SEO Elite Review

SEO Elite Review – Review of SEO Elite and Comparison with Other SEO Tools

This is a detailed review of SEO Elite, one of the most popular SEO tool in the market and how it compares with other competitors such as Arelis, Link Assistant, Dynamic Link Promoter, etc. SEO Elite™ 4.0 was recently released and it is now packed with more powerful features to help your website outrank your competitors.

SEO Elite Features:

1. Finding Authority Websites and Getting Them to Be Your Link Partners

SEO Elite makes it fast and easy to find authority websites, ie websites with high PR and considered by major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN as top websites in their niche. This neat SEO tool also has a built-in interface to allow you to email these webmasters directly all at the same time to trade links. Whether you prefer to go for numbers and send a similar email to all, or want to add in some personality to your email, you can customize it according to your wish. Remember I mentioned about the importance of backlinks in building link popularity?

2. Analyze Backlinks of Any Web Page in The Major Search Engines

SEO Elite provides a feature that helps you to analyze the backlinks pointing to any web page. The tool will do an “X-ray” scan on the webpage. With a few simple clicks, you can view the details of a web page and know every bit of vital information you need about the page such as their link partners, their Google Page Rank (PR), Alexa Traffic Rank, IP addresses, Whois contact information, email addresses, title of page where backlinks are found and anchor text of backlinks, etc. This tool does an excellent job in spying on your competitors to study and copy their linking strategy.

3. Check if Your Webpage’s Backlinks are Dead

Even though you have kept good faith in linking to your link partners, but the same cannot be said about them. Some unscrupulous webmasters would take off their links to your website once they know that you are already linking to them. If you have a lot of websites, and therefore many web pages, the whole process to verify the backlink status can be a tedious manual process. SEO Elite keeps it really simple for you. Not only so, this SEO tool would give you a detailed report on which web page is linking to you, the anchor text used, the web page PR, Alexa Ranking, page title, etc. Link maintenance is a breeze with SEO Elite.

4. Submit Your Webpage Link to Thousands of Websites

SEO Elite will locate websites with in-built link submission scripts that accepts your link submission. The tool not only finds hundreds or thousands of relevant websites, but provides you with one-click submission. This is a huge time and money saver. Lots of webmasters are paying substantial sums of money to link building companies or link brokers such as One Way Links, Text Link Brokers, Got Links and directory submission services for quality links. This cool feature will get many one-way backlinks to your website and boost your search engine ranking in no time.

5. Track Your WebPages’ Ranking in the Search Engines for Specific Keywords

Tracking the performance of your websites can be a painful experience especially if you own many websites. Imagine having to go to each search engine to trace what search engine position your website is at, and whether your web pages are indexed or taken off from the major search engines. As a webmaster, our efforts should be on driving traffic to our websites and not spending quality time doing such menial tasks. This is especially true when there are SEO tools such as SEO Elite to take over the task for us. SEO Elite has the ability to track unlimited number of websites and give a clear analysis and report on the status of each WEB PAGE.

SEO Elite – How Does It Compare With Other SEO and Link Popularity Tools

We will do a quick comparison of SEO Elite versus a few top SEO and link popularity tools such as Arelis, Link Assistant, and Dynamic Link Promoter, etc. We would be using the following criterion:

1. Finding and Obtaining Quality Link Partners

All of the SEO tools are able to find quality link partners for specific keyword niches, except Dynamic Link Promoter. SEO Elite and Link Assistant both scored well in terms of sending personalized emails to potential link partners. Arelis and Dynamic Link Promoter are pretty limited in this feature.

2. Checking Link Partner’s Google PR, Link Popularity etc

Once again, SEO Elite and Link Assistant are the rare breeds amongst SEO and link popularity tools to provide this useful feature. Most competitors including Arelis and Dynamic Link Promoter do not come with this feature built-into their interface. Though Link Assistant is able to give you details about the Google PR, link popularity and Alexa of any web page you provide, it lacks the rich features SEO Elite comes with. Moreover, SEO Elite would reveal more things about each web page such as its IP address, Whois information, age, and even such details of web pages linking to them. In terms of robustness, this SEO and link popularity tool outruns any other link popularity tools.

