SEO-SEM-Tools

SEO Tools

Internet Most Exhaustive List of SEO & SEM tools by SEO Chandru

1. Analytics Tools
2. Blogging Tools
3. Competitors Analysis Tools
4. Conversion Rate Optimization Tools
5. Crawling and Indexing
6. E-Mail Marketing Tools
7. Google Adsense Tools
8. Google Adwords Tools
9. Image Search Tools
10. Keyword Research Tools
11. Legal & Copyright Tools
12. Link Building Tools
13. Local Search Tools
14. Market Research Tools
15. On-Page Optimization Tools
16. Other PPC Tools
17. Page Rank Tools
18. SEO & SEM Books
19. SEO & SEM Certifications
20. SEO & SEM Conferences
21. SEO & SEM Learning Tools
22. SEO Business Tools
23. Social Media Marketing Tools
24. URL Manipulation and Server Issues
25. Video Optimization
26. Web Development Tools

Analytics Tools

1. Google Analytics
2. Google Analytics Help Center
3. Google Analytics Forum
4. Google Analytics Features
5. Google Analytics Channel – on YouTube
6. Google Analytics IQ Lessons
7. Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) test
8. Google Analytics Glossary
9. Google Analytics URL Builder
10. Google Analytics Tracking Code Debugger – It is a chrome extension which tells you when your analytics tracking code is set up incorrectly
11. Google Seminars for Success – Google Adwords, Analytics & Website Optimizer Seminar.
12. StatCounter – This analytics tool updates in real time unlike Google Analytics and is also free to use.
13. Omniture – Another good web analytics tool
14. Google Webmaster Tools
15. Yahoo Site Explorer
16. Bing Webmaster Center
17. Whois LookUp
18. Book- Web Analytics an hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik
19. Twistermc’s GA? – A fire fox add-on which is used to find whether google analytics is installed on a web page (without looking at the source code)
20. Better Google Analytics Firefox Extension
21. Google Analytics’ Official Blog
22. LunaMetrics
23. EpikOne
24. Occam’s Razor
25. Google sponsored Seminars for Success – Google Analytics & Website Optimizer Seminar.
26. Creating Virtual Pageviews with Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking
27. Google Analytics Cheatsheet (PDF)
28. Facebook Analytics
29. Excellent Analytics – It is a simple Excel plug-in that lets you import web analytics data from Google Analytics into a spreadsheet. It’s an open source project and 100% free to download and use for individuals and businesses.
30. How to Set Up Google Analytics to Allow Keyword Cleaning and Referring Domain Analysis
31. SiteScanGA.com – It verifies if your Google Analytics Tracking Code is installed properly on your website. However it scans only first 100 pages of your website. The paid version can scan up to 300,00 pages per domain.
32. What information do the filter fields in Google Analytics represent?
33. SEO Checker- Data visualization tool for site analysis.
34. 7 Different Visualisations of Link Profiles- blog post on visualizing back link data
35. Wistia- Provides video hosting, sharing and tracking (like The page where this video is embedded has been loaded 437 times by 355 people. 42% of these people played the video a total of 161 times. On average they each watched 33% of the video.)
36. Free 4Q Online Survey – It is a free online survey solution that allows you to find out why visitors are at your website, and whether or not they are completing their tasks (and if they aren’t, what’s getting in the way?).

Better Google Analytics Firefox Extension

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Blogging Tools

1. 21 Tips to Earn Links and Tweets to Your Blog Post
2. 101 FREE Ways To Increase Your Blog Traffic
3. Guest Blogging: The Ultimate Guide
4. 52 Blogs that Accept Guest Posts
5. 26 Sites That Pay You to Blog
6. 20 Essential Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog To

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Competitors Analysis Tools

1. 21 Tools for Spying on Your Competitors: You can also add a few other SEO tools from seomoz.
2. Hitwise.com – It continuously monitor internet usage and online trends. It provides data and analytical tools to its clients so that they can understand internet behavior and competitors’ activity. Note: Hitwise has more than 100,000 clients around the world and its annual revenue is around $ 4 billion.
3. Hitwise Research Store - Here you can buy websites reports (like that on your competitors), Industry and other special reports. However these reports are expensive (around $700/report).
4. Compete.com
5. Quantcast.com
6. Google Ad Planner
7. Alexa.com
8. Archive.org
9. Keycompete.com – Through this tool you can determine which keywords your competitors are targeting for their PPC campaign. (cost around $40/ month).
10. Spyfu.com – Through this tool you can determine which keywords your competitors are targeting for their PPC campaign, what is their daily budget, CPC, clicks/day, estimated Avg. ad position. etc (cost approx. $70/month).
11. Industry Analysis for 16,000 lines of business in 300 US markets

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Conversion Rate Optimization Tools

1. Google Website Optimizer
2. Google Website Optimizer 101 – a quick-start guide to conversion rate optimization
3. Website Usability Checklist
4. 25-point Website Usability Checklist
5. Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer – Bryan Eisenberg & John Quarto-von Tivadar.
6. Rocket Surgery Made Easy – The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems.
7. Clixpy.com – Use to record and play users’ web sessions.
8. Userfly — Web usability testing made easy.
9. UserTesting.com – Usability testing in just one time fees of $39
10. Don’t Make Me Think another great book on usability by Steve Krug.
11. How we made $1 million for SEOmoz—with one landing page and a few emails
12. 14 free tools that reveal why people abandon your website
13. The Definitive How-To Guide For Conversion Rate Optimization
14. “Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions” by SiteTuners.com President Tim Ash
15. Five Second Test – show a visitor your site for 5 seconds and see what they remember. This tool is free if you test other people pages.
16. Crazy Egg- Heat mapping tool through which you can visualize how people interact with your website.

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Crawling and Indexing

1. Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator
2. Diagrams for Solving Crawl Priority & Indexation Issues
3. Using multiple sitemaps to analyse indexation on large sites
4. Ping O Matic
5. Eric Enge interviews Matt Cutts

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E-Mail Marketing Tools

1. Campaign Monitor – It is an e-mail markeitng software. They charge $5 per campaign and 1 cent per e-mail. You don’t need to pay anything if you send to 5 or less people.

