There are many things on the web which are unknown to many people. Few of those things are tools which can be a lot useful and might save you a lot of time in finding small pieces of information. These tools will not cost you a penny and will surely help you in some ways. Please have a look on them. We would be glad to share if you have info on any more good tool that can be added here.
The first and foremost, this browser is a very powerful thing which carries loads of features with it. You can use plugins available at their home page to enhance it’s functionality. Few of them which I use are
This plugin embeds on the bottom right corner of the browser in the status bar and tells about the traffic trend of the site you are visiting along with the Alexa traffic rank. There are although other options available which you can set according to the preference.
This tool displays rank of the visited site from Alexa, Quantcast and Compete. It also displays about the number of pages indexed in Google, Bing and Yahoo. The only reason of using this along with Alexa Sparky is that this add-on does not show the traffic trend of last six months.
- WOT
Web Of Trust, this is all it implies. It warns users about the visiting site if the site is not trustable. It installs itself as a button in the navigation bar. The color turns to dark green if the visited site is marked as trusted in WOT’s directory and also it turns to Red if it’s marked as non-trustable.
- Flagfox
A bunch of tools telling about the location of current site server, similar sites, safety checks and whois info.
2) WOORank
WOORank is a tool used to rank your site according to some predefined set of parameters. These parameters include alexa rank, google page rank, all the meta tags, backlinks, digg links, .org links, geotags, pages indexed in google, text/HTML ratio and much more. I use this tool regularly so that I could be aware of making some mistakes.
I tried many tools for checking the speed of my blog online but was never purely satisfied with any of the tools present. This tool is also not fully satisfying but still it’s preferable according to me as I have tried many online tools for speed test.
Who doesn’t know about this? I guess I am telling this for a formality. It’s a tool used to fetch the data of daily traffic on the site. It gives you details about how many visitors visited, how many returned, how much time everyone stayed, where they came from, whether they are new visitor or the older one, etc. These details help you to target your content.
5) Sitemeter
This is another tool like Google Analytics that is loved by many sites. The functionality is almost the same as with Google Analytics except that you have to install a small logo image of Sitemeter somewhere on the site. One more difference between Google Analytics and Sitemeter is that Google allows its free usage to as many sites as you want whereas Sitemeter allows only one site per profile. You have to pay if you want to add more sites.
6) Copyscape
Just enter the url of the content and you will get a list of the locations of the same content. This tool can help you to find out about where your content is being copied. It is a very old tool that is quite famous for its operations.
7) Pingoat
This service pings the number of known service that keep track of weblogs. Whenever you update your blog, a ping is sent to all these services and hence they crawl the blog and publish the content resulting in increase in popularity.
Ping-o-Matic
Another service for pinging but is a byte superior then Pingoat. It’s interface is more easy to use and is not buggy.
9) Digg
Digg is a social networking tool which if used in some proper way can enhance your presence on the web. You have to build a good network to get it working. The funda is, “You submit your content to Digg, Digg publishes it on front, other people on the network vote for that content (shortly called Digg it) and if that content gets enough votes, it gets a space on the top content page”. This sounds simple but it’s very much complicated. You have to build a very strong network who like reading your content.
10) StumbleUpon
Somewhat like digg with different procedure and interface. If you don’t like Digg, go on here.
11) coComment
To build links, we have to comment on other blogs, and that to with genuine comments. After commenting we generally forget about those comments, so to sort out this problem, a service was developed called cocomment, that keeps tracks of all your comments from the web. Just sign up and install it in your mozilla web browser.
12) Indiblogger
Recently I found this platform to increase my blog. It connects all the bloggers to increase network, promote the posts, ranks and also places contests time to time. This site is specifically targeted to Indian bloggers, but I guess there should be sites of these types for other countries to. Do have a search on Google.
13) Technorati
A very good tool to submit your site to. It links your blog through the feed. It crawls the updates on the blog and accordingly ranks the blog.
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