Best SEO tools - Post yours
 

Let's keep this an ongoing thread with good SEO tools to help the budding and advanced SEOer.

Show Pagerank - Shows pagerank over different Google datacenters.

Unique backlink checker - Displays domain backlinks. I find it very useful as it doesn't show all the (unnecessary) individual pages that are indexed as a backlink.

Google/Yahoo Rank Checker - Sometimes is off by 1 or 2 positions, but is fairly accurate.

Broken Link Checker - Search engines like it if your site isn't filled with broken links.

McDar's Keyword Analysis - Displays the PR/backlinks/pages of the top 10 SERP listings.

PRSearch.net - Great site with tools for checking rankings, and link pop (without img verification).

Nice Links Joe! |thumb

Here is one I like just to get an idea of keywords and frequency.

http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ac/index.jhtml

The Keyword selector tool.

Peace,
- Gideon

http://www.googlerankings.com/
checking rankings on Google

I got this one from DD several months ago, and I still use it regularly:

http://www.marketleap.com/services/f...ls/default.htm

tools to check link pop, page saturation and keyword placement (first three SERPS only) across several major engines. I love it. :)

Sandbox Detection Tool - Good tool to check if your site is currently in the Google sandbox.

Hey Joe, link's not working...can you check the URL? I'd love to have that tool in my toolbox :)

The sandbox detection tool one?

It works for me. |huh

woops! wrong thread

Hmmm...must've been something on my end. I tried several times yesterday but now it works. Ahhh, the many wonders of technology :D

http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php - Duplicate content tool.

Useful to see if your site may be falling victim to the Google duplicate content filter which totally blew many sites outta the water during Feb update. Apparently a duplicate rating of 75 - 80% is pretty bad news for your SEP's.

In addition, here's a tool I find helpful that does something similar to the tool above, but searches Google for duplicates:

http://www.copyscape.com/

damn this thread is nice... thanks for the tools guys |thumb and keep 'em coming :D I don't have any great tools to contribute, but some newbies might like overtures keyword suggestion tool

Here are a few more tools:

http://web-sniffer.net/ - Best search engine simulator tool I've seen (useful for peeking at cloaked pages ;))

http://www.webhosting.info/ - Not only a domain WHOIS, but also a reverse IP tool (looks for websites hosted on the same IP).

Although the Overture tool is good, here's a better one: http://www.123promotion.co.uk/ppc/index.php

Yahoo Tracker - Makes use of the new Yahoo API that tracks your search engine keyword rankings for various keywords and URLs over time.

NICE!!!! thanks Joe |thumb

Auto Submit - Free auto submit to about 30 SEs

A couple more golden SEO tools I found recently:

Google Link Popularity Analysis Tool - Very-detailed link popularity tool that analyzes your backlinks (including their IP, pagerank, and number of incoming links), as well as a nifty backlink analysis tool.

Google PR Lookup - Bulk PR lookup tool which features a "real" pagerank tool (supposedly uses Google XML to retrieve the "real" pagerank, and not the visual toolbar PR bar).

MSN & Yahoo Keyword Tracker - I've seen a couple Yahoo trackers, but the MSN tracker is a new one.

Thanks Joe! Some good tools. Nice to finnally see some tracking for yahoo.

The PR tool would be nice to double check PR's before trading, catch cheaters.

ronnie

just came to this thread to use a tool and figured it deseves a bump for those who never saw it :)

Great thread

/me bookmarks it!

Awesome post for me :)

Here's a tool I've been working on for about a month. I've incorporated some seo tools and other helpers into Google results. It's at www.GoLexa.com
ED

Yagoohoogle lets you check Google and Yahoo SERPS simultaneaously.

BTW, thanks for this great thread :*

Awesome compilation everyone! |headbang||headbang||headbang||headbang||headbang|

thanks a lot! didn't know about that one |thumb

Great links guys.

