Tools to Monitor, Measure, and Track Your Website

15th January, 2010

PAGE ANALYSIS:

  1. SEOmoz Page Strength Tool – A useful tool that gives an overall look at the strength of a page.
  2. Sitening’s SEO Analyzer – See if your pages are structured to achieve high search engine rankings.
  3. Self SEO’s Page Speed Checker – Test the load time of your pages and your competitor’s pages.
  4. GoogleRankings.com – Check the use of keywords and phrases on your site.
  5. Popuri – See several items such as PageRank and inbound links all at once.
  6. Keyword Density Analysis – See how frequently you are using certain words and phrases.
  7. Meta Tag Analyzer – How are search engine spiders seeing your meta tags?
  8. Strongest Subpages Tool – Finds the 30 strongest subpages on your domain.
  9. Similar Page Checker – Avoid duplicate content.
  10. SEO Analysis Tool – Measures the ranking potential of a page.
  11. WebSitePulse – A few different tools to test your sites performance.
  12. Website Grader – Get a score for your site and even compare it to competitors if you want.

STATS:

  1. Google Analytics – The leading free stats program.
  2. AWStats
  3. StatCounter
  4. AddFreeStats
  5. OneStat
  6. Alexa – See where your site ranks.

BLOG STATS:

  1. FeedBurner – Stats on your feed and your subscribers.
  2. pMetrics – from Performancing.
  3. pMetrics Plugin– Extending pMetrics.
  4. IceRocket – Free stats program for blogs.

STATS PLUS:

  1. Crazy Egg – Provides visual data about your visitors.
  2. Mint – An extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program.

WEBMASTER TOOLS:

  1. Google Webmaster Tools – Lots of information that shows you how Google sees your site.

CHECK AND TRACK SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS:

  1. Sitening’s SERP Tracker – Test your page’s optimization.
  2. Search Engine Rankings Checker – From Mike’s Marketing Tools.
  3. Google Banned Checker – Has the largest search engine in the world banned your website? Find out here.
  4. Number of Pages Indexed – How many pages do you have indexed by search engines?
  5. Website SEO Checkup – Make sure you’re ready to get high search engine rankings.
  6. GeoTargeting Detection Tool from SEOmoz – Determine how well your site is targeted to country specific search engines.

GOOGLE PAGERANK:

  1. PageRank Prediction – You need a minimum of 100 backlinks.
  2. Smart PageRank – Check your PR.

REPUTATION AND BUZZ MONITORING:

  1. Google Alerts – Have preset alerts sent to you by email.
  2. co.mments – Monitor comments on blogs.
  3. Conversation Tracker from BlogPulse
  4. Trend Search from BlogPulse
  5. Keotag – See if blogs are using your company name in the tags of their blog posts.
  6. BoardTracker – Watch for mentions of your company in forums.

LINKS:

  1. Dead Links tool from W3C – Find broken links.
  2. Link Popularity Checker – From Mike’s Marketing Tools.
  3. Xenu’s Link Sleuth – Find broken links.
  4. Backlinks and Anchor Text – See who’s linking to you and what anchor text they are using.
  5. Reciprocal Links Checker – Do you have agreements with others for reciprocal links? Check them here.

SPIDER SIMULATOR:

  1. Summit Media’s Spider Simulator
  2. Spider View
  3. Webconfs.com Spider Simulator

CSS ANALYSIS TOOLS:

  1. Clean CSS – Formatting and Optimizing
  2. CSS Tidy – Optimizer and parser.
  3. CSS Redunancy Checker – Redundancy is easy to do with CSS. Fix it with this.

VALIDATORS:

  1. HTML – Validator from W3C.
  2. CSS – Validator from W3C.
  3. RSS – Validator from W3C.

WEBSITE PERFORMANCE:

  1. AlertSite Website Performance Monitor
  2. KeyNote

GOOGLE ADSENSE:

    BROWSER COMPATIBILITY:

    1. BrowserShots – See screenshots of your page in a number of different browsers.
    2. Ready.mobi – Test your site for use with mobile browsers.

    OTHER:

    1. Geotargeting – find the location of your host’s servers
    2. Find Your Site’s IP Address

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