A  lot of Content and Links displayed on a webpage may not actually be visible to the Search Engines, eg. Flash based content,  content generated through javascript,  content displayed as images etc.

This tool Simulates a Search Engine by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it. It also displays the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) by a Search Engine when it visits the particular webpage.

Here’s your link: http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

 Recently, eBay ditched Commission Junction and took their affilliate program in-house, creating the eBayparnernetwork.com.  What BANS does, is create an easily SEO-friendly website with your chosen niche ebay categories, with your affilliate ID embedded in each auction item fed into your niche site.  This can create large commissions, and some members of the BANS software are claiming $x,xxx commissions per month.  Need the software?

 You must abide by the terms, but think “outside the box” and put Facebook’s flyers to good use.  A low CPC of $0.01 gets you started, and you target your ad geographically, as well as by keywords.  You can even target your flyer by college or university.  Grab a niche and promote it, and benefit from the huge userbase that Facebook has.

Join Blog Rush.  This is an insane new tool to gain traffic for your blog.  I’m pretty impressed with it already.  It allows you to filter out other ads you dont want to display on your blog within their blog ad code.  I’ll postan example of it below.

To begin with, we’ll revisit what is meant by the term search engine optimization (SEO). SEO refers to methods that improve search engine rankings for a particular website. Techniques can vary but will often involve making the most of the website by ensuring that its content and structure appeal to search engines, as well as visitors.

There are various schools of thought on how best to carry out such optimization. As far as the major search engines are concerned, there are ethical methods of improving search engine rankings and unethical methods.

Within the professional search engine community, ethical techniques are known as “white hat”, while techniques that are viewed as unethical have been labelled “black hat”.

White Hat SEO involves making the best use of the structure and content of the website to improve rankings. Black Hat techniques will often involve attempting to fool a search engine into believing that a particular website is more relevant or highly regarded than it actually is.

Examples of Black Hat methods might include cloaking, which is where a search engine is effectively shown a different version of a website to visitors. Other techniques would include employing hidden text and links.

Although Black Hat SEO can have some impressive results, the major search engines are constantly attempting to clamp down on such methods, banning websites who employ them.

For long-term results, ethical White Hat methods are the most effective.

You can find out more about improving your web presence by visiting Search South, where Keith Barrett is employed as a search engine consultant.

 With this tool, you can check your pagerank, page age, ibound links in yahoo google and dmoz, as well as inbound links from .gov and .edu websites.  Theres alot more as well, just type in your URL and see what your site ranks as.