In the world of search engines and sites that are optimized to get more traffic, SEO tools play a big role. They help analyze the data that is crucial to achieve a goal. In most cases this goal is simple, making profit.
There are a lot of tools out there, from search engine backlinks check up to keyword density on your site. So which ones will you be using the most?
Today i’ll talk about 2 of the most common ones i’ll be using from now on. Both come from SEM Labs SEO Tools, a fairly new site started by David Hopkins from Mutiny Design. So let’s start with the first one.
Rank checking for Google, Yahoo, Ask and Live
This SEO tool is called the Rank Checker. And it does a pretty sweet thing. After you make a new post to your blog, that has a keyword or two in the title, you will want to use this tool after that sites gets indexed to find it. This is useful to know how much backlinks you need to add to that site to get ranked better.
If it’s already ranked high, you can start making another post with rich and unique content. Let’s do a little test. As you can see on the picture below, i wanted to know where i rank for a keyword “freelance designer”. And as the tool shows, i have a nice ranking on Google and other Search Engines. I now need to get more links to that site with a anchor text of “freelance designer” and i’ll be getting higher on serps.

This tool is really fast and accurate when it comes to finding the ranks of you web page. I also use it daily since i try to write daily content.
SEO tool for buying old domains
The next tool is the Old Domain Digest. If used correct it may be a great investment. The tools works very simple. If you want to start earning money fast, you need to already have a good website, with a god keyword or two in the domain and of course it has to have lots of backlinks to it.
Some such domain expire and if you’re lucky you’ll be one of those to buy it and start getting traffic almost instantly. A lot of people are trying to find such sites, the problem is, there wasn’t a good tool to make it easy. But now SEM Labs has made such tool and life just got easier.
There are also other good ways on how to use this tool like a pro. You can check alexa.com and see how many traffic these domain got, or buy some, make a relevant site to your and link to it. Just make sure you use different hosting accounts and IPs.
For example, i need links from design related sites. Here is a screenshot on how would i search for them:

I could make some articles for those sites and link keywords to mine, that way i’d be building up my own site with those little ones. PR4,5 and 6 domains are good.
So that’s something to introduce you the two tools i’ll be using from now on. As i heard, there will also be more powerful seo tools coming in the future. So make sure you check out and bookmark SEM Labs.
More tips on using these two amazing tools is welcomed ![]()
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David Hopkins says :
Thanks for the post Darjan. I guess I should add Slovakia to the list of countries
Sep 03 , 2007 , 8:25 pmDarjan Panic says :
erm… i’m from Slovenia
Totally different country
But sure you could add it, would be good for me to use since i was thinking on writing more in my home language 
Sep 03 , 2007 , 10:23 pmDavid Hopkins says :
Sorry, I guess I will add Slovenia instead.
Sep 03 , 2007 , 8:40 pm