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Google Adsense Tools

1. Google Adsense
2. Google Adsense Help Articles
3. Google Adsense Blog
4. Google Adsense Channel – on YouTube
5. Google Adsense Help Forum
6. Google Adsense Webinars
7. Google Adsense Preview Tool
8. Google Adsense Forum- I have no visible holds on my account, and have not been paid – Interact with google adsense employees for the aforesaid query.

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Google Adwords Tools

1. Google Adwords
2. Google Adwords Preview Tool
3. Google Adwords Help Articles
4. Google Adwords Learning Center for Beginner
5. Google Adwords Learning Center for Experts
6. Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam Learning Center
7. The Complete AdWords Learning Center – This center contains both the beginner & expert lessons in one place.
8. Google Adwords Blog
9. AdWords Educational Videos (YouTube)
10. Google Adwords Help Forum
11. Google Advertising Professionals Search – Find a Google certified professional or company to help you manage your AdWords campaign and who are happy to support campaigns around your budget size.
12. Google Seminars for Success – Google Adwords, Analytics & Website Optimizer Seminar.
13. Google Adwords Certified Individual
14. Google Adwords Certified Company
15. Google Advertising Professionals Program
16. Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam

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Image Search Tools

1. Javascript code to break the Google images overlay. So that Image seo value is no longer reduced by overlay.
2. Image Optimization Tips that will help you tons

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Keyword Research Tools

1. Google Keyword Tool
2. WordTracker
3. Keyword Discovery
4. Google Wonder Wheel – Click on ‘Show Options’ on a google SERP and then check the standard view heading.
5. Google Insight
6. SEOCHAT- Keyword Difficulty Tool
7. SEO Logs -Keyword Difficulty Tool
8. SEOmoz Keyword Difficulty Tool
9. Google Search Based keyword Tool – Through this tool you can find out whether your website targets high search volume keywords or not.
10. HitTail.com Targetting long tail keywords -60 days free trial available. after that u will ve 2 pay $100/year. add the tracking code 2 all the pages of your site.
11. 10 Steps to Advanced Keyword Research
12. How to Employ Multiple Keywords for SEO & Conversions
13. The 8 step seo strategy

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Legal & Copyright Tools

1. The 6 Steps to Stop Content Theft
2. Copyright Basics
3. Website Copyright Infringement and DMCA Procedures
4. Benefits of Website Copyright Registration
5. How to deal with Copyright Infringer Step by Step
6. Using the DMCA Takedown Notice to Battle Copyright Infringement
7. U.S. Copyright Office – Registering a Work (FAQ)
8. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
9. SEO Contract Guide for Smarter SEOs
10. How to write a SEO Contract?
11. Best SEO Contract in the world
12. Search Trade Marks

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Link Building Tools

1. 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity
2. Link Building articles on Sphinn
3. The Ultimate Guide to Link Building
4. Link Diagnosis – examine your link competition Through this tool you can check the backlinks profile of a website. You can also find out the follow or nofollow status of a backlink and PR of your backlinks.
5. Linkscape tool
6. Linkscape’s Best Link Building Tool Yet
7. Backlinks Checker Tool – Backlink Watch Through this tool you can find out the backlinks of a website. You can also find out the follow or nofollow status of a backlink.
8. clicksplice.com Get a do follow backlinks from blogs for every post u submit to the site. However the article that you will submit must be unique and must be of at least 250 words.
9. Backlink Builder
10. Link Market
11. Linkvana
12. TextLinkBrokers
13. Online Broken Links Checker
14. Link Building 101
15. Link Building from A to Z
16. Creating link bait – A starting point
17. 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity
18. Link Building Using Expired Domains
19. Directories that work for Link Building
20. 131 (Legitimate) Link Building Strategies
21. Link Building Strategies: 69 Solid Tactics For 2009
22. Affiliate Program for link building
23. 21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries
24. Linkfromdomain – a linkbuilding tip for use at Bing.com
25. How to Find the Spam You’re Linking To
26. My “Give It Up” Presentation from SMX Advanced in Blog Format- Talk a lot about search queries
27. Long List of Link Searches
28. A Long List of Competitive Link Searches
29. 10 Link Building Tools for Tracking Inbound Links
30. Link Building Blog
31. Link Week
32. Another Link Building Blog
33. Help a Reporter out
34. Zemanta – Add your RSS feed to Zemanta related articles Pool
35. Whitespark – It is a tool to find location citation sources for you.
36. MyBlogGuest – Tool to get guest post opportunities.
37. Ontolo - Tool to find potential linking partners

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Local Search Tools

1. Local Search Ranking Factors
2. Google Local Business Center
3. Yahoo Local Listing
4. Bing Local Listing Center
5. One Dead Simple Tactic for Better Rankings in Google Local
6. Local Search Citations in Continental Europe
7. How To Create Effective Local Business Landing Pages
8. The 20 Best Local SEO Citation Sources for The United States
9. Guide to Learning Local SEO and Local Search Optimization
10. Local SEO Articles and Advice
11. Local Citation Finder

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Market Research Tools

1. Hitwise Lifestyle
2. Google Ad Planner
3. eMarketer
4. MarketResearch.com
5. Forrester
6. Federated Media
7. InternationalBusinessStrategies.com
8. The U.S. Census Bureau

