7 Free Software Tools That Save You Time With SEO

Try as you might to avoid it, SEO is an important part of any online businesses marketing arsenal. Think of it this way, if you had a high street store you would want to place it where there was maximum passing trade, right? The same goes online, you want your website to be seen, and that means playing the Search Engine game.

How can we productively keep our SEO hand in, and monitor progress, without it taking over all our time? Enter our friends automation and software tools!

I have only recently started seriously getting back into the search area so let me know of your favorite tools in the comments, I am eager to hear what you recommend! I’m focusing here on online or cross-platform tools seeing as I am a mac user and most desktop tools seem PC based :(

On with the tools …

  1. Google Webmaster Central - If you are looking at improving your search engine performance you might as well go to the source!

    Get diagnostic information to see if you are causing spiders crawling problems, and see where you rank and for what.
  2. Website Grader - Get your site analyzed and see where you are going wrong and what you are doing right.

  3. WordTracker - Find the keywords people are using in your niche.
  4. 103Bees - Find the phrases people are finding you with. Great for those long tail searches.
  5. SEO for Firefox - See detailed stats for any page, such as how many links it has pointed to it, all the way through to how old the site is. In fact, check out the rest of the tools at Aaron’s site while you are at it!
  6. Sheer SEO tool - Funny name but very useful. See your ranking progress over time

  7. Link Diagnosis - Find who is linking to your competitors.

Those were my 7 selected tools, which do you use and why? Please share in the comments …

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
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2 Responses to “7 Free Software Tools That Save You Time With SEO”

  1. Establish the Blog SEO Basics : The Blog Herald on April 2nd, 2008 3:30 pm

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  2. CoryMathews on April 28th, 2009 10:21 am

    Great list, I have not heard of many of these.

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