3. Tracking the Progress of Web Pages in Search Engines

SEO Elite and Link Assistant are able to track their websites’ popularity and ranking in search engines for targeted keywords quite easily. This is where other competing link popularity tools fall behind. Both are excellent in this aspect but we suspect that more would like the simple interface of SEO Elite which is easier to navigate over Link Assistant.

4. Checking Backlinks

Forget about going to some free online resource and depending on backlink checking softwares to see the backlinks pointing to your websites. Most of them do not return in-depth results to give you a meaningful idea of how many backlinks your websites really have. This is a powerful feature that lets you know whether your link partners are sabotaging you by taking your links offline. All link popularity has this essential feature.

5. Link Submission Capability

We found that only SEO Elite and Link Assistant come with this special feature during our review of top link popularity tools. This is one of the most valuable feature we feel every link popularity tool should have. We love the idea of being able to simplify the process of finding and submitting urls to link submission pages at SEO Elite.

The verdict is out on the top SEO and link popularity tool – SEO Elite is our choice. Even though Link Assistant trails behind very closely and is slightly cheaper, $149.95 compared to SEO Elite $167, we find SEO Elite’s user interface exceptionally easy to understand and use. It is dummy proof and suitable for any webmaster, so whether you just started building your first website or are an expert with dozens of websites, this tool would blow you away with its simple yet versatile functionality. We also trust Brad Callen, the developer of this software, as a respected authority in the arena of search engine optimization. Having used SEO Elite to optimize his websites, many of these sites are now enjoying top search engine ranking and positioning in Google, Yahoo and MSN for targeted keywords.

SEO Elite | Off-page SEO Tips

SEO Elite – Effective SEO Tips and Tricks For Off-page Optimization

SEO Elite and other search engine optimization (SEO) tools are extremely useful in off-page optimization. The theory of off-page optimization is simple. The popularity of a webpage decides its position or ranking in the search engines for the targeted keyword. However, the difference here is the algorithm different search engines use to measure popularity. Another difference between the search engines is the weight they place on popularity of the web page in their web ranking algorithm. There are other off-page factors that the search engines consider when deciding where your web page would appear in the search results.

If you have been a webmaster for a while, you would understand the importance of link popularity. A link pointing to your web page or website is a vote of confidence for your website. It used to be easy to grab top search engine positions in the early 90s when the internet was in its infancy stage. By just getting a number of links to your webpage, you can easily outrank your competitors. But gone are those days. Nowadays, search engines look beyond just the quantity of backlinks that are pointing to your webpage. Google has the most sophisticated algorithm to measure the popularity of a webpage, followed by Yahoo and then MSN.

Let’s take a look at what are the key factors in determining the popularity of a web page for a specific keyword:

Effective SEO Tip 1 - Quantity of Backlinks

While Google is not giving too much weight to quantity of backlinks in its search engine ranking algorithm, the number of backlinks to a web page is still important for the smaller search engines. One hint for you is to take advantage of this. Take at look at the latest search engine market share figures in 2006, you would notice that the smaller search engines account for about half the number of online search traffic. Imagine if you could conquer them.

Google - 49.2%
Yahoo - 23.8%
MSN – 9.6%
AOL - 6.3%
Ask Jeeves - 2.6%
Others – 8.5%

Effective SEO Tip 2 - Quality of Backlinks

Search engines are now paying more attention to the quality of backlinks. In the past, getting backlinks is a manual and tedious process. Webmasters have to search and find other websites who are willing to exchange links with them. This is often done through emailing the webmasters one by one. Fast forward to today, there are many online tools that make the process of obtaining links quick and easy. Along came mass spamming tools and techniques such as guestbook and comment spamming that flooded the internet scene. Building backlinks become even easier.

In order to improve the quality of their search results, they have to differentiate web pages by the quality of their backlinks. Quality can be measured by the following:

a. Links from authority or high Page Rank (PR) websites are more valuable

b. One-way links carry more weight than two-way links or reciprocal links.

c. Links with relevant anchor text is important in building keyword relevancy.

d. Good link neighborhood, ie links found in web content that is relevant to your target keyword/topic is important for the search engines. Example, a backlink for a website that focuses on SEO tips and tricks that is found in another website that talks about search engine optimization or web traffic is more relevant than one found in a shampoo website.

