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Website Speed Test – 10 Free Website Speed Testing Tools

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Website Speed Test

10 Free Website Speed Testing Tools

Website speed is a major part of optimizing your websites for users and search engines. The faster your website loads, the less the users have to wait, which will reduce your site’s bounce rate. If your website loads slower, most users will not wait, and will instead look for content on other sites.

From the search engine point of view, website speed has a significant impact on your rankings as well. If your site has valid markup and a good loading time, it will definitely get higher placement then slower sites.

For this purpose, this post features a number of free online website speed testing tools, which can give you an overview and recommendations on how you can make your site load faster.

1. FreeSpeedTest.com
FreeSpeedTest.com is the best speed testing tool that I have came across. It might not have extra cheesy features like other tools have, but what makes it unique is that it checks website speed and load time through multiple data centers around the globe, so you can actually know how much time your site is taking to load in almost all parts of the world.

2. WebSiteOptimization.com
WebsiteOptimization.com is a very handy free tool which actually gives you a descriptive analysis of your site of loading time and how can it be improved. Here are some unique features of this tool:

Web page speed report.
Global report.
Calculates total object sizes – This includes number of javascript, css, images, etc.)
External files calculation.
Loading times – In this section it shows your website’s loading time in different internet speed connections from 14.4 kbs – T1)
Analysis and recommendations – This is the most important part of this tool. It provides you with a descriptive analysis and recommendations on how you can fix the issues and make your site load faster.

3. Rapid Search Metrics
This is one of the very best online tools I depend on when I have to do some SEO or speed testing analysis. This is a simple tool but it can be incredibly valuable. Here are some unique features of this tool:

Speed analysis – It analyzes a site’s average speed, data volume, size with HTML and without HTML.
Estimates load time – Shows site’s estimated loading times on different internet connections.
Separate analysis reports – Shows separate analysis reports of CSS Files, Images, Javascript files etc.

4. Aptimize.com
Aptimize.com has a unique way of reporting. It’s a simple tool which intakes your URL and, in about 5 -10 minutes, sends you email about your site’s analysis report. The best part is that the report is in PDF format and you can review it whenever you want unlike other engines. Here are some unique features of this tool :

Shows multiple loading times.
Shows server processing time and browser processing time.
Speed optimization details – This is a very handy part, it shows your site’s server response time, HTML, JS, CSS load time and also shows how much time can be saved by optimizing these files.
Yslow grading – It grades your site on the 14 best practice guidelines of speed optimization

5. Pingdom Tools
PingdomTools is an awesome tool as well. The best part of it is that it shows you size and loading time of each and every element of your site like images, CSS, HTML, JS, and more.

6. iWebtools.com
iWebtools is a very simple but accurate website speed testing tool. You can test your website’s loading time and even compare up to other 10 domains’ loading speed.

7. Website Goodies
Website Goodies is also a very simple and quick tool which shows you estimate of your website loading time without any hassle.

8. WebToolHub.com
WebToolHub is very handy as well. It consists of two analysis modes, simple and advanced. In simple mode it shows you the loading time and website speed on different internet connections. The advanced mode analyzes loading time and speed of each and every element of the site.

9. Web-Inspect.com
Web-inspect.com is a simple tool to test your website speed. It shows you website loading time on a certain internet connection.

10. HooverWebDesign
Another simple tool which analyzes website loading speed accurately in seconds.

Source: Creativefan.com

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SEO Competitor Tools – Top 10 Google SEO Competitor Tools for 2011

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Top 10 Google SEO Competitor Tools for 2011

One of the key strategies for an effective SEO campaign is competitor tracking. Knowing who is out ranking you and what they’re doing to achieve the results is the key to improving your performance. Back in the old days, monitoring the 100’s of SEO variables of your competitors was just as time consuming as running your own SEO campaigns.

Now, thanks to technology and some very clever people, we have a range of tools that do the hard work for us. To save you the effort of finding the right tools to spy on your competitors – I’ve listed my Top 10 competitor tools below (in no particular order). If you’re serious about SEO – you need to add these to your SEO arsenal.

Some are free, some offer free trials, some will charge nominal monthly fees – all are worth exploring.

1. Website Grader

Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors.

2. Compete

Compete PRO Search Analytics bring search marketing into plain view with paid and natural search trends, historical search referral data, and customized filtering capabilities that let you focus on top performing keywords and traffic for thousands of websites.

