Ranking Toolbox 7.0.1

Every web developer knows that it's important to have his website correctly indexed by search engines, in order to have more visitors. The indexing of a web page depends a lot on the keywords used in its description. Besides that, all the links included in the website must be working, so that a search engine doesn't index them incorrectly. Most web hosting services don't provide the tools necessary to check a website for broken links or to optimize it, so the only thing left to do is to turn to additional applications. A program that can help you with this is Ranking Toolbox.

By analyzing its name, we can say that the application contains a lot of tools for analyzing the rank of a website inside a search engine and also for optimizing it and analyzing broken links. It can be considered a complete solution for web developers.

This is a Windows application that doesn't require special skills to be installed. Things change when using the program's interface, as it requires some knowledge regarding web servers and websites. Still, the application is much simpler than other similar programs. At first, the user should enter the URL address of the website and then add some keywords. By analyzing those keywords, Ranking Toolbox can tell the user if his website is properly indexed by search engines.

Ranking Toolbox supports the most used search engines, like Yahoo, Google, Bing and so on. Besides checking websites for proper keywords, the software also includes an HTML validator, that can check each link contained by a website, allowing the user to see which link works and which doesn't. Knowing what links are broken and fixing them will allow search engines to index the website better.

A feature that other similar programs don't have is the web robot simulator, which simulates a search engine robot crawling the user's site. This will allow one to know if the website is correctly detected by search engines.

Pros:
It includes a lot of tools for web masters, which allows them to see whether their site is correctly detected by search engines and if all the links contained into the site are not broken. Besides that, it can simulate a web spider crawling the user's website.

Cons:
The program requires some knowledge regarding websites and web servers, in order to be used at its full potential.

Ranking Toolbox has been reviewed by Jerome Johnston on 27 Mar 2012. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Ranking Toolbox 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent