Search Engine Optimisation – Useful Links and
information to assist websites to reach top web ranking and retain high
ranking in Search Engines and Directories.
We don't have any control over the content nor usefulness of any of
these linked sites and accept no responsibility for their use. Nor do
we endorse any service or product offered by any search engine, directory
or Web site.
All of the following links will open in a new screen.
Most popular Search Engines and Directories
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
www.live.com is MSN's
new search engine
www.dmoz.com
www.altavista.com
www.alltheweb.com
www.teoma.com
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.build-reciprocal-links (backlink_checker)
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
You may copy our logo to your Website to provide a valuable
information resource link to this Website. The reproduction of any other
content from this site is prohibited without our written consent.
Cut and paste the full length of both lines of HTML in this box to where
you want the logo link on your site's page -
The link to us on your Web page will look like this -