3. Spyfu

Spyfu is a tool that lets you find out what keywords your competitors are targeting in the search engines. Not just keywords, mind you, but AdWords, too. All you have to do is type your competitor’s site in SpyFu’s search bar, and voila!

4. Yahoo! Site Explorer

Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.

5. Social Mention

Receive free daily email alerts of your brand, company, CEO, marketing campaign, or on a competitors’ brand or pservices.

6. The Search Monitor

Track market share, page rank, ad copy, landing pages, budgets, day parts, and uncover new competitors on Paid & Organic Search.

7. SEMRush

SEMRush.com was designed to satisfy your needs in advanced SEM and keywords research. We analyze 40 million keywords for 20 million domains.

8. QuarkBase

Find out how good a site is. Get comprehensive website details. Discover competitors. See people, traffic data, similar sites, social comments, description, social popularity and much more about websites.

9. Linkscape

Linkscape provides link data never available before on over 64+ billion URLs across 259+ million domains. Regular crawls of the web means that Linkscape will keep up with your constant marketing efforts. Take the guesswork out of Internet marketing.

10. Xinu

Find out how well your site or your competitors are doing in popular search engines, social bookmarking services and other site statistics. Ineedhits.

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Matt Cutts Pubcon SEO – Matt Cutts Google Pubcon SEO

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Matt Cutts Pubcon SEO

Matt Cutts Google Pubcon SEO

Begin november was de Pubcon in Las Vegas, de eerste en belangrijkste SEO en Social Media Marketing event. Veel top sprekers geven hun visie op de ontwikkelingen en toekomst van search, ook Matt Cutts sprak woensdag tijdens zijn Super Session over: Search Engines and Webmasters – Bing – Google – Instant.

Tijdens zijn speech worden er veel interessante items besproken, hieronder enkele onderwerpen. Spam reports worden 4 keer sneller behandeld als in het verleden via: http://goo.gl/linkspam

Google weet dat er veel websites zijn die op de onjuiste manier een hoge ranking hebben nu. Vooral websites die het keyword bevatten worden extra bekeken, bijvoorbeeld www.keyword.nl. Google is druk met het maken van een oplossing. Google heeft 200 SEO ranking factoren en elke factor kan nog eens 50 variaties hebben.

In de loop van zijn speech laat hij een sheet zien met 9 SEO tips:

* SEO: Ga op zoek naar bezoekers, niet de algoritme
* Keywords: vraag ook je vrienden, collega’s, klanten naar de keywords die ze gebruiken om je te vinden.
* Blog: Plaats je belangrijkste links hoog in de pagina, er wordt het eerst op geklikt.
* Content: Lees je eigen content hardop en hoor wat je zegt als je het leest
* Twitter: Laat ruimte over voor je retweet “RT @BerriePelser”
* Video: Ga er één maken!
* Conversie: Test, Herhaal en leid de bezoekers naar de conversie.
* Zorg dat je eigenaar bent van je eigen domein
* Reageer op de email van Google in Google webmaster tools.

Matt Cutts on Pubcon SEO Video

Bron: SEOlab

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SEO Traffic and Rankings – 6 Technical SEO Strategy Tips for Better Traffic and Rankings

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6 Technical SEO Strategy Tips for Better Traffic and Rankings

6 Technical SEO Strategy Tips for Better Traffic and Rankings

If you think about it, search engines are more or less constantly driving us SEO people to keep our technical SEO strategy in a state of constant refinement.

This “evolution” of the marketing environment we thrive in is a great thing, it challenges us to come up with new ways to improve our traffic generating capabilities, user experience and the overall agility of our websites.

Here are a few ideas (6, to be exact) based on issues I’ve encountered in QA or on our recent client work that I hope will provide a little food for thought the next time you’re planning SEO enhancements to your site.

1) Leverage UGC (review content) beyond the product page
UGC is brilliant, particularly on product, content thin or affiliate sites. Making it easy for users to leave a review is powerful stuff, but are you making the most of your precious user generated comments? Consider this scenario. So many users leave product reviews on your pages that you decide to limit the number of reviews visible for that product. You could cherry pick some UGC for category listings pages, adding to the uniqueness of those otherwise content-thin pages too.

2) Use “other users found this document for”
I know Tom loves this trick, and rightly so. You can turn insightful recent searches data into valuable on-page uniqueness. Internal search and external referrals are great, but how about extending the process to make it easy for users to evaluate, extend, tag or remove terms they feel are irrelevant to the page?

