50% functional

Pros: Nice idea but...

Cons: The toolbar doesn't perform as advertised. It said my site was no where in the top 40 positions, when in fact it is #1. Other functions that didn't work were: load times, keyword density and ping. The most important functions that did work are already freely available from the search engines themselves.

Posted: 21-Mar-2007 02:33:35 AM

Silly Junkware

Pros: Offers a list of directories, although many are banned, penalized, or have zero relevance to your website

Cons: This software immediately connects to "somewhere" on the Web. Unbelievably, it also suggests that webmasters submit their sites to link farms, FFA pages and websites banned by the search engines. You are unable to view the URL's it wants you to visit. It's also probably in violation of Google's adsense policies since it's the first software I've ever seen running Google ads.

Posted: 21-Mar-2007 01:54:56 AM

Nice Format, Limited, Outdated Info

Pros: Free and gives a brief summary of search engine optimization.

Cons: The download is mainly just a lead generator to send more visitors to Mr. Wong's network of websites where he sells a variety of ebooks and software via several vendor's affiliate programs. The ebook gives few, if any details as to the attributes of website optimization.

This shortcoming together with outdated information, broken links to websites, instructions to submit your site to search engines (absolutely unnecessary) and vague reasons and protocols for inbound link solicitation pretty much make this tutorial a useless resource.

Posted: 21-Mar-2007 12:37:44 AM