Best Free SEO Tools (Tried & Tested)
Looking for a listing of the foremost useful free SEO tools? Look no further.
The response was INSANE.
We got quite 50 suggestions. And our thread is now 3rd hottest thereon subreddit.
But we didn't stop there. We tried and tested all the suggestions, and whittled them right right down to a manageable list of the 29 most useful free SEO tools.
If you're on an honest budget, this list should serve you well.
Let's start .
1. Google Keyword Planner, Analytics, Search Console, etc.
Google makes variety of the only free SEO tools. Period.
Find and research keywords with Keyword Planner.
Identify trends with, um, Trends.
Uncover and fix technical and on-page issues with Search Console.
Analyze what percentage people are visiting your website, who they're , and where they're available from with Analytics.
Gather, process, and analyze all kinds of SEO data with Sheets.
Check how briskly your site loads with Pagespeed Insights.
If you're new SEO, you need to start with these tools before watching any others.
2. Ahrefs' Free Backlink Checker
Ahrefs group buy Backlink Checker shows the very best 100 backlinks to any website or website for free of charge of charge .
It also unveils the five most linked-to pages, commonest anchor texts, and thus the entire number of backlinks and referring domains. You'll also see our proprietary Domain Rating (DR) and URL Rating (UR) scores there too.
It's powered by the same industry-leading database as our premium version. Some stats:
16 TRILLION known links;
176 MILLION unique domains;
6 A BILLION pages crawled a day
Our backlink index is updated with fresh data every quarter-hour so as that you're going to seize new link opportunities immediately.
Of course, it's still quite limited compared to the entire version of our backlink checker, but you'll still get many value from it for free of charge of charge .
3. Answer the overall public
Answer the overall public fetches Google autocomplete queries in bulk and divides them into various lists. That's very useful for uncovering the questions people are asking in Google.
And better of all, it's free to use... with limitations.
Tools like Soovle, Keyword Shitter, and Keywordtool.io do much the same thing.
4. Beam Us Up
Beam Us Up could also be a free SEO crawler. It's a superb alternative to Screaming Frog. However, it's only available for Windows.
If you're a Mac user, don't forget that Screaming Frog will crawl up to 500 sites for free of charge of charge (with limited functionality).
5. Yoast SEO
Running WordPress? Yoast is perhaps the only SEO plugin you'll ever need.
Use it to optimize meta tags and content, generate instant sitemaps, and much more.
In the screenshot above, it's getting wont to line the title tag and meta description for one of our recent blog posts.
6. SEMrush
Semrush group buy could also be a well-liked SEO tool that focuses on keyword research, competitor analysis and Google ad campaign optimization this is often often the whole number of keywords that a site ranks for.
In my opinion, this metric isn't super helpful. After all, let's say a site ranks on 2nd page for 1,000 different keywords. Those 1,000 keywords send almost zero traffic thereto site. Because this metric doesn't specialize in keywords that rank within the highest 10, it's not that useful.
Second, you've "Traffic".
This is an estimate of what proportion monthly traffic that site gets from search engines:
7. LinkMiner
LinkMiner could also be a Chrome extension that permits you to see any website for broken links on the fly. It's useful for locating broken link building opportunities.
You can export the entire list of scraped links to a CSV with just one click, which includes status code information, link type, and more.
If you discover plenty of broken links on a page with LinkMiner, do this: Export them to CSV, paste the entire list into Ahrefs' Batch Analysis tool, and sort by the referring domains column (high to low).
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