FREE SEO Tools

There is a lot of free information and free tools out there for SEO. Most of the times what is free is not necessarily the best software to follow. However in the SEO industry there are a couple of very good free tools and some that are worth paying as well.

Metrics & Analytics SEO Tools

• Google Analytics - great tool to measure metrics across your website, you can create a lot of the reports and analyze a website in-depth by looking at their analytics
• Google Webmasters - great tool to use on your website, lets you do custom setups such as preferred domain and crawling rate, lets you see what Google sees when crawls your website including information on crawling speed and rate, back-links and more.
• XINU - excellent metrics showing back-links, monthly visits, page views, social media exposure and Alexa ranking

Keyword Tools

• Google Insights - compare keywords over a certain categories, time periods or regional locators
• Google Adwords - get the monthly search volume and most important related keywords
• Google Trends - get the latest trends in your market, right form Google
• Rank Checker - checks Google and yahoo rankings for a variety of keywords, creates excel reports that can be exported
• Search Based Keyword Tool - Google tool that shows you keywords that you are not yet targeting with a certain page

Content SEO Tools

• SEO Blogger - optimize your pages or content as you write it
• Wikipedia SEO Tool - helps you optimize your own wiki page

Link SEO tools

• XENU - finds the broken links and redirects on your website
• Yahoo Site Explorer - get valuable link information about a website and its sub-domains
• Majestic SEO - in depth back-link analysis of your website
• Link Harvester - shows you the unique IP addresses linking back to your site
• Link search - start your link building strategies and look for the best sites to request links from

Local Targeted SEO Tools

• GeoTarget - it determines how well your website is optimized for a certain Geo targeted location

PPC SEO Tools

• Google Traffic Estimator - you can select the budget you want for your keywords and it shows estimated values for a given keyword
• Google Ad Preview Tool - get the most out of your PPC campaign, test your adds and count the impressions you will get

Domain Name SEO tools

• Domize - just type in your keywords and it will show you availability for all .com, .net, .org, .biz and .us extensions
• Phichic Who Is - type in your keywords and see availability immediately and related results availability on related domain names
• Suggest - creates a combination of names and keywords, pretty cool and very useful when choosing a brand name
• BustAName - based on the keywords you choose the tool finds all the combination available as domain names

Technical SEO Tools

• Header Checker - tells you weather your server returns a correct status code in order for search engines to crawl your page
• XML Sitemap Generator - generates your XML sitemaps for free
• Personalized Search - plugin will disable your personalized search settings and also adds the suggest functionality
• Multiple Datacenters - search tool throughout multiple data centers that Google has

Competitive SEO Tools

• Compete - shows metrics and lets you compare and spy on your competition
• SpyFu - also a good tool used to spy on your competitors keywords, PPC campaigns and organic rankings
• Quantcast - shows monthly traffic and us demographics for your competitors

Other Free SEO Tools

• SEO for Firefox - its an SEO toolbar which allows you to see and analyze a lot of information at once
• SEO Quake - helps you determine whats needed in terms of SEO for your website