There are so many tools for SEO online and websites that offer these tools to run reports and analyse websites for SEO purposes. But which tools and websites do you choose? Here is a list of the top 5 online tools that you can use to analyse your website using your browser.
This is a great tool for keyword research showing search volume, trends and competition. This tool is made for PPC but the keywords have a lot of crossover and the search volume and trends will be the same for SEO as they are for PPC. The competition stat will be a good indicator of market competition for SEO results. This tool also suggests new keywords that you may not have thought of. This tool uses keywords you enter to generate keywords and stats or it can pull them from a websites URL. This tool is a must for anybody that participates in SEO.
Backlinkwatch is a tool that shows all websites linking to a URL that you enter. This is a great tool for analysis of your websites link portfolio. It gives anchor text for the links, out bound link numbers for the pages you have links on and also informs you if the links are no followed. This tool is also great for competitor research as you can analyse your competitions link portfolio and see where they are getting most of their links and assess if it is worth competing in that area.
this tool checks web pages and gives the header status that they return. This is a good tool to use if you want to check your search friendly redirects or to check if a page is giving a 404 error. If your headers are temporary then the links for the original page will stay pointing to that page but if you change your redirect to a search friendly redirect or a 301 status then all the value from the original page will be passed on to the new page along with the links.
This tool shows you how search engines see your website. This can be used to see if your keywords are showing and also if search engines can follow your links. This tool also shows your meta description which has a big influence on your click through rates from the search results pages. If you have a description meta tag and it does not show here then there is probably a problem with your source code.
This is a new tool to me, but with Google stating that page load speed is going to be a factor for rankings in 2010 this tool seems like a good tool to mention. This tool breaks down each part of your pages and shows how long this part takes to load. This tool helps identify areas of code that are slowing down your load speed. You can then work on decreasing the time that it takes to load that part of your page code.
If you can think of any tools that I have not included and think that they should be included please mention them in the comments.
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