Search Engine Optimisation – Useful Links and information to assist websites to reach top web ranking and retain high ranking in Search Engines and Directories.

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Most popular Search Engines and Directories
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
www.live.com is MSN's new search engine was superseded by bing.com mid 2009 - it will be interesting to see how MSN will match, or rival Google

Valuable advice to Webmasters from Google about design and content guidelines: -
www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

Comprehensive list of Search Engines and Directories: -
Yahoo! Index of search engines and directories

Comprehensive country by country search engines: -
www.philb.com/countryse.htm

More search engines listed by country and category: -
www.searchenginecolossus.com

Google keyword research tool: -
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Currency Converter: -
www.xe.com – purported to be world’s most popular currency converter

Microsoft guidelines
www.microsoft.com/protect to help protect your computer.

ASIC Check the availability of a proposed name of a company
www.search.asic.gov.au/ to ascertain your rightful use and protect your URL.

Activeways Australia Manufacturers of drink coasters and promotional items able to produce small runs at keen prices www.activewaysaustralia.com

Oz NetLaw (Oz Netlaw Terms of use) is part of the Communications Law Centre (www.comslaw.org.au), a non-profit research, policy and educational organisation specialising in media, communications and online law.

To check on the ownership of a domain name - You cannot assume that because a Domain does not appear in search results that it is available. It may be still registered although not launched. It is common for businesses to register similar Domains to their Web address simply to stop opposition businesses doing so. This useful tool also provides the expiry date for Domains.
www.easywhois.com/

To trace an IP address use this tool
www.arin.net/whois/

To peruse archived sites that are no longer available on the www use this tool
www.archive.org

To find websites that are linking to yours use this tool
www.online-utility.org

To find ABN (Australian Business Number) type the business name and search - a very handy tool
www.abr.business.gov.au/.../main.aspx

Rather than having to change your monitor's screen resolution to see what your site looks like at different resolutions use this tool
www.markhorrell.com/tools/browser.html

AusCERT (Australian Computer Emergency Response Team)
Their website contains up to date information for computer security issues including browser vulnerability and patches.
www.auscert.org.au/

Protect children from accessing unsavoury Web sites
including a free filter to protect our kids - Australian Government site www.netalert.gov.au

If you are staging an event or product launch here are the people to provide you with everything you need - hire of data projectors, computers, staging, lighting in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide, they are a leader in the industry www.microhire.com.au

W3C Website for disabled web access guidelines (Web Accessibility Initiative/ WAI), at: -
www.w3.org/WAI/

W3C Website comprehensive list of tools to test and repair Web content accessibility in order that various makes amd versions of browsers display your page as it was designed (remember that the Coca Cola site which was designed on a white background displayed black to some browser users before corrected): -
www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools.html

W3C - World Wide Web Consortium Website at: -
www.w3.org/

W3C MarkUp validation test: -
http://validator.w3.org/

W3C Character entities list: -
www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/sgml/entities

Office of Federal Privacy Commissioner Australia Website: -
www.privacy.gov.au/

Website to check whether text has been plagiarised: -
www.copyscape.com

Symantec website to check on Internet security issues online -
security.symantic.com

Website to check on commonly misspelt words that you might use in your webpage: -
www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-typo-generator

Website helping you to retain greater on-line security especially regarding Internet banking: -
www.scamwatch.gov.au

FREE search engine submission to 40 search engines takes one minute (be aware that over submissions can see a Web site penalised): -
http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.php

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