17 Best Free Online SEO Tools Every Blogger MustUse

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Saikrishna Tipparapu

For an SEO campaign to be successful, it is necessary to have an arsenal properly and wisely chosenSEO tools. There are many SEO tools in the market that help your SEO campaign to achieve desiredresults, but are heavy on your pocket. The best way to get proper tools for your SEO campaign is tolook online for great SEO tools. Here, we will provide you with a list of tools categorically which are freeand will help you achieve desired SEO results for your blogs.

Backlink Investigation

1. Open Site Explorer :

Register with a free account and you can have access to over 1000 backlinks for any given URL.This site will provide you with a report of all the backlinks for a URL. The reports will give your summaryreport of any given URL which includes information about the pages authority, domain authority,number of linking root domains and number of total links. After registration the first five reports will haveadditional information like the pages anchor texts. OSE became one of the most popular online freebacklink checkers after the Yahoo site explorer a premium online backlink checking tool died in 2011.

2. Ahrefs Site Explorer:

Among the newer toolsavailable in the market forbacklink checking, Ahrefshas created quite a name foritself. You can use theservice as a guest and as amember by registering forfree on this site. As a guestyou can generate only 5reports on any given URLwhereas after registering forfree you can request up to15 reports per day. Eachrequested report contains abacklink overview andinformation on total number of backlinks, number of backlink referrals domains and breakdown report oftypes of backlinks.

Server Investigation

1. Google PageSpeed:

A free tool by Google, this tool will provide you with any given URL’s load performance. This tool willprovide you with a list of performance based and suggestion of any entered URL, which are promptlyarranged though the categorization in low, medium and high priority items.

2. BuiltWith:

This free tool will basically serve as a technological X-ray on any given URL. You will be providedwith a full technological profile of any URL, which includes information of the URL like analytics, site’sserver, frameworks and many more information essential for good server investigation. This tool willalso provide you with a simple SEO profile of the URL like Meta descriptions, H1 tags, contentkeywords, response speed and social sharing.

Website Crawling & Link Checking

1. W3C Link Checker:

This is a free online tool which will allow you to check the validity of any given link or URL. Enter aURL and simply wait for the tool to provide you with the report it will generate for you. The generatedreport will give you information about the URL’s URI scheme errors, error status codes and redirects.

2. Xenu’s Link Sleuth:

This is a free desktop application that you can download and install on your desktop or laptop. Thistool will check for broken links on your blogs or sites. While the main purpose of this tool is to check andreport for broken links, it will also provide you with information regarding a pages title s and metadescriptions.

Content & Markup Analysis

1. W3C Markup Validation Services:

The specialty of this online free tool is to check the markup validation of the web documentassociated with of given URL. Based on the syntax of the document type, it will check the correctnessof any given URL. It will provide you with a report which is an itemized list of errors and warnings withall the corresponding line numbers and columns numbers as well.

2. SEO Browser:

This free tool is very usefulgiven that it is one of the oldesttools available in the market.This tool will provide you with atext based report of the enteredURL and also information on thecontent of the URL which can bevery useful like word count,meta tags, IP address, page titleetc.

Keyword Research

1. Google AdWords KeywordsTool:

A free tool by Google, it is the most popular free keyword tools available. This tool will provide you

with three options to choose from to query and search for keywords 1- input of a list of keywords, 2-input a URL from which the tool identifies and scrapes keywords and 3- choose keywords from apredefined list of categories in the tool. After you choose which options to use for finding the rightkeywords, the tool will then slice and dice through all available keywords to provide you with a final listof proper and accurate keywords.

2. WordTracker:

This tool is one the oldest tool available for keyword research in the market. Using this tool is easyand simple, just enter a keyword phrase and the tool will generate a list of up to 100 related keywordsalong with a list of estimated search totals of those keywords.

3. Ubersuggest:

This tools uses Google suggest and other suggestion services to provide you with relevant,accurate and proper list of keywords. It is simple to use and easy for users to understand.

Social Discovery

1. Shared count:

This tool will provide you with a list of most popular social metrics for a given URL. At present the listof social metrics is derived from Facebook (likes, commentsand shares), twitter(tweets), Google+(+1s),Pinterest (pins), LinkedIn (shares) and Stumbleupon(stumbles).

2. Social Mention:

This is a social media search engine that accumulates user generated content from 100+ socialmedia including twitter, Facebook and Google+. You can use this tool to search social media for a topicand you will be provided with a recent report from social medias, including statistical report which willtell you about the top users, top keywords etc.

PR & Outreach

1. Blogger Linkup:

This is a free service which allows a user or anyone to request a guest blog, product review andsources for interview from a community of users. If you have a request, submit it on Blogger Linkupand along with other requests it will be sent to the community in an email. If you register for free andbecome a member of the community you will get regular emails about requests and you can choose toreply to any relevant request.

Analytics

1. Google analytics:

A free SEO tool from Google,this allows you to track on yourwebsite on a day-to-day or month-to-month basis so you canunderstand how your site is faringon the web. It will give you detailedinformation on where your visitorsare coming from to visit your site.It is a great tool to keep a track onyour website and to compare theresults of the tracking to see whereand how much your site hasprogressed

Search Engine Guidance

1. Google Webmaster Tool:

This free tool from Google isone of the most useful tool inSEO as this tool will give youinsight and direct access toGoogle’s information about yoursite.

This tool will provide youinformation about malwares andcrawling errors on your site, andvital information about traffic toyour site like search queries,backlink s etc. it will also help inimproving your sites content andindexing status.

SEO Analysis

1. WooRank:

This tool will analyze your SEOand score your SEO based on itsanalysis. The reports that this toolgenerates for you after analyzingyour SEO is divided into 13different sections:

Top 5 priorities

Visitors

Social Monitoring

Mobile

SEO Basics

SEO content

SEO links

SEO keywords

SEO authority

SEO backlinks

Usability

Security and

Technologies

Hope you like the list of Online SEO Tools, if I miss anything never forget to share your suggestions bydropping them through comment box.