Use these tools to better understand the search engines' perception of your website, and the factors they use in ranking your site. The most important of these include keywords & phrases, the number, quality, and relevancy of links to your site.
search engine spider simulator
The search engine robots (also called spiders, crawlers, or bots) can't read images or Flash, and they don't care about the layout of your site. What they do care about is what words appear on your site and in what combination.
Use the tool below to see your webpage as spiders do. If the results don't show the keywords for which you'd like to be found, revise your text.
See where your site is found in the search engine listings for your keyword or keyphrase.
Google pagerank (PR)
PageRank is a value (from 1-10) representing the approximate importance that Google assigns to each webpage. (For instance, Google & NASA are 10, Microsoft & CNN are 9, Oprah & Fender Guitars are 7, Quanta Webdesign is a 5.) Read our article about pagerank.
This tool checks your rank on Google's various datacenters. They'll usually all be the same; if they differ Google is probably about to update their pagerank (this happens 3 or 4 times a year).
Google PageRank, Alexa, and link popularity checker
Several useful reports, in one fell swoop. The link popularity tool queries 4 search engines & reports how many links to your site each found. (Google only lists a fraction of links found & Yahoo reports links to all pages on the site.) The number of links (and their quality & relevancy) is an important factor used by the SEs in judging your site's importance.
view source
To view the source code of a webpage, right-click on that page and click 'view source." Or, just input the page's address below:
Google toolbar
Google's toolbar allows you to search Google - or any website - from the toolbar. Other features include PageRank display, highlighted search terms, a translator, pop-up blocker & more nifty tools. Customizable, and free.
Download Google Toolbar
Count the words on your page
Just input your text here to get a word & character count. Helpful for webpages & for writing descriptions to submit to directories.
more website tools
Check out our web resources page for more cool tools such as html & css validators, helpful software & more.
Questions?
Good luck with your site! Please let me know if you'd like to use my services, or if you have any questions!