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On-Page Optimization Tools

1. Copyscape
2. Search Engine Spider Simulator
3. SEO Browser.com – Search Engine Spider Simulator
4. Feed Validator
5. Robots.txt Validator
6. Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool – This tool displays a Lynx view of a web page via right-click or Tool menu.
7. Webpage removal request tool
8. XML Sitemap Generator
9. GSiteCrawler- Google (and Yahoo!) Sitemap Generator for Windows
10. Google Sitemap Generator- It is a tool installed on your web server to generate the Sitemaps automatically. Unlike many other third party Sitemap generation tools, Google Sitemap Generator takes a different approach: it will monitor your web server traffic, and detect updates to your website automatically.
11. Website Audit Checklist
12. Search engine SPAM detector
13. WebP – New image file format introduced by Google to speed up your web pages.
14. Page Speed – Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them. Note: You first need to install ‘Firebug’ add-on to use Page Speed’.
15. Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
16. 7 Ways to Take Advantage of Google’s Site Speed Algorithm
17. Web Developer Firefox Add-on – An awesome add-on for on-page analysis.
18. SEO Site Tools Extention - Another awesome Google Chrome extension for on page analysis.
19. SearchStatus Firefox and Mozilla Extension – It is a toolbar extension for Firefox and Mozilla
20. SEOBook Toolbar (website registration is required to download the toolbar)
21. Data Liberation Front – How to move your data in and out of Google products.
22. 30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them (Part 1 of 2)
23. 30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them (Part 2 of 2)
24. The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
25. On-Page Optimisation — An Introductory Guide
26. How To Optimize Images For Search Engines, Social Media and People
27. Siloing Revisited – This pages explains about the concept of Siloing (i.e theming). Types of siloing and how they can be implemented.
28. How Do I Build the Perfectly Optimized Page?
29. Google Webmaster Guidelines
30. Google Guidelines For Quality Raters
31. Google Ranking Factors – SEO Checklist
32. Headsmacking Tip #15: Rank for Brand Promo Code Searches
33. Image Optimization Tool
34. Best Practices for Content Optimization
35. Word Press SEO
36. Google Introduces Rich Snippet
37. Introduction to RDFa
38. RDFa Primer
39. About RDFa (Google Webmaster Central)
40. RDFa to Provide Image License Info
41. RDFa Microformat Tagging For Your Website
42. For Businesses and Organizations
43. About Review Data (Google Webmaster Central)
44. Pagination: Best Practices for SEO & User Experience
45. Google SERP Snippet Optimization Tool
46. Handy Tools and Tips for E-Commerce Websites – Smashing Magazine
47. Flash Optimization Tips
48. Xenu’s Link Sleuth – More Than Just A Broken Links Finder
49. Xenu Link Sleuth – Use this tool to find broken links, status code of individual pages, images without alt text, pages with 302 redirect, click distance of all the pages. This tool is one of the best to analyze a site architecture.

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Other PPC Tools

1. Yahoo Search Marketing
2. Microsoft Ad Center
3. PPC 101 Training – seochat article on PPC
4. 32 Useful AdWords Tips for Intermediate to Experienced Users – another seochat article on PPC
5. Create New Pages for PPC Search Landing Pages – article on landing page optimization.
6. PPC Blog

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Page Rank Tools

1. Link Consolidation: The New PageRank Sculpting
2. Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?
3. Bulk PageRank Checker

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SEO & SEM Books

1. Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug – Book on website usability.
2. Web Analytics—An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik – Book on web Analytic.
3. Landing Page Optimization by Tim Ash
4. Web Design for ROI by Lance Loveday and Sandra Niehaus – A web design book that talks about design from business point of view.
5. Ultimate Guide to Google Adwords by Perry Marshall.
6. Rocket Surgery Made Easy – The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems.
7. Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer – Bryan Eisenberg & John Quarto-von Tivadar.
8. The Art of SEO – Eric Enge, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin and Stephan Spencer.
9. Search Marketing Standard – SEO & SEM magazine.
10. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets by Danner Dover
11. Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl.

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SEO & SEM Certifications

1. Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam
2. Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam study materials
3. Purchase Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam
4. Search Advertising Advanced Exam
5. Search Advertising Advanced Exam study materials
6. Purchase Search Advertising Advanced Exam
7. Display Advertising Advanced Exam
8. Display Advertising Advanced Exam study materials
9. Purchase Display Advertising Advanced Exam
10. Reporting & Analysis Advanced Exam
11. Reporting & Analysis Advanced Exam study materials
12. Purchase Reporting & Analysis Advanced Exam
13. Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) test Study material
14. Purchase Google Analytics IQ test
15. Requirements for becoming Adwords Certified Individual
16. Requirements for becoming Adwords Certified Partner
17. Google Website Optimizer Authorized Consultant (WOAC) Program

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SEO & SEM Conferences

1. Search Marketing Expo (SMX) – is the search engine marketing conference from Third Door Media, the company behind the Search Engine Land news site, Sphinn.com, and the Search Marketing Now webcast series.
2. PubCon – It is a search marketing conference (4 days event) and is organized by Webmaster World.
3. Search Engine Strategies (SES) - This event is organized by Search Engine Watch.
4. Ad-Tech- Event for Digital Marketing – It is an interactive advertising and technology conference and exhibition.
5. Google Seminars for Success – Google Adwords, Analytics & Website Optimizer Seminar.
6. Online Marketing Summit- It is a conference which covers the topics of Social Media, Search, Email, Demand Generation, Analytics, Usability and Integrated Marketing.
7. Miva Merchant – Conference on SEO and Internet Marketing.
8. Omniture Summit- Event on web analytics.

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SEO & SEM Learning Tools

1. Search Engine News
2. SEOCHAT Forum
3. SEOMOZ Blog
4. Web Pro News
5. Sphinn
6. Marketing Pilgrim
7. Michael Gray – Graywolf’s SEO Blog
8. Search Engine Land
9. Google Webmaster Central Blog
10. Yahoo Search Blog
11. Bing Webmaster Center Blog
12. TechCrunch
13. Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization
14. The Beginner’s Checklist for Learning SEO
15. The Beginner’s Checklist for Small Business SEO

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SEO Business Tools

1. The Ins and outs of SEO Business
2. How To Identify and Deal With Different Types Of Clients
3. Disclaimers that can give you nine lives as a SEO
4. Beginner’s Guide to identifying the Genuine SEO
5. Frauds with In-house SEOs
6. Starting a SEO Company
7. Project Management for SEO
8. A Checklist to Choose Which Internet Marketing Channel is Right for Your Business
9. The 12 Skills That Have Served Me Best in My SEO Career – Article by Rand Fishkin
10. Predicting the ROI for Future SEO Efforts -
11. 80+ SEO Job Interview Questions
12. 55 SEO Interview Questions
13. Interviewing for SEO Jobs
14. Venture Capital Process – By SEO Moz
15. SEO ROI Calculator – B2B and B2C ROI
16. Top SEO companies – Recommended by SEOMoz
17. How to Price a SEO Campaign
18. Wanted: SEO Expert to join the SEOmoz Team – What SEOMoz looks for in a seo
19. Leveraging Mechanical Turk, oDesk, ELance & Craigslist for SEO
20. 99Designs.com- For outsourcing graphics work (logo design, web design, icon design, word-press design)
21. Odesk.com – For outsourcing any type of work (web development, application development etc)
22. RentACoder – Get a coder to develop an application for your website.
23. FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection – Consumer Information
24. Econsumer.gov – Your site for cross-border complaints
25. SalesForce – CRM Software
26. Send and Request Money through PayPal

