SEO
The Best SEO Tools
SEO
stands for search engine optimization. It is the process of
designing the web site in such a way that it would be able to attract
search engine spiders and improve a site’s ranking. This article
provides links to the best SEO Tools found on the Internet. It will
help you to find out how to optimize your website, what you should use
to improve the quality of backlinks, what keywords you should use
on your web-pages, and how to move up your position in search engines.
Ranking Tools
Google Ranking Tools
Advanced Google Search Methods
- this is a tool is to search Google in many special ways. A useful
resource for search engine optimization (especially keyword research)
among other things.
Google Datacenter Watch Tool
is a tool that lets you do a search on Google at all the different
datacentres. Note, that at this time there are 700+ known
Datacenters.
Google Rank Position shows Google rank position, PR, number of entries indexed, DMOZ and Google Dir status.
Google Rankings check the ranking of a web page in Google.
Yahoo Ranking Tools
Yahoo Search Rankings is a free online SEO tool to check the position of your website in the search engine of Yahoo.
Alexa Tools
Alexa Page Ranking
allows you to cut and paste a number of domains. Get the 3 month Alexa
Ranking. If you want to check Alexa Ranking for a number of sites, you
can browse your harddrive and provide a list of domains.
Alexa Rank Check
is a tool that let you check the Alexa Rank and Google PageRank for up
to 10 websites in one go - perfectly for site comparisons. Please note
that the best possible Alexa Rank is 1 and the best possible Google
Pagerank is 10
Alexa Ranking
Find out how your web site traffic stacks up against all your
competitors! This is one of the most accurate freely available tools to
find out how well your site ranks up against millions of other sites on
the Web.
Alexa Related Rank Check tool to check several Alexa ratings at once. This could be useful when checking out your competition.
Page Rank Tools
Datacenter Quick Check checks all Google datacenters for BackLinks, PR and Ranking of keyword.
Future PageRank Tool
will query Google’s various data centers to check for any changes
in PageRank values for a given URL. Usually all data centers will
output the same, but if queried during an update, you might get a
glimpse of any upcoming changes in your chosen URL’s PageRank
value.
Page Rank Tool
will query and return the Google PageRank values for submitted URL from
various Google datacenters. Usually all returned values are the same,
but when there’s an update going on, you will be able to watch
out your Page Ranks closely.
Compare Search Engine Ranking Tools
Dogpile Search Comparison gives you the top results from Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
Google vs Yahoo Graph
looks at the results from Yahoo and Google, finds the similarities and
then gives you a graphical display of what results are in both search
engines. This illustrates that optimizing your site for both engines is
not a very easy thing to do, but not impossible.
Google-Yahoo-Ask Search search engines differ more than you think. Compare Google, Yahoo, and MSN with one search.
Myriad Search
is a search engine that combines Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask Jeeves in
one screen. You can modify the individual influence of each search
engine in the results.
Thumbshots Ranking is a fun way to learn about search engines and optimizing a site’s ranking.
Yahoo vs Google compares top 100 search results from Google and Yahoo!
Combo Search Engine Ranking Tools
Search Engine Placement Check
is a verification tool that checks if your site is in the top three
pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword. It’s
important to be in the top 3 pages of a search result because most
people using search engines don’t go past the 3rd page.
Search Engine Positioning
check your Search engine positioning (SERPS) on Yahoo, Google, All The
Web. MSN and Hotbot. Just enter your keyword/keyword phrase into the
“Keyword” submit box, then enter your URL into the field
labeled “Your URL” and specify the “Page Depth”
this variable tells the spider how far to go page wise before giving up
trying to find your rank. If you are not in the serps within
“X” specified pages then the message “There is no
information for your query” will come up. It doesn’t really
mean there is no information for your serps, it just means that you
don’t rank for that keyword within your specified page depth.
Search Engine Ranking Report Enter your own keywords (one phrase per line) and domain to find out where your domain ranks for a set of keyword searches.
Related Page Rank Tools
Backlink Checker
counts the Page Rank of your backlinks. To use it, just enter your URL
and Google API Key. If you don’t have an API Key, you can
fine one at www.google.com/apis. They are free and very easy to
get.
Google PageRank Calculator
- enter the “Number of Links From Each Page” that links to
the page in question to get a Page Rank estimation.
Google PageRank Prediction
attempts to determine a future Google PageRank value of a particular
site. The tools does several calculations to come to this figure.
