truth is SEO tools you use for your sites or blogs do not directly influence your rankings at all, but it can provide you with essential information about your site under a single roof, the information which the tool collects can be made use of to optimize your site in the best possible way for better search rankings. So I would claim the  SEO Software which does this information gathering about your site and other required information related to it in a more effective way to the Best SEO tool.

One such tool which I recently came across is SEO Sheer and in fact I am feel proud to be reviewing this product here. With this product you need not have to use multiple products to take of your SEO needs, it comprises of all the necessary tools, which not only saves your hard earned money but also saves you a lot of time to gather necessary information about your site. Here is the  list of some of the useful features this tool will offer you.

1. Track Rankings (Positions) in Search Engines

Keeping track of the rankings for each keyword is a lot of work but with this tool you need not have to do a search for keyword manually and go through each page to find your rankings, just enter all the keywords you need to know the rankings for and it does the rest with providing you the details not only about your rankings, but also the location, search volume, date etc.

2. Check Pagerank

Pagerank still plays a considerable role in Google rankings though its value is saturated a bit in recent times. This tool lists the page rank of all the pages in your site and lists them, so that you can decide on which pages needs more attention over the others while building links.

3. Estimate Keywords’ Traffic Potential

Taking your keyword and present position of the keyword, this tool gives you an approximate number of visits you can get from each of those keyword.

4. Use Data from Google Analytics

This tool even imports the Data from your present Google Analytics gives the details about estimated clicks and actual clicks you got for each keyword.

5. Main Referrers

Helps you to keep track of your backlinks and keywords or link test used in those link backs.

6. Directory Submission Software

Instantly submit to multiple online directories easily, just fill in the form and submit them one by one just like you do in manual submission but with much ease, this could be really useful for SEO professionals who offer directory submissions as a part of their service.

7. Blog Review Requests

One of the best ways to promote and also to built links to your site is through Blog Reviews, Google gives more weight to the links present in blog posts, with this tool all you need to do is type in a blog review request using the form and fill in the necessary details about your site and type of blog your are looking for, it will bring the list of all blogs and choose the ones you want to send the request to.

8. Twitter

Track all the tweets which mentions your site’s URL even if the url is shortened.

9. Facebook

Track the activities in facebook which mentions your site like facebook share, likes and comments.

10. Keyword Density

Check which keyword your site uses the most and optimize your site accordingly for a particular keyword. One of the main factor which Google uses while ranking the pages of your site.

And much more.. Check the SEO Sheer Overview page for the complete list.

What’s more interesting is the fact that you can try this tool for free for three months with limited features. If you are on the lookout for a perfect SEO tool for your business or for your sites, SEO Sheer is something which definitely worth a look.

1) WordPress SEO By Yoast:

WordPress SEO by Yoast is a must use plugin, as it has a lot of advantages for users. With settings such as Webmaster Tools, General Settings and sections which include XML Sitemap, there is a WordPress SEO section in every post. Apart from the visual, which is the common feature in the General Settings section, one can mark the ‘Use Meta keywords’ tag available to verify the ownership of a site, there is a webmasters tool which is available for each big search engine. A more convenient tool is the XML Sitemap which is capable of rebuilding one’s site map and each time one makes a post, it pings search engines such as yahoo and Google. A Snippet Preview in the SEO section shows how it would be if one had used Google search. Additional settings for each single post are revealed under the Advanced button. This provides an option of whether to include a post in the site map. There is also the meta robots index and 301 Redirect URL.

2) Ad Codes Widget:

Inserting ad codes for advertisements can be troublesome to most new WordPress bloggers. With Ad Codes widget, one can put JavaScript and HTML on the sidebar. It is a flexible widget and allows for various adds of different sizes which also provides for a rotating facility through the adds.

3) Indo-European Translator Widget:

The Indo-European Translator Widget is best suitable for users who have visitors who can only read simple English. It allows visitors to access sites in the language they understand. This makes the site appear in the visitor’s language. Its only problem is that it uses Google Translate which has a few errors here and there.

4) W3 Total Cache:

To increase the speed of the website, one would require W3 Total Cache plugin which makes static pages and does HTTP-compressing. This increases the speed of your WordPress blog to at least 80% and it will also reduce your web server load.

5) SexyBookmarks:

SexyBookmarks is an extremely useful WordPress plugin that helps your readers to submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites which will increase your WordPress blog’s social media exposure and bring in huge number of visitors.

Sathishkumar is a Blogger and Internet Marketer from India. He now works for Pixloo, a free Virtual Tour services company.

 1. All in one SEO Pack

This plug-in, which is probably by far the most popular (it’s been downloaded more than 8 million times) is an extremely useful plug-in to have. What it does is makes sure that all of your content is SEO “acceptable”—it automatically self-generates meta and title tags which are crucial to ensuring that search engines can properly index content. Without it, your posts and blog will get lost within the piles of a million other blogs. If you use the advanced setting, web masters can even customize everything, including Meta description, Meta keywords and URL structures for each individual post/article.