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Social Media Marketing Tools

1. Engagementdb – Discover How your company’ s Social Media Efforts stack up against the world most valuable brands.
2. SocialMention.com – What people are talking about you or your brand on social media.
3. Spezify- Another tool to find out what people are talking about you or your brand on social media.
4. Wefollow- To find people on twitter who are influential.
5. Klout.com – To find top influencers
6. Wikipedia 101 for Marketing
7. Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn
8. Reddit – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About It
9. A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website
10. Yelp For Business Owners – Seven Steps For Yelp Success
11. How to Use DeviantArt to Boost Google Pagerank and Increase Views
12. 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business
13. Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn
14. MySpace marketing tips and success stories
15. How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog
16. The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos
17. Tips On How To Use Delicious For Social Bookmarking
18. Blog Promotion Using Yahoo! Buzz
19. HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Technorati
20. 15 Ways to become a Digg Power user in only 48 hours
21. Marketing through Facebook
22. The Best Niche Social Media News Sites Right Now

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URL Manipulation and Server Issues

1. Regular Expression Guide for SEOs
2. Regular Expression Generator for range of IP addresses
3. Apache Tutorial: .htaccess files
4. Server Side Includes (SSI)
5. Check Server Header
6. Mod_Rewrite and Regular Expressions
7. Regular Expression HOWTO
8. ISAPI Rewrite
9. Official Apache Module mod_rewrite
10. Mod Rewrite Forum
11. Class C Checker Tool
12. Google Data Center Multiple IP Address SEO Research Tool
13. URL Rewrite Tool: search engine friendly Urls
14. Hot-linking checker tool
15. Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs
16. Dynamic URLs vs. Static URLs
17. htaccess, 301 Redirects & SEO: Guest Post by NotSleepy
18. If-modified-since header
19. Canonical URL Tag
20. Maintenance Mode Plug-in- Use this plug-in to show Google 503 status if your CMS is wordpress.
21. Simple URL Shortner
22. What is my IP address?
23. How do I change my IP address?
24. 10 awesome .htaccess hacks for WordPress

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Video Optimization

1. Speech Pad – This tool is used to record, transcribe and share an audio.

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Web Development Tools

1. DoOnline-HTML-Editor
2. HTML Validator
3. CSS Validator
4. File Size and Download Time Checker
5. Screen Resolution Tester
6. Web Page Content Compression
7. Web Page Content Compression Verification
8. Display RSS feeds on websites using PHP
9. Display RSS feeds on Websites using Java Script
10. BlockACountry.com Through this tool you can block visitors from a particular country to access your website.
11. How you can develop a website for a mobile phone? You can use the software ‘Nokia Mobile Internet Tool Kit’ to develop a mobile website. This tool is available free of cost and can be downloaded from forum.nokia.com.
12. Tests Document Readability And Improve It
13. Google Custom Search
14. India Internet Domains
15. Indiatimes hosting
16. Favicon Generator
17. Content Management System- Joomla.org
18. Create your own social Network
19. Get free images for your website
20. Paid Images IStockPhoto
21. Free Web Templates
22. Forum for your Website
23. Blog for your website
24. SSL secure certificate by VeriSign
25. Payment Gateway- CCAvenue
26. Google Translate
27. 7-Zip – An open source software for compressing files. No need to buy winzip anymore.
28. Online Word to PDF Converter
29. FileZilla – Best and free FTP Software.
30. Recaptcha – It is a free captcha service.
31. Slide Deck – Free Slide Show Software
32. Search for Expired Domains: deletedomains.com, expireddomains.com and pool.com
33. AVG Anti-Spyware
34. Spybot – Search & Destroy
35. Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition
36. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
37. Norton Antivirus
38. Lavasoft Personal Firewall
39. Sunbelt Personal Firewall
40. Abexo Free Registry Cleaner

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Tracking email marketing campaigns

While working for NatNif.com project, I had to track the emails (in fact XMas greetings) sent by people to others, whether its viewed, whether the viewer has signed up at NatNif.com or no..

Tracking whether the email is viewed

This is possible only if the mail format is HTML. Tracking is achieved by placing a 1X1 image pixel in the body of the image, which carries a unique id for the email to the particular recipient.

The major threats here are,

1. Images get displayed only if you allow them in display while viewing the email message.
2. You cannot embed a pixel in this way i.e . Most of the spam filters will remove such dynamic URLs present in image tags.

Out of the above 2 , we do not have any control on the first one. Second one can be solved replacing the dynamic image URL with a innocent looking URL like ‘track-3454.gif’ . I have used Apache’s mod rewrite to process these innocent looking image URLs and take out the id from it and do the tracking.

Next thing which need to be taken care is the links present in the body of the email messages. We can create links with URLs like

http://www.mysite.com/track.php?id=3454&dest=http://www. mysite.com/actual-destination.html .

So here instead of keeping a direct link to

http://www. mysite.com/actual-destination.html

, we are goinging to the tracking page, which tracks the link clicked and finally shows the real destination. In the tracking page, using the id in the link, we can find out which recipient has clicked and come to the site.

If you have any more related info, please feel free to share.

HELPFUL SEO TOOLS

Take advantage of web analytics services
If you've improved the crawling and indexing of your site using Google Webmasters Tools or other services, you're probably curious about the traffic coming to your site. Web analytics programs like
Google Analytics are a valuable source of insight for this. You can use these to:
• get insight into how users reach and behave on your site
• discover the most popular content on your site
• measure the impact of optimizations you make to your site (e.g. did changing those title and description meta tags improve traffic from search engines?)
For advanced users, the information an analytics package provides, combined with data from your server log files, can provide even more comprehensive information about how visitors are interacting with your documents (such as additional keywords that searchers might use to find your site).
Lastly, Google offers another tool called Google Website Optimizer that allows you to run experiments to find what on-page changes will produce the best conversion rates with visitors. This, in combination with Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools (see My video on using the "Google Trifecta"), is a powerful way to begin improving your site.
Make use of free webmaster tools
Major search engines, including Google, provide free tools for webmasters. Google's Webmaster tools help webmasters better control how Google interacts with their websites and get useful information from Google about their site. Using Webmaster Tools won't help your site get preferential treatment; however, it can help you identify issues that, if addressed, can help your site perform better in search results. With the service, webmasters can:
• See which parts of a site Googlebot had problems crawling

• Upload an XML Sitemap file

• Analyze and generate robots.txt files

• Remove URLs already crawled by Googlebot

• Specify the preferred domain

• Identify issues with title and description meta tags

• understand the top searches used to reach a site

• get a glimpse at how Googlebot sees pages

• Remove unwanted sitelinks that Google may use in results

• Receive notification of quality guideline violations and file for a site reconsideration

• Yahoo! (Yahoo! Site Explorer) and Microsoft (Live Search Webmaster Tools) also offer free tools for webmasters.

