I am a beginner to SEO i have the following questions. 1. i have been optimizing a website ex= H1 tags, Bold Text, Key word Density, Key word Proximity, Meta Description and Keywords tags and many more, from a google website perspective as it is very famous. By doing so am i also optimizing for the other 3 major search engines yahoo, msn, ask.com websites. or do i need to do something else other than having an individual xml based sitemap for these 3 websites. 2. after searching for a keyword if my website appears in the second or third page its easy to navigate to the 2nd or 3rd page however if my website appears in the 10th or 15th page is there a way i can find out the exact page number from the search results or is there any other method. 3. in order to implement google analytics the javascript code that is generated needs to be copied to the web pages of a website, do i need to copy paste the javascript code into all the webpages in my website assuming i have 50 pages or do i need to copy only for index.html 4. there is a way to find out how links a website has by typing link: www.website.com similar to such tips can anyone provide a link where i can get access to such useful information with regards to SEO and SEM for a website. please advice. thanks.
Search engines will read your xml sitemap regardless if you submit it to them or not (ie through webmaster tools). Yahoo does have 'site explorer', and I think that you're able to submit you sitemap there though. Google it You can Google "check serp" or something of the sort. Here's a few tools: http://www.searchengineforums.com/tools/google-position-check/ http://link.ezer.com/tools/google_serps_rank_checker.asp There's tons more out there - some seem to work great, others don't ever work for me at all. Yes, you need to copy it at the bottom of EVERY page. Look into server side includes to make your life easier. If I understand you correctly, you can check your backlinks with Yahoo SiteExplorer or Google Webmaster Tools (don't check them with link:yoursite.com, it's inaccurate). I've also came across this awesome site too: http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/ Hope this helps.
If you optimize your on page factors for google, it will optimize it for other SE's. They do have different algorithms, but they are pretty similar. install firefox and add rank checker. This tool allow you to check your rank under google, yahoo and live for the keywords of your choice and the page of your choice[/quote] yes. link diagnosis is a good tool. market leap works: http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/ I think you need to google SEO tools and see what you want. there are a lot of them available out there.