Tools and hints for webmasters

Registering site; Meta tag keywords; Monitoring
your site's acceptance & rating by others

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Registering your web site with search engines:

	How search engines work: SearchEngineWatch has a great deal of free information about how search engines work, how to submit your web site to search engines, etc. Very helpful. Goblet, a global marketing company located in Thailand, has a helpful essay on "why search engine marketing." It discusses how search engines are the best way for surfers to find web sites. See: http://www.globlet.com/
	Search Engine Optimization groups: SEO companies attempt to enhance the rating of web sites by search engines: An amazing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) site is SEO Company at: http://www.seocompany.ca (Disclosure: They handle the text ads on our home page and in a few essays in our website.) Another SEO group is Search Engine Optimization services at: http://www.seo-top.com/ Taree Internet is a website design, logo design and SEO company at: http://www.tareeinternet.com/
	Popular search engines: During 2003-JUN, ComScore Networks reported that the most common search engines were: Google™ 32%  Yahoo 26% AOL 20%  MSN 15%  Ask Jeeves 3%  All other search engines: 4%

Since then, Google's market share has risen above 50%.

Some helpful registry services: To register with Yahoo (one of the most popular of search engines), you first must search Yahoo and find a suitable location. e.g. http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion/ Then you click on the "suggest a site" button on the bottom of that page, and fill out a form. To register your home page with Google and a bunch of other search engines, fill out the following BraveNet form. Be certain to include your Email address correctly; some search engines check to make certain that the address is valid before they search your site: Search Engine Submitter Website URL: Your Email: Submit-Express submits your URL to six major search engines and to over two dozen meta-search engines. See: http://www.submitexpress.com  Scrub the Web offers a free meta tag analysis of a web page, and a free submission to 28 search engines, which they say handle about 99% of the search engine traffic.  is a free service that allows you to submit a home page to 13 popular search engines and directories. HitBox Central is a free service that submits your URL to 17 search engines. bCentral offers a free service to submit your web site to Google, HOtBot, All The Web, and WebCrawler.

Alexa toolbar: This is a free toolbar that you can add to your browser(s). You can also encourage your site visitors to do this as well. Alexa uses this to rank the popularity of Internet sites. Alexa states:

Each member of the community, in addition to getting a useful tool, is giving back. Simply by using the Firefox and IE toolbars each member contributes valuable information about the web, how it is used, what is important and what is not.

Click this link for the toolbar: http://www.alexa.com/site/download/

Meta tag keywords:

To see which search terms are frequently entered into search engines, Overture.com had a keyword selector tool Entering "religion" into this selector on 2006-MAY-07 gave the following results for the previous month:

266,041 religion
111,178 true religion jeans
36,395 bad religion
27,985 true religion
15,973 religion and spirituality
15,246 religion belief
10,697 greek religion
10,213 world religion
8,653 catholic religion
8.631 losing my religion
7.166 phillippine religion
6.061 muslim religion
5.488 islam religion
5,176 buda religion

Unfortunately, the free service Overture.com is no longer available. WordTraker offers a paid service with a free trial. See: http://www.wordtracker.com/  We have not tried this service, becuse it would not accept any of our Email addresses during the trial signup process.

Search Engine Spider Test Tool:

SeoBook has a free spider test on their website at: http://tools.seobook.com/ By typing in a URL, the program shows the page's source code, title, description, size in bytes, text, outbound links and common words and phrases.

Monitoring your website's acceptance and ratings by others:

• Urltrends enables webmasters to monitor their web site's PageRank, Alexa Rank, the number of users who bookmarked your website using Furl or Del.icio.us, link popularity and other information. See: http://www.urltrends.com
  
  
• TalkReviews displays information about websites, including a brief description, categories, Alexs Rank, Google PageRank, Link stats, common misspelled variations of the URL, a link to WhoIs, and the number of unique visitors per month over the past year. Curiously, they list this website as having only 20 outbound links and 5,023 inbound links. We actually have tens of thousands of outbound links and hundreds of thousands of inbound links. See: http://www.talkreviews.com/
  
  
• Alexa "The Web Information Company" displays traffic rank among Internet users worldwide, traffic rank among U.S. visitors, reach (the percent of global Internet users who visit the site), audience demographics, website reviews, similar websites, and clickstream (the site that visitors came from in order to enter the website, and went to after leaving the website. Go to http://www.alexa.com/ and enter a site name in the box near the top of the home page.

References used:

1. John B. Horrigan, "Why it will Be Hard to Close the Broadband Divide," Pew Research Center, 2007-AUG-01, at: http://pewresearch.org/

2. "Corporate information: Technology overview," Google.com, 2010, at: http://www.google.com/

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