Every day hundreds of new websites are created. Unfortunately, many people think that by simply creating a website, then it will be successful. However, in order for a website to be successful it has to have the right keywords as well as the right touches if you expect for your website to get the proper rate of traffic and for your search engine ranking to remain constant.
The internet world is constantly changing and if you are going keep up with this ever changing landscape, then it is up to you to keep up with what is happening in regards to your competition as well as the highest ranked sites. In order for these website to continue getting the number of visitors to their websites they are doing something right and it is up to you to figure out what that is exactly.
Fortunately, there are many useful tools available to assist you with this task.
For testing the links within your website or for checking broken links of other websites - http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Helpful in checking the number of back links to your URL as well as other web pages linked to your website through various search engines - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/
Allows you to locate the physical location of your hosting company, who will oftentimes filter search results based on their physical location which is known as geotargeting, which could be why your site only shows in particular countries - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/website-country/
Helpful in tracking the location of someone who has visited your website - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/
Helpful in checking the Yahoo! ranking of your website or your competitor's website - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/webrank/
Helpful when using a Mac or Apple computer to check a website ranking - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/pagerank-mac/
Helpful for Google AdSense account members as it provides charts and reports to aid in analyzing the amount of traffic to your website http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-charts/
Also with an AdSense account members can analyze website addresses to see what ads are being displayed in regards to particular keywords - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/
Helpful advertising network that will allow you to share ads with other website owners when you join - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/
If your site is listed in the Google Index then you can add the Search Functionality to your website - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/search/
Various free website counters to help keep track of the traffic on your website