SEO Tools

The absolute number one factor in SEO is content. In the long run, good content will beat any strategy to “game” or “beat” the search engines and will survive algorithm changes, technology changes social media changes.

Page one rankings are great but top three rankings should be the goal of a search engine optimization strategy. The top three rankings get 70% of the clicks with the #1 ranked spot receiving an estimated 70% of the clicks.

Fortunately, there are some SEO tools that make search engine marketing much easier and quicker. Tools that can help analyze the on page search engine optimization of a domain or web page (tip: analyzing the on page factors of top rated sites is a great way to figure out what the search engines are looking for for a search term. Tools that analyze not just the number of backlinks a domain and page have are a tremendous time saver, provide an easy way to determine how tough the competition is for a search and are very helpful in finding backlink opportunities.

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A solid SEO strategy includes:

1. On page optimization factors

Content
Title
H1 tags
Description (meta tags and data)
Site structure – themed (silo structure), internal links
HTML structure (site architecture)- how easy is it for search spiders to crawl your site
Load speed – how fast your website or blog loads

2. Off optimization page factors – basically backlinks

Anchor text
Location of the backlinks – within content vs. footer or sidebar, etc.
Authority of domain the link is on
Authority of the URL the backlink is on
Topic or theme of the domain and URL the bacllink is on
Naturalness of backlinks – link velocity, mix of anchor text and types (do follow and no follow, articles, videos, bookmarks, blog comments, social media)
Social buzz – an increasing factor in search engine rankings

The combination of on page and off page factors help Google determine what your site is about and how well it will satisfy the need of the searcher.