Resources & Tools
This page provides you with a list of free and paid SEO tools that you can use to find search engine related information about your site such as
your site rank for a given keyword and also information about your competitors such as the keywords that bring them traffic or their backlinks strategy.
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General SEO Tools
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# Alexa - Provides free traffic metrics for competing websites as well as site demographics.
# Quantcast - Provides a service of measurement that you can use to quantify the type of audience that you need to target and drive to your site. They offer free and paid services.
# MSN Ad Center - Comprehensive list of tools offered by Miscrosoft ad center website.
# Google Trends for Websites - This is a free tool offered by Google. It tells you how often a given keyword has been entered in a particular region of the world and for different languages.
# Google Search Insights - This is a tool offered by Google and that is similar to the Google Trends tool, however this service will provide visual results using graphics and maps.
# DomainTools - Offers free Whois data and also tells you the number of times a domain name has changed owner.
# Compete.com - Provides traffic and engagement metrics for any competing website and offer a paid analytic tool that is useful and very affordable.
# Archive.org - This is a non-profit organization that has collected over 150 billions pages over the years and allows you to see how a website used to look in the past.
# SearchStatus - This is a plugin for Firefox and SeaMonkey that provides website performing parameters such as the Alexa rank, Pagerank and also backlinks information.
# Google webmaster - Webmaster tools offered by Google.
# SEO Browser - Take a look at your site the same way the search engine see it.
# Copyscape - Look for duplicate content and find out if any of your site content has been stolen.
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Keyword Suggestion/Evaluation Tools
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# Wordtracker Free Keywords - Wordtracker provides a free and a paid keyword suggestion tool. They also sell keyword reports
# Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool - This Google tool will recommend a list keywords based on a keyword or URL. It allows you to use their synonyms database as well (very useful).
# Keyword Discovery - Tool provided by Trellian as a free and paid (more advanced) version. Both version provide a comprehensive list of keywords along with traffic related information.
# WordStream Keyword Tool - Free tool, allowing you to generate and export thousands of keywords.
# Wordze - Paid tools - Wordze provides a long list of useful keyword tool that will let you generate keywords as well as analyze your competitors keywords.
# Microsoft Keyword Forecast - This is a keyword tool finder offered by the Microsoft Ad center that will provide predictions as well as demographics related information.
# Google Search Based Keyword Tool - This Google tool provides keyword ideas based on search queries.
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Google Traffic Estimator - This free tool from Google will help you quickly generate an estimate of traffic volume for all your keywords. It will also show you the estimated bids prices and potential clicks that you would receive if you were the top ranked ad.
# Keyword density - Tool providing a comprehensive keyword density analysis.
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SEO Competitive Research Tools
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# SEMRush - This site is offering a service for competitors research. It will reveal Google organic and AdWords keywords for any site.
# Compete.com Search Analytics - Tool that will let you find the keywords that your competitors are using to get most of their traffic.
# SEOMoz Trifecta - (Paid tool) Estimates the strength of a site based on the number of backlinks, pagerank and traffic received
# Hitwise - Tool similar to compete, will provide more comprehensive results, however is much more expensive.
# SpyderMate - Free tool, will crawl a site and provides an onsite and offsite analysis.
# SpyFU - Tool allowing you to find keywords that your competitors are ranking for or keywords that they are buying for their Ad campaigns.
# IndexRank - Will tell you how your site compares to others in Google.
# URLTrends - Provides a detailed analysis of any website by looking at link popularity, search engine saturation, social bookmarks, keywords, incoming and outgoing links and user demographics.
# Treillian CI - List of tools to conduct competitive analysis at all possible levels.
# Keyword Density Analysis Tool - Allows you to find common words and phrases on any website.
# SEO for Firefox - Free Firefox plugin that will display directly on the search engine pages, below each search result a useful list of SEO parameters such as the pagerank, site age, or number of backlinks.
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SEO Links/Backlinks related tools
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# Majestic SEO - Provides a backlinks tool finder. It allows you to get a very comprehensive link profile of any site and can include up to millions of links.
# LinkScape - This tool is similar to the backlinks tool offered by Majestic, however is limited to 500 results.
# SEO Link Analysis - This is a Firefox plugin that will provide a Pagerank and anchor text analysis of all inbound links for any website.
# Yahoo Site Explorer - This tool from Yahoo! allows you to get backlinks for any site and also the ability to get all the web pages indexed by Yahoo!
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