THE BEST SEO & Webmaster Tools – Free Marketing Tools

More SEO & Webmaster Tools

Overview: This section includes links to additional SEO tools and other tools useful to webmasters.

Social Stuff

• Industry conference calendar – keep up to date with the latest happenings in search
• SEO Blogs – there are a wide array of SEO related blogs. Lee Odden has a list of over 400 here.
• SEO Forums – more noisy than blogs, but it doesn’t cost anything but time to read
• SEO Glossary – understand all the jargon seasoned SEOs are using on blogs and forums

Technical Tools

• Robots.txt Primer – learn all about robots.txt files.
• Robots.txt Generator – create a robots.txt file.
• Robots.txt Analyzer – analyze your robots.txt file.
• Aweber – autoresponder and newsletter management
• Firefox Extensions – dress up your browser
• .htaccess tips – free information on how to use .htaccess to redirect pages or rewrite URLs
• ISAPI rewrite – URL manipulation tool for Microsoft IIS servers
• Meta Tag Generator – Free tips for creating your meta tag. Offers a javascript tool for generating xhtml compliant meta tags.
• Server Header Checker – check server response
• Spider Test Tool – shows the page size, source code, meta tags, page title, textual copy of the page, keyword breakdown by density (including 2 and 3 word phrases), number of words, number of unique words, and outbound links on a page. grab the source code
• XML Sitemaps – makes free Google sitemaps for sites up to 500 pages in size. Sells a cheap and useful script to build sitemaps for larger site sizes.

Tools from Search Engines & Other Sites Offering a Variety of Great SEO Tools

• Google Webmaster Central – allows you to sign up for Google Sitemaps, shows some crawling errors, and a more complete view of your backlinks.
• SeoCompany – mostly lists tools from other sites, but lists over 100 of them
• SEOMoz – has about a dozen tools. Some require membership, others do not.
• WeBuildPages – has about a dozen and a half free tools.
• Yahoo! Site Explorer – allows you to see what pages you have indexed as well as the backlinks to those pages

Other Useful Webmaster Tools

• Adobe Photoshop – image editing software
• Camtasia – video making software
• Carbonite – web based desktop backup tool available by subscription
• ClipMate – extend your IE clipboard
• Constant Contact – email marketing service
• Dreamweaver – HTML editing software with a built in FTP program
• Firefox – a popular extensible browser
• iDevAffiliate – the affiliate software powering the SeoBook affiliate program
• Macro Express – automate frequently performed tasks
• Roboform – store your passwords
• SnagIt – paid screen capture software
• Themespress – create a WordPress theme from a regular site design for only $10
• Google Docs – like Microsoft Office, but free, collaborative, and web based.
• WordPress.org – free open source blogging software

Our Free Link Analysis Tools

Back Link Analyzer

Back Link Analyzer – free Windows based downloadable software.

Link Harvester – allows you to deeply query the Yahoo! database and gives a good amount of link details.

• web based
• really fast
• makes sorting out duplicate links from the same site easy, which allows you to quickly and deeply query the Yahoo! backlink database.
• does not give anchor text
• gives breakdowns of .edu links and number of C block IP addresses, etc.
• open source: grab the source code!

Hub Finder

Hub Finder – finds topically related pages by looking at link co-citation. post about tool

• web based
• really fast
• makes finding hub pages easy
• open source: grab the source code!

Other Link Analysis Tools We Offer

• Web Directories Reviewed – editorial post about what directories are the most valuable from an SEO perspective.
• Reciprocal Link Checker – script to help you automate finding out if your reciprocal link partners are still linking back at your site. grab the source code
• Link Suggest Tool – list of words and phrases like add URL, directory, ezine, etc. where you may be able to add links or buy ads. grab the source code
• Link Popularity Comparison Tool – allows you to quickly and easily compare your link popularity scores to other websites. grab the source code
• Internal PageRank flow Calculator – allows you to see how your internal link structure flows PageRank throughout your site. grab the source code

Link Research From the Search Engines

• Yahoo! Site Explorer – allows you to see what pages you have indexed as well as the backlinks to those pages
• Google Webmaster Central – allows you to sign up for Google Sitemaps, shows some crawling errors, broken links, and a fairly comprehensive view of your backlinks. You can also add anchor text checking to Google Webmaster Central by using this free Greasemonkey script.

Other Free Link Analysis Tools

• Xenu Link Sleuth – Downloadable software which makes it fast and easy to find broken links on your site.
• Top 10 analysis tool – shows how your site’s age and backlinks compare to the top 10 ranked sites
• NeatO Tool – shows backlinks and anchor text used in the backlinks
• Backlink Watch – shows backlinks and anchor text used in the backlinks

Paid Backlink Analysis Tools

• LinkScape – similar to Majestic SEO, with a few more features, but limits your search depth to 500 results.
• Majestic SEO – link anchor index that allows you to download the link profile for any site.

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