2. SEO Control Content

While the plug-in mentioned above is designed to generate tags automatically, this convenient plug-in is designed so that you can identify your blog’s weaknesses and correct them yourself thus increasing your blog’s page rankings. For example, it alerts you using a coloring system whenever Meta description is missing, it helps you monitor which posts could use a little bit more beefing up, and it even alerts you when your blog has duplicate content which can severely hurt your chances of establishing a high ranked page. In a nutshell, the plug-in will help you stay organized and allow you to get rid of “poor content.”

3. Broken Link Checker

One of the basic cardinal rules of optimizing SEO is to make sure that your content does not have any broken links. Not only will search engines not be able to index the info but readers and or customers may think that your site is unreliable. But sometimes keeping track of links, especially ones that are used in really old posts, is very difficult to do. This plug-in simplifies the process however by automatically detecting broken links in all of your content, including comments, posts, a blogroll. You can personally select how often you would like the plug-in to scan for duds, but no matter what the intervals are the plug-in will allow web masters to edit the link, remove the link, or remove the entire post (which is not recommended). Until you decide a plan of action the broken link will appear as an un-clickable image icon for your readers.

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So what so special about this plugin?

Main purpose of creating this product or products similar to this one with same functionality is to combine all the aspects of SEO in to a single powerful plugin which will effectively reduce your job for going in to multiple addons to perform a specific task. The author has done an excellent job by achieving just that, I will go through each of them separately in a more detailed fashion so that we do not miss out anything.

Post and Pages Meta Tags

It becomes really easy to edit your meta tags for each post and page you publish with your wordpress blog, once the installation is complete you will get this additional wordpress seo options area where you can edit your meta titles, meta description. It also displays a snippet preview which you do not find with other plugins, it gives you an idea of how the indexing of particular post will appear in Google and other search engines, which will be extremely useful for you, it also comes with character counts so that you can fill in the amount of information which should be just enough to make your Index stand out.

Other feature I like here is, it comes with a optional box for focus keyword, all you need to do to make use of this functionality is enter the keywords or terms which you want to focus on for the particular article and it will automatically displays a list of places where the keyword is present and also not, this gives you a chance to make some alterations in your post so that your keywords are in place, this is again a unique feature.

As you can see in the picture above there are some advanced options available here, all you need to do is just click over the advanced button and you will come across a whole new set of advanced options, which would be of not much use often but on rare occasions they might just help you to save the day.

Using this options you can either make the particular post or page to be indexed or to be indexed by search engines, add canonical url, even make a 301 redirect which is really cool, so you no need to install a extra plugin to do this job.

Dashboard Settings

Coming down to the dashboard settings, you have a set of options which you can either wish to enable or disable. Also you can easily verify the ownership of your blog on popular online webmaster tools like Yahoo, Bing and Google.

Coming the best part, you have a sitemap generator that is built in to the system I never found such functionality added before on other similar seo addons for wordpress. Just enable the functionality and start creating your own sitemap for your blog with very little effort, but if you still need additional functionality with the same I highly recommend going with separate addons instead of using this one. But this one should just do the job pretty well for most users.

Title Settings

Some people do like to have specific keywords like their site name at the end of all of their titles, if you want to add some similar functionality to your titles then this is just the place where you can make it happen. You can also edit the homepage title and description here. There is also a help section which does come handy for title settings as well as description.

Indexation Settings

Options found here gives you control over the sections which you want to be indexed on your blog as well as sections which you do not want. This really prevents some serious issues with duplicate contents in your site, where same posts appear in multiple locations. I personally love this feature reduces your work with editing your robots.txt or digging in to the codes, all you need to do is just click on the check boxes and you are done.

Permalinks

There are couple of features which I like in this section, like stripping /category/ from category urls, if you have not noticed it before just try opening one of your category on wordpress, url will be displayed as http://yourblog.com/category/category-name

This makes your permalink to appear bit longer, you can strip off the category base from the url so it appears neat and looks good as well, your users will find it useful as well as it makes it easy to remember.

Second feature is redirecting ugly url’s to clean permalinks, not in every occasion you will find people using the correct URLs to your pages, this setting will allow for clean redirection to your pages.

Internal Links

This setting is mainly in connection with breadcrumbs which usually appears at the top of every post letting the users know of the location of a particular post, this is considered as a good practice from SEO point of view. If your theme doesn’t have one already built in, then you can make use of this option to achieve just that, also you can customize your breadcrumbs to the way you want it to appear.

