Although they’re scattered and in many cases underdeveloped, tools exist which can help you perform almost every element of Search Engine Optimization. This is a collection of Thirsty Pony’s favorite online marketing and SEO tools from around the web.
Keyword Research & Volume
- Google’s Keyword Research Tool: This external version of the AdWords research tool returns small lists of high volume results.
- SEODigger: Discover which keywords your site ranks for in the Google Top 20. You can analyze your own sites as well as sites of your competition, using the information obtained for SEO analysis, building a semantic core, finding out how well is a site optimized for this or that search request, and a lot more.
- NicheBot: “Finds exactly what people are looking for”. Great for silly people who don’t know how to use quotes.
SERP Rankings Checkers
- “Cool SEO Tool“: Checks the top 10 sites in Google and shows pages indexed (Google/Yahoo), backlinks, link domain, allinanchor rank, domain age and keyword phrase count.
- Exact Factor: Exactfactor.com is an online SEO tool that gives website owners the ability to automatically and easily check their website’s keyword positions.
Competitive Research
- SpyFu: Lets you see which keywords your competitors are buying and which ones they optimize their site for.
Link Building
Link Buying
Sitemaps
- ROR Structured Feeds: An incredibly quick and easy way to generate a text file sitemap which can be uploaded to your root directory and effectively accessed by Google Sitemaps.