Helpful resources for webmasters

• Google Webmaster Help Group - Have questions or feedback on our guide? Let us know
• Google Webmaster Central Blog - Frequent posts by Googlers on how to improve your website
• Google Webmaster Help Center - Filled with in-depth documentation on webmaster-related issues
• Google Webmaster Tools - Optimize how Google interacts with your websit
• Google Webmaster Guidelines - Design, content, technical, and quality guidelines from Google
• Google Analytics - Find the source of your visitors, what they're viewing, and benchmark changes
• Tips on Hiring an SEO - If you don't want to go at it alone, these tips should help you choose an SEO Company
• Find pages that link to your site and competitor site using Site Explorer
• Check your web page in different screen resolutions
• Out your domain or keywords in search box to find relationship between linking sites and topics, a Visual Meta search engine
• Check you site load time and fix if it is too slow. This will help search engine spiders to crawl easily
• Find out how search engine spiders look at your site
• Find how your website is targeted in local search engines
• Find insight of your website keyword search terms and location; target your business accordingly
• Find insight of your website keyword search terms and location; target your business accordingly
• Get quick traffic and cost estimates on your keywords for sponsored listings
• Measure your ROI from SEO, PPC and conversion rate optimization

Some Helpful Tools

• Back link Builder: http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php

• Check duplicates URL: http://www.copyscape.com/

• Check Similarity- http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php

• Comparison- http://tools.seobook.com/general/website-comparison/

• Convert Host/Domain Name to IP Address and vice versa: http://www.hcidata.info/host2ip.cgi

• Computer & IT learning center: http://www.flazx.com/

• Check internet speed: http://www.abeltronica.com/velocimetro/pt/?idioma=uk&newlang=uk

• Check page rank: http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/

• Check class c back link: http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/class-c-checker.php

• Check IP Address: http://www.ip-report.com/

• Check you position: Your Google™ SOAP API Key* :(JqVOWahQFHLDxtvbSKcRYZiAtEdoRDTa) http://www.googlerankings.com/index.php

• Ex-change of Money: http://www.x-rates.com/cgi-bin/cgicalc.cgi?value=1&base=AUD

• For Directory Submission: Link Suggestion Tool: http://tools.seobook.com/general/link-suggest/

• Google Competition- http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

• HTML Validated: http://validator.w3.org/

• Keyword Density: http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/

• Keyword Suggestion- http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/

• Meta Tag Analyzer: http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/

• Link Popularity Check Tools:http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/
http://www.submitexpress.com/linkpop/

• Page Size: Home Page Analysis: Loading Time: Connection Rate: Download Time: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/index.html

• Reverse IP: www.domaintools.com

• Reciprocal link checker: http://tools.seobook.com/general/link-check/

• Similar-page-checker: http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php

• Site score: http://www.silktide.com/tools/sitescore

• Spider Test: http://tools.seobook.com/general/spider-test/

• Site Report Card: http://www.sitereportcard.com/

• Translation Tool: http://translate.google.com/translate_t#

• Website-comparison: http://tools.seobook.com/general/website-comparison/

• Website Analysis: http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/

How web beacons perform web analytics data collection

How does web beacons work? if you have asked the question any time and would like to know still, read on !

If you are looking forward to know how does an analytics tag work or what is a web beacon, this post might help you.
A web beacon is usually a 1X1 pixel transparent image which gets embedded into a web page or an email message which acts as a way to exchange data between the client and the web analytics data collection server.

Lets see how web beacons really work and transfer data to the server.

Web beacons through javascript tags

The usual web analytics data collection method being used is by means of javascript tags. Each web page which need to be analyzed or tracked contains few lines of javascript code. Following is an example of statcounter code (which is taken out of this page itself, as I use statcounter as one of the web analytics tool. Its free!!)









Let me explain what this code does.

In first 4 lines of this code, few statcounter account related variables are being initialized (such as sc_project, sc_invisible etc). The last part of the code is inclusion of an external js file from the statcounter.

The code from statcounter does many things. For example it finds out the referring URL to the current page you are viewing, the page’s URL, title of the page, your browser’s resolution, your IP address etc etc).

Now comes the web beacon. The web analytics data is collected by the script from statcounter. And at the end of this initial process of collecting information, the data need to be passed to the statcounter server. This is achieved by use of a web beacon or image plug. An image request URL is formatted appending all the variables and values which need to be passed. Javascript outputs an tag with this URL as the src attribute. When the browser renders this image, the script at statcounter.com collects the data present in the query string and sends out the 1X1 transparent image as the response (it was a request for an image – remember that).

Web beacons as part of a mobile specific web page

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Intro into Web Analytics

What is Web Analytics ?

Web Analytics refers to collection and analysis of website visitor activity data, to derive at key business decisions, corrective actions etc.

First and foremost thing in web analytics is the user data, how it is collected etc. There are various ways the user data is collected (Mind, each view of a page like the one you are reading now is being recorded by web analytics tools. I am using tools called StatCounter and Google Analytics at the moment).

How Website Visitor Data is being recorded ?

There are various methods which can be used to collect the visitor activity data in a website. The oldest among them is the server logs. A webserver keeps a log of the visitor requests, pages etc, This is the raw form of web analytics data.

The most commonly used method of web analytics data collection method as of date is by using web beacons. A web beacon is nothing but a transparent 1X1 image pixel which gets embedded into each web page being tracked. I will explain how web beacons work in detail in another post.

The most sophisticated method of website visitor data capture is using packet sniffers. A packet sniffer sniffs the data packets being sent from web server to the client system and records it.

Why you need Web Analytics ?

Whether big or small online business taken into consideration, the common objective would be increasing the sales/revenue through the online medium. In this point, it is very much required that the business is aware whats happening in the website, how useful is the website to the users, is the number of visitors increasing and how many leave the site without completing the enquiry/sales section and why. Web Analytics can provide answers to all of these and can also give you business recommendations on the corrective actions if necessary.

