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Google updates Link: command Woohoo….

SEO Tipster — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:14:28 +0000

Google just updated their webmastertools features, with a new tab called link. This tab allows webmasters to view a bigger sample size of their inbound links, both external and internal links. This link tab is an updated version of the link command but more, it works similar to yahoo siteexplorer as you could narrow the listing to internal links only.

I played around with the new function and thought this is a great tool for webmasters like myself. It helps us have a better view of the sites linking to our pages, subdomains and websites. The type of link neighborhood we are getting and how Google sees our link neighborhood.

What are external links?
External links to your site are the links that reside on pages that do not belong to your domain. For example, if you are viewing links for http://www.google.com/, all the links that do not originate from pages on any subdomain of google.com would appear as external links to your site.

What are internal links?

Internal links to your site are the links that reside on pages that belong to your domain. For example, if you are viewing links for http://www.google.com/, all the links that originate from pages on any subdomain of google.com, such as http://www.google.com/ or mobile.google.com, would appear as internal links to your site.

Viewing links to a page on your site

You can view the links to your site by selecting a verified site in your webmaster tools account and clicking on the new Links tab at the top. Once there, you will see the two options on the left: external links and internal links, with the external links view selected. You will also see a table that lists pages on your site, as shown below. The first column of the table lists pages of your site with links to them, and the second column shows the number of the external links to that page that we have available to show you. (Note that this may not be 100% of the external links to this page.)

Source: Google WebmasterTools Discover your Links

So if you haven’t tried this yet, you should hope over to Google webmastertools and give it a try

WordTrackers Free Keyword Suggestion Tool

SEO Tipster — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:16:32 +0000

Wordtracker has come out with a free keyword suggestion tool. This tool uses the most used paid-for keyword data to list out the keyword frequencies and related keyword suggestions. With Overture’s inventory being overwhelmed, this tool comes at a nice time.

Why not give it a try - freekeywords.wordtracker.com

.Gov domain for auction on eBay?

SEO Tipster — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:25:20 +0000

Was catching up my RSS feeds today and found this post on www.davidnaylor.co.uk about this .gov auction on ebay. So i pop on by and found that this person is auctioning the .gov domain. Too bad its sold haha.

eBay .gov Auction

SEO Hat Color Pantone which hat color do you belong to White Hat SEO or Black Hat SEO or others)?

SEO Tipster — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:01:34 +0000

In my few months tinkering with SEO, I have heard of 3 mainstream SEOs - the White SEO, the Black Hat SEO and the Gray Hat SEO. But recently I read a nice article about the types of colored hats SEOs can have, which is funny. Take a look at the SEO hat ranges here at TimConverse.com

Taken From TimConverse.com

Here’s my attempt to give SEO’s more than just two or three colors.

Background: A naive (non-SEO) webmaster or content producer simply makes a site, without a thought or a care to the world of search engines. Or if there’s a thought it’s a thought of hopeful trust: if I make a useful interesting site on topic X, then the search engine will figure that out and deliver users who care about X to my site. SEOs and SEO-aware content creators construct sites instead with an eye to how search engines work, and make content that is designed to be retrieved. The white-hat/black-hat continuum is about the extent to which SEOs are working with search engines or against them. Black-hat SEOs are also known as search-engine spammers.

Dark inky black: The SEO’s (or in this case the spammer’s) interests are totally divergent from both the engines and the users…

Charcoal: The SEO tries to trick the engine into showing the user something totally unrelated to the query, and possibly offensive…

Luminescent pearly white: This would be a case where the SEO designs a site to show up for relevant queries and not to show up for irrelevant queries…

And Many more colors Read More

Have fun