SEO Tools

Browser Buttons and Bookmarks

• Google Toolbar Buttons - Allows you to add quick links to SEO tools and RSS feeds to the Google toolbar. They only works with the new beta Internet Explorer version of the Google Toolbar.


• Firefox Bookmarks - Links to various useful free SEO tools that you can add to your Firefox bookmarks toolbar.

Search Marketing Conferences

Keyword Research / Keyword Generation / Analysis

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool

• Links to other keyword research tools, including:
  
  
  
  • Overture View Bid
  
  
  • Google Suggest (popular Google search phrases)
  
  
  • Search results from each of the major engines
  
  
  • Google AdWords Keyword Sandbox Tool
  
  
  • WordTracker
  
  
  • Keyword Discovery
  
  
  
  


• The tool also links at various vertical databases, blog searches, and tagging systems to show you the top results from other information sources.


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Keyword Phrase List Generator

• web based


• really fast


• makes generating a ton of keyword phrases for your PPC campaign quick and easy


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Keyword List Cleaner

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• web based


• really fast


• allows you to take unstructured keyword data and format it, making keyword lists alphanumeric, remove numbers, and remove any poorly targeted words or any phrase containing a poorly targeted word


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Keyword Misspelling Generator

Google Suggest Scraper Tool

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Yahoo! Search Term Extraction Tool

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Keyword Density Analyzer

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Free Meta Tag Generator

Link Analysis Tools

Back Link Analyzer

• downloadable software


• does link anchor text analysis


• fairly quick


• works with API's from Google & Yahoo!


• not open source yet, as I want to make it plug-in friendly first

Link Harvester

• web based


• really fast


• makes sorting out duplicate links from the same site easy, which allows you to quickly and deeply query the Yahoo! backlink database.


• does not give anchor text


• gives breakdowns of .edu links and number of C block IP addresses, etc.


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Hub Finder

• web based


• really fast


• makes finding hub pages easy


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Other Link Analysis Tools

• Reciprocal Link Checker - script to help you automate finding out if your reciprocal link partners are still linking back at your site.
  
  
  
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• Link Suggest Tool - list of words and phrases like add URL, directory, ezine, etc. where you may be able to add links or buy ads.
  
  
  
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• Link Popularity Comparison Tool - allows you to quickly and easily compare your link popularity scores to other websites.
  
  
  
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SEO Competitive Research Analysis

Myriad Search

• web based


• really fast


• makes finding authority pages and cross comparing search results from all major search engines easy


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Competition Finder

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Xinu

Search Engine Saturation

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Page Comparison Tool

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Google Rank Checker Tools

• Basic Rank Checker - checks where your site ranks in Google for a specific keyword.
  
  
  
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• Multiple Domain Keyword Ranking Checker - allows you to see where multiple domains rank for a particular keyword.
  
  
  
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• Multiple Keyword Phrase Rank Checker - allows you to check where a page ranks in Google for multiple keywords.
  
  
  
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• Google Advanced Keyword Rank Checker - allows you to look up your rank in Google in regional databases. Offers other advanced search criteria as well.
  
  
  
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• Common Terms Keyword Rankings Tool - shows where your page ranks for it's most common terms.
  
  
  
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• Page Text Rank Checker - tool allows you to check where your site ranks for each phrase or term occurring on the page.
  
  
  
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General SEO Tools

Spider Tester Tool

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Other SEO Tools

Browser Extensions & Bookmarks

• Google Toolbar Buttons - Allows you to add quick links to SEO tools and RSS feeds to the Google toolbar. They only works with the new beta Internet Explorer version of the Google Toolbar.


• Firefox Bookmarks - Links to various useful free SEO tools that you can add to your Firefox bookmarks toolbar.

Jim Boykin's Free Tools

• Top 10 analysis tool - shows how your site's age and backlinks compare to the top 10 ranked sites


• Strongest subpage tool - shows which internal pages of a site are the most powerful

Rank Checkers

• Digital Point's Keyword Ranking Tool - tracks your rankings in Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Makes it easy to look at historical records of rankings to help you evaluate algorithmic changes and effective SEO techniques you are using.

Keyword Research

• My keyword research tool links off to most any keyword research tool I find useful in its results.

Link Checker

• Xenu Link Sleuth - makes it fast and easy to find broken links on your site.

Google Sitemap Generator

• XML Sitemaps - makes free Google sitemaps for sites up to 500 pages in size. Sells a cheap and useful script to build sitemaps for larger site sizes.

From the Engines:

• Yahoo! Site Explorer - allows you to see what pages you have indexed as well as the backlinks to those pages


• Google Webmaster Central - allows you to sign up for Google Sitemaps, shows some crawling errors, and a more complete view of your backlinks.

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