Top Offsite Webmaster Tools!
This is a list of free webmaster tools that we have found useful that come
from other sites. We're testing several tools and will be updating this list
soon, so stop by often....editor
CopyScape
Ever wondering if anyone is stealing copy written material from your site. Here
is a link that can help you find out.
Markup Validation
This is the W3C Markup Validation Service, a free service that checks Web
documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations
and other standards. Validating insures that the search engines will be able to
index your website. This also ensures that the web browsers will be able to
show your web page properly.
Way Back Machine
Want to see what a web site looked like in the past. This site has archives of
previous versions of web sites. See how the internet has changed over the
years!
Yahoo releases SiteExplorer Yahoo's Site Explorer shows all
subpages within a URL indexed by Yahoo. You can also see subpages under a path
and inlinks indexed by Yahoo! to a URL. You can also submit missing URLs to
Yahoo.
Google's Webmaster Tools
Google provides many tools and guidelines to help you get your site indexed and displayed well in Google’s search result pages. While they do not speak for the other search engines, it does stand to reason that if using the Google guidelines works for Google it will likely help for the other search engines also.
Three of the tools that work exclusively for Google are the Google Site inclusion form (http://www.google.com/addurl/),
the Blog Search page (http://blogsearch.google.com/ping),
and the Business inclusion page (http://www.google.com/local/add).
Usually the best way to get your site indexed with Google is to have other sites link to it. Your site will likely get indexed quicker that way than if you add it with the Site inclusion page. It is good to have your blogs feed listed with Google so that they will track new pages to your blog. This can also be accomplished by adding a number of ping sites to “Updating Services” section of your blog.
Finally, if your business has a physical address it is very important that you use Googles Business inclusion page. This will help you with the “Local searches” and having your site show with Google Maps.
If you are new to Search Engine Optimization it would be best for you to become very familiar with Googles SEO Guide (http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf).
Google has several sets of tools that are useful. You will find these tools at the Webmaster Tool page (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/).
You will need to register your site with Google. This is well worthwhile because it helps you to get Google’s point of view on your site.