DIY SEO
For those of you wishing to learn SEO for yourselves, the applications on this page are a good start to getting your SEO toolbox set up. Whether you're wanting to implement SEO on your own website, or check that your SEO provider is doing the job right, these tools are perfect for you.
Remember though, that a tool is only as good as the workman using it and you will need to gain experience in interpreting the results of some of these applications. For instance, the same tool might return different results when used multiple times consecutively. With experience you will learn to differentiate between authentic and inaccurate information.
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Keywords & Content – This is the foundation of SEO, do first
The average SEO results optimised site has shown that, if 5000 visitors arrive via the search engines, 4000 different keyphrases will have been used to find the site.
A wide variety of search terms can be used for different industries. A person looking for an insurance company might search, "life insurance", "short term insurance", "cheap insurance", "insurance company in Sandton" etc.
These keyword tools will help you to determine the combinations and variations of keywords and phrases used by your potential as well as; which key words are being searched more than others, which words people are searching, the importance of related words, the importance of meta words etc.
The Free Dictionary
Your keyword definition(s), set phrases/ idioms (use them to lighten up your writing style), examples of usage, words of the same root (inflected words and derivations), thesaurus, classic literature mentions, keyword phrases, related acronyms.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Princeton Wordnet
Definitions and sample sentences using your key term.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn/perl
Meta Tag Generator
The Advanced Meta-Tags Generator helps you add Meta-Tags to your site. Meta Tags make your website more visible. Many search engines read them from your site when you submit it to them. To generate the Meta-Tag code for your site, just fill out the form below and let our META tag generator create the code for you.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/advanced-meta-tag-generator/
Rhyme Zone
Type in a word below to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more:
Synonyms Thesaurus with Antonyms & Definitions
Synonym.com is the web's best resource for English synonyms, antonyms, and definitions. Type in a word and the synonym finder will come up with a list of synonyms. Check out the most popular online synonym searches to find the right word for any occasion. Use the antonym tool to find find antonyms and check out the definitions feature to read the definition.
Keyword Suggestions for Google
The Keyword Suggestion tool for Google will help you choose relevant and popular terms related to your selected key term. Simply enter a key term and this tool will query information from several Google searches, which it will use to determine popular and re-occurring terms used by websites in the same industry.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-suggestions-google/
Cambridge online dictionary
Essential definitions and keyword phrases.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Merriam-Webster dictionary
Definitions and derived terms.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
Keyword Density Tool
The keyword density tool is useful for helping webmasters and SEOs achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms. Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site's theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help achieve higher search engine positions. Keyword density needs to be balanced correctly (too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, too high and your page might get flagged for "keyword spamming"). This tool will analyze your chosen URL and return a table of keyword density values for one-, two-, or three-word key terms. In an attempt to mimic the function of search engine spiders, it will filter out common stop words (since these will probably be ignored by search engines). It will avoid filtering out stop words in the middle of a term, however (for example: "designing with CSS" would go through, even though "with" is a stop word).
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/
Thesaurus
Your core term synonyms and definitions.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Website Keyword Suggestion
The basis of ALL search engine rankings is keywords. Users enter keyphrases in Search Engines to get information they need, It is VERY important that you optimize for such keyphrases. This tools tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates.
http://www.webconfs.com/website-keyword-suggestions.php
Keyword Difficulty Check
Use this Keyword Difficulty Check Tool to see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or keyword phrases. This tool issues a percentage score that indicates how difficult it would be to rank on the first page for this term; higher percentages mean greater difficulty.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-difficulty/
Search Radar
Just enter the keyword and we will sniff around the web to bring you everything related
http://searchradar.webaroo.com/
Urban Dictionary
Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you wrote. Define your world
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
KW Map
Keyword map of the internet
Keyword Optimiser
This tool is designed for anyone who works with large lists of keywords/key terms (e.g. SEOs, pay-per-click subscribers, etc). Paste in your list of key terms and this tool will remove any duplicate entries. It will also re-order the list alphabetically, saving you the time it would take to edit your list manually.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-optimizer/
Wordze
Paid keyword tool
http://www.wordze.com/videos/KeywordResearch
Keyword Top 10 Site Info
About the top 10 sites for a particular term
http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/top-keyword/
Google Sets
Automatically create sets of items from a few examples.
