Best 15 SEO Tools you must know
RSS Feed- NUAH
Super cool site. Crawls your entire site, see how many pages you have, their respective PageRanks, keywords and descriptions. Also has good sitemap generators for both Yahoo! and Google.- Google Sitemap Generator: Create a valid Google Sitemap with no programming experience needed. Why should you install and configure a confusing python script when you can have Nuah.com to crawl your website and build a valid sitemap.gz file?
- Google PageRank Crawler: Easily get a big picture view of your Google PageRank for your entire website.
- Yahoo Sitemap Generator: Create a valid Yahoo Sitemap with no programming experience needed.
- Link Check Crawler: Let’s face it links can expire, because invalid/expired links can effect both your search engine position and reputation we recommend you validate the integrity of your links with our Free Link Validation Tool.
- Google Analytics / Google Webmaster Console
Google Analytics is a top analytics tool made available to everybody for free by Google. This analytics tool can give you detailed reports about traffic behavior, content visitation, funnel information and much, much more. On the other hand, the Webmaster Console tool now gives you a good view of what Google “sees” for your site including: crawling rate, crawling speed, backlinks, highest PageRank of your site and more.
- Fiddler Web Debugging Tool
Currently it’s available only for Windows and it needs the .NET framework that you can download from their web site as well. The main benefits of this tool is the capacity to analyze all the background communication that goes on between the browser and the servers.
- Firefox SEO extension
When Aaron Wall of SEOBook says something is cool, we take note. I have been using this very cool SEO extension for Firefox (my favorite browser) for quite some time now and love it. I can click on the tool to display meta tags for any site I visit without having to switch to code view and scroll all over creation for them. It does much more than just that but that is one of my favorite features.
- HitTail
This tool is endlessly useful. I, personally, find that most people dont understand the long tail search. HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. It presents these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site.
- Link Harvester
Are you looking to do some in-depth link analysis? If so, the Link Harvester is certainly for you. This tool is much more advanced than most link analysis software currently on the market. Link Harvester:- quickly finds almost every single site that is linking to you
- reports how many pages of your web site are indexed
- reports how many links are pointing to any specific page
- provides links to the Wayback Machine and WhoIs source next to each domain
- reports the total number of inbound links, home page links, and deep link ratio
- quickly grabs the number of .gov, .edu, and .ac.uk inbound links
- indicates if a site links to your site more than 5 times by bolding that particular link in the list of results.
- iWebTool
iWebTool has about a ton of other very useful SEO tools, that deserve mentioning as well such as a Google Banned Checker, Link Popularity, Keyword Suggestion, Search Engine Position, etc.
- Widexl
Widexl is a web developers best friend. They offer the following free hosted tools to assist in SEO:- Link Popularity – How popular are you on the internet?
- Search Engine Saturation How many pages do you have indexed?
- Meta Tag Analyzer – Analyze the Meta Tags from your website
- Password Generator – Password Generator for Basic and Digest authentication
- Geo Tracker – Locate country by IP address or domain name
- We Build Web Pages
This tool allows you to compare your site against the top 10 listed sites in Google for a particular keyword or phrase. You simply enter your keyword and the system will begin comparing 9 different metrics for the top 10 rankings. This allows you to quickly compare the Yahoo rank, MSN rank, Google pages indexed, altavista pages indexed, backlinks to page, backlinks to domain, all in anchor rank, age of url, and whether or not the phrase is on the page. Check out the rest of their SEO tools here.
- Zippy
Its a new meta search engine that queries other major engines and returns results in a format most suited for Webmasters and SEOs. The site was launched in September by the seasoned SEO Dave Naylor, and provides some valuable tools for site optimization.
- URL Trends
UrlTrends allows you to see at a glance any of the information that you want to see about all of the selected urls. Whether you only want to see the PageRank of the Urls, or everything they monitor, you can now do so very easily.
- XENU’s Link Sleuth
XENU is one of those tools that you download for free and keep a copy just in case the owner decides to start charging for it. This tool is basically a spider. And the benefits of having a spider in your SEO toolbox is priceless. Using this tool you can determine if a site has endless loops, broken links, redirect detections and much more. As its name indicates, Xenu is like having a detective look at your site – a free detective that is.
- Visual PageRank
If you are a graphic person, then checking page rank in your site is probably as boring as watcing Home Shopping Network on a saturday night. Well now you can check your page rank visually with sweet tool. This tool gives let’s you see your web page and overlays that page rank for each one of your links.
- Ranking Checker by SEOmoz.com
This nice SEO tool allows you to check your rankings for up to 5 keywords per day for FREE and it keeps an archive for you. All you need is to sign up for a free SEOmoz account. The coolest part is that you are able to download your archived rankings as CSV. When you install the “browser button” it automatically copies the URL of the page that you are visiting into the tool for a fast ranking check. Since this free tool can handle up to 5 keywords daily, you’ll be able to check approximately 150 keywords monthly.
- Keyword Selector Tool by Overture.com
This tool is one of the first keyword tools that was available to webmasters. It’s still very useful and is still free. Lots of newer keyword tools build over the last few years are based on the Keyword Selector tool
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