Capache.com – amazing tool for SEO analysis of web sites

During my work as web developer and designer I’ve been tested a lot of free on-line applications which analyze your web site and give you advices how to improve your SEO. All this sound fantastic but is it really so.

In the most cases these tools tells me things I already kwon so there are no benefits for me. Many of these applications have very imitated features in their free versions to make the users go with the paid editions. Others put tons of bulk information on the screen and you may get lost and miss the important things.

Recently I found an onsite SEO analytics tools with amaze me with its simplicity and information structuring. You can check it on www.capache.com and make some test. Some features which I like most are:

• www resolve
• Text/HTML ratio
• Images count

Of course this application is not perfect and I notice some bug which will be reported. These are:

• Yahoo! Directory: – always shows Yes even on sites which doesn’t have
• Favicon: – again… shows Yes for sites which doesn’t have favicon
• Google Page Rank: – can’t detect it properly

SEO tips

1. Domain name: Having keyword phrases in your domain is the most important thing for the search engines for rating your site. Be sure to have some keyword when you choosing your site name. It’s also very important to have keywords in you file names.
2. Title and Meta tags: The content of the title tag has also a big impact on you quality score. Be sure you mansion the keywords which are most important for you in this tag. The meta description tag is displayed in the search engine results so this is the text which brings the user in your site. Having your keywords is h1 tag is also very good practice and will help for better ranking.
3. Content: The content for the web site is important and always has to be unique. Copy test from some other internet site will detected for sure and will be treated as duplicate content.
4. XML sitemap and Robots.txt file: It’s good the have this boot files in the root directory of you site. The XML sitemap will “tell” the search ensigns where are located all pages of you web site and will have them by indexing the content. The robots.txt file will “give” some additional information e.g. which pages should excludes form the search results.
5. Clear source code: Search engines “like” properly written web sites. Check yours which for the W3C standards and fix the errors and warnings if they appear in the code. Put the Cascading Styles Sheets in separate css file.

cliconomics’ link wheel model

cliconomics presents a new approved link wheel model for increasing the web site rating.

The main deferens with the classic link wheel is that in the new model are uses several link wheel which main sites are pointing to the money site. They also pick one form the web 2.0 properties and create a link to the money site.

Additional tips are to use variety of anchor text and also put unique content in each web site.

See the cliconomics presentation here!

WordPress.com as SEO instrument

I’ve just heard that wordpress.com is a great SEO instrument.

Will see…