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How to Test Your Website Robots.txt File in a Few Seconds

Telling search engines which pages of your website should, and shouldn’t appear in their search results is a relatively simple but important task. You do this by including a robots.txt file and this handy free tool will discover hidden errors in your robots.txt file and optimise it to follow SEO best practices.

The Motoricerca Robots.txt Checkertool is a shy and unassuming website to look at, but…

How to Collate SEO Data From Different Sources and Import it Into Excel

If you’re a slightly more advanced SEO buff then you’ll know that compiling the vast amount of SEO data from all the various SEO platforms can be a time-consuming and often tedious task, especially if you’ve got to then collate all that data to present to your Clients or Colleagues.

This is where SEOgadget for Excelis an extremely useful tool as it allows you to collage all of the SEO data from a…

How to Get instant SEO Insights Into Competing Websites With SEO Quake

Establishing the SEO data behind your competitors website is key to understanding why their website pages outrank yours. However, whilst there are many SEO tools that will show you some insights into your competitors website and their SEO metrics, wouldn’t it be great of you could get all the key information within Google’s search results page?

Well, you can do exactly that with this free SEO…

How to Find Editable Logo Artwork For Major Brands

If you’re designing a website and want to include a logo for a major brand such as Google, Facebook or Apple, trying to find editable artwork for their logo is both time consuming and frustrating.

This is where this great free resource comes in extremely handy – Brands of The World. Basically it’s a database containing thousands of well-known company logos in a variety of editable vector formats…

How to Find a Brandable Domain Name For Your New Business

If you’re just about to start a new business or launch a new product, creating a great name for your brand is just the first hurdle. One of the most frustrating things is finding that the domain name you want for your new brand has already been taken – back to the drawing board.

Therefore, it makes more sense to find a brandable domain name FIRST. Ideally, you want to get the .com domain…

Our Killer List of SEO Keywords That Buyers Use When Searching Online

We’re all busy people and nobody wants to waste time searching online when they’re looking to buy something or find a solution to a problem they have. Consequently, gone are the days when your customers would head to Google and type a single word like ‘shoes’ or ‘accountant’.

If somebody wants the most relevant search results in Google, they’re more likely to add a prefix to their search and it’s…

How to Instantly Add Placeholder Images Into Your Website Design

When designing a new website, you want to be able to add placeholder images to demonstrate how you intend the layout to look. A placeholder image is basically a ‘dummy’ image that is the same size as the actual image you intend to use, for example…

However, if you’re doing a lot of testing on your new design, you don’t want the hassle of having to continually change the dimensions of your…

How to Uncover Which Search Terms Your Customers Are Using in Google

Choosing the right keywords is an essential part of playing to your website’s target audience and attracting new traffic.

Say for example you have a small business selling shoes. There is precious little point trying to rank for very generic search terms such as ‘ladies shoes’ for two reasons:

Firstly, unless you’ve got a mega online marketing budget, it’s highly unlikely you’re going to get…

How to Discover Trending Search Phrases That Your Customers Are Using

Keywords, or the terms people search for in Google, should also be the foundations for your website content. Keeping up to date with current popular keywords is a vital part of retaining your website’s search position. There are a number of different ways in which website owners and businesses can get a better idea of the most favourable keywords to use in their online content and campaigns.

Th…

Why Your Business Really Should be Using Google Webmaster Tools

When it comes to gaining free visitors to a website, every business owner knows that ranking highly in Google is the most effective method. So surely if you want Google to send more visitors to your website, it would make sense to get an understanding of how Google sees your website?

And this is precisely why you should be using Google Webmaster Tools. If you’re not, then your first job when…

How to Remove Duplicate Entries From a List of Emails

Sorting data is no fun, especially when it’s a list of email addresses for an email campaign that you’ve got to sift through. Repeatedly sending the same email to the same person over and over again is a surefire way to get them unsubscribed from your list.

The problem is that a prospect list may consist of thousands of individual email addresses and above all else as a business you need to…

How to Add a Clickable Telephone Number to Your Website Pages

With more than half of web traffic now being on mobile devices, it makes sense to ensure that every element of your website is optimised for smartphones and tablets.

Once particular annoyance users come across is where a business has their phone number on the website but it’s either embedded in an image or needs to be copy & pasted into the phone dialler before the user can call the business.

Ver…

How to Get an Instant SEO Snapshot of Any Website With The SEO Toolbar

Gaining a better rank in the search engines is essentially a competition; your website pages versus the billions of others indexed by Google, Bing, etc. And like any competition, knowing the strengths and weaknesses of your competition is crucial if you want to gain a competitive advantage.

Whilst there are hundreds of SEO tools and services that will provide you with information about a…

How to Embed Infographics & Images Into Your Website to Encourage Linking

One of the most effective methods of gaining links to your website, and therefore increase your website ranking in the search engines, is to make your images and infographics easily sharable.

Imagine you have an image or infographic that other website owners want to add to their site pages. By making the sharing process a simple case of copying & pasting a snippet of code, you are actively…

How to Check What Parts of Your Website are Accessible to Search Engines

You may not be aware but buried in your website should be file called robots.txt. Sadly for you sci-fi fans, there are no actual robots contained in this file; it’s simply a file that helps search engine web robots with regards to your website content. It says what can be indexed (viewable with a search) and what is off-limits. These robots are often referred to as spiders or crawlers.

Most of…

How to Convert Word Documents to Clean HTML Without Formatting

Taking written content produced on Word and exporting it into an HTML editor is often a painful process. Formatting the text and getting the coding right is time-consuming and it is easy to make mistakes.

Thankfully, a nifty free tool called Word 2 Clean HTML solves this by converting Word formatted text into W3 compliant HTML – a quick, simple solution to a common problem.

The tool provides a…