SERPtracker V1.4.2 Released

A new release is available for download. Just login to your SERPtracker web account and download the new EXE file (not the ZIP file) and copy it on top of your existing EXE that’s in (by default) C:\Program Files\SERPtracker

This is a minor update that fixes a problem with reporting the Google Competition number under some conditions. Also resolves issues effected by Google’s new Instant mechanism.

Subscriber Feedback

Should you have any questions or wish to provide feedback, either reply to this email, or use our online support page.

Who needs SERPtracker?

Use SERPtracker if you need to track, record & report on the performance of your (or your competitor’s) websites in one or more Google search engines for any number of keywords.

• Create hundreds of projects to track the ranking of any number of domains based on an unlimited number of keywords.
• Find out how your competition ranks for the exact same keywords you are using.
• Export your stats to CSV.
• Save time and import keyword suggestions from the free Google External Keyword Tool.
• … and much more.

View our website for SERP ranking features and SERP tracking benefits.

Thank you for subscribing to SERPtracker, your premiere Google Keyword Ranking Tool.

How to avoid getting banned by Google

If you wake up and find one day that your website isn’t showing anymore in Google, you have been a victim of a Google Ban. This is the worst thing that can happen to your website, especially if you are running a business through your site. Several factors can trigger a Google Ban. Here is a list of ways you can keep your website on Google’s good side.

1. Make sure your have the best up-time possible for your website. This means you must have reliable web hosting. If Google visits your website and it is not up, you may risk Google banning you site.

2. Do not use spamming techniques to promote your website. This will almost definitely lead to condemnation of your website for at least 6 months. Never use “black hat” methods like doorways, hidden text or cloaking. You are only setting yourself up for disaster.

3. Make sure your content is original and relevant. Websites that duplicate content are punished with lower rankings and even bans. Your content should always be made for human consumption and relate to your website’s theme.

4. Linking is a two way street. Not only should the links going out of your website be quality, but be certain that the links that lead to your website are from Google respected locations as well. Avoid link farms and any paid linking service. Also, excessive linking is a red flag for Google. When you add internal links on your own sites, make sure you do it in moderation and with purposeful intent.

5. Be sure your site is Google friendly. Build your website so that Google is able to index every page. Include a sitemap. Be sure all your pages are working and that there are no broken links.

If you follow the Google “Tips for Optimizing” you will be fine. Don’t try to fool Google with tricky tactics. The price you will pay is far worse than the effort it takes to do things the right way!

Brad

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa 4 times

In 2010, there were 3 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 15 posts.

The busiest day of the year was December 21st with 43 views. The most popular post that day was Backlinks: everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask!.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were rapichat.com, cbtopsellers.com, bigextracash.com, free-backlinks.rapichat.com, and jutawan-paypal.blogspot.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for free html to rss, serp tracker, “html to rss” free, “html to rss”, and free convert html to rss.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Backlinks: everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask! August 2009
1 comment

2

Comparing Organic Search Clicks vs PPC Clicks August 2009
3 comments

3

Free HTML to RSS Converters August 2009

4

Google Country and Territory Codes July 2009

5

SERPtracker V1.3.9 Released July 2010

SERPtracker V1.3.9 Released

A new release is available for download. Just login to your SERPtracker web account and download the new EXE file (not the ZIP file) and copy it on top of your existing EXE that’s in (by default) C:\Program Files\SERPtracker

This is a minor update that fixes a problem with reporting the Competition number under some conditions.

Subscriber Feedback

Should you have any questions or wish to provide feedback, either reply to this email, or use our online support page.

Who needs SERPtracker?

Use SERPtracker if you need to track, record & report on the performance of your (or your competitor’s) websites in one or more Google search engines for any number of keywords.

• Create hundreds of projects to track the ranking of any number of domains based on an unlimited number of keywords.
• Find out how your competition ranks for the exact same keywords you are using.
• Export your stats to CSV.
• Save time and import keyword suggestions from the free Google External Keyword Tool.
• … and much more.

View our website for SERP ranking features and SERP tracking benefits.

Thank you for subscribing to SERPtracker, your premiere Google Keyword Ranking Tool.

