My Top Five SEO tools

Written by Rebecca Zwar on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

If you’ve read my blog at all, you’ve probably noticed I like fun, free web tools.

Today, I’m going to give you my favorite SEO tools.

1. To start with, there’s SEO Book’s keyword research tool. You could pay for WordTracker, but if you aren’t going to use it regularly, then check out SEO Book. Very cool tool that compares your keyword results from Google, Yahoo and MSN. They actually pull from Wordtracker, so you get the best of both worlds.

2. LinkHarvester is a great tool, also from SEO Book, that allows you to do a little bit more in-depth link analysis. You can…

  • see almost every site that links to you
  • see how many pages of your site are indexed
  • see how many links are pointing to your specific pages
  • find out how many .gov and .edu incoming links you have
  • see if a particular site links to you more than 5 times (you’re just Mr. Popularity, aren’t you?)

3. Abakus Keyword Analyzer will check your site for keyword density. Search engines still look partially at how many times certain key words or phrases are mentioned on your site, as they tells them what your site is about. You may think your site revolves around a keyword, but you never actually mention it. Wouldn’t that be good to know?

4. Need an idea or two for a long-tail keyword to narrow down your focus? Check out HitTail. They have free and paid versions, and give you the “least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results.” This allows you to target what your clients may be looking for, and increase the effectiveness of your listings in the search engine.

5. Finally, there’s the SEO extension for Firefox, yet another tool by SEO Book. If you’re using Internet Explorer, than this one won’t help you. But if you use Firefox, check this one out.  It will highlight no-follow links, give you the Page Rank & Alexa rank, let you check keyword density, see meta tags without switching to the code view, and see backward links to the page you’re on. I recommend it.

 

Leave a Comment

« Want your own marketing commercial? | Home | Has your real estate blog hit the fan? »