Free website link checker

One way to gain favour with search engines is to minimise the amount of dead links on your website. You can check them using the W3C Validator Link Checker.

If you want to check your pages offline or on your own computer before sending a page live, use the Firefox Link Checker addon which will highlight all links on a page, colouring them green for valid and red for broken links.

Improve your Search engine ranking

There are a number of ways to increase the traffic through your website, the primary one being to improve your SEO (search engine optimization.) Through the use of a meta tag generator you can list relevant keywords and output them to be pasted in the HTML code of your website.

The best way to attract new visitors to your website is to use terms that are current and popular. You can track these by visiting websites such as Google Trends which list the most commonly searched terms and divides them by region, city and language. Alexa is also another SEO resource, which will allow you to check on the rating of your website in comparison to the rest of the web. (Update 21/1/08) It has been brought to my attention (thanks to the anonymous commenter!) that Alexa bases the statistics solely based on the amount of traffic generated by Alexa toolbar users, which may skew the reliability of the statistics provided.

Other recommended links below:

• Submit Corner Meta Tag Generator
• TheSiteWizard SEO tips
• OpenTracker Google SEO article