Multiple Datacenter Keyword Position Check
There are many different Google data centers. Each of these may respond with different results for the same search query. If you see results that vary from data center to data center, it means that Google is in the middle of updating its search index. This information can be helpful for SEOs who want to observe various individual active servers for search engine optimization purposes. This tool also features an optional language/country selection option, which allows you to receive more specific results for your criteria.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/multiple-datacenter-keyword-position/
Similar Page Checker
Search Engines are known to penalize websites that contain Duplicate / Similar content. Your content could be similar to other websites on the Internet, or pages from within your own website could be similar to each other. This tool allows you to determine the percentage of similarity between two pages
http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.phpKeyword Typo Generator
Enter a keyword or key term into the box to generate a list of suggestions for likely human misspellings and typos. Because the results are based on the proximity of the characters on a QWERTY keyboard, and a database of common spelling/typo mistakes (as well as a few other factors), they are fairly accurate and likely to occur in a real world situation.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-typo-generator/
Keyword Density Checker
Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage.
It is important for your main keywords to have the correct keyword density to rank well in Search Engines
http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php
Social Media Keyword Checker
Compare 5 popular terms on Twitter
Search Twitter for results on keywords
The trends of keywords on the walls of Face Book.
http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/
Meta Analyser
This tool will analyze a website's meta tags. Although the use of meta data is certainly in question, analyzing a competitors "keyword" and "description" meta values is a good way to find ideas for key terms and effective copy for your website.
Meta Types:
Keywords: This should contain a short list of keywords and terms related to your site. Generally they should be separated by a comma, but some people prefer not to use any sort of delimiter.
Description: This should be a brief description of your site and what it offers. This is sometimes used by search engines as a website’s "snippet" for search results.
About Meta Tags
At one point meta tags were considered a relatively important factor by search engines. AltaVista and other older search engines used them to help determine a site’s theme as well as relevance to a given term. This is no longer the case; search engines now rely on much more advanced techniques to do this. That said, meta tags still have some life left in them; they are sometimes used as the snippet of a site's content in search engine result pages by Google, and possibly other search engines. It's also possible they still have a little influence with some search engines in determining a site’s content.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/meta-analyzer/
Keyword Density and Prominence Calculation
Ranking tool to determine density along with other factors.
http://www.ranks.nl/cgi-bin/ranksnl/spider/spider.cgi?lang=
Rank Quest Keywords Density Analyzer
Keyword Density Analyzer helps you find out the density values for words/phrases in various important parts of your page, like Tile Tag, Meta Tags, Body Tags, Alt Tags etc.
http://www.rankquest.com/tools/Keyword-Density-Analyzer.php
Meta Tag Generator
Helps create meta tags
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/meta-tag-generator/
The Website, Server, Domain etc
There are literally hundreds of considerations to keep in mind when optimising for search engines. The following tools help you to understand the way in which the search engines view your website, what they pick up about you from your server, the importance of your domain and much more.
Search Engine Spam Detector
What does this tool do? This tool analyzes a web page, searching for characteristics that search engines could consider spam. If you don't know what "search engine spamming" means or if you want to know how this tool works, you can read the Spam detector FAQ.
What type of tricks does it find? The tool tries to detect three main methods: keyword stuffing, doorway farms and hidden text. Any trick based on Javascript or on CSS positioning/layering will not be detected (for now). Search engine spam detection is very difficult to accomplish and this tool can't recognize all the existing tricks/methods; it isn't perfect and it sometimes fails.
Why did you create this tool? To persuade webmasters and SEO to think: if I have been able to create a simple tool capable of intercepting some techniques of spam, imagine what a team of engineers, working for a search engine, could do!
http://tool.motoricerca.info/spam-detector/
Domize
Find domain names quickly
Check Server Headers
Check server headers and verify HTTP status codes. There are seven HTTP status codes that we are primarily interested in from an indexing and search engine marketing perspective. It is recommended that you verify your URIs are returning the proper Status-Code in the Server Header.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/check-server-headers/
Search Engine Spider Simulator
A lot of Content and Links displayed on a webpage may not actually be visible to the Search Engines, eg. Flash based content, content generated through javascript, content displayed as images etc. This tool Simulates a Search Engine by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it. It also displays the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) by a Search Engine when it visits the particular webpage.
