SEO toolbox

[frenchy]

I'm new here, though I have been lurking for a while. I have spent days on this forum & have learned a tremendous amount.

With all of the stand alone applications out there to make our job easier, I am wondering what "tools" everybody has in their seo toolbox.

I know that most of us agree that automated submissions are poison, however, I am still curious as to any programs that you use.

I hope it is not out of line to be asking this.

Thanks,
frenchy

[lazerzubb]

none, that's my answer, everything that comes close to be called a program is run on a webserver somewhere.

(I don't count editors as SEO toolboxes)

[pageoneresults]

Hello frenchy and Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

I'm going to give you the whole shebang, sorted alphabetically...

Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Bid Management Programs
Email
Excel
FrontPage
FTP
Google Toolbar
Internet Explorer (5.5 and 6.0)
Internet Explorer Web Accessories (Right Click Functions)
Macromedia Fireworks
Mozilla
Netscape (4.7, 4.8, 6.0 and 7.0)
Notepad
Opera (6.05 and 7.0)
Quark XPress
Web Statistics Programs

Those are the primary ones that I usually traverse on a daily basis. A few years ago I would have given you a much longer list including those tools which were used for SEO.

The year 2002 brought about major changes in the industry and 2003 is sure to bring more. The tools we once used are no longer viable in todays environment.

[edited by: pageoneresults at 11:41 pm (utc) on Jan. 24, 2003]

[frenchy]

lazerzubb:

So does that mean that you dont use anything to calculate KD?

How do you measure link popularity?

How do you store & monitor your performance information so that you can view different performance trends overtime & tweak your tactics accordingly?

Not even an Excel spreadsheet to track urls?

[lazerzubb]

frenchy, I have all that online, nothing similar to that is stored on my local drive.
Just to be clear for me a Program is installed on a computer, and it's run by me localy on a computer, because i use a lot of the programs that Pageoneresults uses, but that's not SEO programs to me.

[JayC]

Yeah, if by "standalone tools" you're excluding browsers, editors, search engines themselves and their own tools (Overture's and Adwords' keyword tools, for example), and online stuff like WordTracker and Brett's tools [searchengineworld.com], and pageoneresults' mentions of things like email and ftp... the only other worthwhile tool I can think of is Excel or whatever spreadsheet program you might use.

Software applications that promise an easy route to effective SEO can easily be beaten by spending a few hours a day reading at webmasterworld. :)

[edit: fixed link]

[edited by: JayC at 11:46 pm (utc) on Jan. 24, 2003]

[pageoneresults]

So does that mean that you dont use anything to calculate KD?

Keyword Density Analyzer [searchengineworld.com]

Ah, now we're talking online tools. That might take a little while to put together and unfortunately I could not post the links here in the forum.

Just about anything you want to do is available through a search here or at Google, or, at your favorite SE.

[JayC]

I knew I was feeling deja vu. A related thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

[pageoneresults]

I knew I was feeling deja vu.

That happens quite a bit around here. ;)