Thanks for sharing....

btw. Check this one: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/

Great SEO tools :)

http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ac/index.jhtml now redirects to
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/rc/srch/?mkt=us
Really usefull thread BTW !! |thumb

Thanks!

sorry, duplicated reply |dizzy|

been a while since this excelent thread got raised to the top.

:)

I'm looking for a sandbox tool the one listed requires a bunch of shit i aint got!

Boogie - I dont think anyone could make an accurate tool to see if you are sandboxed - of course that also requires that you believe a sandbox exists :)

Since I dont believe that it exists and that some people that have gotten in to the SEO game in the last two years dont understand how Google works - they think there is a sandbox when its usually something completely different that causes problems with their site - its just an easy blame game to play :)

If you are having trouble with a specific site let me know and we can take a look together and see what can be done :)

I know this thread is over a year old but i thought since i had to go searching for it and found a GREAT useful link (like many listed here) i thought i'd swag my hips and give it the old BUMP! :D

I thought I read an article on Google somewhere that claimed the sandbox existed and sort of explained how it worked. I may be wrong though, it was a while ago and a lot of expensive single malt has done it's work at killing my brain cells since then.

I'm starting to write my own scripts to check my pages, but I've bookmarked alot of these links last year and they were a great help back then.

ecchi, knowing whether the sandbox exists or not won't help me rank any higher on Google; in other words, I think it's a worthless debate. Plus its waaay off topic don't you think? (We should be posting more tools here, lol).

P.S. Anyway, here's the lastest thing I've heard regarding the sandbox: what people are perceiving as the sandbox is just a type of crawling delay, in line with what BD seems to have carved into stone, where lack of trust prevents Google from indexing large sites with little trust [not my personal opinion, just paraphrasing what I've heard].

I'll agree that it is off topic for this thread (I was replying to a previous post) but not that it is a 'worthless debate' because the most important weapon in any 'war' is 'knowledge'. To win you have to 'know your enemy'. This is very true in SEO. None of those scripts you are working on will be any use if you do not know how long it takes Google to recognise your site. EG: your traffic suddenly doubles (or halves) from Google. Is that change due to something you did yesterday, last month, six months ago, a year back?

And as I rely a lot on 'cross linking', how long before Google trusts my new sites enough to take serious note in any PR they pass on (I think the answer is 1 year, ie if the link is still there after the time comes to renew a domain, because I find new 'clusters' of domains suddenly jump from PR0 or PR1 to PR3 or PR4 after a little over a year, if left on their own).

ecchi, at the risk of completely de-railing this thread:

Domain age isn't a factor when calculating PR. PR is a reflection of links pointing into your network. If you link from 100 PR 7 domains to a new domain, that domain will lose PR 0 as soon as Google crawls those links (in other words, in a matter of days, not months). Of course, you won't see the new PR until the next PR update, but that's irrelevant.

"Does the sandbox exist?" is a worthless debate; knowing that it exists or not won't help me get indexed any quicker. Like I said, trust seems to be the new buzzword when talking about deep crawling post BD, and domain age is a factor in sizing up trust.

I think (N.B. 'think', not 'know') that Google give more relevance to links from 'established' sites than new ones. I base this theory from the fact that in my 'non adult' work I tend to release sites in batches all linked together, then link them to my main network only when their PR is 3 or above. What usually happens is that they go from PR0 to PR1 in a few months, stick at PR1 for a long time, then suddenly all jump to PR3 or PR4 about a year or so after I started them, with only links to each other.

Knowing if the sandbox exists or not will not speed up listing, but knowing will make a hell of a lot of difference in how well you optimise your site once it is out of the sandbox (or once it is listed if the sandbox does not exist). If you hope to do well at SEO, it is kind of important that you make an accuratish guess.

Only thing that's helpful to know is how to avoid getting sandboxed and how to crawl out of it once you're stuck in there. If you knew that, you'd have no reason to care.

BTW, I didn't say there's no point in knowing the answer to that question.. I only said the question leads to a meaningless discussion.