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php
Psychic Who Is
Domain name suggestions based on your previous searches and related terms.
Class C Checker
The Class C Checker tool allows you to check whether some sites are hosted on the same Class C IP Range.
You might want to use the Class C Checker if you own several cross-linked sites. If you do, it may be more efficient (for SEO purposes) to host them on different Class C IP ranges.
Additionally, if you are going to get new links from different sites, you may want to see whether they share the same Class C IP range. Again, this could make a difference for SEO purposes.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/class-c-checker/
Search Engine Optimization Analysis Tool
This SEO Analysis Tool is to help you analyze and measure the ranking potential of your web pages. It doesn't only analyze the Meta Tags of your pages, rather it tries to use the same spider technology as the search engines spiders them self.
http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer.html
Search Engine Genie Rank Checker
The Google Position Checker tool that we have developed will automatically query Google's search engines. It checks if your URL appears in the first 1000 results for your chosen keywords. If the URL is present, it will output what position it occupies.
http://www.searchenginegenie.com/google-rank-checker.html
Domain Age for SEO
A website’s age is one of the major factors used to rank it in the search engines. Use this tool to find the age of any domain, including your competitors’ or ones you might want to purchase. Older domains may get a slight edge in search engine rankings.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/domain-age/
Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker
A lot of us lose out on valuable search engine traffic due to incorrectly configuring our redirects. It is very import that when a search engine comes to crawl your website it is able to follow any redirects you have set up.
Suppose you have a website http://www.foo.com and you create a redirect such that whenever any visitor types in the URL http://www.foo.com he is automatically redirected to http://www.foo.com/widgets/, If the Search Engine is not able to follow the redirect it would think that http://www.foo.com has NO contents, http://www.foo.com would end up ranking very badly in search engines.
This tools help you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly.
http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php
Page Size Extractor
Page Size Extractor is a tool for checking the overall size of a webpage, including content and images. Want to check exactly how large your site is? And what is contained within it? Enter in the URL and go for it!
http://www.prioritysubmit.com/seotools-page-size-extractor.html
Alexa
Learn about the top sites on the Internet as determined by Alexa
Future Page Rank PR
This tool will query Google's various data centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a given URL. Usually all data centers will output the same, but if queried during an update, you might get a glimpse of any upcoming changes in your chosen URL's PageRank value.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/future-pagerank/
Check Yahoo Web Rank
Find out the Yahoo WebRank of your and your competitors websites.
Yahoo WebRank is basically a rank assigned to a URL by Yahoo on a scale of 0-10. It was introduced a couple of months ago as a Beta feature of the Yahoo toolbar, since it was an experimental feature it is no longer available as a part of their toolbar.
You can just search for "Yahoo WebRank" in your favorite SearchEngine to know more about it.
This tool help you evaluate the importance of a URL as perceived by Yahoo.
http://www.webconfs.com/check-yahoo-webrank.php
Bust A Name
There are still good domain names available, find them with this domain tool
Web Page Analyzer
Free web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/index.html
Indexed Pages
This tool will query all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista, and AlltheWeb) when you enter the "site:" operator with your chosen URL. It will return the total link count for each URL.
You will notice that the totals vary greatly from search engine to search engine; this is because the figures shown represent the number of links that are crawled by that search engine (which will vary based on the size of their database).
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/indexed-pages/
Compete
Track your competitors
Fuzz Find
Searching the web couldn't be easier! Get the most relevant results through this web search engine mashup that combines the power of the major search engines and social bookmarking sites.
http://www.fuzzfind.com/search.html
Domain Stats Tool
This tool helps you get all kind of statistics of your competitor's domains. The statistics include Alexa Taffic Rank, Age of the domains, Yahoo WebRank, Dmoz listings, count of backlinks and number of pages indexed in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN etc.
