Free Advertising, SEO, and Marketing Tools
Below is a list of the best tools on the internet for SEO, internet marketing, PPC (pay-per-click) and webmaster related needs.
Backlinks (who is linking to you):
- Domain Pop Backlink Checker – This is probably the best backlink tool out there. It sorts by site, so if you have sitewide backlinks, you won’t have to look at pages and pages of backlinks from the same site. Fantastic!
- iWebTool’s Backlink Checker
- Backlink Watch – Slow, but effective.
- Link Diagnosis – Supposedly faster than Backlink Watch.
- SEOPro – This one is very nice and may be the best. It has more sorting options than most others.
Key Words (helpful for PPC – Adsense, YPN, etc):
- Google Key Word Tool – You can’t beat Google’s own keyword tool!
- Google Trends – See the keyword search trends. Very handy!
- SEO Key Word Tool
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- Word Tracker Free (limited) – Word Tracker is probably the best out there.
Assortment of Web-based Tools
- SEOChat – On left side
- Smart PageRank
- WebConf
Browser based tools: –Firefox Plugins–
- Smart Pages plugin – Very handy tool!
- SEOQuake – shows nofollow links (line through), along with much more
- SearchStatus – Also shows nofollow links (highlighted), plus much more
- Alexa Sparky – Official tool for Alexa. Displays a nice graph along your bottom task bar. Also, helps to boost your Alexa rank (not very relevant unless you sell blog posts)
Webmaster Tools:
- Browser Shots – Very nice tool for seeing how your pages would look in a variety of browsers (including different versions)
- Color Scheme Generator – A very good tool to help you choose a good color scheme for your website
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