There's no doubt that
Google has captured the hearts and minds of surfers and webmasters
alike in recent years. Google tools have also become a common
sight, thanks to the Google Web APIs (http://www.google.com/apis/).
Using tools such as Google Web API (Application Program
Interface), software developers can query the billions of pages in
Google's databases from their own programs, which has led to some
amazing web applications being developed and released to the
public.
Here's a selection that I'll be updating from time to time of the
more webmaster-oriented tools that can assist with search engine
optimization:
http://www.rankpulse.com/
Rank Pulse is an online tool that provides a look at the daily
fluctuations of Google results based on the movements of rankings
of sites in relation to keywords that the company monitors.
http://www.googlealert.com/
Google Alert can keep track of what the web is saying about a
particular person, company or web site.
http://www.webconfs.com/
Similar page checker. This free tool allows you to check the
similarity between two pages.
http://www.google-dance.net/
Google Dance tool. The Google "Dance" (update) can be identified
when the backlink counts of major sites are different on several
specific Google data centers. This tool updates every 60 minutes
and you can also check your own backlinks on the data centers.
http://www.googlefight.com/
Google Fight. Wondering which keywords for a particular subject
are most popular? Google Fight allows you to enter 2 keywords or
phrases and compare the results.
http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001405.shtml
Goofresh is a tool to search for sites added in the last 24 hours,
48 hours, 7 days or last 30 days.
http://www.void.be/googletool.html
Google Tool. Search for results on one or more of Google's 15 data
centers.
http://douweosinga.com/projects/googlehistory
Google history. Find out in what year an event occurred (post
1800)
http://douweosinga.com/projects/googlepos
Google Pos. Discover the ranking for a particular site for a
keyword or keyphrase.
http://www.googlerankings.com/
GoogleRankings. Another tool for checking position based on
keywords.
http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/pagerank.html
The PageRank Calculator is designed to mimic the workings of the
PageRank algorithm to calculate an estimated score.
http://www.googleguy.de/google-yahoo/
Google - Yahoo Comparison. Allows for a side by side search of
both Google and Yahoo.
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Touchgraph Google Browser - visually displays the linkages between
sites; quite an amazing application.
http://www.faganfinder.com/google.html
Google Ultimate Interface - Google's tools and options displayed
on a single page.
http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi
Proximity search - Allows you to search for two words within one,
two or three words of each other.
http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank_calculator.php3
PageRank calculator. The results produced by this calculator are
related to raw PageRank and are not equivalent to the values shown
in the toolbar
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/
Back Link Tracking. Free utility for checking search engines for
the number of back links to any specific URL over time
http://www.monstersmallbusiness.com/website_promotion_tool4.asp
Google Tools. Enter your URL and the total pages crawled, listed
and backlinks to your site will be displayed.
http://www.seocount.com/demo.php
Google Count. A Google ranking reporting tool. Requires a (free)
Google Web API Key that you can get at http://api.google.com/createkey.
http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go
Poodle Predictor. Enter your URL above to see how search-engine
friendly your pages are and whether they can be easily crawled.
Provides Diagnostics View, Source-code View and Header-Meta View.
http://www.findforward.com/
Find Forward - aka "The Uber Engine". A cool Google search tool
that allows you to refine results based on whether your search is
a question, date related, if you want blog/non-blog results, files
only and many other options. A very interesting feature is the
search of the Google (Dmoz) directory - results are complete with
thumbnails of the various sites. Find Forward also includes a nice
meta-search feature.
http://www.google-dance-tool.com/
Google Dance Tool. Allows you to compare search results on up to
12 data centers and/or 15 countries. Also provides a free
subscription service that will alert you when a major dance has
begun and webmasters can also apply to have the dance tool on
their site for free.
While none of these tools will get you a number one ranking, they
are useful in researching your industry in relation to positioning
and gaining a better understanding of how Google works.
Michael Bloch
Taming the Beast
http://www.tamingthebeast.net
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