Mac SEO Blog

We are pleased to announce a major update to iWeb SEO Tool the search engine optimization tool for Apple’s iWeb.

Version 1.5 brings some big improvements including support for Google Analytics (or any other analytical software such as mint or statscounter) to iWeb. Simply copy and paste your analytics code into the Site Settings tab of iWeb SEO Tool and let it take care of all the hard work for you.

We have also significantly enhanced MobileMe publishing as well as FTP publishing. Your iWeb website will now publish must quicker than before.

Lastly this new update fixes problems with some webpage title’s not updating.

The latest 1.5 version is of course completely free and can be downloaded from the iWeb SEO Tool download page.

For best results, why not use our iWeb Hosting solutions. Optimized for search engines, our iWeb Hosting has all the features you need to a fast loading, high performance iWeb web host.

We are happy to announce a new video tutorial for Domainer, our popular domain management software. The video was created by AppTorial.

In this video you will learn how to add domains and what some of the many SEO statistics and details provided by Domainer mean.

SERank, the most powerful search engine rank checker for Mac OS X has been updated to version 2.0.1.

This update fixes problems with some searches not completing, specifically Ask.com.

It also includes other minor fixes and enhancements.

SEKeyword, the free keyword research tool, has just been updated to version 1.2. This new update offers improved support for iWeb based websites, as well as fixes problems retrieving keywords for certain websites.

This update is of course free for all users.

SEKeyword provides the most popular key terms related to your website so you know that if you rank high for these keywords, you are guaranteed to get visitors from search engines.

SEKeyword integrates with SERank, the most powerful search engine rank checker for Mac OS X and Domainer, the fully featured domain management tool.

Today we are extremely pleased to announce a major update to SERank. In fact, this update is our biggest ever with a host of new features and enhancements.

SERank, the number one search engine rank checker for Mac OS X boasts over 50 new search engines, a new competitor analysis feature, support for Microsoft’s new Bing search engine and enhanced SEO Reports for clients, customers or internal use.

We worked extremely hard on this release, utilizing an extended beta period to make sure it’s rock solid. Download the latest update to give it a try.

Version 2.0 is a paid upgrade for version 1.x users unless you purchased after January 5, 2009. If you purchased after January 5, 2009, you can get your free update by visiting http://www.ragesw.com/getupdate.php.

If you purchased before January 5, 2009, you can purchase an update at a discounted price from our upgrade stores. Make sure you purchase the appropriate update for the current version that you own.

Earlier this month, Google launched their redesigned Google Local Business Center making it extremely easy for businesses to advertise, for free, in Google.

Google Local Business Center makes it extremely easy for small businesses to get their website into Google’s search results, along with specific and important information about their business. For example, you can specify your hour of operations, your exact location which provides searchers with driving directions, contact information and even customized coupons.

With the all new Google Business Center you now get a wealth of information about your potential customers. You can

1. Find our the exact search term they used to find you
2. Find out where they are located at how far they travelled to you
3. Find out how often your business listing appeared in Google’s search results
4. Find out how many times a customer clicked through to your website for more information on your business

All this information is provided for you on the new Google Business Center dashboard, complete with daily activity for your listings.

Daily summary of activity for your Google Business Center listing

Total Stats for your Business Listing

Check out this promotional video to see how Google Local Business Center can help your business grow.

Note: Google Local Business Center is only for US business right now but will be expanding to more countries shortly.

We all know that in order for your website to appear in a search engine’s results page (SERP) you must either have that keyword included in your website content or have another website link to your website using that keyword.

Competing for keywords can be very difficult. Often times a keyword you want to rank high for involves competing with thousands, or millions, of other websites. So what if it were possible to find keywords before they became popular? Almost like seeing into the future.

Well you can get some “insight” into what keywords are rising in popularity with Google Insight for Search.

With Google Insight for Search you can find out what your customers are searching for before the keyword term has become popular. You can narrow your search down to specific countries or regions, look across different services such as Google Web search, news search image search, etc… and even narrow your search down by category.

Google Insights for Search will even provide popular synonyms and upcoming search terms that are gaining in popularity.

Try doing a search for one of your keywords within the last 30 days to see what your customers are searching for on Google Insights for Search.

Google has confirmed that a study using XML Sitemaps will;

help search engines find new and changed content faster.

According to their Webmaster Tools Blog and a study conducted on the effectiveness of XML Sitemaps.

Two important points can be taken directly from this study;

We conduct this test over a dataset consisting of over five billion URLs that were seen by both systems. According to the most recent statistics at the time of the writing, 78% of these URLs were seen by Sitemaps first, compared to 22% that were seen through Discovery first.

And more importantly;

The main observation from this study is that for an archival domain, Discovery is 63% “efficient” and Sitemaps is 99% efficient in crawling the domain.

Since creating an XML Sitemap is so easy and effortless, there is no reason not to have one.

Last week Microsoft discontinued support for their MSN search, moving over to their new Bing search engine. We wrote about Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine a few days ago.

Anyways, since they discontinued support for MSN search, SERank will not be able to complete searches when MSN is selected. To get around this problem, do not do a rank check through MSN.

Fortunately we have already addressed this issue for the next update to SERank. We have added Bing support as well as a host of new features and enhancements for version 2.0 of SERank.

You can download a beta version of SERank by creating a free beta tester’s account on TryBeta.

More details on version 2.0 will come shortly, but users who purchase SERank today, will be able to upgrade to version 2.0 for free.

Google Webmaster Tools gets an all new interface and new features.

Some of the highlights of the new interface and new features include;

1. An all new dashboard that shows your most important data including top search queries, top incoming links as well as any errors found on your website which may effect how Google and other searches crawl your website.
2. Up to 100 top search queries for your website and up to 100 top clicked search queries.
3. The ability to track XML Sitemaps submitted by other users of your site.
4. You can now subscribe to messages sent to your Webmaster Tools account so you get them right to your email. You no longer have to login to your account to check your messages

All in all, this new updated offers some much needed new features. We especially like the addition of showing up to 100 search queries. If you haven’t already done so, create your XML Sitemap today and get access to all of this important information about your website.