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SEOMeter.com is a website, which I have discovered recently when I was surfing the internet. I find this seo tool pretty useful since it unveils Google’s crawl rate. Now, I’ve decided to bring it to your attention and tell you what I honestly think about it.

First, let’s start off with the owner’s description of the service:

Free online SEO tools that allow webmasters to monitor Google’s crawl rate and cache history over time.

How does it work?
It tracks your website’s crawl rate by getting its cache from Google. (cache: yoursite.com) It’s worth mentioning that the service only measures Google’s crawl rate because only Google provides free access to this kind of information. Then it stores the information in its database and displays it when needed.

So what?
Well, crawl cycle can tell you a lot about a particular website. For example, the more often the website is crawled by Google:

• The more important the website is to Google.
• The more Google ‘trusts’ that website.
• The faster a link will be recognized by Google.

What I like:

• Cool, sleek web 2.0 design, which provides users with unique, long-lasting browsing experience.
• The idea of including 20 most often crawled websites.
• List of most often crawled web directories.
• Nice graphs, which actually help you interpret the information better, unlike numbers.
• Ability to compare sites, so you know where it’s more efficient and effective to advertise.
• Company’s Blog, so you understand what’s going on at SEO Meter.

What I dislike:

• Small database of sites, which I am sure will be expanded in the near future.
• Small variety of crawling statistics banners (like 88×35 and 468×60).
• Lack of ability to post crawling statistics graphs on a website (except a screenshot).
• Small maximum number of websites to compare (only 3 websites).

In conclusion, I see that SEO Meter has gotten a bright future as webmasters become more and more reliable on search engine traffic. I really like it and will use it whenever I start any advertising campaign. Now, I want to know what you think about it. Do you like it?

Getting a website indexed by Google can be very frustrating, time consuming and difficult. This is so because nearly thousands of websites are created daily, and Google Bot is simply not strong and smart enough to index all the new websites instantly. The other reason why Google Bot doesn’t index new websites is because they seem to be valueless: not enough fresh content and link popularity.

Well, so who do you get your site indexed by Google easily and quickly? The answer is pretty easy and simple: get more fresh content and increase link popularity. Sounds too easy?Moreover, you think you’ve already done that but it still doesn’t work? It’s because you are not doing it right.

Now let’s do it right, and discuss each step in great detail:

• Fresh Content: number one important rule for the content is the uniqueness, post’s length and relativism. First off, copying and pasting articles from other blogs won’t do the trick. Even worse, your site might be banned from Google forever due to the duplicate content. Second, your content should be update regularly - at least once a week. Hint: don’t post a lot of articles at once, introduce them overtime. Third, the length of articles should be reasonable - not too long and not too short. Try to keep your articles between 350 to 1000 words. Finally, post only related articles. Never ever, post any unrelated paid articles or reviews.

• Link Popularity: so how do you plan to do it? Directories, link exchanges and so on? Well, it’s a good technique to increase your link popularity, but it’s not going to help you getting indexed by Google quickly. However, commenting on do-follow blogs helps your site get indexed quickly now days! Why? Well, it’s pretty simple. First, blogs are updated daily and thus Google indexes them regularly. Second, your link will be up, within 24 hours. Third, many blogs use various plugins which feature the latest and top commentators on the main page. This way you are getting free backlinks. Use this and this list of do-follow blogs do find the right blogs to comment on.

If you will follow these steps your site will be indexed by Google within a week. I’ve used this techinuque for a long-period of time and it works well every time. Go on try it! Tell me how long it takes for your sites do get indexed now, by commenting.

Authority links are crucial in getting good PageRank value as well as reasonable amount of SERPs. Authority links are generally defined as links, which encompass higher value than normal backlinks.

Generally speaking, authority links have high PageRank value and/or .edu or .gov domain extension. It’s much more easier and more convience to get good PR with authority links. So how do you get free .edu or .gov links?

Well, in short, it’s pretty simple. Where can someone get free backlinks? Ah, ha! You are thinking about blogs and forums, right? That’s right, one the ways to get free authority links is through blogs and forums, which have .edu and .gov domain extensions.

But how to find those blogs and forums? Google comes quite handy to help you. Just simply do the following easy searches:

“Any Keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.edu

The identified search query has three important parts to it. First, include the keyword you are looking for. It’s wise to consider the niche of your website as a keyword. Second, enter the type of blogging software (such as MovableType, Pivot) or forum software (such as vBulletin, phpBB). Please remember that if you are looking for a forum enter forum software and do the same if you are looking for a blog. Third, fill in the domain extension you want to search for. (either .gov or .edu)

If you are not sure how to get free backlinks from blogs and forums then read this paragraph. One way to get free backlinks from a blog is by leaving comments. One way to get free backlinks from a forum is through personal profile and/or signiture.

Here are a few forums, I have just found to get you started:

• Franklin & Marshall

• Computer Science & Engineering Forums

Please share with us what you find by leaving comments.