General Discussions

**shadav** · 12-03-2006, 11:47 AM

wasn't sure where to put this...feel free to move it to a more appropriate place

Page Strength
Very nice tool that checks the page strength of your site...kind of like googles page ranking but much better

and checks a lot more things.

Summit Media Spider Simulator
don't worry so much with the way it ranks stuff lol
but it's good for, it checks

to make sure it can find your server lolol *that's kinda nice*
the size of the page
for broken links
that you have a page title
that you have a page description
that you have keywords
your meta tag info
if you have an H1
how many images are on your page and if they have a description (alt text) and comments about it
the html size
how long it took the page to load
the body text

Markup Validation Service
*i hate this site :P it's always finding errors*
Very great site, shows exactly where your errors on the page are and kinda how to fix it...

btw if you'd like to add a google page ranking icon checker to your site here's the link
http://www.prchecker.info/index.php
and for those that are curious : What does Google PageRank really mean?
and it does make a difference http://www.yoursite may not always come out the same as http://yoursite or if you have more than one domain pointing to the same place...it may come out differnt....

**eNoobz** · 12-03-2006, 05:41 PM

Great tools Shadev. Thanks for sharing them with us.

**shadav** · 12-03-2006, 08:11 PM

no problem

I'm always looking for ways to improve my site and the way that the robots crawl and index it.

if anyone knows any other tools or helpful things please feel free to post them as well

**shadav** · 12-07-2006, 09:15 PM

here's some more

Free Online Mod Rewrite Tool - htaccess
Description: Free online mod rewrite dynamic url's to static crawler friendly rewriten url, with simplistic to use features even for the novice webmaster. Example http://example-site.com/c gi-bin/submit.cgi?q=shop& category=shopping&type=re tail http://example-site.com/s hop-shopping-retail.html Features: RewriteBase path prefix(SEO improved url path), prefered Delimiters charaters "-" "/" "_"(optimized for google eg /some-page.html, aswell as quick suffix extensions. It has may features, make sure you click the buttons to make full use of the script, like below Parameters Prefix Delimiters Suffix

Crap Load Of Webmaster Tools You are allowed 2 or 3 trials...if you sign up with the site (for free) you get unlimited access....i've not really played with it much yet but seems nice

Google Tools and Products

**Republikin** · 12-07-2006, 09:44 PM

http://sitescore.silktide.com/

That is simply fantastic. It will really give you an indepth look at your website in ways that you never really thought about.

**shadav** · 12-25-2006, 09:49 AM

and some more helpful stuff

More Tools

Google Sitemap Generator
Description: Google sitemap Generator powered by Pingoat and recommended by google (http://code.google.com/s m_thirdparty.html) will crawl your website and create a sitemap in seconds. You can also choose upload the newly created file on your server using your FTP details.
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How To Cut Back On Bandwidth & Page Loading Time

How To Make Your Site Faster
Option #1:
Open your .htaccess file and add the following code to it:

Code:

php_flag zlib.output_compression On
php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5

Option #2:
Open your php.ini file, if you don't have one create a file called php.ini in your public_html
Add the following code to it:

Code:

zlib.output_compression = 4KB

either one of these options should speed up your sites loading time
it's supposed to help cut down on your bandwidth and download time using GZIPPING

CSS Compressor
another nice tool...helps a bit by cutting down of css file sizes..every little bit helps

Quote:

Use this utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well. You can choose from three levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression. The "Normal" mode should work well in most cases, creating a good balance between the two.

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Top Searched Words

from another forum

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Originally Posted by Dark Rider

http://www.google.com/trends
http://inventory.overture.com/d/sear...ry/suggestion/
these 2 tools list top searched for phrases in search engines, and are very useful when you are trying to pick some keyphrases for you site, or if you are trying to see if there is enough interest in your new web site idea by checking to see if some of the key phrases are often searched for. I pretty much always use these 2 tools when creating new content or when thinking of new web site ideas and i highly recommand you check them out.

Top Paying Keywords - Free List
Top paying Adsense keywords that will bring you maximum revenue with Google Adsense.