3 Important SEO Tools: Google, Yahoo and MSN Webmaster Tools
While “SEO Professionals” are asking hundreds of dollars for their services to get your website listed by the major search engines and improve your search engine results’ rankings, it’s important to note that one of the most important tools provided by the same search engines themselves (to get listed on them) are free.
These tools are the essentials of SEO, just like your Page and HTML optimization. However if you are using WordPress for your blog or site, page/HTML optimization is already taken care of by WordPress. Yes WP has a pretty good SEO friendly platform. Moreover, WP has a great plugin called All in One SEO Pack, installing it should be more than enough to make your blog Search Engine friendly (i.e optimized). These tools are:
Google Webmaster Tools
URL: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
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MSN Webmaster Tools
URL: webmaster.live.com/webmaster
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Yahoo Site Explorer
URL: siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
If you had not already signed-up with each of them, do sign up and get your blog listed. Particularly pay attention to the warnings and errors that these tools provide about your site/blog, sometimes simply fixing those warnings and errors can improve your site’s ranking in search engine results tremendously.
If you opt for SEO Specialist’s services, please make sure that you make some profile and background check of the individual or the company that provides the service. Most of the “too good to be true” promises provided from these professionals are deemed illegal (black hat) by the search engines and can get your site banned. So, just make sure that the techniques that they use are in conformity with the Terms and Conditions of the Search Engines.
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By Wesley on Jan 6, 2009
Are there no problems by adding all your sites in 1 google webmaster tools account?
Google will then know you own those sites, and links between those sites may be devalued?
By vitaminsister on Jan 6, 2009
it look new to me. But its interesting way to play with seo.
By Insurance Guy on Jan 6, 2009
I use googles webmaster tools more than the others. I have used Yahoo tools in the past but never got into the tools MSN has to offer.
By Legitimate Home Based Business on Jan 6, 2009
Google webmaster tools are a handy asset, show you if your links are all working, how many backlinks your pages have. A must for any webmaster.
Jason
By Cheap Phone Calls on Jan 6, 2009
I use Yahoo and Google webmaster tools, but I am not very familiar with Live tools. Thanks for the link to this. I am guessing it is similar to the other two?
By SEO Tips South Africa on Jan 6, 2009
Down here in South Africa Google is so dominant that we don’t bother with the other offerings too much, preferring to focus on what works the best.
By jackie sheeler on Jan 6, 2009
this is very useful information. i’ve done most of this already, but i had a problem with signing up on the yahoo site. i’m going to have to give it another try, the link that you’ve provided here may be different than the one i received (who knows where) originally.
thanks as always for your helpful posts!
By Mikael on Jan 7, 2009
I’ve never really used MSN webmaster tools for anything. I try to use Google’s solution as often as I can but I’m definitely not using it to the degree that I could :)
By Bensukses on Jan 7, 2009
SEO for me is still a mistery. I do all the tips and got nothing, but when just focused on content sometime do but sometimes dont
By SEO Services on Jan 7, 2009
Hey Ades, I made a Good post for the links which all SEO’ must have http://offshoreseoservice.blogspot.com/2008/08/must-have-seo-links.html
Hope this helps blog readers.
By Legitimate Home Based Business on Jan 7, 2009
Hi Ades,
Have my comments been getting through, i have commented on a few of your posts over the last 5 days and none have been approved, have i ended up in the spam folder ?
Jason
By Cheap Phone Calls on Jan 7, 2009
SEO Services:
Thank you for that link, your post is very handy.
By Dewaji SEO Test on Jan 7, 2009
Google still the first for me, Yahoo second, and MSN actually I only use one time for one blog, and I never care about the status of my Live account :D
By Ades on Jan 7, 2009
@Jason, yes your comments went into spam folder, try using different email next time, if your ip has been reported as the spam then i can’t do much.
By Ades on Jan 8, 2009
@Wesley, that’s a probability, but we have no way of confirming it.
By Legitimate Home Based Business on Jan 8, 2009
Thanks for the heads up Ades, this might explain a few other things aswell.
Jason
By vitaminsister on Jan 8, 2009
i already did this way long time ago. Looks like i need to do that again. Just forgot about this. hoho..
By PSP Downloads on Jan 9, 2009
Thank you Ades. I’m just doing some SEO on my site at the moment and this is very useful. Unfortunately, I am new to this, so i could use all the help I can get!
By Minnesota Attorney on Jan 9, 2009
I use Google Webmaster Tools. Is there any reason someone would want to use Yahoo and MSN Webmaster Tools as well? That is, do Yahoo or MSN offer some good feature that Google doesn’t?
By Atniz on Jan 9, 2009
I’m using google webmaster tool and yahoo site explorer tool. Never seen msn tool yet. Will check it out.
By Ades on Jan 10, 2009
@Minnesota Attorney, not that they offer better services, it’s just a tool to keep track of your site’s status in their search engines (e.g got banned? which pages are listed, which pages you don’t want to list etc.)
By Nette on Jan 12, 2009
Being an SEO is not easy and there is no one fit formula for different sites. It entails hard work. Thanks for this!
By Web Designing on Jan 12, 2009
Its really worth to use these tools for website optimization.
By Custom Web Design on Jan 12, 2009
All in One SEO Pack is good plugin. Thanks for information.
By Marketing Man on Jan 12, 2009
Yet another SEO hack, I dig it. Having your site listed on all 3 major search engines, now that’s ab-”seo”-lutely great!
By Alan Williams on Jan 15, 2009
This was a very informative article. I will read your blog often.
By Webmaster on Jan 15, 2009
I’ve been using Google Webmaster Tools & Yahoo Site Explorer
By adismedia on Jan 17, 2009
I only use google webmaster all this time
By Amulekone on Feb 26, 2009
Thank you, I will start working with wordpress. It seems a lot to absorb at the moment, so I will have to do it one step at a time
By Michael Harrington on Mar 21, 2009
Now i have been familiar with this all three essential seo tools but i prefer Google Webmaster Tools which more effective than other two tools.Ades I would also like to know that what is your opinion about Web Analytics?
By Ades on Mar 22, 2009
Hi Michael, what do you mean? Can you elaborate your question?