All entries for Thursday 28 January 2010

Free SEO Tools worth trying out.

Writing about web page http://www.nb2bc.co.uk/login_required/toolboxes/?return=/toolboxes/

I have used a variety of the SEO tools over the years. This week I’ve needed to get out the whole set to analyse one website.

The Links to your page tools generated the widest range of answers. Google’s links: (use info: to see their set) is the most conservative. Some say it only reports links from sites with a PageRank of 4 or more but I have seen too many exceptions to this rule. It failed completely for my site with 1 external & 2 internal links. Yahoo’s SiteExplorer with its excellent filters produces 17 links. The venerable SiteReportCard reports 7 for Google using www.domainname.co.uk -site:www.domainname.co.uk. I like the simplicity of the SiteReportCard so that with some limitations it is easy to train clients up to use it. Their transpanency also allowed that last search to be done with the link text “Domain Name” -site:www.domainname.co.uk and this revealed 65 links with many strong news stories.

Another different picture was generated by our colleagues at the NB2BC. Their SEO combination tool collects together the links from each site and gives the PageRank of the top level of that site. This is probably the best combination tool I have used recently and worth logging in at the NB2BC tools page .

All of these tools do reward your time in understanding them, their strengths and limitations.

Robert McGonigle : 28 Jan 2010 12:34 |  Tags: Free Web Tools Search Tools Seo Tools |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem