Search Engine Goodies

UrlTrends
UrlTrends provides a visual “Trend Report” on the SEO rankings of your website, and, if you opt for no-cost registration, it will track your rankings over time and enable you to compare them to the rankings of several competitors

Overture View Bids Tool
If you’re venturing into the waters of pay-per-click listings, you owe it to yourself to check out this bid tool from Overture

GoogSpy
Want to know who is bidding on specific keywords or search terms at Google? This tool will tell you — and show you

Hub Finder
Where’s the “hub” in your topic niche? This tool will help you find the most powerful sites in your category (in search engine terms) so that you can make sure you are well-linked to them and thus improve your own search engine rankings.

TouchGraph Google Browser
This very cool tool visually illustrates the websites related to/linking to any URL, according to Google’s database

SE-Spider
This tool helps you understand exactly what a search engine spider sees when it comes by to crawl your website pages

Search Engine Decoder
You can save time and money on SEO if you understand the relationships between search engines, and this visualization tool helps you to do just that.

RankPulse
RankPulse has been tracking the Google search-rankings of 1,000 keywords since January 2004. It provides an overall glimpse into the daily fluctuations of Google results

Marketleap Link Popularity Check
Marketleap’s Link Popularity Check tool simultaneously measures your link popularity across five search engines (AlltheWeb, Altavista, Google, HotBot and MSN)

KartOO
KartOO is a metasearch engine that shows search results as a visual, interactive map designed in Flash. Results are displayed in such a way that you can navigate via websites or via ideas expressed as keywords

Look What John Hocking Found

Cool Tips and Tools found by John Hocking