If you understand how important SEO is to your web strategy, get your bookmark ready. Here is a list of 9 excellent web based tools for SEO when optimizing your website.
- SEOmoz: A great tool that tells you the relative importance and visibility of a webpage. It will give you data on popularity and links across the web which will help in determining how the page will rank in search engines.
- We Build Web Pages: A good tool that lets you compare your site to the top 10 sites in Google for a keyword or phrase. It will give you data across several different metrics for the top ten sites. You can then compare against Yahoo, MSN and Google, check backlinks for each site and url age.
- iWebTool: They have many useful tools here. The one I love is the pagerank predictor. Some of the other tools they have are the Google Banned Checker, Link Popularity, Keyword Suggestion, Search Engine Position, plus many more.
- Zippy: Provides tools for site optimization. It queries major search engines and gives you results in a format suitable for webmasters.
- URL Trends: Allows you to monitor information and lets you see trends in selected urls.
- Link Harvester: For in depth link analysis this site is for you. There are so many different things that link harvester will do for that you really just need to go there and try it.
- Widexl: What an excellent set of tools. I get the most use from the link popularity tool and the keyword ranking tool though they are all good. They have tools for link popularity, search engine saturation, meta tag analysis, password generator and geo tracker.
- Ezer: When you need to check the pagerank across many datacenters this an excellent resource to do just that and easy to use.
- Firefox SEO extension: This may be the coolest SEO extension for Firefox ever. It lets you easily display meta tags for any site you visit and a whole lot more.










