As some of you know I am part of SEO Challenge ‘09 and I can’t say I am doing brilliantly… mainly because I haven’t really touched my site apart from setting up a sitemap!
However the following is a list of free seo tools that I have played around with and some which I have found vital!
(Initial list accredited goes to Hierarchy)
Recommended
All in One tools:
These SEO tools check multiple SEO metrics in one step: Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, Quantcast Rank, Google Backlinks, Yahoo Backlinks, MSN Live Search Backlinks, Technorati Links, del.icio.us Bookmarks, Rojo links, Bloglines subscribers.
SEOmoz Page Strength SEO Tool
popuri.us
Rank Alert: Site Rank Report
webconfs: Domain Stats Tool
SEOcompany.ca: Website Analysis Tool
socialmeter
Seitwert (German)
SEO Analyzer by Sitening.com
Xinu BETA by Miguel Camps Orteza
Search Engines
Search Engine Relationship Chart – Bruce Clay does an excellent job of keeping this updated.
Search Engine Bot Simulator – SEO Tool to simulate search engine parsing of webpages and display discovered links.
Indexed pages – check the no. of indexed pages for your blog
Spider Simulator – simulates a search engine by displaying the contents of a web page
Search Engine Simulator – lets you see your site like SE’s do.
Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker – checks the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with an HTTP response.
Search Engine Position – Locate your search listings on Google and Yahoo!
Search Listings Preview – Preview your website on Google, MSN and Yahoo! Search
Sandbox Detection Tool – Is your website being sandboxed?
Spider Simulation – See what the spider sees on your website
Bot Spotter – This is a phenomenal script that will track what bots hit your website at what times. (Runs on PHP enabled websites)
Google
Reporting Spam to Google
Use Google to search your website
Monitor Keyword Phrases – (This is neat to check out however does not help that much)
Googles Guidelines for Websmasters – (A must read for new people)
Free Google API -
Google Analytics – tells you everything about your visitors
Google Banned Checker – check whether a site is banned by Google or not
Page Rank
Ranking Checker – Get a overview of your website’s ranking
PageRank Lookup – check the PageRank for a website
PageRank Prediction – – check predicted PR of a site
Multi-Rank Checker – View your Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking in bulk
PageRank Checker – View your Google PageRank on different Google servers
PageRank Prediction – [NEW] The slightly better one!
Google Page Rank Calculator - This is an advanced tool for finding out what you need to get your PR to the next level.
Page Rank Finder - This is a great tool to find quality websites with the PR that you are looking for to exchange websites with. This tool only looks at the home page not the link pages. This tool looks at 10 pages or 100 results
Links related
Reciprocal Link Checker – check whether your link partners are linking back to your website
LinkWorth – a popularity score given to a website based on inbound links
Link Price Lookup – check the price of your link
Link Price Calculator – another tool for checking the price of links
Link Checker – check your links to see if it’s still valid or not
Link Popularity- checks the total number of web pages which link to a website
Link Price Calculator – help to determine the approximate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website
Site Link Analyzer – analyze a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text
URL Rewriting - convert dynamic URLs into static looking HTML URLs
Link Extractor – Extract links from a specific web page
Link Shortener - shorten a web address
Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer – check link text used by your backlinks to Link to your website.
Link Appeal – Want to know whether or not you actually want your link on that page?
Link Reputation – Reveals baclinks pointing to the target URL along with a link survey for each backlink.
Keyword related
Search Engine Placement Check - checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword
Keyword density analyser – another SEO tools for keywords
Keyword Cloud – a visual representation of keywords used on a website
Keyword Density - another SEO tool for checking keyword density
Keyword Difficulty Check - see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or phrases
Keyword Optimizer – optimizer your keywords with this tool
Keyword Density Analyzer
Keyword Difficulty Checker – You will need a Google API for this one
Keyword Tracking
Keyword density / tag checker
Keyword Suggestion Tools:
WordTracker & Overture Suggestions – This is one of the better ones.
SEOBook – Useful tool
Spyfu – Spy on your competitors.
