101 SEO Tools

We just wanted to share some of our favorite free seo tools with our readers. It’s really hard to get ahead with out some sort of automated seo bot/utility that can dig and do some work for you. Some of these will overlap with the best google keyword tools post we made. You may want to read that as well.

Please bookmark this page and tell your friends about us. So here is our list along with a short description of each tool.

Free SEO Tools

1. Keyword Rocket – This tool generates popular search terms and keyword phrases on a subject or topic.
2. Robots.txt Generator – This tool generates your robots.txt text and even lets you download a blank robots.txt
3. Keyword Thesaurus – This tool generates related keywords. It claims to have 2.8 million keyword combos in its database.
4. Keyword Synonyms – Similar to keyword thesaurus. Generates related words.
5. Keyword Typo Tool – Generates keyword typos. Typos can be used to generate traffic to your site.
6. Compare Sites – Compare stats on up to 4 sites. Stats include dmoz listing, google and yahoo backlinks.
7. Duplicate Content Fixer – this tool generates the code for you .htaccess code that will prevent duplicate content on your site.
8. PageRank Checker – Check a sites page rank.
9. Alexa Rank Checker – Check a sites alexa rank.
10. Similar Page Checker – This tool allows you to determine the percentage of similarity between two pages.
11. Search Engine Spider Simulator – This tool Simulates a Search Engine by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it.
12. Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer – This tools help you determine the backlinks of your website and link text used by your backlinks to Link to your wesbite.
13. Backlink Builder – This tools searches for websites of the theme you specify that contain keyphrases like “Add link”, “Add site”, “Add URL”, “Add URL”, “Submit URL”, “Add Article” etc. Most of the results could be quality potential backlinks.
14. Keyword Density Checker – This tool will crawl the given URL, extract text as a search engine would, remove common stop words and Analyze the density of the keywords.
15. Search Engine Friendly Redirect Check – This tools help you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly.
16. Reciprocal Link Checker – This tool helps you ensure that your link partners are linking back to your website. It also determines the anchor text used by your link partners to link to your website.
17. Check Yahoo WebRank – This tool help you evaluate the importance of a URL as perceived by Yahoo.
18. Domain Stats Tool – This tool helps you get all kind of statistics of your competitor’s domains.
19. Domain Age Tool – This tools displays the approximate age of a website on the Internet and allows you to view how the website looked when it first started.
20. Keyword Playground – This tool provides you keyword suggestions and reports on their monthly search estimates.
21. Website Keyword Suggestions – This tools tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates.
22. URL Re-Write Tool – This tool helps you convert dynamic URLs into static looking html URLs.
23. Keyword-Rich Domain Suggestions – This tools will suggest keyword rich domain names.
24. Website to Country – This tools helps determine the Country in which the specified website is Hosted.
25. PageRank Prediction Tool – This tool will provide an estimation of the future PageRank and should not be considered precise.
26. Rank Checker – Use this online tool to see the ranking of a specific website. Find out how popular a website is to users and search engines.
27. PageRank Check – another pagerank checker.
28. Link Popularity – Find how many links a domain has on the most common search engines.
29. Search Engine Position – Check your search engine positions on Google Search Engine.
30. Multi Rank Checker – This tool supplies the same results as the Rank Checker tool, these are the PageRank and Alexa Rating. You can use this tool for multiple domain check-ups.
31. Google Sets – Automatically create sets of items from a few examples.
32. Website Speed Test – Speed is important. See how fast a site is.
33. Ping Test – Ping a site and see if its up, and running.
34. Google Banned Checker – See if your site is banned from Google.
35. Broken Link Checker – Use this tool to check for Broken Links on a website. Broken links are links that lead nowhere; Clicking on the link will show an error page.
36. Google Datacenter Search – Search keywords/phrase through different Google data centers.
37. Domain Whois – get domain whois info here.
38. Index Checker – see how many pages of a site are indexed.
39. Keyword Suggestions – This tool will display up to 10 popular keywords matching your initial keyword.
40. Link Price Calculator – estimate how much to pay for a link.
41. Link Extractor – extract links from a page.
42. List Cleaner – remove duplicates from a list.
43. Google Suggestions – Use google suggest to find popular keywords and phrases.
44. Keyword Research – The Keyword Research Tool will help you research appropriate words and phrases to include in your webpage’s body text to aid in promotion.
45. Keyword Analysis – Keyword Analyzer will read the page you specify and give a report on what words are used, and how many times they are used.
46. Search Engine Simulator – This tool strips out the HTML tags from the page you specify and shows you how the page would look to search engine spiders.
47. Meta Tag – Create Meta Tags on the fly.
48. Web Page Analyzer – Analyze websites.
49. PPC Bid Checker – allows you to query a number of PPC (Pay Per Click) engines to see what the top bids are for a certain keyword or phrase.
50. RewriteRule Generator – will take a dynamic url given to it, and generate the correct syntax to place in a .htaccess file to allow the url to be rewritten in a spiderable format.
51. XML SiteMap Generator – Generate xml sitemaps with this tool.
52. Link Appeal – tool will calculate the desirability rating of having a link on the url you specify. This calculation includes factors such as PageRank, number of outbound links and the overall percentage of links to html.
53. Class C  Checker – allow you to check if 2 domains are hosted on the same Class C IP range.
