Tools to monitor your website
Success never comes with just putting your website on the net with the right amount of important keywords and all the right touches and expect that the traffic will flock at your website. It will never ensure that your website will get a good ranking you make use of the proper tools to monitor your website.
The competition on the web is an ever changing scenario. So you have to keep record of your own web results and make a track of as to what all is happening in the outer world to make sure that your website remains at one of those top ranking levels. There are a number of useful tools to help you find out what exactly is happening.
- A tool which can be used to monitor your own website links or other websites for broken links:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html - With the help of this tool you can monitor all the search engines for the number of back links to your URL i.e. other web pages which are linked to your website:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/ - It is very vital to know as to where the servers of your hosting company are physically located. Because, some search engines, for example Google is geared with certain tools which filter search results based on their physical location called geotargeting. This tool is used to know as to why your site is showing in only a certain country. You can use the following tool to research the country location of a particular competitor’s website:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/website-country/ - If you want to track the location of the user or a customer to your website, you can use the following link:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/ - If you want to know the Yahoo! web ranking of your’s or may be your competitor’s website, use :
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/webrank/ - If you want to check the web ranking of a website using a Mac or Apple computer, click on the following link:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/pagerank-mac/ - You must have a Google AdSense account to use this link. This link will offer you with charts and reports which will help you know more about your traffic, clicks, and results from your AdSense advertising
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-charts/ - If you own an AdSense account, you can monitor your website address or another website address to see what Google ads will be displayed when the user types certain keywords:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/ - This link will take you to a cooperative advertising network :
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/ - You can add the Search Functionality on your own website which uses Google.
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/search/ - Here are some links to free website counters which you can use on your website to know more about the traffic and hits:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/counter/
http://www.amazingcounters.com/?ref=gad033
http://www.cyber-counter.com/signup.php
http://www.statcounter.com/free_hit_counter.html
http://www.free-counters.net/