Search Engine Optimization Tools

Over the past couple of years, my partner and I have been working on a set of Search Engine Optimization Tools. We started off first by wrting a tool that we could perform a link check given a web page. The program would extract all of the hyperlinks from a page and verify that they actually worked - didn't time out. One tool led to another and we ended up writing about 10 tools total. The tools were written in Java, deployed from a Servlet Engine (Tomcat), connected up with Coldfusion to provide a web services layer, and eventually, we built a standalone Java app to run these tools, and then we built a turnkey system that would run all the tools on a given website, store the results in a relational database, and produce a cutomized report.

The purpose of this blog is to outline every tool in the set and describe out to write these tools from scratch. Eventually, we'll open up the tools and make them available for use, but the source at this point will remain closed. The software will provided as is with no warranties of any kind.

The tools in the set are:
Metatag Extractor
Link Extractor
Link Checker
Google Page Rank
Link Popularity
Search Engine Saturation
Keyword Density
Web Rank

Some of the tools have been combined and produce a composite report
Seo Report provides Metatags, Link Check, Google Page Rank, and Link Popularity.
Competitor Analysis- wil extract the metatags for a given url and allows you to Web Rank, and search thoes keywords with Google, Yahoo, and Overture. Again, a very useful tool for analyzing your competitors.
Site Audit is everything including web ranking all of the keywords in the metatags - a very useful tool to find the sites that rank for the keywords in your metatags. This is a combination of the Seo Report and Competitor Analysis.