Check Your Search Engine Rankings with CuteRank, a Free Tool

How often do you check your website ranking on search engines? How much time will it take? Or you simply don’t care about it (if you build your website in a long tail strategy). As for me, I check my website rankings for some keywords everyday and trust me I know how inefficient and time-consuming doing it manually, especially when there is a long list.

Fortunately we have tools to help us. Recently I discovered this great free tool called CuteRank from cuterank.net. It is a Free & smart rank checker software that help us check and track our website rankings for desired keywords on multiple search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing/MSN, Ask, and AOL). It claims to support more than 200 search engines, which means you can check your keyword rankings in different countries.

Here is a short list of CuteRank’s main features:

Check website ranking in an instant

Check all your website rankings for certain keywords on

The Importance Of Keywords And Keyword Research Tools – part 1

Sorry for not updating this post for long, but as I mentioned previously, I have been quite busy recently. Today, I decided to write a series of fundamental post especially designed for beginners in the blogosphere. This first series of post will focus on how to use keywords and keyword research tools.

What Are Keywords?

Keywords are designed to facilitate web users to find content they are looking for on the internet. Keywords are also used by internet marketers to connect their content with potential customers for their products.

In short, Keywords are every common and frequently used words in your web page content that will simplify the work of the search engines to index the content of your website on search engines database.

By indexing the content of your website, the search engines is able to collect data that inform them what your site is about, in order to display links to different specific

How To Use A Thesaurus To Find Keywords

In the post “How To Get Targeted Traffic“, Chendong a.k.a The Bad Blogger asked me to explain the method about how to drive traffic to your site using a Thesaurus. Before to start the explanation, I would like to let you know that using a thesaurus itself won’t get you traffic. In fact, the main utility of a thesaurus is not to find keywords to use for your blog SEO, but it’s true you can use it as a keywords search tool like I slightly mentionned in the post cited above.

What Is A Thesaurus ?

A thesaurus is definitely not a dinosaur species from Jurassic, this is a book in which words are put into groups with other words that have similar meanings. In other words, a thesaurus is a kind of dictionnary where you can find both synonyms and related words.

Why Should I Use A Thesaurus For Keyword Search ?

Usually, a Thesaurus is used

How To Get Targeted Traffic

Even if you write the best article in the world, it doesn’t mean you’ll get the traffic you were looking for. The ideal would be to get visitors that are interested in your blog content. Today, I’ve decided to list some proven method I use to get targeted traffic to my blog and limit the non-targeted traffic.

What Is Untargeted Traffic ?

The untargeted traffic is a low quality traffic converted by accident. When you are looking for specific informations on search engines using keywords, you might already noticed that sometimes when you use keywords, some websites don’t provide the informations you were looking for. This mean, the site received an un-targeted traffic because you weren’t interested in its content, and you are unlikely to visit this site again.

How To Avoid Untargeted Traffic ?

Untargeted traffic is often due to a misuse of keywords. For instance, If your blog is about how to cook