which has many benefits.
CSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons. As text links are fast becoming preferred over images where search engine optimization is needed, a CSS menu can give the affectiveness of text links with a better look than standard text links. For an example of a CSS menu, look at our navigation on the left.
**as of May15,2009