Optimize SEO With These 15 Free Online SEO Tools

Posted by Kyle Eslick on September 19th, 2007 | Category and Tags

Some people think you can just make a few adjustments to your website, such as install a SEO WordPress plugin, and suddenly your website is optimized for search engines.

Unfortunately this is not true. While the All-in-One SEO Pack does just about everything you could want when it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, getting the best ranking is often a work in progress and requires a lot of homework by the person running the website.

One thing I’ve learned over the past year and a half of blogging is the importance of the title to your post. I’ve seen several posts that were simply linking to someone else’s work, but they actually ranked higher than the original post they are pointing to due to the better title.

Luckily, there are several free online tools around the internet that make your homework much easier, and SEO Position has taken the time to compile the 15 Best Free SEO Online Tools in one post.

With many of these tools, you can accomplish a variety of goals, ranging from determining your keyword rankings with all of the major search engines in a single click, to checking backlinks, and even in determining your highest ranking subpages.

What is all this information good for? Some people are happy with their site as it is, but those that are successful are always looking for ways to improve their site, or at least improve individual parts. These tools give you more knowledge about what is working and what isn’t working, so you can do more of what is working!

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Comment by Nuts & Milk on September 19th, 2007:

Nice blog. I just increased your subscriber count by 1
Comment by Michael on September 19th, 2007:

These tools look great, I have been meaning to do a little bit of SEO and this post along with your recent post about the All-In-One SEO pack should help me be a little bit more search engine friendly.
Comment by Kyle Eslick on September 19th, 2007:

Nuts - Glad to have you aboard! Feel free to stop by and add your input any time!

Michael - SEO is a tricky thing because it is hard to see progress if it doesn’t show up as traffic in your metrics. Knowing which keywords to target with search engines can help improve that focus, etc.

I definitely recommend all bloggers activate that plugin, set your options, then try to familarize yourself with these tools a little bit (in particular the Top 5 on that list, as I find they are the most useful).
Comment by descargar ares gratis on September 19th, 2007:

targeting the lowest volume keywords is the best, cause you dont have competition, just search for the right ones.
Comment by descargar ares gratis on September 19th, 2007:

targeting the keywords that have not been targeted by anyone, is the best way to get free organic traffic.
Comment by Kyle Eslick on September 20th, 2007:

Descargar - Yes, that is a strategy some people have found success with. The problem is they probably aren’t being targeted by anyone for a reason, which is that people don’t search often for them.
I think depending on your strategy, that method can definitely work, but my point is being the 5th search result on a high traffic keyword will probably be more traffic than 1st on a low traffic keyword.
Comment by SEO Position - Brian on September 24th, 2007:

Hi Kyle,
Thanks for noticing our post and letting your readers know about it. We’ll be posting a lot more useful content like this in the coming weeks.

Thanks again
Brian - SEOposition.com
Comment by Neil - Acopic SEO on September 27th, 2007:

Thanks for the link. Some really useful tools there. Also thanks to Brian above for the original article. Much appreciated.
Comment by Kyle Eslick on September 27th, 2007:

Brian - No problem! I really enjoyed the post.

Neil - Glad you found it as useful as I did!