Several SEO tips and tricks for you to improve backlink quality:

Use your main keyword in the anchor text for about 70% of the backlinks you are obtaining, while the rest of the 30% should contain variations of your keyword in the anchor text. Example here: Say you are targeting “SEO Tips and Tricks” for your web page, make sure 70% of your backlinks contain the anchor text “SEO Tips and Tricks” only. The rest will have variations such as “Effective SEO Tips and Tricks” or “Best SEO Tips and Tricks”. This would escape the search engines’ spam filters.

Target one keyword phrase first before you target another one.

Effective SEO Tip 3 – Domain Name and Age

Did you know that your domain name is important to the success of your web ranking exercise? Here’s a free SEO tip for you. In order to secure a good search engine ranking for a particular keyword phrase, seriously consider including this keyword phrase in the domain name. It works wonders in influencing the search engine ranking and positioning especially if your keyword is not too competitive. Once again, I will use “SEO Tips and Tricks” as the keyword phrase to illustrate this point. Ideally, I would buy a domain called SEO-Tips-And-Tricks.com or something similar.

The domain age is gaining more significance as a part of the search engine ranking equation. Google favours older domains perhaps because they are more established and more unlikely to be used for spamming activities.

Learn in my next post how SEO Elite makes the whole process of gaining web popularity and search engine ranking such an easy task.

SEO Elite | On-page SEO Tips

SEO Elite – Effective SEO Tips and Tricks For On-page Optimization

Meta-tags, H1 and H2 header tags

Many people are saying that meta-tags are of no value now. This cannot be further from the truth. Meta-tags are still important though not as effective as in the past in ranking a website. In the past when search engines were in its infancy stage, meta-tag spamming was rife because of the ranking weight search engines accord to them.

Meta-tags such as the site title, description, keyword tags provide the snippet for search engines to categorize your website. Take a look at each search result in a search engine. You will find some description in the search result. Sometimes, the search engines may choose to display your meta-description as the site description. Meta-keywords should include all the keywords you are targeting – both the main keyword and the secondary keywords. For example, main keyword can be search engine optimization, secondary keywords can be search engine optimization tips, search engine optimization guide, search engine optimization tools, web positioning etc. Do not overstuff the meta-keywords with too many keywords to avoid being flagged as trying to spam the search engines.

A lot of sites fail to realize the importance of H1 and H2 header tags. These tags organize your main topic title and sub-topics as headings and subheadings for different sections of your content. Without understanding your content, search engines cannot point a finger to what your webpage is really talking about. Search engine spiders love to visit sites that are well-organized. Make your webpage spider-friendly with H1 and H2 header tags, ie H1 tag around your webpage title, H2 tag around your webpage’s sub-title. Give you a simple example here. Say your main topic on your homepage is on search engine optimization or a SEO tool like SEO Elite. So remember to use H1 tag to envelope your title “Search Engine Optimization” or "SEO Elite" in your HTML. Same goes for the sub-title “Search Engine Optimization Tips” using H2.

I will give you a few tips in coming up with your title and sub-titles. If you are targeting a few keywords, try to string them together. For instance, you are targeting SEO Elite, SEO tips, SEO tricks and SEO tools. Your webpage title could be SEO Elite | Tips | Tricks | Tools. You see, the search engine does not read the “|” as a character/punctuation though the human eyes see them as separate items. We want to try to reduce the number of unnecessary words, punctuation and characters in the title so that the keywords are not diluted.

Keyword and Keyword Density

Search engines rank web pages according to its keyword or keyword phrase relevance. By the way, search engines do not rank your web site, but each individual web page. So it is possible that you rank high for a certain keyword for one web page but do badly for the other targeting the same exact keyword. If you are ranking for the keyword phrase SEO Tools or SEO Elite, then your web content should contain the keyword phrase SEO Tools or SEO Elite. Targeting the right keywords is extremely vital before you start building your webpage. Many people fail to understand the importance of keyword research.

A lot of webmasters go for those popular main keywords such as SEO, internet marketing, music, etc. This is the first step to failure. Do you have any idea of how many competitors are you up against? Millions of them! Do a simple search in Google on these words and there is a high chance you will see tens of millions of search results. If your website is fresh and new, be prepared to spend tons of time and effort without any guarantee of ranking within the top 10 search engine PAGES, not to mention top 10 in search engine results.

