Top 10 SEO Tools (Courtesy Of Top10Land.com)
In my ongoing endeavor to continue growing my traffic and status in the blogging world, I’ve come across many tips about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and how it can help tremendously when used well.
Today I “StumbledUpon” a top-ten list of useful SEO tools, some of which I had never heard of before. So, I decided to share it with everyone, because it’s possible that there’s t least one item on this list that you may not have heard of and could find useful.
Also, before anyone comments and voices a disagreement with the ranking of these tools, please keep in mind that, as I said, I did not compile this list. I’m just reprinting it here on my blog. (The original can be found here.)
Top 10 SEO Tools:
- JustSearch’s Site Comparison Tool
- Backlink Watch’s Back Link Checker Tool
- Dig Pagerank’s PageRank Tool
- SearchStatus’ Firefox Extension
- JustSearch’s Nortometer Tool
- Google’s Webmaster Tools
- SEO Chat’s Header Checker
- JustSearch’s Keyword Competition Tool
- The Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine
- SEO Chat’s Robots.txt Generator
JustSearch’s Site Comparison Tool. What better way of getting an indication of how much search engine optimisation your site needs than by comparing your site with one of your competitors. Enter your site and the URL of one of your competitors and you will not only get a decent amount of data but you will also be shown a radar graph of the data. The essentially represents a footprint of your site, compares to your competitor’s footprint. Probably the best SEO tool I’ve seen for a while as it paints a clear picture of what needs to be done.
Backlink Watch’s Back Link Checker Tool. Most back link tools just tell you how many links you have. This tool goes a step further and looks at the anchor text, PageRank and number of out bound links on the linking page. It will also give you an indication of any abnormal flags like nofollow that have been used on the backlink. It does take some time to run, but it produces a good set of results.
Dig Pagerank’s PageRank Tool. Useful to see your PageRank, but more than that. You can view what you PageRank is in lots of different Google data centres and see if a PageRank update is coming your way.
SearchStatus’ Firefox Extension. A must have tool for any SEO that uses Firefox. A simple right click on on the unobtrusive icon will give you access to backlink for either the page or the domain, or even a neat little keyword density checker. The toolbar will also display PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete rank information.
JustSearch’s Nortometer Tool. Odd name, but I’ve not seen much like this tool out there. The tool looks at the top results in Google for a given keyword and then matches commonly used words a phrases on each of those pages. The result is 1-4 word phrases that you should be including in your content in order to match those sites that rank highly for your keyword. It is a keyword suggestion tool that doesn’t use searching statistics.
Google’s Webmaster Tools. The brilliant Google web master tools has a few good functions that are useful to any SEO. With a built in back link checker and a header analyser it is a good way of spotting problems in the long run.
SEO Chat’s Header Checker. This tool is handy for checking that you have put a correct form of redirect on a page or site. Search engines like 301 redirects the best, so this tool will allow you to see that a 301 is being issued. It is also handy to see that all of your pages are giving 200 codes for normal content as search engines will have issues when they don’t see this.
JustSearch’s Keyword Competition Tool. This tool takes a keyword as a parameter (with the option of including your own site) and tells you how well your site is doing against the top sites for that keyword. The best bit is that it gives you a radar graph of a section of the results just like the Site Comparison Tool from JustSearch.
The Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine. When looking at purchasing new domains this tool will help you see how long that domain has been about. Long-standing domains will have more of an impact than brand new ones so seeing that a domain has had a site active on it for a number of years will be beneficial.
SEO Chat’s Robots.txt Generator. A nice tool that saves a bit of time when creating a robots.txt file for any site. Just type in a list of directories and files to be excluded and it will generate the file for you.
Hope you all find something useful here that you didn’t previously know about! I know I certainly did. 
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Netvestor
Thanks for some I knew, but there are some I didn’t!
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Nov 24th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Minyak Lintah
Thats a good list of tools you have there. There are some that i’ve never heard of. Thanks for sharing.
Nov 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Games Player
Thanks for the list. Really needed some of them.
Nov 25th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Eric Socia
Glad I could help!
Nov 25th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Eric Socia
No problem
I personally LOVE the SearchStatus Firefox extension. It gives me very quick access to Alexa information AND PageRank information. There’s even an option to highlight all nofollow links on a webpage.
Nov 25th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Eric Socia
You’re welcome! There certainly are some quite helpful tools here.
Nov 25th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Yasmine
I agree, great list! I recently blogged about a similiar post - the top 25, free but useful SEO Tools. Check it out here - HREF=”http://www.cheaprevolution.com/the_cheap_revolution/2007/10/free-useful-seo.html”>
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Nov 25th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Forrest
I’ve been writing tools a bit like this for a while, but your post gives me some really interesting ideas. I was pretty sad to learn that you can’t just ’scrape’ Google’s results pages, though … using the ajax system is so much less appealing!
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Nov 26th, 2007 at 1:21 am
lady
very useful list. these should help bloggers, and website owners ..thanks for sharing..