Keyword Suggestion Tool – Find related keywords matching your search
XML Sitemaps Generator) – Build your Site Map online (XML, ROR, Text, HTML)
GSiteCrawler – Google (and Yahoo!) Sitemap Generator for Windows
XML Sitemaps Generator – Search Engine Optimizion Tool for validating your xml sitemaps
HTML related
HTML Encrypt – Hide your HTML source code
HTML Optimizer – Optimize and clean your HTML source code
HTTP Headers – Extract the HTTP Headers of a web page
HTTP Headers Viewer – check HTTP headers for any specific URL
Meta-tags Extractor – Extract meta-tags information from a web page
Meta-tags Generator – Generate and configure your meta-tags
META Analyzer – analyze a website’s meta tags
Meta Tag Generator 2 – help you to generate meta tags
Source Code Viewer – View the source code of a page
Domain related
Domain Age Tool – find out the age of your competitor’s domains
Domain Stats Tool – get all kind of statistics of your competitor’s domains
Domain Availability – Check the availability of domains
Domain Look-up – Retrieve a range of information about a domain
Domain Whois – Retrieve domain whois information
Instant Domain Checker – Check the availability of domains instantly
Ping Test – Check the presence of an active connection
Reverse IP/Look-up – Resolve a host to an IP address
Server Status – Check if your website is online or offline
Website Speed Test – Find out how fast your website loads
What Is My IP Address – shows your ip address
IP to City – determine the Country, City, Latitude and Longitude of an IP Address
Website to Country – determine the Country in which the specified website is Hosted
Web stats
Statcounter – famous free web tracker
HiStats – Free, real time updated web stats service
Addfreestats – provide free website statistics
Website Design & Tools
Free Forms for your website TFMail -
Validate Your HTML
Link Popularity Checker (Uptime Bot)
Ascii-Dec-Hex Conversion Code Chart
Ascii Chart in .GIF Format
Customer Focus Tool - (Tells you whether your website is focused on your customers or not)
Dead Link Checker - Doesn’t crawl links within Frames or JavaScript
Adsense Simulator - This will give you an idea of what ads will be displayed on your website before you place them
FEED Validator – for Atom and RSS
W3C Markup Validation Service – check for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards
Kontera Ads Preview – preview Kontera Ads on your website
Online spell checker – simple online spell checking tools
Browser Screen Resolution Checker – shows what your site looks like with different screen resolutions
Your Browser Details – View your IP address and your browser details
md5 Encrypt – Encrypt text to MD5
Online Calculator – A simple online calculator
Speed Optimisation
iWebTool Speed Test - Simple tool to test your website’s loading time and compare with other websites. great tool for benchmarking.
Pingdom Tools - Pingdom is a popular uptime performance monitoring service for websites and servers. They also host a free load time test for web pages.
Internet Supervision Webserver Monitoring Tool - InternetSupervision.com monitors the availability, performance, and content of your website, web server and internet services from across the globe.
Webslug Loading Time Test - Webslug measures load time as the user sees it. The time it takes for a page to load fully from when the request was made
OctaGate Site Timer - Very similar to Pingdom Tools
Site-Perf.com - Though this looks similar to Pingdom tool, it goes a step further by letting you decide the test server location and Max threads per host value.
LinkVendor Website Speed Check - The website speedtester shows the duration of a given website.
Website Optimization – Web Page analyzer - The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component.
Uptrends Web Page test tool- The full page test tool allows you to test the load time and speed of a complete HTML page of your website, including all objects such as images, frames, CSS stylesheets, Flash objects, RSS feeds, and Javascript files.
WebWait - WebWait is a website timer. You can benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection.
Firefox Addons
SearchStatus – Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.
SeoQuake -Seoquake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly.
RankQuest SEO Toolbar - RankQuest SEO(Search Engine Optimization) Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tool
SEOpen – Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization. Including google backlinks, yahoo backlinks, PageRank check, http header viewer, and more
SEO Tools – Collection of Useful Search Engine Optimization..
KGen – KGen (Keyword Generator) is an extension that allows you to see what keywords are strong on visited web pages.
SEO Book: SEO for Firefox – All in one tool
Joost de Valk’s SEO Link Analysis – extension gives you a bit more information when opening such pages, it gathers the PageRank for the linking page, the anchor text used on the link, and checks whether the link is nofollowed or not.
SEO Resources
(ebooks and videos)
Beginner’s Guide to SEO
Keyword Research
Keyword Research Guide
Viral Copy: Trading Words for Traffic
How to Use the Modern Press Release
Sources
Updated 17/02/09 – Added Firefox addons / AIO tools and Recommendations and sorted out the cats. a bit more.
Do you have anymore ‘priceless’ free seo tools? let me know and i’ll add it to the list, also feel free to give your experinces with any of the tools.
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Wow, this list itself is priceless if you ask me. It’s nice to see someone putting them all together into one place; definitely worthy of a bookmark.
Cheers; the majority of the credit goes for this huge list of Free SEO Tools goes to Hierachy though! feel free to suggest any not there!
I have bookmarked this page for regular reference. Thank you.
cheers …if you know any Free Seo Tools let me know
Donace, this is an extensive list. I will bookmark this page.
I just starred this post on my Google reader, I know some of these services, but there quite a few new ones.
Thanks for the list it is great
Thanks for dropping by Nihar and Ilan, and Like I said if you know any more free seo tools that I have missed feel free to suggest.
That’s quite a list. I tried the pagerank prediction with two of my blogs but it was unable to give me a response. I was really hoping it would tell me I went up to PR7 or something.
I use a couple of the other resources like statcounter.com and the xml sitemap generator plugin.
The I-webtool is a bit dodgy at time; try the other one I just added…it in my opinion is slightly more accurate…though PR7 is wishful thinking! PR6 maybe
Well at least that one worked, but it seems that I am stuck with a PR3, which is cool because I’m not all that fussed with PR anyway. As long as people stop by and comment on my blogs once in awhile, that’s all that really matters.
Indeed PR is just a metric at the end of the day.
Very comprehensive list! Although I’m not really a fond of that PageRank Prediction tools. It gave me hope so many times only to find that it never happened
with tools such as page rank prediction; you have to remember they rely on your current backlinks etc while the toolbar PR (the one we see) is based upon a prior section in time. So the ‘prediction; is always two updates away.
