Dirk Metzmacher August 6th, 2014

It’s a Rat Race: 40+ Free SEO Tools Any Site Owner Needs to Know

Free SEO tools are a great way to get closer to that number one position without paying too much upfront. Dirty little secrets: even the average SEO specialist uses free tools, so why shouldn't you? We have researched the following big list of free SEO tools anyone should at least know about. Even if you may have used one or two from the list already, we are sure you'll find more than one gem you haven't seen before. Let the race for the top spot begin...

Keyword Eye

Provider: keywordeye.com
seo-tool2

© keywordeye.com

Seobility

Provider: seobility.net
seo-tool1

© seobility.net

Keyword Tool

Provider: Google Inc.
seo-tool3

© Google Inc.

Übersuggest - Suggest on Steroids

Provider: ubersuggest.org
seo-tool4

© ubersuggest.org

Word to Clean HTML

Provider: Olly Cope
seo-tool5

© Olly Cope

Image SEO Tool

Provider: Patrick Sexton
seo-tool6

© Patrick Sexton

Schema Creator

Provider: schema-creator.org
seo-tool7

© schema-creator.org

Snippetoptimizer

Provider: snippetoptimizer.net
seo-tool8

© snippetoptimizer.net

Pingdom Website Speed Test

Provider: Pingdom
seo-tool9

© Pingdom

SEO & Webmaster Tools

Provider: internetmarketingninjas.com
seo-tool10

© internetmarketingninjas.com

Google SERP Snippet Optimization Tool

Provider: seomofo.com
seo-tool11

© seomofo.com

Remove'em

Provider: removeem.com
seo-tool12

© removeem.com

Build Your Site Map Online

Provider: xml-sitemaps.com
seo-tool13

© xml-sitemaps.com

Duplicate Content

Provider: virante.org
seo-tool14

© virante.org

SOCIAL AUTHORITY

Provider: http://moz.com/
seo-tool15

© http://moz.com/

SharedCount

Provider: sharedcount.com
seo-tool16

© sharedcount.com

Analyze Performance

Provider: Gossamer Threads, Inc.
seo-tool17

© Gossamer Threads, Inc.

Open Site Explorer

Provider: moz.com
seo-tool18

© moz.com

Marketing Grader

Provider: HubSpot, Inc.
seo-tool19

© HubSpot, Inc.

Site Explorer & Backlink Checker

Provider: Ahrefs Pte Ltd
seo-tool21

© Ahrefs Pte Ltd

Free SEO Tool

Provider: RankCracker
seo-tool22

© RankCracker

Real Time Web Analytics

Provider: Roxr Software, Ltd
seo-tool23

© Roxr Software, Ltd

Majestic SEO

Provider: majesticseo.com
seo-tool24

© majesticseo.com

Screaming Frog

Provider: Screaming Frog Ltd
seo-tool25

©
Screaming Frog Ltd

Seoptimer

Provider: seoptimer.com
seo-tool26

© seoptimer.com

Free Firefox Rank Checker

Provider: seobook.com
seo-tool27

© seobook.com

The Only Marketing Tool

Provider: outreachr.com
seo-tool28

© outreachr.com

Netpeak Checker

Provider: Netpeak
seo-tool29

© Netpeak

Real SEOs Work in Excel!

Provider: nielsbosma.se
seo-tool30

© nielsbosma.se

Google AdWords Keyword Planner

Provider: adwords.google.com
seo-tool31

© adwords.google.com

PageRank Status

Provider: chrome.google.com
seo-tool32

© chrome.google.com

Bing Webmastertools

Provider: Microsoft
seo-tool33

© Microsoft

LDA Content Optimizer

Provider: virante.org
seo-tool34

© virante.org

Webmaster-Tools

Provider: google.de
seo-tool35

© google.de

Copyscape Plagiarism Checker

Provider: Indigo Stream Technologies
seo-tool36

© Indigo Stream Technologies

Link Checker

Provider: W3C
seo-tool37

© W3C

Find Out What Websites are Built With

Provider: builtwith.com
seo-tool38

© builtwith.com

Linkdiagnosis

Provider: linkdiagnosis.com
seo-tool39

© linkdiagnosis.com

PageSpeed Insights

Provider: developers.google.com
seo-tool40

© developers.google.com

URI Valet - Check Server Headers

Provider: URI Valet
seo-tool41

© URI Valet

Free SEO Tool

Provider: seo-browser.com
seo-tool42

© seo-browser.com

Spyonweb

Provider: spyonweb.com
seo-tool43

© spyonweb.com

Real-time Social Media Search and Analysis

Provider: socialmention.com
seo-tool44

© socialmention.com
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Dirk Metzmacher

Dirk Metzmacher is a professional Photoshop trainer, book author and designed with over 10 years of experience. He is also a creative mind behind Photoshop Weblog, a blog about techniques, tutorials and resources related to Adobe Photoshop.

6 comments

  1. Hello Dirk, Great work!! Every tool is very important for any SEO guy but you did not mention cost(Free or PRO). Actually these free tools show some ideas but not full information. Are these tools priority bases? If we are going to invest something than we expect more revenue. So which tool will be best, problem remains.

    Thank you for helping us

  2. Dear Dirk, Nice list of SEO tools site, i would like to recommend seositecheckup.com which provide about 50+ Tools to check Optimization.

  3. I use the open site explorer and majestic SEO for finding out about my own inbound links you can or so do a link search within the Google search engine by putting link: before your url and the links to your website will show up within the results or so you can find all the pages indexed on your website by putting site:

  4. Wow, thanks for the great list of SEO tools! So many good ones mentioned: ahrefs, screaming frog, opensiteexplorer… Some of the other ones not in the list that I use are Xenu, Siteliner, AWR

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