Web Analytics: Understanding the Uniqueness of a Visitor with Web Cookies and IP Addresses

Web cookies or HTTP cookies is an individual unique id or value stored by a user’s web browser. Web cookies can be used for verification/authentication, storing site preferences, shopping cart contents, the identifier for a server-based session.web analytics, visitor analytics, google analytics, cookies

Cookies consist of one or more individual unique id or value pairs containing bits of information, which may be encrypted for information privacy and data security purposes. Cookies used to maintain data related to the user during navigation, possibly across multiple visits. The cookies are sent as an HTTP header by a web server with a unique session identifier. The web browser will send back that session identifier unchanged each time it accesses that server.

Cookies used to track internet users’ web browsing habits. This can also be done in part by using the IP address of the computer requesting the page or the referrer field of the HTTP header, but cookies allow for a greater precision. For example, if a user requests a page of the site, but the request contains no cookie, the server presumes that this is the first page visited by the user; the server creates a random string and sends it as a cookie back to the browser together with the requested page. From this point on, the cookie will be automatically sent by the browser to the server every time a new page from the site is requested; the server sends the page as usual, but also stores the URL of the requested page, the date/time of the request, and the cookie in a log file. By looking at the log file, it is then possible to find out which pages the user has visited and in what sequence.

Without cookies, each visit to a Web page or part of a Web page is an inaccessible event, mostly not linked to all other views of the pages of the same site. The cookie setter can specify a deletion date, in which case the cookie will be removed on that date. If the cookie setter does not specify a date, the cookie is removed once the user quits his or her browser. Cookies can also be limited in scope to a specific domain, sub domain or path on the web server which created them.

web browsers cookies, web servers, visitors loyaltyIf more than one browser is used on a computer, each usually has a separate storage area for cookies. Hence cookies do not identify a person, but a combination of a user account, a computer, and a Web browser. Thus, anyone who uses multiple accounts, computers, or browsers has multiple sets of cookies. Likewise, cookies do not differentiate between multiple users who share the same user account, computer, and browser.

Users may be tracked based on the IP address of the computer requesting the page. This method has been available since the introduction of the World Wide Web, as downloading pages requires the server to know the IP address of the computer running the browser, if any is used. The server can track this information whether or not cookies are used. However, these addresses are typically less reliable in identifying a user than cookies because computers and proxies may be shared by several users, and the same computer may be assigned different IP addresses in different work sessions.

Tracking by IP addresses can be reliable in some situations, such as the case of always-on broadband connections which retain the same IP address for long periods of time, so long as the power stays on. Both cookies and IP addresses have their strengths and weaknesses for determining the uniqueness of a visitor. It is impossible to be 100% accurate Analysis.

Cookie basics

What is a Cookie?

Cookies, HTTP Cookies, Web Cookies or Tracking Cookies are small pieces of data stored by a website on client system. This data is sent back to the web server which initially set the cookie for any additional hit to the web server.

What are the uses of cookies ?

Cookies are majorly used for user authentication and carrying the active session across different page visits by a visitor in a visit session.

Say user A has a login at xyz.com. There is a login page where A enters his login details and goes ahead browsing pages in XYZ.com. Now cookies can be a method by which xyz.com distinguish user A as the same person visiting different pages at xyz.com.

Web analytic tools use cookies to calculate unique visitors.

How a cookie is set ?

Cookies can be set by javaScript or any server sided script.

JavaScript cookie example

Setting a cookie
document.cookie = “COOKIE NAME”+”=”+”COOKIE VALUE”+ “;expires=”+”EXPIRY DATE”+”;domain=”+”DOMAIN”;

COOKIE NAME is a string as a name for cookie, Value is a piece of data, EXPIRY DATE is created by using Date.toGMTString() method of javascript. Expiry value and domain are optional.

Reading a cookie

Reading a cookie is not straight forward. All the cookies set for a domain are available in document.cookie variable as a string. We need to have utility functions to read a specific cookie.

PHP Example

Setting cookie
bool setcookie ( string $name [, string $value [, int $expire [, string $path [, string $domain [, bool $secure [, bool $httponly ]]]]]] )

Reading a cookie

The cookie is directly readable from the $_COOKIE global variable as $_COOKIE[$name]

Same origin policy related to browsers and cookies

In simple terms the explanation of same origin policy would be, if xyz.com sets cookie, only javascript code in a page at xyz.com or a server sided script at xyz.com can only read the cookie. This is a browser policy. If www.xyz.com sets the cookie, the same way only www.xyz.com page js code / server sided script can only read cookie.

Same cookie over all subdomains

If you would like to share the same cookie data across all subdomains of a site, say xyz.com, the domain parameter in a setCookie function should be .xyz.com (dot at the start of the base domain name. No www’s in it !!)

References

HTTP Cookie on WikiPedia

31 Ways to Promote Your Blog for Free

LINK BUILDING:

1. Exchange links with other bloggers
2. Use BlogRush
3. Submit to RSS directories
4. Submit to blog directories
5. Submit to general directories
6. Start a 2nd blog and link to yourself
7. Create and give away blog themes (with a link to your blog in the footer)
8. Create free plugins
9. Create link bait
10. Participate in blog carnivals
11. Comment on DoFollow blogs
12. WordPress Backlinks Plugin (link removed due to possible security issues)

COMMUNITY:
13 Join communities at MyBlogLog
14 Join communities at Bumpzee
15 Join communities at Blog Catalog
16 Start a community at any of these sites
17 Comment on other blogs in your niche
18 Email your friends and contacts about a new blog post that may interest them
19 Email your readers to say “thank you”
20 Email other bloggers to introduce yourself
21 Link out to other blogs

SOCIAL MEDIA:
22 Digg
23 del.icio.us
24 StumbleUpon
25 Reddit
26 Netscape
27 Magnolia
28 MySpace
29 Facebook
30 YouTube FORUMS:
31 AuthorityBlogger

You can view also:
http://writetodone.com/2008/11/06/branding-101-how-to-promote-your-blog-like-the-big-guys-do/
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/20-ways-to-increse-blog-visibility-by-lijo

Website Usability Checklist

Search engine optimization and other online marketing techniques get targeted traffic to your website. As per research, a visitor spends an average of less than 8 seconds on the web page. So, you have just less than 8 seconds for the visitor to do what you want them to do. Or else they will go away. So, you need to also pay proper and more attention how the website is treated by different visitors and the major portion of your visitors find the website navigation easy and comfortable. They should be able to use the site easily and should understand the content.

