There is without a doubt a ludicrous number of SEO tools available online. This guide makes heads or tails of all the top free SEO analysis tools that we personally use, and recommend hands down. Disclaimer: some of the links below are affiliate links, however, we use these tools ourselves and therefore have no problem recommending them.
Raven Tools – An indispensable SEO analysis tool that offers more analytic capabilities and SEO research options than you can shake a stick at. Your first 30-days is free, after which time you can select from 3 (under-priced, IMO) plans that your competitors hope you don’t opt for. All kidding aside, Raven seamlessly incorporates SEO, social, backlink, and competitor data.
SEOmoz – Let moz’s strong set of SEO tools do the heavy lifting for you. This top-notch SEO software will crawl your site each week, notifying you about issues that might impact your performance. They also monitor rankings for all the keywords you care about on the search engines your audience uses (er, Google). Try to not be impressed after your 30-day free trial is up, I dare you! SEOmoz has an almost legendary status in the SEO community…find out why!
SEO Book – Aaron Wall. Need we say any more? I personally over-use the free SEO Toolbar. The Rank Checker and SEO for Firefox are great little gems as well. Don’t think twice, just download it (it’s that good)!
Header Checker & Keyword Density Tool – We Build Pages does a nice job incorporating these two tools which are great for making sure your site has proper header data and ensuring you’re not stuffing your site with too many keywords.
Class C Checker – Check whether your sites (or sites that are linking to yours) are hosted on the same Class C IP Range. Google frowns upon owners with multiple sites who take advantage of black-hat linking strategies. Keep in mind, Google can also read WHOIS data to see if sites are owned by the same people.
Recommended Web Hosting Companies:
DreamHost
WestHost
Resources:
Gravity Forms – Intelligent form solution great for increasing conversions and managing data
Scribe SEO
