Are You Optimized? Here’s 5 Free SEO Tools
What is SEO?
The most basic definition of SEO (search engine optimization) would be; The use of various techniques to improve a web site’s ranking in the search engines and thus attract more visitors.
Here are 5 great tools you can use to help optimize your web site or blog. These tools will help you to see if your site is properly optimized, check your rankings, research your keywords and more. All of these tool are absolutely FREE!
1. Website Grader
This is one of my favorite tools and I use it frequently. This will give you a very detailed report on all SEO aspects of your site. Not only will you find out how well your site is optimized, but you’ll also get suggestions on how to make the necessary improvements.
This tool is very easy to use and all they require is your site URL and your email address. The email address is optional but you can have the detailed results mailed to you. If you desire, you can even enter a competing web site’s URL. Once the report is completed, (usually takes a couple of minutes) you’ll be presented with a report and a score. Give it a try at: Website Grader
2. Google Adwords Keyword Tool
You’ll be able to research your keywords with this tool. You can find out the average number of searches that are performed for any keywords or phrases. It will also recommend some alternative keywords and phrases.
When optimizing your site, you want to be certain that people are searching for your keywords. If nobody is searching for your keywords, you won’t get much traffic. This tool is very easy to use and you can find it here:Google Adwords Keyword Tool
3. Wordtracker
This is a great tool for researching keywords. With this tool, you are able to enter a keyword and get a list of related keywords and the number of daily searches.
Keep in mind that no keyword tool is perfect but using this tool along with the Google Adwords tool, will give you the best possible results. This tool is very easy to use so give it a try. You’ll find the the Wordtracker tool here: Wordtracker
4. Sitemap Generator
A sitemap contains links to all the pages on your site and this handy tool will generate a sitemap for you in either HTML or XML format. It is recommended that you have a sitemap so the search engines are able to find all the pages on your site.
This is another tool that’s simple to use. All you need to do is enter your site URL and click the start button. A sitemap will be generated and you can load it on your site. You can find this tool here: Sitemap Generator
5. Keyword Rank Checker
If you’re curious to know how your site is ranked by Google for a specific keyword or phrase, this tool will do the job. As you already know, most traffic comes from the first page of Google so it should always be your goal to try and get listed as high on the page as possible.
This tool will help you check your progress much faster than you could do it manually. To use this tool, all that is required is entering your site URL and the keywords you want to rank. You can also enter your competition’s URL and the rank checker will give you the position of your site in Google’s search as well as comparing it to your competitor’s. You can try it out here: Keyword Rank Checker
There are literally dozens of SEO tools available but I only listed 5 of what I feel are the best and most popular. I hope you find these useful for any of your online endeavors.
NOTE FROM JJ: This is a guest post that was written and submitted for me at momscashblog.com by my great blogging friend Robert Barry. I am sure you have all heard or read his blog http://successfulaffiliatemarketing.com. You must go to Robert’s site Successful Affiliate Marketing and check out his blog it is full of great information for the affiliate marketer or those thinking of getting involved in this niche. He answers and offers many new ideas regarding affiliate marketing. Visit this blog and YOU will be a successful affiliate marketer.
I want to thank Robert for this great guest post as I have been having a few medical problems, with either a pinched nerve in my neck/spine and have to stay off of the computer as much as I can. So I put out the SOS and Robert pulled through for me and I can’t thank him enough for this great guest post. Thanks so much friend!! jj
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Hope you feel better soon!
As for those tools, I already use them all. They’re very good and not to mention FREE. They do the same job as many paid tools do. Anyone that has a blog/site and is interested in making money from it, definitely needs to learn how to use these tools for SEO purposes.
TriNi
Thanks for this post…I have been looking for something like this for a very long time man thanks a lot…
Site optimization has become the need of every webmaster. If he is using the site for business purpose so it is very important thing to learn. Doing well, by sharing these useful and important techniques to optimizing the sites.
These are realy very nice tools for SEO work. Thanks for sharing this info with us. I am using these.
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All these tools are very much important tools for optimizing the site.These SEO Tools are really amazing.Google Adwords Keyword Tool is very much effective in all of these.
The big things to remember about SEO is your website has to be easy to read by a crawler, which is essentially a robot.
You want to make it as easy for the crawler as possible to find what your website is about.
For example, you should always include a link to your sitemap on the homepage. A sitemap is a collection of links to all the pages on your website. Don’t make your sitemap flash or silverlight, just ext, since crawlers can’t read flash or silverlight.
Having flash or silverlight is still okay, as long as you also have text links.
To help google image search find you, all your images should have alternate text (the text that shows when you move your cursor on it, or if the image doesn’t load)
Another thing: All links to other websites should be relevant. If you link to a website that’s completely different than your own, add the nofollow tag before doing so.
Google loves fresh content. Having a blog that you regularly update, and updating your general website content frequently helps you attain a high google ranking.
