All the way back in my first article, Where to Start, I talked about how registering a domain name containing your website’s keywords is important. Well having the keywords in the complete URL to the page is also helpful.
The URL of the page you’re on now for example: http://www.cashsblog.com/2009/01/flat-links/. It contains to year, month, then title of the article. This can give search engines a better idea of what the page is about. Have you ever seen URLs like http://www.cashsblog.com?read_article.php?year=2009&month=01&key=120&title=flat-links and thought “What the hell does that mean?”
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Want to know what your website’s worth? Whether it’s to sell your website, or just for fun, Website Outlook will give you a good idea.
Just like DomainTools’ SEO Score and Website Grader’s Score, Website Outlook’s score (value) is calculated using their own made up algorithm. That means, it is just an indication! It derives the value, based on a number of factors, including Alexa Rank, Google PageRank and number of backlinks.
Check it out here: Website Outlook. Just type you URL (www.whatever.com) and click Submit.
Note: Subdomains (like subdomain.whatever.com)
I mostly use it for fun. It makes me feel good when I see the “value” of my websites go up 
Google Analytics is the tool I use. I must admit, I haven’t tried anything else. But that’s because Google Analytics already gives me more than enough information and I live by the idea that “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
All you do is put some HTML/JavaScript code down the bottom of each page you want to be tracked and within a few minutes, Google starts tracking your life *cough* I mean, your website.
It’s completely free and you’re not forced to put a link back to Google on your site. I suspect they use the information collected for much more than we know. But oh well, Google’s going to take over the world anyway it’s inevitable. We should all just accept it! 
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If you’ve used ScrapeVideo.com, you would have noticed the Search Only option, where you can choose to search all video sites or just search one. If you click Show More, you’ll see I added a few more popular video sharing / news websites to the list.
I hope people will find this useful. If you can think of another website you use often that you want added to this list, just send me a message or post a comment and I’ll see what I can do. Make sure you leave your e-mail address so I can contact you back (don’t stress, it’s only visable to me).
Remember, feedback is always appreciated!
Submitting articles or “social bookmarks” can be helpful for two main reasons: It will get you traffic, and search engine backlinks. But like I mentioned previously with website promotion, post information that people will find useful, don’t just spam your site around, trying to get backlinks!
So you’re probably thinking, “Hey, this’ll be easy. I’ll just write one really good article and post it everywhere I can!” Sorry to burst your bubble, but it’s not quite that easy, I can tell you!
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That’s right, people are finding my awesome tool (just in case you forgot, that’s YouTubeKeep.com) and using it. Woo!
I am promoting it quite a bit, by posting articles and links wherever I can, (which I’ll cover tomorrow). It is still not doing that well in the search results. If you enter something odd like “youtube keep video” or “youtube keep“, it shows up on the first page of Google. But ultimately, I want it to be on the first page for the keyphrase “download youtube videos“.
I think the search engines are probably punishing me because I have lots of broken links now. I changed the page structure of the website a few times and google indexed the old URL’s which now go to 404 error pages. Oh well, the search engines will get over it… eventually!
So, the hits… You want exact figures? Well, I’m not giving you exact figures! But I’m looking at between 50-100 visits per day (not to be confused with hits / page views). I know it’s not THAT impressive, but it’s a start!
The ad revenue is still next to nothing. If you’ve been to YouTubeKeep.com in Internet Explorer, you’ll probably notice that the ads do weird things and jump down to the bottom. So I’m going to blame the positioning. I’ll fix that and experiment with the positioning over the next few weeks.