SEO Management Tool – Track Your Progress With SEO Elite
We’ve been talking a lot about link building this past week and how we can use links to move up in the search engines. One of the challenges when it comes to search engine optimization is to keep track of what works and what doesn’t over time. The only way to do that is to keep an eye on where you are ranking for keywords, how that changes over time and what your competition is doing.
You could check your rankings by entering your keywords into Google and scrolling through the search results once every couple of days and then chart your progress in a spreadsheet. While that works fine for a handful of keywords, as your site expands, it becomes a lot of work.
Instead I like to automate the process with a piece of software called SEO Elite. It allows me to enter a keyword as well as the url of the page I want to rank for. It then searches my rankings each day and charts overall progress for me.
But that’s just one of the 8 different things SEO Elite can do. There is a total of 8 different projects that can help you with your SEO. They are:
- Analyze backlinks using a specified search engine
- Get links to your website
- Analyze AllInAnchor, AllInTitle or AllInText
- Verify that link partners are still linking back
- Find where your site is ranked for a given keyword
- Find out how many pages are indexed
- Find possible authority websites
- Submit your articles to article directories
As mentioned, I use the project that allows me to see where my site (or any given page on my site) ranks for a particular keyword the most. Being able to analyze backlinks and check on AllInAnchor and AllInTitle are also quite useful when I’m trying to figure out how hard it will be to compete for a particular keyword.
You can also use analyze backlinks to look at a competitors incoming links and then go out and try to get links from those sites as well.
Finding out how many pages are indexed can be useful in two different ways. The first thing you want to do is run this report on your own website. Compare how many pages the software shows you have indexed to how many pages you think you have. If your number is a lot bigger than what the software shows, you may have a problem with your site not getting indexed properly. Usually a sitemap and some proper internal linking can take care of those issues.
Next you can also run the same report on some of your major competitors. Larger sites tend to rank better. By spying on your competition this way you’ll see how large you may want to build your site over time.
And I’m not the only one who likes this software. Here’s what Dan Thies from SEO Fast Start has to say about it:
“There are a lot of tools available for managing and checking links, but SEO Elite fills a great niche. It has a very simple interface, it’s very fast, and it has proven quite useful in researching our competition.”
You may also like to read:
- Wordtracker Free and Paid Keyword Tool Review
- Google Adwords Keyword Tool Review
- Keeping Track Of Great Blog Post Ideas
- Link Popularity Tools – How To Find Out Who’s Linking To You
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