Showing posts with label search engine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label search engine. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Compete.com - another web 2.0 analytical tool

I discovered compete.com today. You'll find that for many reasons, I love sites like Alexa, Delexa, etc. Now compete.com joins the bunch.

Compete.com does a few things...one of its goals is to allow you to see how "safe, popular and valuable a site is." Great idea with so many sites out there and a large number of new ones popping up every day.

Simply type in the name of a site and you will get a "snapshot" of the site with traffic history, trust scores and more. It'll also give you the promotion codes and coupons, if any, available for a site. Nice for shoppers and the like!

You can also compare sites, like on Alexa.

Compete.com also offers a search tool and blog to help you along your way in finding great sites and getting info on them.

If you spend any amount of time on the web, you'll appreciate the value of sites like this. Whether you're a marketer, a site reviewer, a shopper, a socializer, a networker, a blogger...whatever, these sites offer handy, valuable tools.

I could write a lengthy review here, but I'm just going to tell you to check it out...yup, it's free!

For now, I'll still continue to use Alexa, Delexa and now Compete.com to check out sites, compare them and find similar ones. Each of them has some tools I find valuable.

'till later...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Set it and forget it blogging software

Ok, I have been submitting my blog to site after site after site. It's tiresome and tedious. But I have to get my blog out there, get backlinks, etc.

THEN I find this software and I had to write about it because it's making my life easier and it can make yours easier too.

It puts the “Blog and Ping” technique on autopilot to get your sites visited by the search engines within days! Enjoy a resurgence in search engine traffic for old pages and get your new sites
producing in fraction of the time it otherwise takes.

Let's face it, if you want to get more zero cost search engine traffic to your website, then there is no more important task than getting your pages inside as fast as possible.

You don’t want to be sitting around waiting for months before the search engines decide to accept some of your pages.

The more pages you have in the search engines, the greater chance you have to pick-up those top search rankings that dump in traffic in the bucket loads!

So, how are you supposed to get your pages in the search engines faster than normal?

Let me introduce you to a new tool called, “Blogging Equalizer.” This tool takes advantage of the “Blog and ping” technique to get all of your pages into the search engines in a matter of days!

Just click a few buttons and let the software go to work calling the search engines spiders to your site – for ultra fast indexing so you can start cranking out profitable websites at lighting fast speed.

You can get more details or get the blogging tool here:

Blogging Equalizer

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Delexa.org - web analytic tool

From the very day I found this site, I have used it almost every day.

It's a web analytic tool that ranks domains by topic. It combines U.S. rank with Tag Count rank, giving you some pretty accurate results. Think Alexa combined with Del.icio.us.

I have found it extremely useful as a search tool. Say I'm looking for sites that are similar to a particular site - I go to delexa, enter in the site and search. It will pull up the top ranked sites that are similar to the one that I just typed in. Regarding the site I typed in, it will give a ton of info like Statsaholic Daily Traffic Rank Trend, topic tags, and more. Then you'll see a list of the top 100 related sites and their rank and topic tags. You can also search by tag.

I LOVE IT.

I do a lot of site reviews so I have found delexa to be helpful in assisting me to find site's competitors. Now don't get me wrong, I still Google, which is helpful but I MUST "Delexa" too because it helps me return a lot of relevant results and it leaves out all of the irrelevant mess that I get with regular search engine searches.

Now it won't return perfect results every time. If it's not in the top 50K, it won't be listed there, but most sites I have looked for are there. And sometimes it will return some results that aren't necessarily similar in my opinion, but I suppose they share some of the same tags and that's why.

One feature they haven't implemented yet, but I hear they intend to, is searching for multiple tags. This will be really handy and helpful in returning more specific results.

Did I say I LOVE IT and it's free so I LOVE IT even more...lol. Check it out at delexa.org

'Till later!
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