Useful SEM tools

Kwmap provides a keyword map of the Internet. You enter a keyword phrase and the site gives you several related keyword options - one branch of which contains the original keyword phrase, the other related synonyms.

MyBlogLog allows blog owners to add community attributes to their sites. myBlogLog provides a software widget that may be added to a blog which shows icons for other MyBlog Log users who have recently visited your blog. It also enables visitors to become ‘members’ of the blog.

Formatclick.com provides several tools for formatting ppc advertising keywords, including a tool to find all the permutations of a keyword phrase.

Linkdiagnosis.com is a beautifully designed tool that allows you to enter a domain name and see a listing of all your backlinks, including whether they are ‘good’, ‘nofollow’ or missing. It also provides graphs of this information together with a bar chart of Pagerank distribution for all your links and a listing of anchor text.

Firefox add-ons

RightLynx tool Lynx shows you what a Web site if represented purely as text - in other words, as a search engine spider sees the site. Once installed it is accessed by clicking the right mouse button and selecting ‘YellowPipe Lynx viewer took.’

SEO Link Analysis Firefox extension shows more information in Google Webmaster tools including the PageRank for the linking page, the anchor text used on the link, and checks whether the link is nofollowed or not.

Web developer provides a wealth of tools that are aimed at Web developers but are also useful for the SEM professional.  Features include a tool to show how a Web page would appear on a certain screen size. It also enables you to disable CSS styles, clear cookies, disable cookies, disable Java and disable Javascript plus a wealth of other useful features.

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