RSS Settings

This a unique feature again letting you to make changes to your RSS feeds, also adds no index to your feeds. Nice feature to use

Import and Export & Edit files

This setting is useful if you want to shift from all in one seo plugin or headspace plugin to this one, also other imports related to Rss footer, yoast breadcrumbs, robots meta. Edit files helps you to alter .htaccess.

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I am always a great fan of real time stats for my blogs, as it gives me an idea on what are the terms people use to find my pages in real time. Also real time stats are more accurate in my opinion. Apart from few draw backs of it like increasing your database size up to 500 times more and eating up your disk space, might slow down your site sometimes.

There are several choices with wordpress plugins for real time stats, one that have been my favorite for a long time now has been Wassup, though it did not received any updates for a long time now until today its still one of the best in my opinion for several reasons which I am going to list out in the rest of this article.

Gives You The Traffic Source

One of my favorite feature is it shows you the origin of your traffic, including the search engines and what keyword they used in search engines to find you, also if the traffic is not from search engines, it lets you know which web page is bringing you the traffic including direct hits.

Spider Activity

Apart from monitoring your visitors, you can also keep an eye over the bot activities which is more important to me. I want to know the bots activity on my blogs to know which ones to block on my robots.txt and which ones are consuming most of my bandwidth without any use. Also you can know whether pinging your posts is really useful in gathering some level attention from various search spiders and bots.

Stats graph

This plugin provides you with real time graph as well, which shows me what are the peak times when I get most of my hits and what are times the traffic gets dull for the period of 1 hour to all time the plugin has been active which is very useful to analyze the growth of my site over a period of time.

Keep An Eye Over Your Current Visitors

You can also watch over your current visitors who are online and what pages they are browsing etc.. which can be little fun at times. This plugin also indicates ip address and identifies people who already commented on the blog which is quite nice in my opinion.

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I know of a few seo professionals who voluntarily block search engines from indexing their hosted images in their site, because they believe most people who does image search in Google are scrappers and I do agree to their side of argument. But what if the case your blog’s traffic mainly depends on image search in Google?

I am sure if you are running a photo blog or blog based on wall papers or celebrity blog, most of the hits to your site would come from Google image search and I personally hold a blog on entertainment and celebrities where I get 80% of my hits from Google image search. So under these conditions I cannot afford to block search engines from indexing my images in my robots.txt, best way is to funnel through the people who does image search directly in to visiting your blog, although it might to some extent frustrate users but most people who visit your site through Google image search are mostly likely to be unique visitors because no one cares to look for the same image file over and over again.

This is where break out of frames plugin comes very handy. What this plugin does is simple, when a user clicks on an image hosted on your blog, it breaks the frame that is displayed at the top of the page in google image search and forces the user to visit your blog page directly to look at the image, this may also prove to increase your click through adsense and other ads you might have on your blog. Some people may argue that it will increase your bounce rate, but I found out from my own experience as I own a photo blog myself, my blog still has only 52% bounce rate which is not really bad.

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I don’t know about you but I faced this problem on one of my blogs last year and I had to install the redirection plugin and set up redirects for more than 200 urls which took me nearly 2 days to complete the work, I was not aware of the existence of this plugin way back then, if I had it would have reduced my work burden to such an extent that it would have reduced my work of two days to few minutes or even seconds.

This plugin automatically looks for the url slugs in your old permalinks and matches them with the appropriate new permalinks and redirects the visitors and bots automatically to the new url. Isn’t that really good? I would say yes of course it is. I would make sure I am including this plugin in my next update of wordpress seo for sure. For now I highly recommend installing this plugin in your blog as it would really reduce your 404 errors.

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I was just going through some of the plugins on wordpress.org website, I came across this wonderful plugin and I am really happy that I am writing a review on this plugin for the simple reason, its a kind of plugin which I was looking for on a long time. I would say this plugin is in fact better than headspace2 plugin which I have used on my wordpress seo tutorial? in fact I am thinking of rewriting that tutorial using this plugin because it makes your job a lot more easier and this plugin works really well with the latest wordpress version too.

With this plugin installed you can rewrite the meta datas of homepage title, post title, page title pretty easily than ever before.

This plugin gives you an option to unindex some of the unwanted section of your blog, this also prevents duplicate contents being indexed from your own blog.

Easily enter your homepage meta description, meta keywords, also force search engines to not to display the descriptions from popular directories like DMOZ or yahoo directories in search results.

It gives you an option to enter your meta titles and descriptions for your posts which will be displayed in search results, when you make a post, it also gives you an option to enter custom read more text, which can be effectively replaced with your keyword which you want to focus on particular post.

You can insert link box at the end of your posts, which people can use to share it with their friends and also enables them to share it in their own blogs.

It gives you an option to edit the robots.txt file too, potentially reduces your work to install a new plugin that does the same job. Its something I would highly appreciate about this plugin.

