Free SEO Tools to Help You Optimize Your Website

Our free SEO tools allow you to create meta tags, perform keyword research, and spy on competitors with competitive research tools and link analysis tools. We offer neatly categorized links to best of breed professional level tools.

Try Our Top 3 SEO Tools:

1. Seo Book Keyword Suggestion Tool: think of it as a meta keyword tool that allows you to access a wide array of keyword research tools. Offers a convenient data export option.
2. Rank Checker - the most popular rank checking application on the web, helping you track your rankings.
3. SEO for Firefox: the number 1 competitive research tool in the SEO market.

Most of our tools are open source. Open source is good karma. Without it, I wouldn't have been able to afford this server, building this site, and marketing it well enough to help you find it. :)

Google & SEO Friendly Page Titles

Tips on Page Titles

* Google shows the first 60 to 70 characters in the search results. Make sure your important keywords occur early in the page title for scan-ability. If your title goes beyond 70 characters Google may cut off the title before 69 characters and display ... at the end of your page title.
* Rather than making your page title just the keyword and/or starting your page title with the keyword, sometimes it helps to add in a descriptive modifier before your core keyword. This helps ensure your page is less likely to get filtered out of the search results (and thus makes your rankings more stable) while helping you rank for additional terms.
* Page titles are used to draw in clicks from search results amongst many anonymous competing offers, thus they present an opportunity to differentiate yourself from the competition and qualify prospects to your offer.
* Good titles evoke an emotional response, ask a question, or promise something (that the landing page fulfills).
* Since the page title is one of the few elements search engines can show searchers before sending them to your site, they place significant weight on the words in the page title. In addition, some people link to pages using their official page title as the link anchor text.
* Overlapping modifiers in a reasonable and readable way allows you improve your relevancy scores for an array of keywords, but they still need to read well. Rather than loading up page titles with a keyword list it is better to write a clear compelling offer that contains your keywords and describes your services.
* Qualifying the wrong prospective clients with a bad offer will lead to a low conversion rate, or wasting time servicing non-clients. For example, if you sell something that is high end you wouldn't necessarily want to rank for your keyword with modifiers like cheap and discount, as servicing those people will waste your time.
* Page titles should be differentiated from page to page on your site. Unless limited by the size and scope of your site, it is best not to have all your page titles follow the exact same formula across your site. You also should not use the same keyword at or near the start of every page title.
* The format, order, and word selection of the words in your page title should be (at least slightly) different than the words in your meta description and on page headers.
* If you have a strong brand you may want to place it at the end of your page title. If you have one of the leading trusted Internet brands (Amazon, eBay, etc.) then it might make sense to place your brand at the start of the page title. In most cases the page title should still be more focused on the page copy and searcher's intent than on your brand.
* If you blog or are creating linkbait make sure you try to create headlines that draw clicks by using magnetic headline principals.

Google Gives Search Volume Data With Keyword Tool

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of decent keyword tools out there. Give 'em one or more terms, and they'll spit back a number of related phrases for which you should optimize. Only now Google's giving search volume data along with traditional Keyword Tool responses.

Real numbers, in addition to rough illustrations, will show up so long as you disable your ad-blocking software. (Adblock Plus people and/or Googlers might want to look into that.) The abbreviation "Approx" also appears, which is a little bit disheartening.














On the Inside AdWords blog, however, Trevor Claiborne states, "These approximate numbers are intended to provide better insight into keywords' monthly and average search volumes than previously provided by the tool."

If this proves to be the case - we'd recommend doing a little testing - most keyword tools that don't come from Mountain View will be of comparatively little use. Webmasters and SEOs who stick with the old favorites may find themselves at a competitive disadvantage.

Claiborne adds, "Remember, the Keyword Tool also provides several other keyword-related metrics that can help you select highly relevant keywords to improve the overall performance of your campaigns. You can easily view data on advertiser competition, search volume trends, estimated average CPCs, and estimated ad positions for keywords."


By Doug Caverly

Six Ways of Increasing Your Google Page Rank

There are several ways you can increase Google page rank - several techniques can be used to get that highly coveted #1 spot in Google search. But first, what is page rank?

