Free Web Site Tools
Free Website Page Design - Free Search Engine Submission

The following software is all freely available on the Internet. It is our selection of the best Free Website Optimisation and Ranking Tools that we have collected over the past three years. Please email us if you have any further suggestions of good websites or free software. We also have a page on Search Engine Optimisation that has lots of interesting Web Site Optimisation information.
Thanks and Enjoy!

Toolbars
We use (and strongly recommend) both Alexa and Google Toolbars

Alexa Toolbar - provides useful contact information, site statistics, user reviews and Popup protection.

Google Toolbar - For Internet Explorer - downloads very quickly and is probably the most widely used (several million downloads). This toolbar gives you a Google search box, PageRank, Popup protection, translate foreign pages into English, WordFind and highlight your search terms in different colours. (Google collects information when PageRank is enabled, but not if you've selected the option 'Install Without Advanced Features'.)

Keywords
Finding and Checking your Keywords

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ - This is a handy little tool will show you the results of your query from from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often.

http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/kwda.cgi - Excellent Keyword Density Analyser of Website Pages.

http://www.googlerankings.com/index.php - Check your position in the search engine of Google - Monitor your ranking free of charge. Fast and very useful!

NOTE: The following website tools, while very useful, have not been made with active links. This is necessary to preserve our page rank, so you need to copy and paste the http address into the browser. Sorry for the inconvenience - but they are useful websites so it is worth the few extra seconds to do this.

Free Search Engine Submission and Web Page Optimisation Tools

http://www.1stsearchranking.com/submission.htm - Submit your Web Site to Major Search Engines and Directories.

http://www.freewebsubmission.com/ - Free Search Engine Submission to - Aeiwi, Alexa, AlltheWeb, EntireWeb, ExactSeek, Google, HaSearch, MixCat, OnSeek, ScrubTheWeb, SearchIt, SearchEngine.com, SitesOnDisplay, SplatSearch, SurfGopher, TrueSearch, TryAmerica, Walhello, WebSquash, WhatUSeek. Also provides an ALEXA page rank for these search engines (and many more) so you can determine their relevance and importance.

http://www.addme.com/ - Free Search Engine Submission - Their Wizard can submit to these search engines: Google, Subjex, Alexa, Scrub The Web, FAST Search AllTheWeb, REX, LookSeek, ExactSeek, OnSeek, Voila, NerdWorld, Aeiwi, LifeTips, and EntireWeb.

http://www.searchmechanics.com/look/look.htm - Check which pages of your Web Site are listed in Five Major Search Engines - Alta Vista, Google, Inktomi, FAST, Teoma. Very useful.

http://www.top25web.com/ - Free Search Engine Ranking Report and Web Site Ranking Checker. Find out where your web site ranks in Google, Inktomi, and AltaVista. Discover your domain's page ranking and analyse the results of a particular keyword search. It's an easy to use, free tool. All you have to do is specify a keyword search, a domain to match the results against, and the number of results to match in the 'result set' (up to 500). Very useful.

http://www.seotoolkit.co.uk/search_engine_position_checker.asp - Checks if your search term is in the top thirty results for a large variety of Search Engines. Only allows ten results per day. Very useful.

http://www.searchengineworld.com/index.htm - Intelligent website with many useful Website Optimisation, Promotion and Ranking and Website design tools for free.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/ - News and discussion for the advanced web professional - Need to be a member but joining is fast and easy - A good site with interesting articles.

http://www.apromotionguide.com/index.html - Free Guide for Optimisation and Promotion of Website - Good links, very useful.

http://www.jimworld.com/ - Webmasters' Ultimate Toolkit - The iWeb Toolkit is a collection of tools, links, and utilities that Jimworld have been using over the years, and simply cannot live without. We finally decided to put them all online, in one easy to find place. Most of the tools you see here are freely available elsewhere on the Web. This web site is designed to make them all easier to find and use. We've let you know the originator of each tool where we could. All tools herein are used with the permission of their originators.

http://www.bruceclay.com/ - Free 'how to' information, advice, products, tools, links, and services offered for those planning to build, Optimise, and promote their own website. This information is especially for those performing Web site architecture, web design, web marketing, Website Optimisation, Promotion and Ranking, search engine ranking, search engine positioning, and other web site promotion tasks.

http://www.netmechanic.com - Variety of Website Optimisation, Promotion and Ranking Services, Tools and Articles.

http://www.searchguild.com/ - SearchGuild is a forum for the discussion of Website Optimisation, Promotion and Ranking and search engines. Why's your site taken a dive in the rankings? How can you improve them? Ask in here.

http://www.addme.com/tools.htm - The following are free - Basic Search Engine Submission, Basic Web Traffic Statistics, Link Popularity, Meta Tags, Keywords (find the most popular keywords in your field and to add them to your page as Meta Tags), Link Watch (track the links to your site that are placed on other website efficiently.

http://www.submitexpress.com/ - Free search engine submission and placement services.

Creating and Checking Meta Tags and HTML Code

http://validator.w3.org/ - Welcome to the W3C MarkUp Validation Service; a free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards. Validate Files - You can enter a URL in the Address field below, and have the page validated. Very Important and Useful HTML Validator.

http://www.scrubtheweb.com/ - Check Meta Tags, Free Search Engine Submission. We think its suggested limits on allowed Meta Tag lengths are low (and as always they want you to pay to be a member to get full results!).

http://www.northernwebs.com/set/setsimjr.html - Checks Meta Tags and advises on their length, repetition and relevance to Keyword Density of Page. (We are suspicious about its advice as it suggests a 'poor' relevance for our page when we know from doing a keyword density analysis that it is reasonable - and it wants to sell you some software to 'fix the problem'!)

http://www.netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm - HTML Toolbox scans your pages and lets you know about errors. Get a free test of up to 5 pages in your Web site! Our 5-point check-up will test your links, check your HTML code, rate your page load time, check your spelling, and more!

Google Specific Website Optimisation Tools and Articles

http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1921/com1921.htm - Article by Google developers Sergey Brin and Larry Page while students of Computer Science at Stanford University - 'The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine'.

http://www.internet-advertising-marketing-manual.com/google-optimization.htm - A very good article on Website Optimisation, Promotion and Ranking for Google with good links (can check when Google is updating Database - 'Google Dance').

http://www.apromotionguide.com/google.html - Useful Article on Website Optimisation for better Google Page Rank.

http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go - Their 'POODLE' spider mimics the Google Spider and shows how spider friendly your website is and how it will appear in Google. Very useful.

http://www.about-adsense.com/adsense-web-tool.html - Preview Which Google AdWords Will Initially Be Shown on Your Web Page With This Free AdSense Web Tool.

Checking Links

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html - Free Software download - Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on 'normal' links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time. (It is very useful, works well.)

http://www.checkyourlinkpopularity.com/ - Free Software Download of a Link Popularity Checker.