Nov 26th, 2007 at 10:10 am
chris
I just want to say that tool #4, the Firefox extension, is very useful. I have been using it in my SEO efforts and love the data it provides in just one click. Definitely worth downloading.
Nov 26th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Andrew - call center consultant
This list definitely gets a bookmark from me. Backlink Watch alone is a killer tool that I hadn’t seen before. Thanks!
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Nov 26th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Thomas
Bookmark for sure! Good list of tools…Cant wait to see this list updated
Nov 26th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Matt
Very good list…my favorites are the backlink checker and searchstatus in firefox
Nov 27th, 2007 at 2:43 am
Matthew Griffin
Thanks for the list. SEO has become much more important to me over the last few months and there are several tools on the list I had never heard of.
Nov 27th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Dallas
Thanks for the great list, you can never have to many tools.
Nov 28th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Mark Penix
All these tools are simply fantastic, thanks for compiling such a great list.
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Nov 29th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Craigh
Thanks for the list, some are common tools, but this was the first time I came across a couple of them. With SEO there’s never enough…
Nov 30th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
razas de perros
Looks like you have a pretty nice collection of SEO tools there, I haven’t noticed the #1 pick you have on there before, but it is pretty nice to see. I didn’t realize how much better than the competition one of our sites was doing.
Dec 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
psyduck
I don’t know how to thanks you. It works! My website start getting massive traffic.
Dec 1st, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Free Self Improvement
Very useful stuff thanks! lots of stuff in there i havent seen before.
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Dec 2nd, 2007 at 1:16 am
Matt
Thx for this wonderful list…I personally utilize 3 and 4 the most
Dec 4th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Wi
Great list. The Dig Pagerank tool is cool, but how do you see there’s an update coming your way?
Dec 4th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Tay - Super Blogging
Wow, this was very helpful - thank you for sharing!
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Dec 4th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Matt
Nice resource.. thanks for the list, it could help us a lot. Keep it up!
Cheers!
Telluride
Dec 5th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Ace
Oh.. great resource list. Thanks for the post!
Panama
Dec 5th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Fabien
Great post, I will check out some of the links!
Fabien
Small Fish Big Money
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Dec 6th, 2007 at 2:39 am
thomas
interesting and hellpful
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Dec 7th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Blogerita
Thnanks for the list of excellent tools. Really cool.
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Dec 8th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Self Improvement Ideas
wow, this is a great set of tools, thanks!
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Dec 8th, 2007 at 7:17 am
Vic
By far a great list. I already used a few of these but some are a great addition to the arsenal ;).
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Dec 10th, 2007 at 11:34 am
emmanuel martinez
these are very useful tools! thank you so much!
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Dec 13th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Jack
Wow, this is very very helpful.
Thanks for the great tool. I just make a scan on my website: www.myweightlosspillsreviews.com which i just started. Really cool
Dec 13th, 2007 at 10:36 am
darknight
Good List!
I will try all. for now I just using the Google webmaster tool. How about hittail.com, it’s good too!
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Dec 17th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Web Design RI
Great list. Yahoo also has a webmaster tool. Also I use Web Position Gold and Wordtracker.
Dec 18th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Kerner-Kochen
What a nice set! I already knew some of them but now it´s time to try some extra SEO
Thanks a lot!
Dec 21st, 2007 at 8:28 am
Alex Liu
Thanks for your analyzing tools. Love it and find it quite helpful!
Alex Liu
SecretsOfUnlimitedWealth.com
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Dec 25th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Roy
Is it just me or doesn’t iWebtool.com do all of the above?
Dec 27th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Kristof George
thanks for that list..
i find that Web Ceo is also really good
and free
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Dec 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Rome
Thanks for this very great list!
Jan 2nd, 2008 at 2:44 am
Matt Ellsworth
nice list - I have used a lot of these on a regular basis.
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Jan 2nd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Apex Planet
wow, great list, thanks so much.
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Jan 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Panc Directory
Thanks I will use them to improve my directory’s pagerank.
Jan 23rd, 2008 at 6:11 am
Drectory.Net
Useful stuff.Backlink checker is a must have.
Jan 23rd, 2008 at 6:13 am
Cohnsey
Great tips. Got any more comparison tools you could recommend? Especially for more than two competitors.
Feb 9th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
seo
This is a Top Notch list of SEO tools and they’re free. I’m bookmarking this page, and I will pass it along. Thanks for taking the time to create it.
Feb 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Bluerank search engine
Thanks for the list, I would like to add that recently one of Polish SEO / SEM agency also developed a very useful tool that is meant for people who are interested in search engine optimisation and positioning.
Feb 18th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Literatura
Great list! Some I already knew (like Google’s Webmaster Tools) but others are very interesting.
Thank you!
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Feb 25th, 2008 at 8:06 am
SEO Consultant
There’s some nice tools in there, must try a few
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Feb 25th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Admin
Nice tips, I am struggling to get my site on search engines. This will help a lot!