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This is where the popular posts plugin comes in to action, it helps you to find what are the posts which people read the most in your blog, once you can the list of top 20 posts which people like to read in your blog, then you can start to figure out what is the common aspect in all these posts that attracts people to visit those pages, what are the keywords used in those posts, how you have structured the title of these articles. So all these aspects can give you an idea on about what you can write in your blog for the future, what are the keywords you can use in your blog, how you can structure your titles to attract visitors. So this what I mean by being proactive, you can be active and write hell a lot of articles for your blog but it may not help you much to drive traffic unless you know what people are looking for in your blog and feed them with what they like.

There are lots of popular posts plugins available in wordpress.org, you can grab the one you like the most here

How this plugin could possibly could helpful?
I would say this plugin will be very helpful in distributing PR juice uniformly across your blog, also it connects all the posts of your blog better in your homepage together, blog with a lot of posts will benefit a lot with this plugin, also it makes the job easier for search engine bots and it will enable them to find all of your posts very easily even if you hold a complex navigation system that makes the job tougher for the search engine bots to find your posts, if your posts are arranged in the form of pages in the homepage it can check out all the posts in your blog one by one and still find your post. In a way it increases your internal links which will benefit you a lot.

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Optimizing teaser link will increase the value of internal links with your site, it simply replaces the read more text link with the title of your post. It also automatically posts excerpts of your post and add a continue reading link at the bottom after certain amount of words which you can specify in the plugin settings.

I highly recommend using this plugin in your wordpress blogs, I know that you can bring the same effect in your headspace2 plugin but you need to write the read more text in each of your blog post which takes some work, but this plugin makes that job a lot easier and it doesn’t affect the functions headspace2 plugin too.

If you need a demo I have already installed this plugin here in this blog, just have a look at my blog home page.

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anyways today I am going to briefly talk about this plugin and what it does and why it is really essential in your blogs where you tend to use more number of images, we can take techno sites as an example here where we tend to use more number of images to keep the readers interested in your posts. Not only that when you optimize the images you use in such sites it will prove to show you great results on the long run, as it drives good amount of traffic to your site.

You can optimize the images you use in your site using by entering the keywords you want to focus on the alt tags, but mostly we tend to forget to add these tags to our images, I myself feel lazy to enter those tags in to my images, but this plugin just does the job for you by automatically entering appropriate keywords from the title of your article in to alt tags.

Also title tags play a decent role in optimizing your images, this plugin also automatically enters the titles for your images, so when user searches for images in Google it will automatically bring up your images in the results and make them get to your site.

I would say its another must have plugin in your wordpress even if you don’t use many images in your blog.

Plugin Homepage: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-friendly-images

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I would say having this plugin installed in your wordpress blog is really essential, whenever I install a blog for me, first thing I will do is always install this plugin first, just after my installation is over, first thing I will do is install this one.

Well you may wonder why? reason is simple this one just does everything for you on what you need for on-page optimizations techniques.

It suggests you tags based on content, also brings you special tags suggestions from yahoo for your posts, it lets you to optimize read more text links, meta titles, meta descriptions, meta tags, it can also gives you an option to choose different templates for different posts.

Frankly it does everything for you. If you are not installing this plugin in your wordpress blog, you are missing out something really valuable. If you have not installed this plugin so far, just make sure you do now.

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Wikipedia can be an extreme example in this case but still using internal links in your blog will still prove to be of great help in your on-page optimization methods. You should know that searching for each post and linking your post to another one in appropriate location and keywords is really more demanding work than ever.

But this plugin smart links created by Vladimir for wordpress really ease your work to automate the whole process provided you do a little ground work on finding keywords for each post and specifying them in the settings area of this plugin.

Once you install this plugin and enter the settings area which looks like the one shown below.

you can specify where you want the links to appear in your blog, you can avoid links to self because it don’t make much sense, other than that you can also specify whether you want the links to appear in your posts or pages. Some people do not want their links to appear in pages, you can un-check the pages option to ignore the links to appear in pages.

You can set automatic link targets to categories, posts, tags and pages. you may wish to ignore some keywords like about, author etc.. and also you can restrict some pages from showing links to other pages or posts.

To want specific keywords to be linked to specific post then all you need to do is specify the keyword or you can also specify multiple keywords seperated by comma and followed by the url for link.

You can restrict the number of times a link should appear in a post in the settings, I would set some restrictions on that, but its up to you whether you want some restrictions or not.

If you are linking to an external page and if you wish not to give any link juice to the external link then you can add no-follow attribute to those links too and also make them open in a new window that way when someone clicks on an external link they will not leave your website.

Over all its an excellent plugin for SEO and reduces you workload to a great extent when used correctly. I really recommend using this plugin and I wish the author of this plugin do update this plugin for future versions of wordpress.

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