6 Free SEO Tools You Can’t Live Without
SEO Help - Hot Tip - I use a variety of SEO related tools on an almost daily basis, and the best part is, all of them are totally free! However, I remember back in the day when I didn’t have all of the awesome tools bookmarked for my convienience, and I would never remember which ones were which (that meant many Google searches to find all the right ones).
I thought it would be a fantastic idea to show you some of the SEO tools that you can use to analyze your site, and make changes if need be. If anything, these tools are just simply fun to use, and you can check all of your friends sites as well! Nothing wrong with a little healthy SEO competition, right?
Here are six of my favorite SEO Tools to get you started:
1. Backlink Anchor Text Analysis - This tool is especially useful, as we all know that anchor text (if you don’t, then take my word for it) plays a huge part in the weight given to a link to your site. By inputting your URL, you can check all of the backlinks pointing to your site and the anchor text used for each. Quality, relevant, keyword related anchor text is the best way to link to someone, so if you see people that are linking to you using the infamous “click here”, kindly shoot them an email and ask them to change it if they have time. It’s worth the trouble.
2. Free Keyword Suggestion Tool - Okay, so I covered this a little in my last post, but it’s definitley worth listing again. As you know, it’s an quick way to nail down some nice keywords, and get a general idea of the amount of search volume each one commands. Quick, easy, and fun.
3. Domain Stats Tool - Yeah, spying on your competitor is so much fun! This tool comes in handy if you just can’t seem to figure out why your enemies are ranking higher than you (other than the normal stuff). Input a URL, and it will tell you things like domain age, big directory listings, backlink count in the big 3 (Google, Yahoo, MSN). Nothing too detailed, but it may be useful information at one point or another.
4. Keyword Difficulty Check - This seo tool is just downright cool. In your quest for the ultimate keywords, wouldn’t it be nice to see how difficult it would be to rank for a particular keyword? Problem solved. This famous tool over at SEOChat will do just that. It will tell you how hard it’s going to be percentage wise to rank for whatever keyword you put in. For instance, the keyword “SEO” gets a score of 78.5%, compared to “Florida SEO Company” scores a 42.03%. I could actually do this for hours, so I better move on before I digress….
5. Google Vs. Yahoo Search Results - Talk about interesting. This tool lets you put in a keyword or keyphrase of your choice, and after it runs, it will present you with a graph showing where they rank on each site. Lines are drawn across the graph for matching domains. It’s very cool to see how each search engine ranks pages for certain keywords. For instance, I ran a query on the keyword “seo tips”, and I noticed that the 3rd result site in Google is ranked well over 40 in Yahoo. Not all of them are that far apart..some are actually really close. By the way, does anyone know the algorithms for each? I just need to borrow it real quick….
6. Term Extractor - This little handy tool will let you input a URL, and after analyzing, it will tell you what it thinks is a search engine targeted term. This is a VERY clever tool, which I recommend you run on your site periodically, that way if you’re trying to target “garden tools” and the term extractor tells you that it thinks “sea monkey poop” is more SE targeted, that you have some work to do, keyword density wise!
There you have it, six fun and potentially very useful tools that you can use to help keep things in check, as well as kill time. Once you start playing with these fun online seo tools, it’s hard to stop! I’ll be posting more tools in the future, so stay tuned.
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Very nice list of tools there, thanks
Great list mate. [stumbled on]. I hadn’t used Term extractor before, and yeah sweet tool.
But on the bright side I have plugged an ethernet cable into the washing machine and here’s hoping it will make me millions of dollars. You don’t see any floors in my plan do you?
Oh, and those algorithms, they were written down on a piece of paper that went through the wash, so they’re gone
Great list of SEO tools. They will definetly come in handy. What KW suggestion tools do u suggest outside of google?
This tutorial is really cool one thanx for sharing it i like it a lot
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I came across this page through StumbleUpon and I was completely clueless as to what this site was all about.
If you’re aiming at “noobs”, it might be wise to tell people that “SEO” stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, because I myself wasn’t familiar with the abbreviation itself (although I do not consider myself a noob after 10 years of webdesign and PHP experience).
Your home page contains more than 30 instances of “SEO” (or compound terms containing “SEO”), yet not a single instance of “Search Engine Optimization”. I visited the About section to get an idea of what “SEO” stands for, but again, nothing. Luckily, there’s still Google…
Thanks for putting this together. I really like the term extractor and Google vs. Yahoo. Another good one is Google’s Adwords: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
This is a very worthwhile posting. I Stumbled into it, gave it a thumbs up and bookmarked it. I’m STILL a noob, so having these tools in a convenient list is a good thing. Even better is that they are reviewed so I don’t have to wade through a bunch of crapola to find them.
Adam - thanks bro! Glad you came over to check it out!
WhatisSEO - Points well taken, I’m very glad you spoke up! I will try to implement the changes you suggested, as I want to cater to new folks, as the title suggests
Val - thanks, yes, the adwords tool comes in quite handy!!
Jas - Thank you!!
Billin - Glad you made it here…still new, but we’re growing at a healthy rate. Thanks and hope to see you back!
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thank you, i don´t know these tools
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Thanks for this great post Ryan. I’ll be giving you some link love in my weekly round-up for this one! Absolutely invaluable
Rob - Thanks so much!!!
Mad - I really appreciate it, glad it helped
Fantastic selection of tools. I didn’t know about a few of these so I’m glad you pointed them out.
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Wow. What a great article. As a programmer I know a lot of the keys to success for writing SEO pages, but adding in these tools to identify and quantify your successes or potential future successes is amazing.
Hey thanks Cheyenne! Glad the tools could help
Hey thanks Dorinna!! I’m happy that you’re happy!
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Here’s another useful tool from Dutch SEO Joost de Valk. It’s an SEO link analyzer in the form of a free Firefox extension. It gathers PageRank for the linking page, the anchor text used on the link and checks whether the link is nofollowed or not. You’ll find it at Joost’s blog: http://www.joostdevalk.nl
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Great post…and blog by the way. That Keyword Difficulty Check tool is fantastic. I just ran it for my keyword…”Free Vector Art” and it is a 47% - I guess that is a good range…it bring plenty of targeted traffic to my site…but not too too hard to rank for. Great tool, thanks a lot.
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Hi Ryan. Looking through your archive you have some fantastic content here. No wonder you have built up so many subscribers in just 6 months of time. Well done.
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I have used a great number of tools and thought I had a pretty good idea of the best. But I’ve never used a bunch of these. Unfortunately my habit is to do to much research and not enough actual SEO so you’ve just wasted hours of my time.
THAKS A LOT! Wink
Phil
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