This is a simple usability checklist for the website.

1. Have the navigation links easily visible. Visitors should know where they are and should easily find out where they have to go next. Also, they should know what all additional pages are there apart for the page they are on.

2. The navigation links should be consistent and at the same place on all the pages. Visitors may get annoyed of the links appear and disappear unpredictably. The best practice is to use include files for the navigation system. This will ensure the changes made to this are effected on all the pages.

3. Use appropriate anchor text. As the anchor text is important for search engine optimization, do not stuff them with main keywords without considering to which page it will lead to after clicking. Make the anchor text more meaningful at the same time so that the visitor will know where they will be moved to on clicking. Don’t keep them guessing as to where the link is going to take them.

4. It is a normal practice to highlight the anchor text so that it conveys the message that the visitor has to click it. Usually, the anchor text is underlined or used in a different font or bold font. It is always a best practice to use CSS to emphasize the text links.

5. You can use JavaScript or other scripting language to create menus for the navigational links. Just take care that the visitor can easily navigate through the link structure in the menu.

6. Home page link is a must in the list of navigation items you have. Also, the logo should always be linked to the home page.

7. Include site search box on every page of the website. If the visitor can’t find what they need, they should be easily guided to the search box. Moreover, if you refer the search keywords, you will know what information is searched more number of times and what should be made easily available to the visitor. Thus, prominently displaying the search box will help in improving a website.

8. Always use breadcrumbs to let the visitor know on which page he is on and how they have navigated to the page.

9. Always have your main content and call-to-action lines on the top or above the fold. Do not expect the visitor to scroll down, read and then click.

10. Use proper background color and font color so that it gels with your brand and branding. Moreover, the content should be easily readable by the visitors.

11. Always use ALT and TITLE attributes to all images. Some browsers may block images so in this case the visitor can read the ALT text.

12. Have a custom error page that will help a visitor when clicked on a broken link or type the address incorrectly. The custom error page should be in synch with the website design and structure.

13. Have a feedback form to always dope you with you information that will help you to increase the performance of the website. Try to improve the usability depending on the feedback you receive. The users of the site can tell you exactly how they are feeling about it.

Your website is designed just not for you but, for the ones who use it – your visitors who are your customers. A site that confronts to users’ expectations, makes them more comfortable and more compelling to visit again. Good usability is always critical to website’s business.

