Quick SEO Evaluation Tools
Website Grader-pretty quick way to find out about your site
SEO Automatic Tool-tells you about on page search engine optimization factors
SEO Backlink Checker Tools
Google Backlink Checker
MSN Backlink Checker
Technorati for blog specific backlinks
Competitive Analysis Tools
Other Helpful Search Engine Optimization Tools
Yahoo Webmaster Tools (same link as Yahoo backcheck links above)
SEO Book Link Suggester (based on similar keyword or website topic)
Free SEO Keyword Tools
Google Keyword Tool
(related keyterms & web user data)SEO Book Keyword Tool (web stats on your key terms)
Wordtracker Question Tool (web stats on questions around your keyterms)
Google Sets (semantically related terms to your keyterms)
Quinturra (semantically related terms)
SEO Tracking Analysis
Graph of Backlinks Over Time for search engine marketing purposes.
Compete-unique user statistics over the year
Quantcast-multiple analytics on users of your site
Go Rank-key word number & density
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Great List.
Free keyword tools are a great start for new sites.
However, once your site is established it’s wise to use your own server logs to gain the most reliable keyword research, which is derived from “real” traffic and “actual” keywords that trigger specific actions on your own website.
Hello,
this is a great list of tools. Please try and evaluate this tool and provide feedback: http://analyzers.pearanalytics.com
Thanks!
Thanks Ryan,
I’ll have to check those out. Look forward to hearing from you again.
In the social media space, Radian 6 at the high end of white label monitoring tools is getting hot and at a smaller price point for small businesses is Techrigy, which offers freemium services (in other words a free trial as well as webinars explaining the business case behind social media monitoring)
Take care,
Nathan
The other thing is that I have little faith in Compete. I’ve actually purchased their $500 report and was pretty disappointed with how inaccurate the data was. In general, I would use Compete.com as nothing more than just “another data point” – don’t make any major decisions or anything.
Ryan
Great point Ryan. I generally prefer the free tools and the tools under $100 per month.
The free web traffic comparison tool that Compete offers is nice for a 60 second overview of a website in a given market ecosystem, which helps you with your search engine optimization and link building.
Great List. This tool help you evaluate the importance of a URL as perceived by Yahoo and Google. Thanks for sharing.
Nice post and list of tools. We’ve used most all of the tools you mentioned and have found many of them to be pretty useful. Appreciate you sharing them. SEOmoz’s LinkScape tool is nice, can think of many potential uses for that one in particular. Thought perhaps your readers would be interested in checking out the website analyzer tool we built for in-house use. It’s now offered for free on our company website. We appreciate and encourage feedback so any suggestions are welcomed.
http://www.visible.net/tools/analyzer/
We also have a few other free tools on our “Tools” (/tools/) page.
Some great tools. I do find that some of the free tool can be limiting, but I guess if you use a handful of them together you can get some uselful info from them which will help you with your SEO efforts.
If interested, there are more free online webmaster tools to try. Visit http://www.webtoolhub.com/
Nice post! but you fogot about mazecore – http://monitor.mazecore.com
Fantastic post,
thanks for providing such a wonderful list of tools,these are really resourceful for me.
I have gone through the post and i really enjoyed reading it and the discussions above.
Very informative
cheers
Nevin
This is a newer tool that sorts keywords by topic/subject. However, it doesn’t give actually traffic numbers (only bar graph approximations):
http://www.wordstream.com/keyword-niche-finder/
There are two newer paid tools, which are available on a subscription basis:
SEO Samba and http://www.lotusjump.com/
I believe the later, is the less expensive of the two.
Excellent post
You may want to add this one too >
http://www.bruceclay.com http://www.seotools.com