The Best Free SEO Tools

[ZekeLL]

SEObook Rank Checker
This amazing Firefox extension allows you to check your search engine rankings in seconds. Just enter your website URL, the keywords, and find out your positions for Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

SEO for Firefox
This tool is awesome. It lets you see relevant data about the best ranked websites for a given keyword. Once you understand why others are ranking so well, you can copy their strategy.

SEObook Toolbar
Another great tool from Aaron Wall. It shows you very useful information such as PageRank, incoming links, and traffic data.

Keyword Difficulty Tool
This tool allows you to check how difficult it will be to rank for a certain keyword.

Page Analyzer
This tool allows you to check several vital metrics at once.

Keyword Density Analyzer
Excellent keyword density tool. This is another Keyword Density Analyzer tool that I like a lot.

Visual PageRank Tool
A great way to see the PageRank of all the pages on your website.

Backlink Checker
The most powerful free backlink tool available.

Keyword Competition Check Tool
You will love this one. Enter the keyword you want to rank for and you can see an analysis of your top 10 competitors.

Robots.txt Generator
Use this tool to control what pages you want the search engines to index from your website.

CopyScape
Very useful service that allows you to check and avoid duplicate content.

NameBoy
Having your keywords in the URL of your website is very important. This cool application suggests available domains based on the keywords you want to rank for.

Search Engine Optimization Analysis Tool
A great way to analyze your pages and improve them for the search engines.

Search Engine Spider Simulator
This tool shows you a website just like the search engines see it.

Backlink Builder
Very useful backlink tool. Enter a keyword and it returns a list of websites where you can list your own site and get valuable backlinks.

Backlink Summary
See who is linking to your competitors and ask them for links too.

Google Keyword Tool
Hands down, the best free keyword tool available. Find related keywords and find out the search volume of several keywords at once.

PageRank Search
Sort search results by PageRank. Very cool.

SEOmoz SEO Tools
Probably the best collection of SEO tools in the market. Some of them are paid but most are free.

[tw0]

Fantastic set of tools thanks :].

[ZekeLL]

You are welcome!

[rosesmith]

Thanks for the tools. These are really very helpful.

[ZekeLL]

No problem!

[greggaskill]

You may find a contradiction in the fact that the most successful companies today disregard search engine optimization for their websites, but they actually do. Less than 50% of these companies care for optimization practices, expecting that their recognized name will conquer search engine results.

There are many search engine optimization problems with these important websites and all of them can be corrected, but it is not a priority for the companies to find solutions that enhance their presence online. Not a smart move!

An important fact that has been neglected by large companies is in regards to languages and countries. These companies should host, on a pertinent ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain), a website for each country in the respective language, however, they avoid it because of reporting, CMS integration and cost relevancy.

So, the way it is working now is that every language is under a top level domain (TLD), impeding the companies to appear in searches specifically run for results within the country. Since there is no duplicate content filter for different languages, the website will show up in every search performed in a language in which it is active, but not if it is a within- country search.

Another aspect of search engine optimization that successful companies disregard, has to do with maintenance. These companies' priority is to simplify maintenance as they need to be able to create new pages in a fast and easy way, but they are not considering, or are not knowledgeable of the fact that more pages will not guarantee more clients if these are not thoroughly optimized. Also, because of the urge these businesses have to present results to shareholders, they neglect new initiatives that could increase their earnings.

Their approach in regards to maintenance is to use Seo- unfriendly content management solutions (CMS) in order to avoid increased costs and time “waste”. A professional search engine optimization requires money and time, which big companies do not include in their budgets. What they miss here is the hidden cost this is triggering: CMS can cause Google's duplicate filter to tag the website, taking it off search results and making these companies lose a lot of money.

Other key factor for successful companies' disregard for search engine optimization practices relies on the difficulty they encounter when trying to approve what content they can show. This content must be reviewed over and over again by numerous people in the copy, marketing, legal and leadership teams to guarantee the companies' integrity and, in the end, many of the content approved is pure junk.

Big companies usually neglect specialized audiences by believing all their clients think in the same way, so they do not consider important portal pages as a vehicle to get to specific people with a specific product, thus, missing on new and profitable markets.

Successful companies are where they are for a reason, however, the goal is not to get there but to stay there and while enjoying that position, enhance and care for every detail in order to reach a higher level of success, one that goes beyond finances.

Greg Gaskill

[ZekeLL]

Great tips, Greg!

Do you have an SEO company? If so, please let me know so I can check it out.

[georgeBmW]

Thanks for the tools. These are really very helpful


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[ZekeLL]

You are welcome, George.

[chuckmanley83]

Very nice, comprehensive SEO tool set. I also suggest keeping an eye on Sphinn.com as well.

[Plimus]

Very nice list of tools you mght want to add "seoquake" to the list. It is an Seo Addon for Firefox or Internet Explorer Browsers.

[speedguy]

you mght want to add "seoquake" to the list. It is an Seo Addon for Firefox or Internet Explorer Browsers.

I second seoquake. Its a great tool

[cupbucket]

Outstanding. Thanks brother!

Namaste

[Jamie]

Awesome list mate. Thanks for posting

[ZekeLL]

No problem! Let me know if you have questions.