Google PageRank Report checks the Google PageRank values for the list of URLs.
Multi DC PageRank Checker will query the varios Google Data Centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a website.
PageRank Lookup
allows you to check the Google PageRank values of multiple URLs at
once. A time-saver for keeping tabs on you and your competitors’
PR values.
PageRank Search
allows you to search Google using any keyword(s) you wish. It will then
return, in order of Google relevance, the sites associated with those
keywords. Each result displays a graphical bar with the PageRank of
that particular site.
Keyword Tools
Keyword Suggestion Tools
Free Meta Keywords Tool
analyzes the meta keywords of your competition. Use the tool to see
what keywords your competitors are embedding in their meta keywords
tags and then research these keywords using other freely available
tools including the Overture keyword suggestion tool, WordTracker and
Keyword Discovery.
Google Adwords Keyword Tool - use it to get new keyword ideas. Pick one of the tabs below and enter keywords or URLs that are relevant to your business.
Google Keyword Suggestions
helps you choose relevant and popular terms related to your selected
key term. Simply enter a key term and this tool will query information
from several Google searches, which it will use to determine popular
and re-occurring terms used by websites in the same industry.
Google Suggest - as you type, Google will offer suggestions. Use the arrow keys to navigate the results.
Keyword Popularity Tool
gives similar data, including search figures from the previous
month. It also adds statistics for average searches per hour,
day, week, projected figures for the next 12 months and then also a
figure to see how searches may look in 3 years from now.
Keyword Research Tool
helps you research appropriate words and phrases to include in your
webpage’s body text to aid in promotion. Simply enter the sort of
word of phrase you wish to be found under, and the tool will suggest
some additional words and phrases you can think about using.
Keyword Suggestion Tool
is a handy little tool will show you the results of your query from
both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are
searched most often. Enter a search phrase below to see how often
it’s searched for, as well as get suggestions for alternate (but
similar) keywords.
Search Term Research is an invaluable research tool that will tell you what users are searching for and help you find the right keywords to target.
Website Keyword Suggestions tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates.
Keyword Tools
GoogleDuel Original
a popularity contest using the Google search engine. Enter two words,
names, or phrases, and find out which one occurs on more pages on the
web. For example, try cat vs dog.
Keyword Density
is useful for helping webmasters and SEOs achieve their optimum keyword
density for a set of key terms. It will analyze your chosen URL and
return a table of keyword density values for one-, two-, or three-word
key terms. In an attempt to mimic the function of search engine
spiders, it will filter out common stop words (since these will
probably be ignored by search engines).
Keyword Density Analyzer
will crawl the given URL, extracting text as a search engine spider
would. It then removes common stopwords (and calculates what percentage
of the total text is stopwords) and analyzes the keyword density of the
one word, two word and three word keywords the the text. This tool also
calculates the noun density and the verb density, that is; the ratio of
the total number of nouns or verbs on the page to the total number of
words.
Keyword Density Analyzer is a keyword density and word depth calculator.
Keyword Density Analyzer
is important since search engines use this information to determine the
theme of your website, the perfect keyword density will help archive
higher search engine positions. This tool is useful for helping
webmasters achieve optimum keyword distribution.
Combined Keyword Suggestion Tools
Combine Words is a tool to create combinations of keywords for use in a Google AdWords
or Yahoo! Search Marketing Pay Per Click PPC campaign.
Domain Tools
DNS Report
is a test that provides comprehensive information about the specified
domain that may verify DNS ‘health’ or identify problems or
issues. Common uses: find problems with a domain, verify Mail Servers,
Query a specific DNS server.
Bad Neighborhood Checker checks link pages and reports if there are links to bad neighborhoods.
Browser Screen Resolution Checker shows what your web page looks like with the viewer’s monitor set to different screen resolutions.
C Class Backlink Analyzer Tool
investigates the links pointing to a website (backlinks), and groups
them according to the C-Class IP addresses they come from. For example,
if one backlink comes from 53.25.14.5 and another comes from
53.25.14.6, they would be grouped together. Backlinks coming from the
same C-Class IP are most likely hosted by the same company, which may
lower the site’s search engine ranking.
Class C Checker
allows you to check if some sites are hosted on the same Class C IP
Range. This Class C Checker may be used if you own several cross-linked
sites - it may be more efficient (for SEO purposes) to host
them on different Class C IP ranges (this is only an advice, not a must
do). And if you’re going to get new links from different sites -
check if they share the same class C IP range.
