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5 Most Efficient Tools for Website Analysis

Website analysis plays an important part in maintaining your website. You can either hire an agency for doing this for you or opt for a website analysis tool. If you are considering the latter, go through this list. It might just help you! Google Analytics: One of the most popular tools, Google Analytics is used by almost everybody. It gives you a lot of useful data on your site. Clicky: This tool has rightfully made it into this list because of it has tons of useful features. But this is not all! It is one of those very few tools that can be used from your iPhone. JAWStats: This is for those who liked AWStats. This tool does run in conjunction with the former, but has many more graphics. W3Perl: This can be used as a page tagging tool. It helps analyze logfiles, producing HTML and PDF reports. W3Counter: A free website analytics solution that provides answers to all your questions regarding the type of audience of your site and what holds their interest.

Tips for Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization is important for every website to get noticed by all the major search engines. If you are new to it, go through the following tips: Use bold letters where your keyword appears. But, keep this to a minimum level. Don't bold each and every keyword. Once or twice is enough. Have several links coming in to as many pages on your website. This technique is known as deep linking and works very well for maximum popularity. Make social bookmarking easy for your customers. This creates important links that increases your search engine value. You can make use of several bookmarking widgets available on the Internet. Submit your articles to e-zine publishers who archive their e-zines. This way your article will stay live for many years. Use article exchanges. These work like link exchanges and make you popular amongst all the major search engines. Have a site map for your website. This should be linked from every page on your websi

Top SEO Mistakes to Steer Clear off

With so much misinformation over the Internet, and an immense lack of knowledge about how SEO really works, you could ends up using the wrong practices and getting your site banned from the search engines. Here are some of the top SEO mistakes that you should avoid: Never use Flash for SEO: Flash sites may be attractive and eye-catching but the search engine won’t read or index the content on these sites. If you cannot avoid using Flash on your site but you still need the search engines to index your site, then you should offer an HTML version as well. The search engine spiders cannot read Flash content and can’t index it. Don’t overdo it with the JavaScript: Search engine bots are not designed to read or understand JavaScript. So, if your website contains a couple of lines of JavaScript, then the chances are the bots will ignore these lines. So, make sure that the JavaScript is kept to a minimum. Instead, you could create an external JavaScript file in cases where it is unavoidable. N