Technology Reports

Most Webmasters have their favourite SEO tools that they use to monitor and track how well their site ranks in the Search engines.  Several months ago, I came across a set of web based tools in the form of some PHP scripts and decided to put up a website.  So, I registerd the domain, put the tools up and wrote a few relevant articles on the subject.

I spent a bit of time re-writing the scripts as they were all buggy and didn’t work properly.  I spent a little time writing a series of articles of how I go about ensuring a site is ready for the SE spiders.  A lot of what I wrote can be found in one form or another all over the net. 

The SEO Tools site gets a reasonably steady amount of traffic most of the time, but it also gets a generous spike every time there is a rumoured Google PR update!  I guess that some other Webmasters have found the site and make use of the tools to check out several stats.

In addition to the tools on the website, I also make use of several software packages that run on my own computer.  I rely on an SEO suite and a semi-automatic directory submitter.  None of this should be new to anyone who has run a site for more than a few months - this is all “bread and Butter” info.  The truth is that most webmasters fail to rank or spend a huge amount of $ paying an SEO company rather than doing most of it themselves at the early stages of building and maintaining their sites.

The latest Google Toolbar PR update started in Early Jan 2007 and appeared to be mostly completed around the 25-26th Jan 07.  During this time Like most other webmasters I was checking the PR across multiple Google Datacenters to see if the data was different.  It is the fact that there is differences across various datacenters over a few to several days that indicates that the PR is being updated.

I know the little green bar means very little in real terms and a lot of people get hung up on it.  I only care about it on a few sites where I sell links - and the link buyers pay a lot of importance to the little green bar.  They tend to pay more for advertising when the number is bigger - so yes, I do care a little as to what it is.