http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion The goal of Site Promotion is to drive quality traffic to your Web site. Included are a list of tools and resources for search engine optimization (SEO), getting your site listed and spidered, your page rank and links, promoting RSS feeds, and many others. Site Promotion Site Promotion Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion © 2004-2008, Douglas W. Clifton, loadaveragezero.com, all rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-US doug@loadaveagezero.com (Douglas W. Clifton) 2008-11-17T16:03:42Z 240 http://loadaveragezero.com/drx/search Search the Database q http://loadaveragezero.com/img/fav/drx/logo/drxRSS.gif http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion 88 31 A fully indexed, searchable Resource Directory for Web developers, designers and programmers. http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#SEW:home There are many search engine marketing portals out there, and a lot of them are pretty much useless hype and ad engines. This one is the real-deal and, from my own research, the best of the good ones. Excellent articles, weekly reports, RSS feeds... 2005-05-17T05:16:27Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#SEW:home http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form marketing search seo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#blogged:network A blog portal and search engine. What does this have to do with site promotion? Register yourself, submit your blog, get it reviewed and make it searchable, drive traffic to your blog, find other bloggers with similar interests to network with, and so on. 2008-11-17T16:03:42Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#blogged:network http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form blog marketing portal promotion reviews search socialnetwork Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#seoquake:extension SeoQuake is a powerful Firefox extension aimed at helping Web site owners/managers who deal with SEO and site promotion. The tool allows the user to collect, investigate, and tweak many important SEO parameters. Also available for Internet Explorer. 2008-10-31T19:43:30Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#seoquake:extension http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form firefox marketing promotion search seo web Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#alexaholic:traffic A front-end to Alexa traffic charts with a lightweight, Ajax-enhanced interface that allows site owners to compare domain traffic for up to five domains at once, switch traffic chart types and ranges, and generate report pages that are easily bookmarked. 2006-03-11T08:39:51Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#alexaholic:traffic http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form ajax stats Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#alexkirk:ten-steps From the creator of blummy, this detailed article outlines some great strategies for improving the performance of your Web site. Along with careful design and navigation, fast page load times are a top priority for visitor experience and thus retention. 2006-02-02T18:39:10Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#alexkirk:ten-steps http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form developer performance web Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#egosurf:org Why on earth would I list something as trivial as egoSurf in the Site Promotion category? Because along with being kind of fun, it also happens to be a great tool to find out how deeply linked you are on Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Technorati, and del.icio.us. 2005-10-10T03:10:02Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#egosurf:org http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form del.icio.us google search seo technorati yahoo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#seomoz:factors This article contains a large list of the factors that can influence a document's rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase. Well written, easy to follow and nicely thought out, worth a visit. 2005-10-04T23:58:18Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#seomoz:factors http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form google pagerank seo yahoo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#iwebtool:seo-tools Plenty here, and nicely designed and programmed. A backlink checker, link popularity from MSN, Google and Yahoo!, a metatags generator, multi-rank checker (Alexa and PageRank), multi-server PR checker, PR predictor, speed test, spider view, and much more. 2005-09-03T04:42:44Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#iwebtool:seo-tools http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form google pagerank search seo yahoo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#quirk:searchstatus A Firefox toolbar (actually, the status bar) extension that provides access to a whole array of information about any page you're visiting. Included are Google and Alexa rank, whois, robots.txt, indexed pages, incoming links, keyword density and more. 2005-08-30T04:28:56Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#quirk:searchstatus http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form extension firefox keywords search seo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#king:ping Ping-O-Matic is a great service, but it's not always reliable. When it's down, and you need to ping, or notify, blog search engines that your content has been updated, then this is a great backup. I use both, as King Ping includes some additional URLs. 2005-08-16T18:53:51Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#king:ping http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form ajax blog ping rss webservices Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#clickz:who-is-using-rss "Only two percent of adults in North America say they use RSS. That's compared with five percent of teens and young adults aged 12 to 21, according to research in a pair of new reports on marketing and RSS from Forrester Research." Wow, only 2-5%! 2005-08-06T02:23:13Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#clickz:who-is-using-rss http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form marketing rss Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#marketingstudies:net An online magazine that focuses squarely on RSS marketing strategies, publishing news, commentary, advice and developments. Staying up to date is as easy as subscribing to the RSS feed, go figure! 