Thank you
Feb 28th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Dave - Exercise bike
Great list, I’ve just tried installing an SEO toolbar in firefox, they save a lot of time.
Feb 29th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Jakob Dupont Knudsen
I love posts like this! It is always intersting to check out new SEO tools..
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Mar 9th, 2008 at 11:56 am
itchy scalp
Thanks for the great tips! I use many of these tools and this post is a great resource.
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Mar 13th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Partz Partzescu
Thank you very much for the tips, i was looking for some of these tools
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Mar 20th, 2008 at 3:21 am
Ricky
Great tips.
Thanks
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Mar 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
marry
Hi
excellent info cool idea.
thanks
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Mar 23rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
seo company
I bookmarked as well. Really have nice ideal. Great to see Top seo tools.
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Mar 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
seo company
I bookmarked as well. Really have nice ideal. Great to see Top seo tools.
Mar 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Chauncy
Wow, great useful list. Thanks!
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Mar 24th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Sara
Thank you so much for the Firefox extension pointer - very helpful!
Mar 31st, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Coach
wow!!Great list. I pride u for giving such a valuable web master tools…..and also this article guided me to use these tools.this article s mainly useful for WebMasters who ever want to find out the incoming links,Traffic detsils,backlinks,page rank. Thanks for sharing
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Apr 1st, 2008 at 10:31 am
Get Camping
Thanks, I didn’t know of some of those.
I love the SEO for firefox plugin from seobook its so cool. I also just found a new SEO plugin for firefox at seo book yesterday, its called rank checker and you can check the ranking for a kw list on many search engines and save it in a project, very neat timesaver.
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Apr 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 am
Cologne
Thanks for the list. I use half of these tools, and I’ll be sure to check out the rest of them.
Apr 3rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Sam
Thanks so much for this list. I’m for anything that takes some of the work out of making a robots.txt.
Apr 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
http://www.bestrank.com
This is a very generic list but useful in a simple manner. You are missing the SEO Book Rank checker, and the linkdomain: command on yahoo explorer. Also there are a lot of tools available on Sphinn.com if you just read the posting. I praise SEO Book and Aaron Wall because he has soooo much useful information. Utilize your resources and you will rank higher!
Apr 29th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
cologne
Add SEOpen and SEO Quake firefox plugins to that list. These free tools come in handy when you don’t have the cash to pay for kw research software.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Quotes
Well, a few of those tools were helpful especially the google webmaster one. Since i only been dealing with websites for a few weeks, i didn’t know Google had that type of service.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:01 am
Testking
Great Information regarding new seo tips. I have bookmarked as well, and love to see more news.
Jun 3rd, 2008 at 6:26 am
Alberta Foreclosures
The list is ok, though don’t forget xinureturns.com and seo quake for firefox.
Jun 10th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Seo tips
This nice SEO tool allows you to check your rankings for up to 5 keywords per day for FREE and it keeps an archive for you.
Jun 15th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
şarkı dinle
good aricle, good list thanks a lot
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Jun 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 am
Fitna Movie Wilders Exposed - Muhaddith
for keyword research, i highly recommend Google Adwords. I tried other services, but with Google as the top SE, their data was right on. You don’t have to spend any money to see the estimated traffic that google gives for keywords and related keywords.
Jun 25th, 2008 at 6:16 am
medical suppliers
Nice collection of SEO tools but i think SEOquake must be in the top 10 list as well.
Jun 29th, 2008 at 7:39 am
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Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Agaboo
wow! Thanks for the list. Really needed some of them.
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Jul 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Monavie
I only knew a few of these, the other ones will really help. Thanks!
Jul 29th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
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Aug 8th, 2008 at 5:57 am
seo company
The idea of this website is to combine various SEO tools, internet tools and webmaster tools in one place and help webmasters to build a successfull website. In addition to that, you will find some webmaster articles here with great internet related tips and tricks.
Aug 11th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Kondiment Marketing
Thanks for tools. I used Backlink Watch’s Back Link Checker Tool and I really like it.
Aug 14th, 2008 at 6:35 am
RoWeb Design
I think that if we use all the tools to analyze a web site we are half way to success. All the tools from this post are really helpful for link building and web analysis. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Aug 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net
Thanks for sharing those tools. Some of them are on my list.. But others are not.. Thanks
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Aug 19th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Wedding Fort Lauderdale
Thanks for the list, I knew few of them but just discovered the rest of them. Keep up the good work man.
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Aug 22nd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Funny and Jokes
Thanks for sharing those tools. I was looking for some tools and at last i found them in that list
Cheers
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Aug 26th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Managed Hosting
These tools are great. I’ve used them before. For checking backlinks I really like yahoo site explorer. I think that one is the most accurate tool for checking backlinks so far.
Aug 27th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
vanle
thank you,it’s usefull for me
Sep 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
PDFoxy
Thanks for10 SEO Tools very usefull
Sep 5th, 2008 at 3:44 am