My SEO Tips – Get Insights to Internet Marketing Tips

This post was inspired by revisiting some of the old tools I used in the past and I thought why not pay a visit to memory lane on some of the tools and sites that brought online marketing to where it is today.  Do note – this is just a small list of random tools that came to my mind at the point of writing, so I know there would be others that I missed out.

Keyword Research: GoodKeyword tool, this is a free keyword tool where one can conduct keyword research. The data is pulled of overture, but since overture is pretty much not maintained I guess the tool wouldn’t be that useful.

Competitor Analysis: Alexa ranking at one point in time was the only place where we could openly get competitor stats for free. The toolbar helped tracked user behavior and how many people visit a particular site. However as the data is skewed towards individual who had installed the toolbar many had question the accuracy of the rankings.

Site Indexing: In the past when launching a new site it used to take about months to get the search engine spiders to find your site. One of the tools Google came up with to help them be aware of which sites are new would be the Add URL page. Found here – www.google.com/addurl.html. These days Google can index your site in hours, so no need to manually submit your site anymore.

Search Engine Rankings: DMoz.org the webs open source directory. It was known as a source of authority, getting listed here means you have a very powerful inbound link to your site. Ran by volunteers, the site was the crazy for many webmasters and SEO professionals. These days, it’s more like a forgotten site where having a link is good to have.

Read an article coverage on Webpronews.com about YouTube testing a new video rental feature on its site. Publishers can know have an option to either rent their clips or make them ad supported. What this new rental feature allows publishers to do is set rental pricing, duration and IP target geographies in terms of who can view and who cant view. These features are good for YouTube in terms of supplier relations and monetization. Now Youtube has a revenue model that suppliers are familiar with and are more willing to place their content on.

Now the only thing I wonder is if this catches on, would it kill companies like Netflix who predominately does dvd rentals by mail, after all YouTube has the support from Google infrastructure to bring cost down. I guess only time will tell.

(FYI – netflix is focusing on web streaming rentals as well)

Would if when this video rental feature comes out of testing would Google have a platform to allow independent film makers rent their video wares as well, it could open up a whole new stream of content boom in YouTube.

Photo Credits – Yuya Tamai

Hello and welcome to myseotips.com. I am creating this seo blog or website to keep track of my seo research, experiments and findings with regards to search engines. I continuously try to keep track of things which search engines (google, yahoo and msn) like, dislike or hate. So if my research, experients or findings are of any use to you, go ahead and use them.

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Ryan