SERPtracker V1.3.8 Released

SERPtracker V1.3.8 Released (8 May, 2010)

A new release is available for download. Just login to your web account and download the new EXE file (not the ZIP file) and copy it on top of your existing EXE that’s in (by default) C:\Program Files\SERPtracker

The new release fixes a problem reporting the Competition. This is occurring because Google recently changed their output. This release also speeds up the performance by allowing you to “jump” to the next keyword in the scan list when a ranking is found.

Sat 8 May 10 – V1.3.8

• Google modified it’s page formatting

Sun 25 Apr 10 – V1.3.7

• Added ability to jump to next keyword when 1st rank found. So if we have scans set to 1,000 and we find the keyword at posn 5, we’ll skip scanning the remaining pages (this speeds up the entire process). Enabling/disabling this feature can be found by clicking on the Config button.

Subscriber Feedback

Should you have any questions or wish to provide feedback, either reply to this email, or use our online support page.

Who needs SERPtracker?

Use SERPtracker if you need to produce a Google Ranking Report to track the position of your websites in Google on a regular basis. SERPtracker is dead easy to use. We have many subscribers that rely on SERPtracker for their business needs.

• Create hundreds of projects to track the ranking of any number of domains based on an unlimited number of keywords.
• Find out how your competition ranks for the exact same keywords you are using.
• Export your stats to CSV.
• Save time and import keyword suggestions from the free Google External Keyword Tool.
• … and much more.

View our website for SERP ranking features and SERP tracking benefits.

Thank you for subscribing to SERPtracker, your premiere Google Keyword Ranking Tool.

Do you know where your website ranks in the Google Search Engine?

Hi, Mark Read here.

I deal with a lot of SME (Small to Medium) businesses who have a web site, and you wouldn’t believe how many do not know one of the simplest metrics used in understanding the “strength” of their website in the Internet’s largest search engine (Google).

Let me ask you some very basic questions:

• Do you know where your website ranks in the Google Search Engine?
• Do you know when your organic ranking goes up or down (or how often)?
• Do you know if you are actually in Google’s SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages)?
• Do you know where your competitor(s) rank for the same keywords you use?
• Do you know what keywords you are using and the effect they have on your Google search engine ranking / position?
• Do you know what keywords you should be targeting to drive traffic to your website?

If you’ve answered “no” to one or more of these questions then you need to engage our services.

For a very small monthly fee you can utilise our website ranking software – SERPtracker.

Our SERP tracking and monitoring software will tell you where your (or your competitors) website ranks in the Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) for one or more keywords of your choosing.

Yes, you can search the Google SERPs manually, counting as you go, to identify your website ranking / position. But even doing this just once, yet alone periodically, is a very tedious task and a big waste of your time and money.

Why not automate the process?

SERPtracker delivers the following advantages:

* automates routines that used to steal hundreds of hours of your time
* keeps an eye on your competition
* highlights search engine visibility trends over time
* evaluates search engine optimization results
* keeps track of all your listings in the Google search engine
* alerts if listings drop in ranks or are dropped out of index

Knowing where your website ranks in the world’s premiere search engine (Google) is vitally important to your business. After all, if you can’t be found in the search engines, then you are potentially missing out on a great source of $revenue.

SERPtracker V1.3.4 Released

SERPtracker V1.3.4 Released 21 Oct 09

• Fixed: Google Competition string not reporting correctly due to a recent change by Google.

How to download & install SERPtracker V1.3.4

Subscribers, log in to your SERPtracker online web account, go to the Download page, download the 348 KB EXE file to your computer, make sure SERPtracker isn’t running, copy the new EXE to C:\Program Files\SERPtracker (thereby replacing the current version). Restart SERPtracker to see the version number on the main window titlebar.

Subscriber Feedback

We welcome all feedback, good or bad :)   Simply complete our online feedback form.

Who needs SERPtracker?

Use SERPtracker if you need to produce a Google Ranking Report to track the position of your websites in Google on a regular basis. SERPtracker is dead easy to use. We have many subscribers that rely on SERPtracker for their business needs. Create hundreds of projects to track the ranking of any number of domains based on an unlimited number of keywords. Find out how your competition ranks for the exact same keywords you are using. Export your stats to CSV. Save time and import keyword suggestions from the free Google External Keyword Tool. View our website for SERP ranking features and SERP tracking benefits.

 

Free HTML to RSS Converters

There are many free online websites out there that will convert your HTML page to an RSS feed URL. But why would  you want to do such a thing?

That’s a good question.

