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How Strong Are Your Web Pages?

Recently the kind folks over at SEOmoz developed a slick new tool which allows you to calculate what they refer to as your “Page Strength”.

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According to the creators of the Page Strength Tool (Matt Inman and Rand Fishman):

“SEOmoz’s Page Strength tool is intended to serve as an alternative to Google’s PageRank score in the toolbar, offering insight into how valuable, important and popular a site or page is as compared to others on the web…The tool is designed to satisfy the curiosity of webmasters, surfers and web marketing professionals seeking a better metric to quickly assess a site/page’s relative importance and visibility.”

What will the tool tell you?

  • The relative importance and visibility of a webpage
  • The potential strength and ability of a page to rank in the search engines
  • Data on popularity, links, and mentions of the page across the web

How does it work?

Simply enter your URL and let the tool do the rest. You will receive a calculation of your overall page strength along with a report card outlining how well you are doing in each of the areas that contribute to the score, including:

  • Number of links pointing to the full URL
  • Number of links pointing to the domain
  • Position at Google for the first four words of the title tag on the target URL
  • Age of the Domain
  • Number of links from domains with .edu TLDs
  • Number of links from domains with .gov TLDs
  • Alexa Rank and Google PageRank of full URL and Domain
  • Domain name visibility
  • Internal link percentage
  • Number of search results for a URL search at del.icio.us
  • Number of Listings in DMOZ (ODP)
  • Number of links found in Wikipedia

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After trying it out – I think this tool is great! It supplies you with a nice snapshot of your SEO efforts and helps you identify the areas that need improvement. You can also use the tool to strengthen your competitive analysis (apply it to your competitor’s sites to see how you measure up) and to rate potential link partners within your industry.

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Read Your Search Engine Robot Report

The Search Engine Robot Report is extremely valuable yet seems to be the least queried Web Analytics report (available in many but not all applications).
The Search Engine Robot Report tells you how often the Search Engines query your web pages, and which of your web pages it finds.
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The example above illustrates the frequency of visits to unique pages (rows) from the (arguably) top four search engines; Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com.
This report is important for sales managers, marketers and resources responsible for ensuring best practices in your company’s SEO(Search Engine Optimization)strategy.
The first step in your SEO strategy is to assure the search engines ‘crawl’ through all of the pages you want them to see. (To eliminate the search engines from reading private pages, make sure to have an updated robots.txt file for each of your sites. See “robotstxt.org”:http://www.robotstxt.org/ for more on the topic.

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