That’s a great list. I have bookmarked it! and I don’t usually bookmark pages!
Cheers Mark will take that as a HUGE compliment
Now thats a HUGE list of SEO tools… Mine fails in comparison. But really thanks for the effort in compiling this.
Cheers Ben, and thanks for dropping by, If you see any SEO tools I have missed out feel free to suggest them!
Sure Donace, if I happen to find one that is! Yours is detailed enough.. hehe
Thanks for the list. Looks like it took a lot of time to be gathered and the result is very useful.
Thanks for dropping by Webkinz, and for the compliment…though the majority of the credit should go to Hierarchy who compiled the initial free seo tools list which this is based upon.
I see the free SEO tools list is overwhelming.You have done the great job and give people the opportunity to use your experience.Appraising!
cheers
Wow Holy cr*p mate ! What a great list of tools. You just saved me an eternity…
*Bookmarked*
Hope you’ll do good in the SEO challenge.
Cheers,
The Moneyac
Thanks for dropping by Chris; though as I have mentioned the original list author who I based this list on deserves more credit then me :p
And yes i’m hoping I do well in the contest as well
Thanks for a great list! If I could add one, seocheck.getawaygraphics.com/ will give you a reasonable idea of what major search engines see when they look at your web site. It’s still a work in progress so feedback is always welcome.
Thanks for dropping by Christopher; Yea I forgot about your tool, was testing it out earlier last week, its an enlightening tool …unfortunately it shows my site as a mess! :p will add the link when I update the post later this week.
I just used the ‘Validate Your Html’ tool and I must admit it gave an interesting result. My blog has 203 errors and 66 warnings. Oh I feel so much better now. Thanks so much for that link. LOL . It seems, although I didn’t check them all, that most of them are attributed to plugins and stuff and as I don’t know enough about that sort of thing I reckon I will ignore it.
Yep wordpress plugins and external widgets have the tendency to break validation! very annoying :p
I wouldn’t worry to much about it, try and correct the ones you can otherwise…just let it stick around till you cut a new theme :p
Cut a new theme? Surely you don’t mean that I replace the beautiful theme that I love and faun over daily?
yes ! we must get one BETTER! STRONGER! FASTER! we must bring out his younger brother! lol
doesn’t have to be now ofc…on your 3yr anniversary is a good time!
Umm … wow! When did you find the time to put this together? Great list of resources!
in between revision, live at the apollo, football and cricket… :p
Great! A comprehensive list of SEO tools. Normally I use SEOmoz and Website Grader. Thanx a lot for sharing this tool. Your blog is full of cool info. Keep up the good work.
Cheers thanks for dropping by!
Great list. Quite a few of these I was aware of but I did get a few news ones to try out. Thanks.
cheers;) thanks for dropping by; if you have any other free seo tools that I have missed out feel free to comment here!
Dang… I was collecting data for the 10th post of ‘SEO – Link Building Series’, titled ‘The mother-of-all Free SEO Tools list’ and I saw your post while browsing my RSS reader
Now there’s no point in posting that myself as this is a really cool list.
Let me see if I have at least 25% difference with your list. If so I shall still make a short post and link to yours for the rest.
There are loads more out there that I dont have Ajith! got an update planned soon, but highly enjoying your series so far keep it up and looking forward to the conclusion of it.
I gave up on making the list
Btw, I tried to stumble this post but somehow it keeps saying that this domain cannot be stumbled. .tk can’t be stumbled?
nope .tk cannot be stumbled .. an oversight from when I first brought this domain :p
Haha, good list. I’m tending to make such a list of my own for reference and yours helps much. Thanks guy.
Thanx a lot for sharing this tool. Your blog is full of cool info. Keep up the good work.
This post has been featured on my blog’s Sunday Spotlight. Thank you for a great post!
sweet, thanks for dropping by!
Awesome list! This list will come in very useful!
many of tools online and free you can find here http://www.webdew.ro mabe you will update your list if my post will not been aproved
for example http://www.webdew.ro/feature-seo/pagerank_spider/ can check your page rank of all internal pages, and many other usefull tools. Thank you. grate list you have here.
Thats a pretty comprehensive list oftools. Thanks.
Just a though however on the PR prediction tool. Is there not much use of PR unless you want to sell the site? I mean PR now is just degraded from its original meaning, or am I missing a point here?
Cheers
Indeed PR is just a gimmick now but it a useful metrics to show advertisers and the such.
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Awesome list of tools here A+
i just newbie in SEO, this lists very useful for me, thanks
You missed SpyderMate… great tool that’s totally free.
http://spydermate.com
cheers chuck will add it in the next revision
Very comprehensive list! Although I’m not really a fond of that PageRank Prediction tools. It gave me hope so many times only to find that it never happened
Awesome list. I’m sure this could get you some social bookmarking traffic. Which brings me to the point why you haven’t got a digg this plugin on your blog?
Cheers, glad you found the list useful…re: the digg button I figured a ’social’ person from digg etc would have the toolbar and wouldn’t use the button …though I may reintroduce them later on