SEO software... which is best?

[Cinnamon Thunder]

Does any of you have experience in SEO software packages that analyzes
your pages optimization, ranking etc. etc.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

 

[Cinnamon Thunder]

I was about to purchase webceo pro, but thought i'd ask here first.

 

[Chaddy2222]

I was about to purchase webceo pro, but thought i'd ask here first.

I use http://www.addme.com for submitting my websites to the Search
engines.
However, I would not really recomend useing a lot of the so called seo
techneques, as recomended by a lot of "experts".
Well, but their is a few things you can do.
Use the Title and description effectivly in your Meta Tags, make sure
you have a lot of links from other sites pointing to your site, but
make sure they are relevent.
I would also recomend having heaps of usefull content on your site.
But, make sure that the SE bots can access all of your site, this
includes pages that are dynamicly created.
Or provide an alternative to pages that can't be accessed.
I hope that helps.[/QUOTE]

 

[PeterMcC]

Cinnamon Thunder wrote in

Does any of you have experience in SEO software packages that analyzes
your pages optimization, ranking etc. etc.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

You'd be better off asking in alt.internet.search-engines though my own view
is that you're better doing the SEO yourself rather than relying on a
software package. I guess it's a bit like the hand-code/DreamWeaver
argument.

Lots of info, if you go down the DIY route, at:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/feature/seo.htm
http://www.bruceclay.com/
http://www.highrankings.com/

If you only look at one:
http://searchenginewatch.com/

Good set of links at:
http://www.kruse.co.uk/resources.htm

And there's the alt.internet.search-engines FAQ:
http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Cinnamon Thunder

Does any of you have experience in SEO software packages that analyzes
your pages optimization, ranking etc. etc.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

As others have suggested, doing it yourself is probably a better idea.

Here's a tool I find quite useful
<http://www.checkyourlinkpopularity.com/> Link Popularity Check. The
tool checks various search engines to see what how many links there are.
It's not the best tool, but it can give you some insight. The program is
free, because they want you to buy Arelis4, a program that crawls the
Internet looking for similar sites and sending out template link exchange
letters. I think the idea of sending someone a personal note to ask for
a link is a good idea, but I can recognize a template one from miles away
and don't do business with them.

Raw web logs - they look like Greek, but, infact they are just plain text
files that have delimited data. You can import them into a spreadsheet
or database and then analyze them yourself. If you want a program to do
it, I found Surfstats <http://www.surfstats.com/> to be quite good.

What you want to look for:
1. Error pages - fix them
2. Referer - this can tell you how people are getting to your site. A
good thing to look at is the actual referrer string, and paste that
referrer string into a browser to see what the person who came to your
site saw.
3. Time spent - if they took time to look around, or just left
immediately.

I would also suggest using presentationless semantic markup. It's easier
on the bots, easier on users (especially those on a slow connection),
easier for the developer.