New Web Traffic Tools

Award-It   Nominates You to Over 70 Awards Sites
If you don't want to spend time visiting a lot of award sites individually and you're not particularly choosy about from who you accept a "cool-site" award, mosey on over to http://www.award-it.com/. Award-It will nominate your site for free to over 70 award sites. What you have got to lose? Be prepared to be selective which awards you choose to display on your Web pages.

Web Site Garage from AtWeb
Web Site Garage is a new service that checks your Web site for design and self-promotion deficiencies. It checks for broken links and notes how long your site takes to load, misspellings, incorrect HTML, and how many sites link to your home page. Other options include improving search engine rankings, registration, submissions to newsgroups, writing press releases, and arranging reciprocal links with other sites. It offers repair suggestions including in-depth marketing advice and correction of HTML problems, for between $100 and $1,000. http://www.websitegarage.com/

NetMechanic from Monte Sano Software, LLC
If you have a substantial number of links at your site, Monte Sano Software, LLC has made life a lot easier with NetMechanic (http://www.netmechanic.com).   It is a free online Web site maintenance service sends a robot to wander through your Web pages testing each link.  When it's done it sends an email report to notifying you which links are bad.  The robot checks up to 200 pages.

Help with Your Meta Tags
Not sure how to add meta tags to your site to improve its ranking in search engines.  Here's help:  http://www.websitepromote.com/resources/meta. It's a meta tag generating software tool that will create your meta tags and emails them to you.

WebSnake 1.2 from Anawave Software
In an article recently published in Web Traffic Digest, Gain the Competitive Edge by Snooping on Your Competitors, we describe how much valuable information you can learn from your competitors.  WebSnake 1.2 from Anawave Software is another tool you can use to hone your snooping skills.  It lets you download (even mirror) your competitors' sites so that you can study them at your hard disk's speed and not the Web's.  To get a quick view at how the sites are organized, WebSnake will create a site map.  You don't even have to download any files to create a map.   It will even capture email addresses in the event you want to send reciprocal links requests. 

WebPosition 1.0
Willing to pay for a software program that reports on your site's standing by keywords or page URL?  WebPosition from IST will report the same information for your competitors.  You can schedule the program to report rankings daily, weekly or monthly.  Cost:  $99 for one domain name, $189 for two domain names, and $289 for ten domain names.

Netopia Virtual Office
Interacting with visitors is important.  To generate repeat traffic, it's important to begin establishing a one-to-one relationship.  Fallon Communications' Netopia Virtual Office turns the Web into a multi-faceted communications channel for customers and colleagues.  People can interact, leave messages for one another, exchange files, even "knock on your door" to see if you are available for a chat.  Check it out. (510)814-5100 ($49)

Peak Net Jet
Whether snooping on your competitors or gathering material for new content, if you do a lot of Web surfing, this tool is for you.  Anything that speeds up Web browsing time by half for only $30 is worthwhile.  It downloads Web pages you're like to want to see whenever the modem is idle.  From Peak Technologies.