Head to Overture and do a quick search for a rough feel of your competition. Go for keyword phrases that have about 50 – 100 searches daily, ie about 1500 – 3000 searches in a month. Compile a list of about 10 - 20 of such low competition and related-keywords. Build a web page around each of these keywords. If you have 20 search engine optimized web pages and ranking top in the search engines for each of these keywords, your web site could be receiving potentially 1000 - 2000 visitors everyday.

Keyword density measures the ratio of the targeted keyword repetitions to the number of words in your web content. Take for instance, your web content contains 500 words and you mentioned about SEO Tools 5 times in the web page. This is a keyword density of 1%. Hint here is to try to achieve a keyword density of about 1-2%. Trust me in this as I have ranked within Page 1 or 2 of Google for my web-pages with this keyword density.

Web Content

Your web content is very important to your on-page optimization. Everyone online is saying content is king. Wrong! Content is not king. Let me explain. Duplicate content can and will not help you to rank high. Unique content would however push you many pages up in the search engine results.

Many people are curious about the ideal length of web content for each web page. Though it varies from topic to topic, generally, a minimum word count of 400 would be ideal. Yes, there are occasions where you may have come across web pages that rank high for a certain keyword but yet has very little content. This has got something to do with the off-page optimization which I will discuss in my next blog post.

To summarize, let’s use a simple example here. Assuming we are targeting the keyword phrases SEO Elite and SEO Tools, we may want to come up with a title like SEO Elite | Tools. Remember to use H1 and H2 tags. In our web content, we will aim for at least 400 words all surrounding the topic of SEO tools and SEO Elite. We will also try to litter the keyword phrases SEO Elite and SEO tools about 4 – 8 times each throughout the article to achieve a keyword density of 1 – 2%.

See how easy it can be. Though the above SEO tips and tricks do not guarantee a top ranking for your web page, it would definitely improve your web page ranking by leaps and bounds. Learn more about off-page optimization and why it is the key to the success of your web page and how SEO Elite can boost your rankings in the search engine easily.

SEO Elite | SEO and Positioning

SEO Elite, SEO and Positioning in the Search Engines

SEO and positioning your website in search engines is both a science and an art. Why is this so? The science of SEO deals with understanding the architectural of a website, the meta-tags and on-page optimization. Dealing with its promotion and linking strategies, ie off-page optimization is an art. For anyone using SEO Elite as their main SEO tool, positioning a website for any targeted keyword is so straightforward that it doesn’t really matter whether it is an art or science.

What exactly is Search Engine Optimization?

In the simplest term, it is positioning your website for top rankings or positions in the search engine. A search engine like Yahoo or Google is a huge online “street” directory, and each webpage listed in the search engine is like an online “real estate” or what we call virtual real estate. In order for people to find our websites in the midst of many similar websites, we need to outrank our competition, get search engines to love our websites and position us favorably within the search engine. What we do with the traffic is up to us. It could be to sell more products from our website, to earn more Adsense income, or to share our ideas, thoughts, music or anything we want the world to know. SEO Elite is one cool SEO software that would help speed up the SEO steps necessary to grab a high search engine ranking.

Search Engine Optimization SEO Ranking Basics

There are 2 keys you must remember in positioning your website for top SEO ranking. One is the on-page optimization, the other off-page optimization. What are they?

On-page optimization – Meta-tags, Content, Keyword and Density and Domain Name

On-page optimization is the process of optimizing your webpage’s structure to create relevance around the topic and keyword you have targeted to rank high. Meta-tags, content, keyword density, domain name and navigation menu all play important roles in your on-site optimization. Good on-page optimization would help the search engines to index your webpage faster, and categorize it correctly. Notice that I keep using web-page instead of website. Read my next post to know what the difference between ranking for a web-page and a website is.

Off-page optimization – Linking and Promotion Strategy

Off-page optimization describes what you do to promote your website. You may subscribe to the old school SEO thinking that getting more links to your website is the most important aspect of off-page optimization. You are both right and wrong in this. It is true that links to your website are still very critical in helping to rank your web site high in the search engines. However, in recent years, search engine algorithm has evolved so much that off-page optimization is no longer as simple as just getting more links to your website. In the early years of the internet, a website with more links would easily outrank another competitor with lesser links. Hint here is quality now counts more than quantity. This is where SEO Elite outperforms other SEO software in building quality links.

Read my next post about On-page Optimization Tips and Tricks and how SEO Elite can help you position your website in the top search engine results.

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