There are many junk websites being offered for sale nowadays. It is therefore important to have a tool which would be able to give you a very quick overview of a site, something like it’s age, alexa ranking, number of backlinks and it’s homepage pagerank. iWebTool has exactly that, they call it “All-in-one Lookup”. In just a couple of seconds it list this information, which allows you to decide if you want to investigate the site further or not. It’s a time saver.

Tip: To make things even faster, you can lookup any site by going to http://www.iwebtool.com/domain.tld directly. If you’re using Opera or Firefox, you can create a customized search and make this lookup process even faster (so, you just type something like “iwt domain.tld”).

Just a quick note for those among you who enjoy wine, I’ve started a wine diary a couple of weeks ago. It’s a mix of wine tasting notes and wine software and web sites. I like it

Also started a small experiment, called “A Wine Blog“, it will be interesting to see how it develops.

Tags: Wine Blog, Wine Diary, Wine Websites, Wine Sites

SEOlogs webmaster tools is an excellent collection of online tools which are very useful for tracking the success of your sites and also for evaluating sites that are being sold.

The Backlinks Analyzer Tool is the best one I’ve seen anywhere, I’ve been stunned with some of the backlinks it managed to dig up.

The Fake Pagerank Detection tool is the first tool to run when someone is selling a website with a PR. I was amazed and somewhat horrified with the amount of unscrupulous webmasters out there, trying to make a quick buck from new sites and inflating their PR. So, this tool quickly eliminates the bad guys.

The Keyword Difficulty Check Tool is another great little tool from SEOlogs. Enter a keyword and see how much you’ll have to work to get good rankings. It’s so simple yet very powerful as it saves a lot of time while exploring new niches.

There are many other very useful tools over at SEOlogs.com, so if you have a website go check them out, you’ll need them sooner or later.

Tags: Pagerank, Keywords, Backlinks, Seologs

Due to certain circumstances, during the past few months I’ve been dedicating a lot of my free time to the money making side of web development. Instead of developing software I focused on developing new websites, marketing them, finding good domains and smaller established websites and investing in them for the future. This whole “business” is a huge time consumer, at times quite chaotic and disorganized, but has so far been rewarding and satisfying. So, since I miss posting here, in the following months I will write about some of the interesting stuff that I’m finding and experiencing in this new area I’m exploring. I’ll touch the various webmaster tools I’m now using on a daily basis. This could be interesting, since most of the good tools in this niche are not free (they are quite pricey actually) and it is not easy to find unbiased reviews on the web. I’ll probably also touch the whole domain business area with some newbie views and opinions.

Tags: Webmaster, Webmaster Tools