The Google page rank tells you how important a website is. It tells you how many sites are linked to another website. Page rank is denoted by the number 0 to 10 and the higher the number, the more important the site is.

The algorithm used by Google to compute the site page rank is highly confidential but we already have an idea on the different factors that they count. Some say it is the website link popularity that matters most. Others say content is also a big factor. There are others still who say that it's not simply the number of links that matters but also the relevancy of each link. For example, if your niche is "music production" and the links to your site comes from real estate site, you might not get a high page rank from Google because your links are not relevant.

Now that you understand what page rank is, let's discuss: how do you increase page rank?

There are a number of ways but here are several of them. First, you can join forums related to your niche. Make sure to put your own signature that has a link to your site. This way, every post you make is counted as a separate link and can help increase you website's link popularity. This also helps build your presence on the web - the more people who sees your site, the greater your chances are of having a regular stream of visitors.

Second, submit your site to directories. This is a good move as most of these directory submission sites are free. Third, you can also create articles and submit them to article directories. You can be a guest writer at a high traffic site and have a resource box at the end promoting your website.

Another method you can use to bring in targeted traffic is to buy text links from sites, which has a high number of visitors. This way, when people see the link embedded on an article, get curious, and clicks on the link, you get visitors redirected to your site! The more web text link you buy from a site, the greater your website link popularity will be! Sure, some of the visitors you receive might not purchase from your site, but the greater number of visitors to your site increases the chances of having a successful sale! Aside from this, once you build your authority on the web, this time it is the other sites, which will by web text link from you!

So you see, to increase page rank means you open new options for your site to earn income. It also allows you greater freedom since you can build high website link popularity from your home. If you own a site and do not have the time to do this yourself, there are Internet marketing professionals who can do it for you. No matter what you choose, only one thing remains - increase Google page rank and you increase your income.

by T. Allen

Google Trends For Websites Introduced

People working at traffic measurement companies are probably less than happy right now. With the introduction of Google Trends for Websites, a certain search giant is invading their niche.

Like most of Google's tools, Google Trends for Websites is free. Like some of them, it's interesting. Sign in, type a site's address (or more than one address, if you want), and you'll get to see a graph representing its daily unique visitor count over a period of time. Sites those people "also visited" and "also searched for" are listed, along with proportional traffic bars, as well.

This appears to present all sorts of opportunities for competitor research, ally-making, and general site-to-site comparisons. What keeps the tool from being "interesting" as opposed to "remarkable," then (and keeps us from thinking about bankruptcy in connection with Alexa, Compete, and the like) is that it remains to be seen how accurate Google's data is.

On the Webmaster Central Blog, R.J. Pittman writes, "Keep in mind that Trends for Websites is a Google Labs product and that we are experimenting with ways to improve the quality of the data. Because data is estimated and aggregated over a variety of sources, it may not match the other data sources you rely on for web traffic information."

Still, we feel fairly sure that a lot of people have just found a new way to spend the impending weekend.

By Doug Caverly

Google Gives Search Volume Data With Keyword Tool

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of decent keyword tools out there. Give 'em one or more terms, and they'll spit back a number of related phrases for which you should optimize. Only now Google's giving search volume data along with traditional Keyword Tool responses.

Real numbers, in addition to rough illustrations, will show up so long as you disable your ad-blocking software. (Adblock Plus people and/or Googlers might want to look into that.) The abbreviation "Approx" also appears, which is a little bit disheartening.













On the Inside AdWords blog, however, Trevor Claiborne states, "These approximate numbers are intended to provide better insight into keywords' monthly and average search volumes than previously provided by the tool."

If this proves to be the case - we'd recommend doing a little testing - most keyword tools that don't come from Mountain View will be of comparatively little use. Webmasters and SEOs who stick with the old favorites may find themselves at a competitive disadvantage.

Claiborne adds, "Remember, the Keyword Tool also provides several other keyword-related metrics that can help you select highly relevant keywords to improve the overall performance of your campaigns. You can easily view data on advertiser competition, search volume trends, estimated average CPCs, and estimated ad positions for keywords."

By Doug Caverly