If you prefer to go it alone when promoting your site, there are a number of promotion tools that can make your life easier. We have found the following selection of search engine positioning and website promotion resources to be useful:
WE RECOMMEND THESE S.E.O DISCUSSION FORUMS:
Search Engine Forums at Jim World
The O.D.P (Open Directory) Forums
Newsgroup: alt.internet.search-engines
CHECK THE AVAILABILITY OF A DOMAIN NAME HERE:
Enter the domain name that you are interested in registering to check whether it is available, this function checks most top level domains.
CHECK THE KEYWORD DENSITY OF YOUR SITE:
Search engines rank a page according to the density of keywords, use this facility to ensure that yours are optimized (3 - 7%). This keyword density checker is provided free by: www.keyworddensity.com
KEYWORD ANALYSIS:
With millions of sites coming online all the time the competition for keywords is becoming ever more intense, discover the right keywords and see your traffic skyrocket. Word Tracker is a high powered tool to analyze the optimum keywords for your site and to increase your website traffic as a result. Overture also provides an excellent and easy to use facility to research keyword popularity.
CHECK LINK POPULARITY:
Link
popularity is becoming more and more important, this function will
analyse the relevant search engines and check exactly how many sites are
linked to yours.
Enter the URL of the page (or domain) to be analyzed and hit the "Start Counting" button to receive a count of links to that URL from up to 8 different search engines. Enter the full URL of a page or just the domain name. To avoid server time outs,
only use
2 to 4 engines at a time.
CHECK THE META TAGS ON
YOUR SITE:
Without meta tags your
site is at a disadvantage, run the pages that you wish to check through
this meta tag checker for advice on how to optimize yours.
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