SEO Backlinks Checker Tool

SEO Backlinks Checker and Monitoring Tool

Backlinks plays a very important role in SEO and when you build the backlinks either naturally or using blogs, articles, linking on other websites or news sites or if you purchase them by paying an one-off amount or an annual fee then it is absolute must that you keep record of all your backlinks.

This tool is very easy to use and will make your life easy. You can keep records of all your backlinks at one place. You can create separate projects for each of your website and add unlimited no. of backlinks on each project. This will validate and monitor all your links at an scheduled time interval and it will also send an email if any link is not found or invalid.

The tool is a desktop based software and is free with the restriction of maximum 5 projects and upto 50 links within each project. To download the free version of the tool please click here

This tool also have the bulk import/export facility to check bulk links. This tool is highly recommended for webmasters, SEO experts, agencies, small businesses, entrepreneurs.

There is no subscription fee and there is only one-off costs of £30. You can download the software on the following page
http://www.inventatech.co.uk/product/SEO-Tools/Back-Link-Checker.html

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Importance of Class C IP Addresses

What is Class C IP Address?
Several webmasters and SEO experts created bulk websites just for the sake of getting the so called “LINK JUICE” for their own websites or for their clients’ websites and usually they have their own server and they host all their websites on the same server.

All these websites have C Class IP Addresses i.e. 192.168.1.x and these websites are cross linked this is also called LINK WHEEL because all these websites are hosted on the same hosting server either on shared hosting or on dedicated server.

Class C IP Address Checker
To check the c class ip address of multiple domains you can use this FREE tool http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/class-c-checker/

How does it affect your SEO?
I would highly recommend to avoid this practice as this may not give you any benefit whatsoever from SEO point of view and as search engines getting smarter day by day also it may cause penalty from search engines as would be treated a “Black Hat SEO Practice”. There is no evidence which shows that this practice will penalises your website but it won’t help you either.

If more than 20 links are coming from the same domain then search engines only considers 10-20 links so if the website where your link is available in the footer and there are more than 5000 pages exists on that website then search engines will considers only upto 20 links. I would suggest to get the 1-2 links per domain on important pages i.e. home page, blog etc.  but most importantly you should avoid link exchanges scheme, links from FFA farms and Link Wheels.

About the Author - Sandeep Tyagi is an digital marketing expert with more than 10 years experience in Digital Marketing,

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Tips of choosing the right offshore development company

Tips of choosing the right offshore development company

Are you looking to hire a offshore dedicated programmer? Then i will explain the pros and cons of hiring a dedicated remote programmer. The first step is to identify the skills you are looking in a programmer is it specific to 1 or 2 primary skills or you are looking for someone who has worked in multi technology platform. Following are the top IT programming tools and technologies used worldwide

LAMP (PHP, MYSQL)
.NET
ASP.NET
ASP
Visual Basic
Wordpress
Joomla
SQL SERVER
ORACLE
ERP
JAVA
J2EE
JavaScript
SAP
SEO
Os commerce
AJAX / CSS
Photoshop
Flash
Social Networking applications
Iphone
Ipad
Facebook Applications
Windows OOPS
And many more

These above software technologies are the few of the most commonly used technologies worldwide. However it may vary depending upon the customer requirements, demand, cost, security, scalability, compatibility and other factors.

Before hiring you should be very specific about the skills of the programmer this is due to the fact that many programmers are proficient in certain skills and might not be comfortable with other software tools and technologies. If you are looking for someone experienced in most common platform i.e. web technologies then you might find several potential candidates. I would advise you look beyond the programming skills and consider the below factors.

  1. Communication Skills
  2. Working Hours and Time Zone
  3. Project management skills i.e. any experience in project management would be an advantageous
  4. Organisational skills
  5. Time management skills
  6. Any previous experience working in a similar role
  7. Broadband speed and power backup facility
  8. External database backup facility
  9. Firewalls and network security
  10. PC configurations and specifications
  11. Required software licenses
  12. Cost of any additional software you need
  13. Timetable of bank holidays

Major challenges when you hire someone offshore might include

  1. communication gap
  2. different time zone
  3. Cultural differences
  4. Data confidentiality  issues
  5. PC and network security
  6. Power and data backup

Hiring Steps

Step 1
Shortlist at least 4-5 offshore development companies the companies you shortlist should belong to your country and should not be solely based offshore. There are many companies which are based in UK and USA and have their offshore offices in other part of the world. It can be much easier for you to manage your offshore project and if anything goes wrong you can take legal action within in your own country.

Step 2
From your list of 4-5 potential offshore partners reduce it to 1-2 on the basis on the below criteria

  • Doe they offer your preferred working hours?
  • How much experience do they have in offshore outsourcing?
  • Do they have instant generator power backup?
  • Do they offer you the software and hardware you require?
  • How much time do they take replace existing resource or team in case someone leave in between your project?
  • What is their SLA?
  • Ask for references and speak to them
  • Do they have daily external backup facilities?

Step 3
Ask for the list of potential candidates for your requirements and ask them to conduct the interviews ask them to send only the shortlisted candidates who exactly matches your requirements and it should not be more than 3-4 for each resource.

Step 4
If you like any candidate and want to hire then ask them to try at least for 1-2 months without making any long term commitments. This will give you time to test the waters and also it will give you overall feel of working with the offshore partner.

Most common mistakes people make while choosing the offshore development partner

  1. Always remember you always get what you pay for so never choose any company only because of price.
  2. Asking for multi skills in an individual – don’t look for jack of all trades and master of none if you have very specific requirements
  3. Choose freelancers who are unable to cope with the workload also remember freelancers will always have other commitments and it can cause delays in the delivery
  4. Choose offshore companies without any base in your home country
  5. Make long term commitments to save the cost.