20 Free SEO Tools For Your Website

Regardless of your niche and what you use your website or blog for, SEO plays a huge role in getting your site noticed online. SEO though isn’t just optimizing your site by using some tricks and writing lots of content. There are also lots of free seo tools available online you can use to where your website stands, and what needs to be fixed or improved. Here is a list of 20 of what I think are some of the best free seo tools available.

1. Google Analytics

When it comes to analytic tools Google Analytics is the most widely used. If you’ve never used it before this free SEO tool provides you with detailed information on your sites performance. Everything from bounce rate, number of page views, length of visit, and even what browser and operating system is displayed. Sure there are other analytic tools you can pay for that might provide more detailed information, but who wants to pay for something when you can get it for free?

2. Google Alerts

This isn’t so much a free SEO tool but it’s something every website and blog owner should have. This tool allows you to receive alerts on new content based on the keywords you select. This can help you find sites to comment on, or help give you ideas for your own content. This is not to be used to copy or steal content from others, but it’s a good way to get ideas if you’re not sure what to write about.

3. Xenu Link Sleuth

Never heard of this free SEO tool before? Neither have I until recently. This is a tool you download and checks your website for any broken links as well as makes sure there valid and search engine friendly.

4. Google Webmaster Tools

When it comes to free SEO tools this is a must have. Adding your site to Google Webmaster tools can get it immediately indexed on Google’s search results. (24 hours or even less) This tool also helps you research your keyword visibility, website speed, internal linking, and click through rate.

5. Bing Webmaster Tools

It’s easy to forget about Bing considering how huge Google is. However Bing and Yahoo combined make up about 30% of the search market. Bing’s webmaster tool helps improve your ranking on Bing. (Like Google’s) It also gives you information on your contents performance, and content that’s been crawled and indexed.

6. XML Sitemap Generator

Creating an XML site map is another way you can get your content indexed by the search engines. This free tool lets you create a detailed sitemap without the hassle. Simply enter your URL and some optional information and it create a free XML site map up to 500 pages. You can also manually or automatically adjust the priority of the pages for more control.

7. Spider Test Simulator Tool

Spider test allows you to view a site the way a spider would. It shows the source code of a page and identifies all the outbound links, provides cached copies, number of indexed pages in major search engines, and common phrases found on that page.

8. Domain Tools

This is a good tool if you want to dig a little deeper and learn about a particular domain name. This tool also lets you see if a particular domain name is available to buy.

9. SEO Spyglass

SEO Spyglass is a free SEO tool that allows you to essentially spy on your competition by viewing their inbound links. By analyzing their inbound link structure you can see what another website is doing and fix your own link structure.

10. Social Marker

Everyone who talks about SEO mentions how you should submit your site to social sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, and Diggo to name a few examples. These sites hold a lot of authority with Google and the other big search engines are crawled all the time and can bring you a tonne of traffic. But bouncing from one to another to submit content can take a long time. That’s where Social Marker comes in; their free service allows you to automate the process. You still have to create an account with each social site on their list.

11. Onlywire

Like Social Marker, Onlywire does the same thing provides a list of social sites you can automatically submit your links to, to save time. The difference is that Onlywire has a few additional features. It has a mobile app allowing you to submit content on the go. It also has features like analytics; RSS feed submitter, a bookmark and share button, and a submitter that automates submissions directly from your computer.

12. Redirect Checker

This lets you check what type of redirect is in place for any page on your site.

13. Open Site Explorer

Easily one of the best free link analysis tools available. Open site explorer displays up to 10’000 links to a page or site based on its page authority or domain authority. You can also see the anchor text being used and compare 2 different domains side by side.

14. Rapid Feeds

Having an RSS feed allows your visitors a way to subscribe and receive updates when you post new content. If your website or blog doesn't have a feed you can get a free one with this site. A free account will only allow you to have one feed per account, but you can easily create additional free accounts if needed.

15. What Is My Ip Address

So this one isn't exactly a free SEO tool but I wanted to include it because a lot of people don’t know how to find their Ip address. This tool not only tells you your Ip address it also gives you details such as your internet service provider, host name, organization, and type of connection.

16. Traffic Travis

Traffic Travis is a free seo tool that allows you to gather information and statistics on your site as well as your competition. It provides keyword research to find the best possible keywords and phrases for your site. PPC analysis on the keywords you’re targeting. A page analysis tool to analyze a website or a particular page on it. And an SEO analysis tool that provides even more information.

17. SEO Quake For Firefox

If you’re a Firefox user this tool gives you details from a site instantly by displaying a bar filled with information about that page. Some of the information it displays are

a. page rank

b. number of indexed pages

c. Alexa traffic rank

d. if the website has a site map

e. keyword density

18. Google Adwords Keyword Tool

The name says it all, it’s a free SEO tool that allows you to find keywords and phrases and analyzes there completion, and tracks it’s popularity.

19. SEO Site Checkup

This free tool gives you stats on your site and offers suggestion on how to fix problem areas. Some of things it checks are;

a. site’s loading speed

b. visitor breakdown

c. robots.txt

d. nested tables

e. page cache

f. favicon and validation tool

g. most common keywords

20. My Page Rank

Last but not least is My Page Rank, a free seo tool that offers a wide range of services. With this tool you can check when Yahoo, Msn, or Google last visited your site. If your site is banned from Google Adsense, Meta tag analysis, spider view, and site map submitter. You can also get a free hit counter with them; most of them look pretty ancient though.

So there you have it 20 free SEO tools you can use to help optimize your website. If I missed any good ones drop a comment below. If you like this list please stumble and digg it.