FREE Search Engine Optimization Tools - Part 1 - Niagara Web Design | Niagara Custom Software | Niagara Web Hosting | Niagara Internet Marketing | Niagara SEO | Swhistle Soft

Looking for the best tools and techniques to improve your rankings? The tools listed here are some of the best available SEO tools you will find on the Internet, and best of all they are all FREE.

Google Geo Search - This web based tool allows you to check google results for different geographical locations. You may already be aware that google determines your geographical location via your IP addressed used to access the google search page. The google results presented to you are specific to your geographical location. For example, if you search for used cars in Canada you may be presented with a list of used car web sites located in Canada weighted higher than used cars in Germany (and vice-versa).

Domain Report Tool - The Domain Report Tool provides an easy way to see how your online competition measures up. The tool checks Google, Yahoo! and Bing and reports how many pages are indexed for each of the Web sites you enter. Use this tool to find out how lightweight or heavyweight your rival sites are, so you'll know how much content with competitive keywords your own Web site needs in order to compete effectively. You can run the Domain Report Tool regularly to track whether a site's indexed page count is rising or falling over time.

Back Tweets - This web based tool allows you to look for specific links on Twitter. For example, doing a backtweet for http://www.youtube.com will result in a list (from latest tweet to oldest tweet) all the tweets that contains YouTube links.

Know'em - KnowEm allows you to check for the use of your brand, product, personal name or username instantly across over 340 popular and emerging social media websites. Grab your name before someone else does.

Spyfu - A very powerful web based tool when performing keyword analysis and online competitive analysis. With this tool you can see what your competition is targeting for keywords and adwords, which is invaluable information when you are trying to get and stay on top.

GSiteCrawler - A windows application that gives you the ability to generate sitemaps compatible and optimized for Google and Yahoo!. The GSiteCrawler will help you generate the best Google Sitemap file for your website. The GSiteCrawler uses different ways to find all the pages in your website and can generate all sorts of files, statistics and more.

Google Insights for Search - With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. Another invaluable tool for keyword and competitive analysis.

Negative Keywords List - The World's largest negative keywords list. In search engine advertising, “negative” keywords are used to filter words that are unrelated to the product or service being advertised but are in other categories that have the potential to generate impressions and clicks that are not relevant to the search query. Thus, correctly used negative keywords help raise clickthrough rates (CTR) and lower the cost per click (CPC).

Google Webmaster Tools - Specific to Google, if you plan on optimizing your web site for Google Searches, then this tool is a must. You can check the status of Googlebots crawling, check to see if your web site triggered any errors during crawls, view keyword data (very minimal), and much more. You will need to have a Google account (which is free) and you must validate your web site using a meta tag token.

Xenu - Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

Wordstream - WordStream is a Keyword Management solution for continuously optimizing & expanding PPC and SEO efforts involving large numbers of keywords. It's your own private, online keyword workbench with integrated tools.

CrazyEgg - Web based visitor visualization tool. Allows you to see what is drawing the attention of your visitors using click trackers, heat maps, etc. Very impressive tool.

Usernamez - Find out what usernames are available on the leading Social networks.

Quantcast - Allows you to get audience data for any web site. Allows you to see the daily traffic stats of any web site on the Internet. This is a great tool when searching for high traffic sites to get backlinks on, or for competitive analysis.