Top Free Seo Tools:

I have put together a short list of some of the essential seo tools I use on daily bases. These tools should be critical to any webmaster and are absolutely free.

1. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a top analytics tool made available to everybody for free by Google. This analytics tool can give you detailed reports about traffic behavior, content visitation, funnel information and much, much more. It’s hard to find a site running without Google Analytics theses days.

2. Google Webmaster Tools

Webmaster Tool gives you a good view of what Google “sees” for your site including: crawling rate, crawling speed, backlinks, highest PageRank of your site and more. A must-have as a site owner. If you aren’t leveraging it, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

3. Yahoo Site Explorer

Useful to Webmasters with direct access to their site information (after being verified), and can help you assess competitors. Site Explorer is great for link research, but it can also be used to evaluate pages indexed within Yahoo. The “Explore” button allows you to see exactly how many links are pointed to deeper pages on the list, among other useful quick-check functionalities.

4. Rank Checker for Firfox by SeoBook.com

The Firefox Rank Checker extension allows you to easily check your website rankings in Google (US and international), Yahoo, and Microsoft Live search. Simply type in your URL and the keyword, you will get your rankings from three major search engines in seconds.

5. SEO for firefox by SeoBook.com

Seo for firefox is by far the most handy tool I’ve ever used. There is no other tool out there that could give you the amount of information that this tool does right from either the visited page or the search engine. Perfect for a quicky competitive overview. This tool just has it all. It will give you PageRank, cache date, domain age, backlinks in Yahoo, number of .edu links, the number of cached pages, and many other stats for any given page with a simple right click. The most amazing feature is that you can export your information directly from the SERPs to CSV.

6. Google AdWords

As a powerful keyword research tool, Google AdWords gives you data on monthly search volume, advertiser competition,  CPC and much more. It also does keywords suggestion which can be  extremely helpful in targeting the long tail keywords.