54. .htaccess Generator – generate the files you need (.htaccess and .htpasswd) to password protect a directory of your website.
55. Link Checker – will read the page you specify, extract the links from it and test the status of each one. If any errors are found (broken links) these are reported.
56. HTTP Header Viewer – will show you the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with a HTTP response.
57. Regional Proxy – allows you to view web sites as if you were located in a particular country or region.
58. Domain Typo Generator – take a domain name you specify and create a list of likely mis-spellings and mis-typings for that domain.
59. Expired Domain Checker – Snatch up old domains for backlinks.
60. Instant Domain Search – I use this tool to find domains matching keywords on the fly.
61. Advanced Meta Tag Generator – This tool helps you to add meta tags to your site.
62. Keyword Position Check for Multiple Datacenter – This tool will help you to find the position of your site in Google for a specific keyword/phrase.
63. Alexa Rank Comparison Tool – The Alexa Traffic History Graph allows you to create a traffic history graph for any site.
64. Link Popularity – Enter a valid URL, and this tool will query all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Teoma) and then return that URL’s total link count for each one.
65. Meta Analyzer – This tool will analyze a website’s meta tags. Analyzing a competitor’s keyword and description meta values is a good way to find ideas for key terms and more effective copy for your site.
66. Code to Text Ratio – This tool will help you discover the percentage of text in a web page (as compared to the combined text and code).
67. Meta Tag Generation – If you’re new to web development and search engine optimization, you may find this tool useful to ensure that your meta tags are correctly formed.
68. Multi Datacenter Link Popularity – This tool will give a back link count for a URL from multiple Google data centers.
69. Page Comparison – Compares the page titles, meta information, and common phrases occurring on different pages.
70. Domain Age Check – Use this tool to find the age of a domain.
71. Page Size – This tool will help you to determine HTML web page size.
72. Compete Keywords – Compete helps you benefit from click-sharing by providing free services that create a more trusted, transparent, and valuable Internet.
73. Future PageRank – This tool will query Google’s various data centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a given URL.
74. Google Dance – This tool will query Google’s three main web servers, showing the different statuses during updates. Watch Google Dance.
75. Google Keyword Suggestions – The keyword suggestion tool for Google will help you choose relevant and popular terms related to your selected key term.
76. Robots.txt Maker – Use this tool to generate a simple robots.txt file for your website, which allows you to hide files or directories that you do not wish to be spidered.
77. Google Suggest Scraper – Shows frequently search for phrases starting with the words and letters in your query.
78. Google vs. Yah00 – This tool will run a search query in Google and Yahoo search engines and then graphically compare the results.
79. Keyword Cloud – This tool provides a visual representation of keywords used on a website.
80. 301 Redirect Checker – This tool checks for valid HTTP 301 headers.
81. Keyword Difficulty – Use the Keyword Difficulty Check Tool to see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or keyword phrases.
82. Keyword Optimize – Enter a list of keywords and this tool will remove any duplicate entries and re-order the list alphabetically.
83. URL Rewrite – This tool converts dynamic URLs to static URLs. You will need to create an .htaccess file to use this tool.
84. Keyword Misspellings – (jus like the other keyword typo tools)
85. NSLookup – Performs nslookups for domains. A nice domain to ip tool.
86. Verify PageRank – Make sure the pagerank is not fake.
87. Multi PageRank – great tool for checking pagerank update status.
88. SEO Challenge – tool compares two domains and calculates a seo score, based on a self-made algorithm. The domain with most points is the winner.
89. Alexa Challenge – compare alexa rank from many sites.
90. Meta Tag Analyzer – Analyze meta tags from any url.
91. PageRank Check -you can verify the PageRank for up to 5 different URLs simultaneously.
92. Social Bookmark Checker – check a urls presence in social networks.
93. Visual Page Rank – The visual PageRank overlay shows all links of a website and the corresponding PageRanks of the linked pages.
94. Cloaking Detection – cloaking detector simulates the Googlebot based on User-Agent to detect cloaked content. So you can detect websites on which the content presented to the web crawler is different from that presented to the user.
95. Spiderview – With the spiderview simulator you see all informations a search engine spider receive from a website.
96. Website Speed Test – The website speedtester shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.
97. Domain Popularity Analysis – The domain popularity check shows you all backlinks for a domain, including up to 10 subpages per back linking domain, host IP and Google PageRank.
98. Outbound Links – The link analysis display all internal and external links of a website with the corresponding anchor texts in a summary table.
99. SiteMap Generator – The Sitemap Generator creates a XML sitemap with all internal links on a web page for Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
100. Search Metrics – Searchmetrics report conduct a extensive site analysis based on the most important search engine key figures and creates from the results a convincing quality index with references to individual optimization steps.
101. PageStat – PageStat 1.0 Beta offers FREE 3-D interactive chart stat modeling, that lets you see your data like never before! How much is your website worth? How much are your competitors sites worth, what type of social networking presence do you have? Live twitter feeds auto query tweets on website’s and terms.

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