This post aims to give you some ideas to improving a website. Not all the points listed below will be suitable for all sites, but you may be inspired to create new sections or develop new features which will help improve the site from an SEO, usability or usefullness point of view.
Here are 25 great […]

Link checking software such as Xenu’s Link Sleuth enables a webmaster to locate broken links, as well as count the number of URLs on a site.
Link Sleuth is a free to download piece of software, but there are many others available. The software works by spidering links in your site the same way a search […]

To see how many PDF and Flash files have been indexed on a site (as well as other file types) use the filetype: operator in Google. For instance, to check the number of PDFs on the BBC you would search site:www.bbc.co.uk filetype:pdf.
For Flash files, you would search for site:www.bbc.co.uk filetype:swf.

The big 3 search engines provide handy tools and features to help analyse your sites. These include showing the number of backlinks your site has and the number of pages indexed by the search engine. Learn about the differences in these features below, and keep a record of the changes over time, to see what […]