It will probably help you figure out why some of your competitors are ranking better than you.
http://www.webconfs.com/domain-stats.php
Domains Bot
Dynamically checks the availability of domain names for 6 TLDs: .com, .org, .net, .info, .biz, .us.
Page Rank Look Up
You can check the PageRank for a website by using the Google Toolbar (represented by a horizontal blue and grey bar). This tool streamlines the process. Enter a list of URLs and it will return the PageRank value for each one.
About PageRank Google PageRank is a general representation of a website's popularity; it is primarily based on link popularity. Websites with a high PageRank value will tend to have more traffic and higher positions in search engines (although many other factors are also taken into consideration).
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-lookup/
Instant Domain Search
Dynamically and really fast checks the availability of domain names for 3 TLDs: .com, .org, .net.
http://instantdomainsearch.com/
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.
It also helps you find out the age of your competitor's domains, older domains may get a slight edge in Search Engine Rankings. This tools has been build using Archive's Wayback Machine.
http://www.webconfs.com/domain-age.php
Domain Tools
Whois lookup and Domain name search
SEO Browser
See your website like a search engine sees it
http://seobrowser.com/index.php?address=www.3q.co.za&action=Parse+URL
Url Re-Writing Tool
Static URLs are known to be better than Dynamic URLs because of a number of reasons
- Static URLs typically Rank better in Search Engines.
- Search Engines are known to index the content of dynamic pages a lot slower compared to static pages.
- Static URLs are always friendlier looking to the End Users.
Example of a dynamic URL: http://www.widgets.com/product.php?categoryid=1&productid=10
This tool helps you convert dynamic URLs into static looking html URLs.
Example of the above dynamic URL Re-written using this tool http://www.widgets.com/product-categoryid-1-productid-10.htm
http://www.webconfs.com/url-rewriting-tool.php
Page Size Finder
The concept of "page size" is defined as the sum of the file sizes for all the elements that make up a page, including the defining HTML file as well as all embedded objects (e.g., image files with GIF and JPG pictures). It is possible to get away with page designs that have larger page sizes as long as the HTML file is small and is coded to reduce the browser's rendering time.
This tool will help to determine HTML web page size.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/page-size/
Google Trends
Learn about the trends on the web
Quantcast
Real audience data
Robots.txt Generator
Use this tool to generate a simple robots.txt file for your website. This file allows you to hide files or directories that you don’t wish the search engine spiders to find. This generator tool is designed to create the text for the file for you; you can then make changes afterward should you deem it necessary. Generating a robot file with this tool is ideal if you wish to block certain directories or files from search engines.
To use the generator tool, enter the required information below and click the button. You will then be shown the text for the file. Copy this to a file called robots.txt and place on the root of your website (in the same place as your home page).
Imposing Restrictions
You may impose restrictions on which web pages to disallow indexing. By default, most users will want to allow all directories except their /cgi-bin/ directory, which commonly holds scripts, and their images directory /images/. To enable all web pages, select Yes to "Enable All Webpages," then enter each web page or directory path in the exclusion box, one per line.
Example: "http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/" (Excludes the /cgi-bin/ directory)
Example: "http://www.yourdomain.com/images/" (Excludes the /images/ directory)
Example: "http://www.yourdomain.com/welcome.html" (Excludes the /welcome.html web page)
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/robots-generator/
AW Stats
AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
Website To Country Tool
Many people wonder why their websites dont rank well in Country specific Search Engines, most of the Search Engines (including Google) determines country of the website based on the physical location of the website's IP Address. You would probably rank well in a Country Specific Search Engine if your website is hosted in the same country.
This tools helps determine the Country in which the specified website is Hosted.
http://www.webconfs.com/website-to-country.php
Zeitgeist
Search patterns, trends and surprises
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist.html
Top Search Terms on ZDNET
http://downloads.zdnet.com/topsearch.aspx
Domain Name Soup
The domain name wizard will give you lots of options to search for available domain names. If you are after a domain name that is taken, you should not give up. People often think that all the good domain names are taken, that others have search through all the available domains and chosen the best, but there is no such thing as a list of all available domain names as domains are just constructed of combinations of letters. There are 308,915,776 combinations of six letter domains and 8,031,810,176 combinations of seven letter domains and that's not including using numbers or hyphens. The domain name wizard will help you to come up with ideas for yours.
