While SEO as a concept is simple (optimizing webpages to perform better in search engines), it can be a surprisingly complex operation. The SEO veterans have many different tools in their belt that they use almost every day during their normal routine.
There are a lot of SEO tools which are useful and provide a great value.
- Google Sheets. Gather, process, and analyse all kinds of SEO‐related data.
- Google Analytics. Analyse how many people are visiting your website, who they are, and where they come from.
- Google Webmaster Tools. Identify and fix website issues
- Google Keyword Planner. Find and research keywords. (GKP may be limited, but there are some cool ways to “hack” around it.)
- Google Trends. Identify search trends, and create content around it.
- Answer The Public. Fetches Google Autocomplete queries in bulk and divides them into various lists.
- Keywords Everywhere. Free addon for Chrome (or Firefox) that adds search volume, CPC & competition data to all your favourite websites
- UberSuggest. Finds hundreds of keyword ideas from a seed keyword (now owned by Neil Patel.)
- Ahrefs Backlink Checker. Analyze backlink profiles and discover link opportunities
- Beam Us Up. SEO crawling software. Great free alternative to Screaming Frog
- Hemingway Editor. Improves the clarity of your writing by highlighting difficult to read sentences, “weak” words, and so forth.
- Keyword Shitter. Generates hundreds and thousands of keyword suggestions from your seed keyword(s).
- LSIGraph. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) keywords generator.
- CoSchedule Headline Analyzer. Shows how your title tag looks in the SERPs, plus gives you advice on how to improve it and get more clicks.
- RankTank. Open source “DIY” SEO tools built in Google Sheets.
- Keyworddit. Extracts the most frequently used keywords and phrases from any subreddit. It also gives the monthly search volume for each keyword.
- SERPRobot. Free Google rankings checker. Updates up to 50 keywords once every 24 hours (server permitting).
- Google SERP Snippet Optimization Tool. Identifies truncation issues with meta titles and descriptions.
- Drop My Link. Combines your keywords with advanced Google search operatorsto uncover link building opportunities.
- Search & Extract Twitter Users+ “Find Influencers in Any Niche” — Find influencers who’ve shared any piece of content on Twitter in the last 7 days.