Good SEO Tools

Yesterday I wrote about SpiderTest.com that “One thing I would like to see in addition to a word list of the 20 most frequently occuring words, is a phrase list of the most frequently occuring 2, 3 and 4 word phrases.”

Keyword Density Analyzer scans a web page and reports the keyword density of 1, 2 and 3 word phrases. It’s quick, easy (just enter the URL of your web page) and does a good job of reporting the 1, 2 and three word phrases in columns.

There are several differences in the reports of SpiderTest and Keyword Density Analyzer. Keyword Density Analyzer reports the most common 1 word phrases are loans (10x), borrow(9x), lenders(8x), financial(7x). SpiderTest reports the top 4 as financial(11x), loans(11x), about(8x), borrower’s(8x).

The results of both seem to be off. When I open my favorite text editor, Notepad++, and word count the index page of www.lendersandloans.com, I get these results: loans(18x), borrow(15x), financial(14x), lenders(11x), etc. Then, if I set the word count to match whole words only, I get: loans(9x), borrow(2x), financial(11x), and lenders(5x).

Conclusions: Online SEO tools may not be as accurate as you wish them to be. It’s obvious something is amiss when comparing the results of these two online SEO tools. And while there may be a good explanation, it escapes me at this point. One thing I do like is that the keyword lists provided by SpiderTest and Keyword Density Analyzer offer a great starting point for starting keyword analysis using a good text editor.