Ultimate List of free SEO tools to use for helping you rank your website!

Ultimate List of free SEO tools to use for helping you
rank your website!

1. Screaming Frog

What it does: Crawls a URL and diagnoses a number of technical issues

Tool type: Desktop app

Link: http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

2. Google – Search Console

What it does: Helps with almost everything you need as an SEO

Tool type: Website

Link: rel=”nofollow” https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en

3. SEO Site Checkup

What it does: An entire suite of valuable free SEO tools

Tool type: Website

Link: http://seositecheckup.com/tools

4. Google – Analytics

What it does: Checks referral traffic, organic traffic, etc

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.google.com/analytics

5. Mozbar – Canonical Check

What it does: Checks canonicalization of a web page

Tool type: Browser plug-in

Link: http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

6. Majestic SEO

What it does: Checks citation flow, trust flow, backlink analyzer

Tool type: Browser plug-in

Link: http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

7. Yext

What it does: Checks for local citation duplicates

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.yext.com

8. HTTP Response Checker

What it does: Bulk HTTP response code test, includes which URL they are redirected to

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/tools/bu...header-compare

9. Moz – Google Algorithm Updates

What it does: The best tracker of Google’s algorithm updates + explanations

Tool type: Blog post

Link: http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change

10. Search Latte

What it does: Checks the international SERPS

Tool type: Website

Link: http://searchlatte.com

11. SEO Site Checkup

What it does: Checks IP redirects to help solve duplicate content problems

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.seositecheckup.com

12. Mozbar – Keyword checker

What it does: Checks keyword density and other on page factors

Tool type: Browser Plug-In

Link: http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

13. Open Link Profiler

What it does: Checks backlinks of a website

Tool type: Website

Link: http://openlinkprofiler.org

14. BuzzStream – Data Extractor

What it does: Checks meta description, title tag and keywords of a page

Tool type: Website

Link: http://tools.buzzstream.com/meta-tag-extractor

15. SEO Browser

What it does: Checks a website page from a search engine’s point of view

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.seo-browser.com

16. Google – Page Speed Test

What it does: Checks to see the technical issues holding page optimal page load times

Tool type: Website

Link: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed

17. SEO Mofo – Snippet Optimizer

What it does: Helps to optimize SERP CTR by showing you page title, metas, etc

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.seomofo.com/snippet-optimizer.html

18. SEO SERP – Position Tracker (Multiple Sites)

What it does: Checks multiple sites for keyword rankings

Tool type: Chrome Browser Extension

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...apbmdddddioklg

19. Google – Rich Snippet Tester

What it does: Tests URLs to tell if they’re showing rich snippets in SERPs

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

20. Motoricerca – Robots.txt Tester

What it does: Tests Robots.txt file

Tool type: Website

Link: http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml

21. BROWSEO

What it does: Views any webpage without distractions caused by styles, highlights parts of a page that are relevant for SEO

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.browseo.net

22. SERP Metrics

What it does: Checks search engine fluctuations over time period

Tool type: Website

Link: http://api.serpmetrics.com/flux

23. StatCounter

What it does: Checks your website’s market share in the SERPs

Tool type: Website

Link: http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_en...-201107-201207

24. SEOBook – Rank Tracker

What it does: Tracks rankings of multiple keywords from a browser plug-in

Tool type: Browser Plug-In

Link: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker

25. SEO Tools – Cloak Checker

What it does: Detects whether a website uses “cloaking”

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.seotools.com/seo-cloaking-checker

26. Ontolo’s SERP Dominator

What it does: Checks the top 100 SERP results for the keywords you input

Tool type: Website

Link: http://ontolo.com/seo-serp-dominator

27. Google – Markup Help

What it does: Helps you create data markup for pages on your site (local business, reviews, etc)

Tool type: Website

Link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper

28. Schema.org

What it does: Helps you create schema markup for your website

Tool type: Website

Link: http://schema-creator.org

29. Distilled – Video Sitemap

What it does: Helps you create a video sitemap for your website

Tool type: Google doc

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...fY0hrQkE#gid=0

30. Geo Sitemap Generator

What it does: Helps you geberate a KML file to be used in multiple location SEO

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.geositemapgenerator.com

31. NO Follow Simple

What it does: Checks which links on a page are follow vs no follow

Tool type: Browser Plug-In

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...pdijmiid?hl=en

32. Ping-o-Matic

What it does: Pings URL to search engines to notify them to index the page

Tool type: Website

Link: http://pingomatic.com

33. Moz – Local Search Check

What it does: Aids in a number of local search tasks like citation and listing checks

Tool type: Website

Link: https://moz.com/local

34. XML Sitemap Validator

What it does: Checks the validity of your site’s XML sitemap

Tool type: Website

Link: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html

35. STAT Search Analytics

What it does: Checks the real time analytics of a website

Tool type: Website

Link: http://codex.getstat.com