Having an RSS feed on your website will allow your visitors to subscribe to your news feed (or blog feed or article feed etc). This allows your visitors who regularly use an RSS News Reader (there are many free RSS readers out there) to collect RSS feeds of interest and read all their (combined) headlines in the one place. Then if anything catches their eye they can click on the link and view the complete original article (including pictures, audio and video – if any).

RSS News Readers have become a very useful time saver. Many business (and non-business) people open their RSS Reader first thing in the morning on the bus or train or when they arrive at work (even before reading their email) to catch a quick glimpse of the topics they are most interested in (yes, there are RSS Readers for your mobile phone, smart phone, iPhone and PDA).

So if a visitor to your website wants to receive just the news headlines from your web page in the packaged convenience of their RSS Reader application, and you don’t have an RSS feed to offer them, then they may just click right past your website and never come back.

Now of course, if you don’t have the expertise to create your own RSS feed (which requires writing web code to produce the specially constructed XML format file the RSS Readers consume), then the next best thing is to convert your HTML page to an RSS feed URL and place a link to this feed on your web page.

Here is a list of some free html2rss web services I’ve used:

http://html2rss.com
Easy to use.  Allows you to create your own account with backlinks (which is great for SEO purposes). Provides for the conversion of single HTML documents to an RSS feed (extracting wither the articles it finds or the links). Support for converting multiple HTML URLS or RSS feeds into the one RSS feed (often called a “machup”). Resulting RSS feed can be a snippets from your HTML page or just the links. The downside to html2rss.com is not all the links in the HTML document you present are converted into the resulting RSS feed file (so if you’re worried about maximising your backlinks when feeding your RSS into the aggregators then try another service).

http://www.feedage.com/html2rss/
Creates an RSS 2.0 format feed from your HTML page. You can’t create your own account. There is a bulk conversion tool (http://www.feedage.com/html2rss/bulk_html2rss.php). Fails to convert all links in your HTML document (not all of the links on the HTML page can be found in the resulting RSS feed – so if you’re worried about maximising your backlinks then try another service).

http://balluche.free.fr/html2rss
Doesn’t miss any of your links in the HTML page. Provides a useful filter so you can only include certain content from your HTML page into the resulting RSS feed URL. Includes the ability to convert images (not just HTML) into an RSS XML file. The downside is Balluche produces awfully long RSS Feed URLs (ugh!). Luckily you can convert these using Balluche Blink or tinyurl.com or a myriad of other free URL shortening services.

The downside of converting your HTML page (or pages) to an RSS feed is that you don’t have control over exactly what information goes into the resulting RSS feed, and the conversion (from HTML to RSS) is a once-off process … if your HTML web page changes you’ll need to recreate the RSS feed so the new information is included.

And of course, because these are free serives, they will usually attach a link to their own website as the last link in the RSS file.

But when you need a quick RSS feed, these html2rss converters offer a quick and practical solution, even if it’s a temporary one until you can implement your own real-time, dynamic, automated RSS feed.

Free RSS Readers

There are many free RSS readers (sometimes none as RSS News Readers) on the internet.

Some of these readers are web-based services, while others are applications you can download for your Windows, MAC or Linux PC, and for your mobile phone, smart phone, iPhone and PDA.

Aside from performing the basic task of reading an RSS feed (and there are several different RSS feed formats out there, including RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom and more), these applications can offer you a search function, the ability to group or organise your feed collection into folders, and much more. So try a few – once you find a favourite, you can then enjoy the simple pleasure of subscribing to and browsing through your feed collection.

Search Google for  more (click on any of these links to get yourself started – each link opens up in a new browser tab/window):

• RSS Readers
• Windows RSS Readers
• iPhone RSS Readers
• Mac RSS Readers
• Linux RSS Readers
• Free RSS Readers

SERPtracker V1.3.3 Released

SERPtracker V1.3.3 Released 5 Aug 09

• Fixed: Forgot about exporting the Anchor Text & URL data from last release!
• Mod: Changed all file Load & Save routines to use an absolute path instead of relative.

How to download & install SERPtracker V1.3.3

Subscribers, log in to your SERPtracker online web account, go to the Download page, download the 348 KB EXE file to your computer, make sure SERPtracker isn’t running, copy the new EXE to C:\Program Files\SERPtracker (thereby replacing the current version). Restart SERPtracker to see the version number on the main window titlebar.