More Than 100 Free Twitter Tools For You

A list of more than 100 Twitter tools which can be used for an easy tweeting around and keep you updated of the tweets. I have been spending lot of time to keep it updated. You may find some dead links, errors or typos which are unintentional. Please check the tools for credibility before using them. Also let me know if I have missed anything so that the same can be added or updated here.
1. Alex King Twitter Tool – Takes your tweets and posts them to your Wordpress blog
2. BiggerTwitter – Allows you to post longer messages, but uses a link in the tweet
3. BigTweet – Add it as a favorite and IE and send a tweet from any webpage. You can send the url or use the in-built url shortening service
4. Blackbird – It is a Twitter client for Blackberry smart phones
5. Blogo – A blog editor which also helps in search in Twitter. It also updates the status whenever you post a new article
6. CheckYesOrNo – Frame Yes/No poll questions and share it with your friends on Twitter to answer the question
7. Cullect – Helps you find and share. It is a collaborative feed reader that can be used for various accounts. You just need to sign in with your credentials say – your blog, Friendfeed or Twitter
8. Feedalizr – A desktop application that allows to share photos/videos, interact with Facebook and Twitter friends and be updated with the status messages of friends
9. FeedTwit - Get your Twitter @replies as text messages and read your RSS feeds as direct messages in your Twitter account.
10. Flotzam – A desktop application to share photos, tweets, Diggs, pokes and feeds
11. Foodfeed – Share your eating habits. Just point your tweets @having and share with other like minders
12. FreeTweets – Collection of good Twitter backgrounds
13. FriendorFollow – Know who you are following and know those folks that are not following you and vice versa
14. FuelFrog – Keep a log of your fuel and mileage. Compare your mileage with others in your area, or with the same car
15. Green Tweets - Uses semantic language analysis to identify tweets pertaining to green and environmental topics from the public Twitter stream
16. gTwitter – Is a Linux client for reading and posting to Twitter.com web service
17. iTweet – iPhone interface for Twitter
18. Jargong – Is a client application for most of the social networking, instant messaging and feeds. You can also update the tweets from this application
19. jTwitter – A mobile tool to enter updates through your mobile phone
20. KipFolio Widget – Twitter widget for KipFolio
21. LoudTwitter – Helps you to transfer your tweets directly to your blog
22. MoniTwitter – Receive updates of website via Twitter
23. PingTwitter – Add new posts of your blog as status update in Twitter
24. PocketTweets – A web-based Twitter client for Apple iPhone
25. Pwytter – Python Twitter client which can support Asian characters
26. Quotably – Nice tool. Follow the Tweets of a particular account in threaded style
27. SayTweet – Dynamic mashup to have your own pic as a badge with your status update
28. Shareaholic – Firefox plugin to share the webpage via Twitter
29. SnapTweet – Share Flickr photos on Twitter too
30. Spaz – A Twitter client for Palm Pre, Windows, Mac and Linux
31. Snitter – A desktop Twitter client built on Adobe AIR
32. StrawPoll – Tool to create polls in 140 characters
33. TeleTwitter – Open source Twitter client for Windows
34. Terraminds – Search tool to search for users and tweets
35. TopNewsTrends – Combines Google trends data with Twitter search
36. TrackThis – Track your UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS via Twitter or Facebook
37. TreoTwit – Check and update your Twitter right from your Treo
38. Triqqr – A windows tool to submit tweets and to view profiles
39. Twappi – Provides the Twitter mood
40. Tw-autocomplete – Simple add-on for Firefox that adds auto-complete support for @-messages and DMs
41. TweetBar – Use Twitter to Firebox browser
42. TweetBurner – An url shortening service, which also provides the clicks and referrals details
43. TweetCloud – Know what is buzzing around in the twitter world
44. Tweetdeck - Adobe Air desktop application enables you to split the main feed into group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets
45. Tweeter – A java desktop client for Twitter
46. Tweetfeed – As name suggests. Helps in customizing the tweets online so that you can track the ones which are important to you
47. Tweetlater – Sends automated DMs to your followers
48. TweetMyPC – to connect your PC remotely to lock or shutdown, using a mobile device or another internet connected PC just by sending a tweet
49. Tweetr – A cross platform tool to submits tweets
50. TweetScan – Search tool. Search as per keyword or user name
51. TweetWhatYouEat – A food diary online and track your weight. (Hey… should help in burning your calories as well)
52. TweetWhatYouSpend – Cash tracking made simple through Twitter. Built cash journal and export to excel or csv
53. Twellow – A directory of Twitter users
54. TwerpScan – Keep an eye on growing list of friends and followers
55. Twessenger – Updates Live Messenger status as per the latest tweet
56. Twhirl – A desktop client connects you to multiple accounts – Twitter, FriendFeed, seismic and Iaconi.ca
57. Twidget – A dashboard widget that allows to update status
58. Twidroid – Twitter client for android mobile phones
59. Twiggit – Is an automated service that lets your friends on Twitter know what articles you Digg
60. Twinja – A desktop Twitter client (AIR) application that provides all the features of Twitter
61. Twinfluence - a simple tool using the Twitter API to to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus
62. Twinkle – Location-aware network for iPhone and iTouch
63. Twippera – Opera browser plug-in that can update and view tweets
64. Twit4Live – Sets Live Messenger status as latest tweet
65. Twitbar – Post tweets from the GNOME deskbar
66. TwitBin – Firefox browser add-on to send and view tweets
67. TwitBox – Desktop client to view and submit tweets, supports multiple accounts
68. TwitDir – Allows user to search for users by name, location, or username
69. Twitgit – Submit and view tweets using the dashboard
70. Twitkit – A Twitter sidebar for Firefox. It has a 6-section interface, using tabs to separate content
71. Twitpic – Lets you share photos on Twitter
72. Twitr – Claims to be the #1 Twitter directory
73. Twitscoop – Twitter interface to send tweets, find friends, search and follow what is buzzing around in the twitter world. You can also save searches for future reference
74. TwitSeeker – search engine to find Twitter users as per their tweets and not as per their profile
75. Twitter100 – This app creates a collage of all your friends you are following, so that you do not miss tweets of your special friends you are following
76. Twitter For Busy People – Same as Twitter100. But, if you are following too many friends then this is better
77. Twitt(url)y – A tool to track the URLs people are talking about on Twitter
78. Twittelator – Complete iPhone Twitter client
79. TweetAhead – Schedule tweets to be posted ahead of time with a simple dashboard widget
80. Twitter CLI – A windows tool to post tweets using the command line
81. Twitter for Vim – A Linux tool to publish tweets right within Vim
82. Twitter.el – A Linux tool to publish tweets while in Emacs
83. Twitter100 – Use it to view 100 tweets at a time
84. TwitterBar – Post to Twitter from you Firefox address bar
85. TwitterBerry –Twitter for various BlackBerry devices
86. TwitterBuzz – Find out what URLs are being most linked to on Twitter
87. TwitterCard - Create a 125(w) x 125(h) pixel banner ad to put on your blog or website and display the current status
88. Twit.el – A linux tool that allows publishing of tweets in Emacs
89. twitterfeed.com – A tool which uses the latest blog feed as tweet
90. TwitterFox – Firefox extension that can publish and view tweets
91. Twittergrader – Provides you a grade based on the power of your Twitter profile
92. Twitterholic – Shows the top users and accounts on Twitter
93. Twitterless - Notifies you when somebody stops following you and lets you know who it is and the follower history is graphed out over time
94. Twitterlex – Mac OS X dashboard widget that shows the last 30 tweets which refreshes periodically
95. Twitterlicious – Update Twitter status, check replies and direct messages
96. TwitterLinkr – Collects the links posted trough Twitter
97. Twitterlocal - A tool to filter tweets based upon users’ location. It also provides the searches in RSS or XML file
98. Twittermaps – A mashup technology that allows Twitter users find each other using Google maps
99. Twitteroo – A windows tool to update and view the status
100. Twitter.PollDaddy.com - Create Polldaddy polls and post them directly to your Twitter stream
101. TwitterPost – A Mac client that submits tweets, shows your current iTunes track in your feed and more
102. Twitterrific – Mobile and desktop tool to post and view tweets
103. Twittersearch – Search Twitter and tweets using keywords
104. Twitter SPY - Displays the Twitter public timeline
105. TwitterSync for Yahoo – Syncs Twitter status with Yahoo Messenger status
106. Twittertise - Allows you to schedule your tweets in advance and track the clicks on URLs you tweet
107. Twittervision – See where in the world people are submitting tweets from in real-time
108. TwitterYM – Updates the Yahoo Messenger status taking the latest tweet
109. TwitThis – Allows your website/blog visitors easily share a page or post via Twitter
110. TwittyTunes – A FoxyTunes (Firefox extension) add-on that posts what you are currently listening to
111. Twitux – A Twitter client for the GNOME desktop
112. Twitwall - When it’s too long to tweet, but too short to blog, just TwitWall it! TwitWall is the easy-to-use, quick-to-blast-out blog companion for Twitter
113. Twitxr – Share pictures from your mobile phone. Automatically publish them on social networks and photosharing sites
114. Twonvert – Easily converts your tweets into SMS shorthand language and allows you to say more with the 140 characters
115. Twonvo – Threads your tweets
116. Twuzzer – Twitter / GoogleMaps mashup.
117. Useqwitter – e-mails when a twitter stops following you after a certain post
118. What’s Up? – Gadget that allows you to see latest tweets from your friends
119. WildSets –Twitter app for mobile phones
120. yammer – A similar mico-blogging software to Twitter. Can be used by enterprise companies and can be used as an intranet solution
121. Yoono – Receive alerts, update your status or message your friends in your browser sidebar. No need to switch from one site to another or from your browser to a desktop app. Also integrates other services: Facebook, flickr, friendfeed, major IM services
122. ZenTwitter – A GUI frontend for Twitter using zenity and curl

I thank Shannon. Most of the list is from his page. All credit goes to Shannon.