Domain Age Tool
displays the approximate age of a website on the Internet and allows
you to view how the website looked when it first started. It also helps
you find out the age of your competitor’s domains, older domains
may get a slight edge in Search Engine Rankings.
Domain Dossier investigates domains and IP addresses.
Domain Stats Tool
helps you get all kind of statistics of your competitor’s
domains. The statistics include Alexa Taffic Rank, Age of the domains,
Yahoo WebRank, Dmoz listings, count of backlinks and number of pages
indexed in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn etc. It will probably
help you figure out why some of your competitors are ranking better
than you.
HTML Header Viewer
shows the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with a HTTP
response. This can be useful if you need to know what cookies are being
set or where any re-directs are going to, along with other details such
as mime-type.
HTTP / HTTPS Header Check allows you to inspect the HTTP headers that the web server returns when requesting a URL. Works with HTTP and HTTPS URLs.
IP Address Report
check for a duplicate Class C block or Class C subnet IP address in a
list of websites, these can be either hosted affiliate and internet
marketing sites or potential reciprocal link exchange partners.
Redirects And HTTP Headers Checker
checks your server headers and the HTTP result codes it returns. It
will follow any redirects it finds along the way, whenever possible.
With this tool you can check to see how your server is redirecting and
if your server is returning 404 for URLs which do not exist.
Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker help you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly.
What Is My IP Address shows the IP of your computer or routers.
Link Tools
Exchange Link SEO Tools
Free Reciprocal Link Checker
with pagerank calculation and web thumbnails. Put your website or
weblog home page URL in the input box and a little spider will read the
html code and check for the broken links. The spider splits links in
two categories, internal, from the same host, and external, outgoing
link to different domains. Once you have put your start URL the bot
will visit your website and follow all links checking for their status.
When finish you will see a report showing all the bad links found, not
only 404 status.
One Way Link Verify generates a detailed report on many search engine-related factors for that page. Requires a Google API Key.
Online Free Reciprocal Link Checker
just input the link to search for (the link towards your site), and the
listing of the websites where you have done link trades. The spider
will crawl one by one each of this addresses looking for links towards
your website within your’s link partners html code. You must put
the exact address where your link should be found. The crawler
doesn’t follow links inside frames, javascript, flash or going
through server script.
Site Link Analyzer
analyzes a given web page and return a table of data containing columns
of outbound links and their associated anchor text. If a hyperlink is
represented by an image, the image’s alt attribute will be
included as the anchor text.
Link Popularity Tools
Link Popularity Checker
is one of the best ways to quantifiably and independently measure your
website’s online awareness and overall visibility. Simply put,
link popularity refers to the total number of links or
“votes” that a search engine has found for your website.
Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer will help you determine the backlinks of your website and link text used by your backlinks to Link to your wesbite.
Link Appeal
will calculate the desirability rating of having a link on the URL you
specify. This calculation includes factors such as PageRank, number of
outbound links and the overall percentage of links to html. It is
intended as a guideline for evaluating whether you should ask for a
link on a certain page or not.
Site Analysis Including Link Popularity
generates a complete site analysis e.g. amount of backlinks, indexed
sites, Google PageRank and also if your domain is listed in DMOZ and
Yahoo directory.
Link Popularity Checker
tells you how many websites are linking to yours. Website popularity is
an important factor in your search engine ranking. The more popular
your site is, the better it will be ranked on the search engines.
Link Popularity Tool
checks the number of pages that link to you in AlltheWeb, AltaVista,
Google, HotBot, MSN Search, and Yahoo!, as well as check for your
site’s presence in DMOZ and Zeal.
Link Popularity Checker and Link Quality Assessment is a tool to find out the necessary statistics on your links and your competitor’s links.
Link Popularity Check
using this script you can revise detailed statistics of backward links
for one domain in the most popular directories and search engines.
Backlink Tools
Backlink Check Tool is a tool is to check your backlinks and the anchor text used in those backlinks.
Toolbars
Google Toolbar For Firefox
add buttons to the toolbar to search your favorite sites.
Bookmark frequently visited pages and access them from anywhere. Search
smarter with instant suggestions. as you type in the search box. Share
web pages with friends via blog, email, or SMS. System requirements:
Windows XP/2000 SP3+, Mac OS X 10.2+, or Linux, Firefox 1.5+.
