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New SEO Tool - Dead Link Checker Tool

Posted by Michael D Jensen on January 2nd, 2007

This week we are announcing a new tool each day (so stay tuned by subscribing). Today’s new tool is the “Dead Link Checker” tool. Many of you have probably seen Google’s tool (inside Google Webmaster Central) that reports pages on your site that can’t be found in their crawl. Although this is helpful, it falls short. SoloSEO’s Dead Link Check tool will go through each page of your sitemap and check each internal and outbound link to make sure the content exists (and does not give a 404 error, etc).

Why is the Dead Link Check tool important for SEO?

1) Search engines don’t like dead links. It makes your site appear like it is not being updated, that it is not fresh. If a search engines considers your site outdated, this is more than likely going to reflect in your rankings against more “fresh” and updated competitors.

2) People hate dead links. It drives me nuts when I find a page that links somewhere, internal or external, but then I’m at a dead end because it’s a bad link. This quickly turns me off and points me directly to the back button. And if people hate them, then you can bet search engines will consider this in their algorithms.

3) Dead links are hard to find. I was surprised during the testing stage of this tool to find 2 dead links of my own on one of my sites. I would have had no clue that I had (1) mistyped a URL and (2) was linking to a page that did not exist any longer. Even if you have just 20 or 30 pages of content, going through each link is going to take you forever. Do you have dead links? Only one (easy) way to know…

You can use the Dead Link Checker tool even if you are in a free trial. The tool takes only 1 second to initiate, because all you have to do is click a button to tell SoloSEO to initiate the tool. It runs in the background, and will send you a nice email when its finished for your convenience.

Check back tomorrow for another new SEO tool in SoloSEO!

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New Affiliate Program and New SEO Tools for SoloSEO

Posted by Michael D Jensen on January 2nd, 2007

We are excited to announce a new affiliate program for SoloSEO, with a payout up to $75 per referred sale! The structure of the payout is $15 for the initial sale, and then a recurring commission of $5 each month for up to 12 months (referred subscriber must be active for monthly commission). When you join the SoloSEO affiliate program, you’ll even get $25 in your account for just signing up (it only takes 30 seconds to sign up).

Become an Affiliate Now »

Announcing New Tools!
This week we will be announcing one tool each day, so be sure you subscribe with your feed reader to stay in the know. We have some really sweet tools that after you try them, you won’t want to do SEO without them.

User Reviews of SoloSEO
Since our launch we have had many great reviews, and would like to share a few of them with you. We are committed to listening to our users, for what they want and need in order to do SEO day in and day out. We are also using SoloSEO for our own businesses and websites (even SoloSEO.com), and so we can relate with what SEOs and do-it-yourselfers need. We are committed to bringing you the best SEO tools, all in one place, with SoloSEO. Here are a few snippets from users’ real experiences with SoloSEO that have been posted since our launch:

From Loren Baker at SearchEngineJournal.com:
“Is SoloSEO the replacement for an expert SEO staff member or agency? No. But for those businesses which want to try and tackle basic SEO themselves or learn from the ground up, or for the private SEO contractor looking to consolidate multiple tools into one all around simplified project management offering, SoloSEO could be a Godsend.”

From Todd Malicoat of StuntDubl.com:
“SoloSEO is a very nice suite of tools for the DIY SEO’er. The only problem I see it having is scalability due to all the one man shops that will find high value from it. Online SEO Project management for any site.”

From Andy Beal of MarketingPilgrim.com:
“While software for search engine optimization has existed for years, there really hasn’t been a solution that allows you to set-up, track, manage and progress your SEO campaign…until now.”

“There’s no doubt that SoloSEO.com offers a selection of tools and project management options not currently available to search marketers,” said Beal. “I’ve practiced search engine optimization for years and SoloSEO.com offers the most comprehensive features I have ever seen.” (included in our Press Release)

From Thomas McMahon of TopRankBlog.com:
“I’ve been working with SoloSEO, a web based SEO project management solution, and it’s a good start to what could be quite a nice system. It doesn’t have quite all the features I’d like, but it does work well at keyword research and ties into search engines for inindex and backlink reporting.”

From Paul Drago:
“Thus far it seems fairly interesting– the pricing of 29 dollars a month is rather reasonable. Its great to have all of these tools in the same place (finally). I love these kind of projects where after you see it you simply so “duh” why the hell did it take this long for a web-based PM system like this to exist for a very web based industry.”

From Chris Bennett at 97thFloor.com:
“First off I gotta say I have used everything, IBP, Web CEO, SEO Elite, you name it and the first thing I am excited about is the online capabilities. It will be so much easier to manage clients sites from anywhere as I won’t have to install and keep updating my software on every computer. I won’t have to pay extra for…running it on more than 2 computers which is pretty much standard on all the other products I have used.”

From BloggingExpertise.com:
“One of the strongest parts of SoloSEO seems to be the tools to help you pick good keywords. They’ve taken some of the best-known tools in the SEO industry and put them together in an easy-to-use page.”

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