Here's a nifty companion tool to Rank
Meter. It's called Rank
Spy and it helps you to do two very important things:
- Reveal which pages on your site
are indexed in the major search engines
- Reveal what web sites are
cross-linked to your web site
These two things are critical for a
webmaster. You need to know your web pages are registered correctly
with the major search engines, and you need to know who is linking
back to you.
Of these two features, I find the
link back analysis key to your marketing efforts if you run an
affiliate program or another form of alternate sales channel. You
want to see how many folks are linking to you, how they are linking
to you, and why they are linking to you.
I, for one, run an affiliate program
for my other web site, EbookoMatic.
Using Rank
Spy I can quickly see where others have linked to me. So not
only do I gather some good marketing statistics, but I can also make
suggestions to my affiliates about how they link to me. When I
tested Rank
Spy, I was surprised to see so many folks linking to my site
and they were not even members of my affiliate program! Invaluable
information.
Rank
Spy is easy to use. You simply enter the URL of the web site
you want to analyze, check the search engines you want to review,
and click. Within a short time, you are presented with a list of
relevant URLs for the search engines selected. You can then click on
the URLs to visit them in your browser.
Like its companion product, Rank
Spy has unlimited search depth and offers various forms of
saving and exporting analysis reports. And like Rank
Meter, if you want to use this product, there's an initial
license cost -- this one is $40.00 -- and then renew your license
annually for only $20.00 per year. That's a drop in the bucket when
you consider how much time this tool will save you. Learn more here.