Google Toolbar For IE
Block annoying pop-ups. Fill out web forms with one click. Translate
pages into English instantly. Check your spelling in webmail messages,
and more. System requirements: Windows Vista/2000/XP, Internet
Explorer 6.0+.
Mozdev GoogleBar
project was initially created to address the widespread desire in the
mozilla community for the Google toolbar to support the Netscape 7,
Mozilla, and Firefox web browsers. In the past, the Google toolbar was
only available for IE on windows. While we are in no way affiliated
with Google inc, our current release emulates all of the basic search
functionality of the toolbar, allowing users to easily access almost
all of Google’s specialty searches (some of which are not yet
supported by the original Google toolbar!) from one convenient toolbar.
However, because the developer community for Firefox is so vibrant, we
have decided not to implement features found in other extensions (such
as form fill) or built into Firefox (such as the popup blocker). If you
are looking for AutoFill, you may find the AutoForm or AutoFill
extensions useful.
PR Toolbar Widget For Macintosh
requires Mac OS X 10.3 or higher. Internally it’s built with
JavaScript, PHP and AppleScript. Works for HTTP sites, does not work
(intentionally) for HTTPS, FTP, etc.
Search MSN Toolbar
helps you start a search from any Web page, see instant previews
of maps and more from any Web page, personalize your Web experience
with custom buttons. Requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
Yahoo Toolbar For Firefox
helps you make the Web a safer place - Pop-Up Blocker stops pop-ups in
their tracks. It allows to quickly search your bookmarks, from Toolbar
or Yahoo! Search. Personalized buttons get you to your most used sites
in 1 click. Built in Web Search helps you find whatever you want fast.
Yahoo! Mail alerts lets you know when you’ve got new mail.
Web Site Optimization Tools
Poodle Predictor
is a tool that attempts to give you an idea of how your site will show
up in the search-engine results, before it’s too late, and they
have already cached it. This helps you avoid making mistakes that will
either prevent your site from getting a decent listing, or will show a
useless description of you site in the search-engine results.
Advanced Meta Tag Generator provides you with fields for 19 different mata tags and generates the meta code for you.
Cache.it
not only searches and finds the cache pages; it also gives you a
graphic view of the results over a period of time (from the first day
of your research until now). Additionally, it shows you the site
pagerank.
Code to Text Calculator
- to avoid diluting your keyword relevancy you should design pages with
as little code bloat as possible. Check the percent of your page that
is comprised of text with this too.
Copyscape searches for copies of your page on the Web.
Google Banned Tool
uses two methods to check to see if a URL you enter is in the Google
database. Its a great way to check to see if you have been banned by
Google for various reasons. If your site is quite new, you may
also not show in the Google database. This tool is aimed towards
people who think that they have been punished.
Meta Tag Generator
generates a search engine friendly Head Tag for your web site. Keep
your meta tags free of information that only slows down a search engine
robot crawl.
Title and Meta Tag Generator
Create your sites meta tags instantly to help achieve higher search
engine ranking. Includes title tag, description, abstract, keyword, and
robot meta tags. You can read the Meta Tag Description page for an
explaination of the meta tags created by our meta tag generator.
Search Engine Spider Simulator
is a tool that simulates a Search Engine by displaying the contents of
a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it. It also displays
the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) by a Search Engine when
it visits the particular webpage.
Similar Page Checker
allows you to determine the percentage of similarity between two pages.
The exact percentage of similarity after with a search engine may
penalize you is not known, it varies from search engine to search
engine, Your aim should be to keep your page similarity as low as
possible.
Web Page Analyzer
will read the page you specify, and put it through a few basic tests to
see if qualifies as ’search-engine-friendly’ for the phrase
you specify. It then gives a report on the good, and the bad points of
the page in SEO terms.
Code Validation
Atom & RSS Feed Validator
is a validator for syndicated feeds. It works with RSS 0.90, 0.91,
0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. It also validates Atom feeds.
Despite its relatively simple nature, RSS is poorly implemented by many
tools. This validator is an attempt to codify the specification
(literally, to translate it into code) to make it easier to know when
you’re producing RSS correctly, and to help you fix it when
you’re not. The validator also supports the IETF standard Atom
format for syndicated feeds.
W3C Markup Validation Service
is a validator that checks the markup validity of Web documents in
HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific
content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets or to find broken
links, there are other validators and tools available.
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