This simple example shows how users of a forum site may have found that thread. I think there’s a whole lot more you can do with this trick, but it’s a start:

3) Consider delivering search engine friendly URLs in your internal site search results
I know how “out there” this might initially sound, but why settle for search engine unfriendly URLs on your internal site search pages? I have seen lots of examples of links being awarded to unfriendly, internal site search URLS. Why do we spend so much time carefully crafting our external URLs, only to completely forget our internal search URLs? A little extra development work to apply a meaningful pattern to your search result page URLs today could lead to the construction of an entirely new content type down the line.

Look at how folks are linking to these search query pages, and note the first example (where instead of a URL rewrite, this site is using breadcrumbs to make their ranking page URL appear more friendly):

4) Microformats are really gaining traction – be creative with them
What we’ve found with Microformats is that webmasters tend to apply the markup to web pages hosting the content, but that’s where they stop. Imagine you have a website that sells tickets. Do you add hCalendar to your event page and walk away? No! You can nest other Microformats such as hProduct and hReview, and syndicate your formatted data to other internal pages, snippets on your homepage and category pages. Any mention of an event, a link to a product or a review snippet should use the appropriate mark-up, consistently across your website.

5) Work hard to resolve errors and improve site speed
Think about how Google have placed site performance at the top of their agenda. I genuinely believe that a site riddled with performance issues and errors is tolerated less today by search engines than ever before. Websites with platform issues can raise serious problems for SEO, users, conversion and repeat visits. Fortunately, there are plenty of tools (including SEOmoz Pro, IIS Toolkit, Pingdom Tools and Webmaster Tools from Bing and Google) to help you identify and tackle these issues head on. Go and set aside some performance maintenance time, if you haven’t done for a while.

6) Watch your homepage title in Google’s SERPs
Google can be pretty aggressive when it comes to choosing the most appropriate text to appear in your title snippets. Sometimes, you might disagree with Google’s choice! Our tests so far indicate that the NOODP meta tag (used to prevent Google using the DMOZ description from displaying in your SERPS) can prevent Google from doing this, even if you have no DMOZ listing.

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SEO Booster PRO – WordPress Google SEO Booster PRO Premium Plugin

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WordPress Google SEO Booster PRO Premium Plugin

SEO Booster PRO is a Dynamic SEO Plugin for WordPress, that automates your WordPress blog by tracking, analyzing and utilizing the incoming searches from the search engines.

SEO Booster PRO automatically tracks your incoming visitors from Google, researches the current ranking of the keyword, and then starts promoting the best suited keywords, after installation, you dont have to do anything!

SEO Booster is packed with features:

v1.7 New Feature: Tag your blog posts with the search phrase used to find the blogpost!
v1.7 New Feature: Tag all other blogposts that contain the search phrase!
v1.5 New Feature: Boost your title-tags automatically!
v1.5 New Feature: Powerful PHP function for fine-tuning your WordPress Theme! Use the flexible function to dynamically display the most popular incoming searches for even better onsite SEO!

Updates automatically when your blog climbs the up the search engines, totally dynamic!
Find keywords you can target for even more traffic!
Export the data to Excel or any other spreadsheet application!

Finetune the settings to your exact specifications!
Lifetime upgrades! Get every new version directly to your e-mail!

SEO Booster PRO is a WordPress Plugin, and requires minimum WordPress 2.7 to function correctly. It has been tested and verified up to the current WordPress version (2.8.4). PHP v.5+ is ALSO A MUST requirement (It will not work with PHP4).

CleverPlugins.com is run by two people, Tony Lindskog and myself, Lars Koudal, and the story of how this came to be is a bit different, and I thought I would share it with the world.

I started myWordPress.com a while back (over a year in fact) to blog about my spare-time passion, WordPress. I initially also had the idea to make it a membership site with videos and in-detail tutorials and code snippets, but found my time was better spent coding and developing plugins for WordPress.

So the first plugin was born, SEO Booster PRO. This is by far the most popular and best-selling product so far. SEO Booster PRO was inspired by a few interesting articles and spun into a clever and self-optimizing plugin for WordPress users.

The initial hype and interest began when I first published the lite version for free, which became adapted by a lot of WordPress bloggers. The PRO version has more practical features, which makes the money well worth it.

During the development of my second premium WordPress Plugin, I came into contact with Tony Lindskog via Skype. Over thousands of im’s and mails a friendship formed, and now a partnership. Tony handles CleverPlugins.com, the affiliates, sales, pre- and post-sale support (we have very few support messages, most of our plugins just plain work out of the box).

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