Reviews of Top SEO/SEM Tools

TweetedRanks is a free, web based tool, that allows users to set up tracking bots to monitor the Google positions for selected keywords. Every tracked keyword adds a day to the amount of time between reports (so at 1 keyword tracked you get daily updates, whilst 2 keyword updates come every other day and so on). The fun part about the tool is that it sends the results as a private message to users Twitter and GTalk accounts.

The keyword tool developed by SEO Book allows you to enter a search term and get back a spreadsheet of estimated keyword popularity organized by search engine, and it also suggests several other keywords like that one and lists their popularity across the engines as well. There are several programs on the market ranging from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars that do the same thing this little web-app does.

Anyone who is familiar with the Internet and searching on Google is likely to have run across several geotargeted ads which serve up content based upon your location. If you're a creator of one of these ads, you probably know about one of the many ways to check up on your ads from proxies to manual additions to the url for your search query. While those solutions certainly work and aren't too time consuming, the new Firefox and Chrome addon, Google Global, allows you to perform those tasks with a couple clicks instead.