Once you've entered your phrases and submitted it, this will show example results from each of the pages. Click on one of the pages to view those results.
http://www.domainnamesoup.com/domain-name-wizard.php
Graphical Search Engine Comparison
The Graphical Search Engine Comparison Tool allows you to perform your own comparisons, and displays the results visually, making it easy to see both the rankings and comparative positions of pages in search engine results. URLs are represented by small circles, and these circles are connected by a line if the page appears in both engines you're testing. Mouse over a circle and the full URL of the page is displayed. Click on it to open the URL in a new browser window.
The ranking tool fetches the top results for a query from search engines. You can compare the same search term on two engines, or two unique search phrases on the same engine to see which ranks better. You can also enter a specific website, to see if and where the site appears within in the top search queries.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/graphical-search-engine-comparison/
Backlinks
Links pointing to your website help determine your authority on the Internet, the more authority you have, the better your chances of high search engine placements. The tools below will help you understand the importance of link building and back links.
Back links Summary
This tool will give you a summary of your competitors backlinks.
http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-summary.php
Backlink Watch - check anchor text
Search Engine Optimization now revolves around "link building". Inbound Links make your website stand out prominent in the SERPs. In today's SEO world, more than 95% of the focus is on building quality backlinks.
http://www.backlinkwatch.com/index.php
Domain Inbound Links Checker
This free computer program analyzes up to 1000 inlinks (backlinks, inbound links) to arbitrary page (or website) and shows domains of backlinks. It shows separately different classes of URLs like .edu, .mil., .com, .net, .gov and other. It is similar to host and IP backlinks checker, but it might be a bit faster and doesn't do IP address analysis of backlinks.
http://www.online-utility.org/webmaster/backlink_domain_analyzer.jsp
Link Popularity
What is link Popularity? Link popularity is a general representation of the total number of web pages which link to a website (or individual web page). Most of the major search engines support the "link:" operator. Type in "link:" (without the quotation marks) in front of the URL about which you want to learn.
What does this tool do? This tool will query all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) when you enter the "link:" operator with your chosen URL. It will return the total link count for each URL.
You will notice that the totals vary greatly from search engine to search engine; this is because the figures shown represent the number of inbound links that are known to that search engine (which will vary based on the size of their database). Most of the search engines (Google especially) also apply various filters against the inbound links; therefore, some inbound-links may not be counted toward the total.
Why is link popularity important?. Link popularity is important because it is a major factor used by search engines in determining a site's position in search results. Generally, a site with more inbound links will be positioned higher than a similar site with fewer links. Other factors that are considered include anchor text.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/link-popularity/
Backlink Builder
Building Quality backlinks is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization. It is not enough just to have a lot of backlinks, it is the Quality of backlinks along with the Quantity that help you rank better in Search Engines. A backlink could be considered as a Quality Backlink if 1. The Theme of the backlinking website is the same as your website. 2. It links to your website with the keyword (keyphrase) that you are trying to optimize for. 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.
http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php
Analyze Backlinks
Analyses the links to websites
http://www.analyzebacklinks.com/
Backlinks Summary
This tool will give you a summary of your competitors backlinks.
http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-summary.php
Backlink Checker from We Build Pages
View backlinks of competitors
Link Diagnosis
This tool can show you all the important information about your competitor's links. The report includes pagerank, anchor texts, no-follow information and more.
Multiple Datacenter Link Popularity Check
This tool will give a back link count from multiple Google data centers. Since the active servers do not update in any predictable way, it can be helpful for SEOs to observe various individual active servers for search engine optimization purposes.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/multiple-datacenter-link-popularity/
Reciprocal Link Check
Reciprocal links have become one of the MOST popular methods of getting backlinks for your website. Although we dont really recommend them, a lot of SEOs have found success with their 2-way / 3-way reciprocal link exchanges. 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.