Hey thanks for links I

mrgilb — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:19:09 +0000

Hey thanks for links I already use some of them and love them.

Interesting topic. And a

axl985 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:53:44 +0000

Interesting topic. And a useful one.

Before my sites go live, I want to make sure that all the links are good and working. I use this broken link checker to make sure that all my url links are intact. Leaves a bad impression on a first time visitor if a link is not going anywhere.

Here is another site that I

Greg K — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:13:09 +0000

Here is another site that I was made aware of by seo-browser.com (under their advanced tools and via e-mails with them):

http://www.copyscape.com/

Enter a page and it will search for sites that are possibly using your content on their pages and highlight results for you.

(some people don't realize that some companies can pay thousands of dollars for marketing research to optimize their wording, same as photos and designs)

Nice.

-Greg

More tools I have come

Greg K — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:34:38 +0000

More tools I have come across:

Here are some additional tools I have come across:

Xenu2 Fast little tools for quickly checking for link errors and listing out all items on your site. Report has many details. Not the fanciest looking tool , but quite effective. (hint, right click on an item and choose properties to see what pages on the site link to the item)

Feed The Bot Another site spider site to show you what search engines see at your site Give good list of links and keywords

Yahoo Site Explorer While Google is the big boy on the block this is a nice site where you don't have to be logged in to checksites. Enter your URL and it will show you what all is indexed on it by Yahoo. NICE PART: it will also show what sites it found that link to you site (similar to doing [B]site:www.whatever.com[/B] and [B]link:www.whatever.com[/B] on a Google search)

Fiddler For more advances checking/trouble shooting of sites, provides a local proxy that will let you see all your internet traffic. Great for tracking down connections on interactive sites, especially with AJAX calls. (I used this on someone's site that was hacked to figure out what file it was that made google trigger the site as an "attack site" which stops many current browsers from going there). This has tons of features, and I'm still learning new things on it. Again, more for advanced developers.

Enjoy.

-Greg

I always used W3C Markup

webdesigner — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:19:06 +0000

I always used W3C Markup Validation Service, validating web documents is an important step which can dramatically help improving and ensuring their quality.