And lastly, make your pages easy to load. Speed is now taken into account by the crawler, and if your webpage takes an excessively long time to load, that can hurt your ranking.
Some tools are new for me and i never used that. Here i came to know the importance of the tools. These tools would be very helpful to understand the need of seo of our site.
thanks great ifo
@TriNi, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. Glad to hear that you are already in the know and you are so “right” these are all free and do maybe even a better job than anything that you could or can buy. I’m going over to your blog right now and check out your latest post – so thanks again for coming by and leaving a comment and visiting my blog. I thought that my Guest Writer Robert has some very good ideas and everyone should check out his blog also.
@ all others, I want to thank all of you for stopping by my blog and taking the time to leave a comment. I will get to all of your sites sometime next week and leave a comment. jj
Your guest poster did a great job. I had not heard of several of these SEO tools.
JJ hope you are feeling better soon. Thanks for all of your comments.
@M.M.Daniels, Yes Robert from http://successaffiliatemarketing.com is a great blogger with lots of information to give out to one and all. I’ve enjoyed getting to know Robert and he really knows what he writes about. The SEO tools that he has posted here are great tools to work with. Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment I really appreciate it and hope to see you back again. jj
Thank you for all the great posts from last year! I always get great information from your blog. God bless you this 2010.
@Pennsylvaniapersonalinjurylawyer, Thanks so much for the compliment and glad that you get some good info from my blog. This guest post was a very good one with very useful tools that are free and during these economic hard times free is good ! So during this new year make sure that you return for more great information and thanks for leaving a comment it is always appreciated. And to your success for 2010!
Robert from http://successaffiliatemarketing.com provided information in an easy to understand format – definitely a great guest post.
Wanted to also mention that ‘Electric under floor heating’ deserves some recognition for addressing very important points necessary for good website SEO.
Its really great article. I appreciate it a lot.
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Great information JJ – I get side track from time to time and forget the basic fundamentals like seo and keyword research. I’m happy everything back up as well
Great resource…bookmarked (and passed the link on to a friend).
It’s amazing how much work it takes to operate a web site, so tools like these are essential.
GiraffePrintHandbags: So glad to see you here again, and you are so right it is amazing how much work it takes to run a website/blog. It also seems like there is something new to learn every day & to keep up with everything also takes lots of work/learning! Thanks for stopping by my blog and thanks for the comment. jj P.S. thanks for passing to a friend.
i am optimized for get visitor with SEO tools.
Awesome post! The rank checker is what I have been looking for a long time now. Thanks a lot for sharing I needed it.
esop, so glad that you enjoyed the post, and that you got some useful info. from it. That was a guest post and Robert is a whiz when it comes to SEO. Thanks so much for visiting my blog and leaving a comment, it is greatly appreciated. Please stop by again love having new people coming to the blog and enjoy hearing others comments or what is on their minds.
@diggpoints, glad that you are optimized with your SEO tools, I think this was a great guest post and it has helped a lot of people. Thanks so much for visiting my blog and leaving a comment it is great to hear from other bloggers about what they think about our post and when you leave a comment it makes it even better for all of us. Thanks again for stopping by. jj
Great tools, I have to say that they are really useful when it comes to checking your site progress. Have you heard of backlinkwatch? I’m using that also to see my competitors backlinks.
from the 5th seo tools above, I use two. after reading your post maybe I’ll try the others too. success
I have read this blog.You have share great info and thanks for info
Many times in my Experience these tools are useless only SEO experience can optimize a perfect website
Just remember when using the google keyword research tool that it shows data from across the content network in its numbers. So if it says there is 300,000 searches per month on keyword X the reality is that the actual figure is some 75% smaller.
Bit basic, but not bad.
@seo Leeds, you know seo leads can sometime seem the most basic to one person, can mean a lot to someone else. I appreciate the thought you put into your comment and I hope you have your blog SEO therefore not needing the SEO tools. Come back again I appreciate your thoughtful comment. jj
This is my first time i visit here. I found so many interesting stuff in your blog, especially its discussion. From the tons of comments on your posts, I guess I am not the only one having all the leisure here! Keep up the good work.
@TejKohli, Thank you so much for your kind words about my blog, I really appreciate it! Since it’s your first time here, please sign up for my RSS if you don’t mind. That way you will know whenever I put a new post out, and you can come over. I’m going to check out your blog for sure, I wish you lots of success with your blogging and hope you make lots of money. jj
@surgicalsuture, thanks for stopping at my blog I hope that you will be back again and I’m glad that you found some interesting info. and yes I will have to agree the discussions or comments are always good to read. Since this is your first time here, I would suggest that you sign up for my RSS… then you will know the next time I publish a post. Thanks again for your visit and comment. jj
Having frequently updated content on your blog is a great method. As long as it is good information your customers will keep coming back.
Great post!!
Just started out – and trying to learn SEO from scratch! found it very difficult but this article has certainly helped.
Thanks