SEO Tools

This is a continuously updated page that contains free and professional (later) tools for guidance in search engine optimization and some marketing.

Free SEO tools

My top picks

Overture - Keyword finder.

GoogleRankings - Checks your current rankings on Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live, Ask.com for certain keywords/phrases.

TouchGraph Google Browser - Finds related sites for a certain key-phrase in a visual format. (Very good way to find out which sites you “need” to get a link from or you should link to.)

Keyword finders

Google AdWords Keyword Tool External - Gives proportions between search requests for certain keywords, shows related keywords, and can help with PPC advertising.

Google SandBox - Gives actual daily clicks.

Overture - Gives actual numbers of search requests for certain keywords and gives related keywords. (I prefer to use this to decide on what keywords I should optimize for. One irritating thing is that it will time out a lot — probably because of a lot of automated requests.)

SEO Book - Uses WordTracker’s estimates and provides a quick way to compare with other sources.

All-in-one SEO tools

SEO-Quake - Checks for links, pages, traffic, keyword density, etc. for the site you are currently browsing. (Download, FireFox Add-on)

SEO for FireFox Extension - Like the above put requests the info. will you are searching.

Link popularity checker

You should note that you can not check backlinks with MSN anymore because of the tons of automated requests they received — they say they’ll put this back up online once they find out another solution. Update: You can now check MSN backlinks — I wrote about it here.

Link Diagnosis - Useful for looking up anchor text.

Mikes-Marketing-Tools - Checks Google, Yahoo & MSN.

SEO Chat - Checks Google, Yahoo, MSN, Teoma/Ask. (Not very reliable.)

Spam-o-meter - Checks to see if a page seems like spam.