2005-07-24T17:19:41Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#marketingstudies:net http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form ezine feed marketing news rss Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#sejournal:news From the editor of the Search Engine Journal, and other contributors, comes daily news headlines from the search engine industry. Learn about the latest optimization and targeting techniques for the major search engines, and related breaking updates. 2005-07-15T19:38:14Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#sejournal:news http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form google search seo yahoo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#websiteopt:tweak Learn how to optimize XHTML, CSS, Javascript, graphics and more to increase performance, visitor satisfaction, and retention. The title is a bit of a misnomer, which is a good thing, since all of the techniques are listed by title with descriptions. 2005-06-27T03:31:56Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#websiteopt:tweak http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form css graphics javascript performance web webserver xhtml Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#hostbyte:portal Long before you start to worry about search engine and page ranking, it's important to carefully select a hosting provider that fits your needs. This hosting portal has guides, feature search, reviews, tools and even RSS feeds of industry news. 2005-06-27T01:01:36Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#hostbyte:portal http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form hosting portal web Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#overture:keywords Optimize your site for the most popular keyword searches. Enter keywords that are related to the content on your pages, and this tool will display the most popular recent searches that match. An excellent tool if you're targeting Yahoo! users. 2005-06-26T23:04:28Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#overture:keywords http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form keywords search seo yahoo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#buzzle:secret When Google filed for a US patent on their Page Rank (PR) algorithm, they had to disclose the methods used to calculate this important value. This article presents the skinny on these details, so it is definitely worth your time to give it a read. 2005-06-19T16:26:07Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#buzzle:secret http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form google pagerank search seo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#linkhounds:harvester Find all your inbound links (via the Yahoo API) with this free tool. Search an entire domain, or a particular URI. Handy links to whois, Internet Archive, and Google cache from each discovery. Includes source code so anyone can mirror the service. 2005-06-14T17:28:41Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#linkhounds:harvester http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form google search seo yahoo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#evolt:seo And they include: choosing keywords, site content, site structure, optimization, internal linking, human testing, submissions, link building, and monitoring. Yes, I know, that's only nine. The tenth one is "rewarding yourself", whatever that is. 2005-06-06T16:52:05Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#evolt:seo http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form search seo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#pingo:matic Ping at least a dozen different services from one easy to use form when you update your content. This can have an exponential effect, as many of these services are themselves crawled by other aggregators. A must for site owners with RSS feeds. 2005-06-05T00:49:02Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#pingo:matic http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form blog ping rss webservices Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#berea:seo In this article, Roger adds to the advice at the top of this category with topics that include: descriptive page titles, using valid, semantic and accessible markup, search engine friendly URLs, submitting your site, and a few things to avoid. 2005-06-01T03:17:53Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#berea:seo http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form markup semantics seo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#pagerank:google Nice little extension that displays the Google Pagerank of the current page in your Mozilla/Firefox status bar. Also indicates if the site is listed in the Google directory, and allows you to jump to it with one click. A Javascript port of PHP code. 2005-05-31T22:14:37Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#pagerank:google http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form extension firefox google pagerank search seo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#robingood:top55 If you don't have RSS feeds of your site content, I recommend getting on top of it before you get left in the dust. This marketing tool is quickly become just as important as search engine optimization. This page lists the top submission sites. 2005-05-17T07:44:26Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#robingood:top55 http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form blog directory marketing rss seo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#ala:seo Maintaining a good content to code ratio is important for achieving higher rankings with search engines. This article explores using structured markup and presentation separation to meet this goal. The bonus? Your site is standards compliant too. 2005-05-17T06:20:17Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#ala:seo http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form css markup seo standards xhtml Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#urltrends:report Find your page rank (PR), Alexa rank, incoming links from Google, MSN, Alexa and Yahoo! Your listing status on ODP (dmoz) and Archive.org (Wayback Machine). Allows you instant access to your report as an RSS feed, as well as notification via email. 2005-05-16T10:49:53Z http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Site_Promotion#urltrends:report http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php#form google pagerank seo yahoo Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion