Best SEO Tools

These are the tools that I have been using to rank websites for years. Some of them are paid for and available for free by creating an account.

This page will be updated with new recommendations and products that I find useful/not useful.

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Setting Up A Website Network

www.GoDaddy.com – Godaddy makes it very easy to register a domain, change the name servers for hosting or setup a WordPress website. Be sure to click the link to save on your order!

Namecheap.com – Namecheap is a great way to diversify your domain registrar and they provide a year free of Who Is protection. Who Is protection hides your registrar information from search engines and anyone wanting to look up that information. This can save you a ton of money if you are building a private blog network.

Name.com – Another domain registrar that you can use to purchase expired domains.

Hostgator – Hostgator is one of the most popular website hosting companies. They guarantee a 99% uptime and have very helpful customer service. I have been using host gator as my number 1 hosting provider since I started internet marketing. They make setting up websites easy with their cPanel and I have called their customer service for Website Design questions a few times (which they searched and found solutions for).

Backlink Profile Checker

Open Site Explorer – Moz’s OSE is one of the best backlink checkers because it provides metrics for the quality of links based on Domain Authority and Page Authority. The free account lets you analyze your top links, see what anchor text is being used and what DA/PA those links have. The one downfall to OSE is that it seems very conservative on the amount of backlinks that is indexes.

Majestic SEO – Majestic SEO is similar to OSE but has Citation Flow and Trust Flow as their metrics to analyze the quality of websites. CT & TF are a great way of see if a websites backlinks are from “natural” sources. Majestic SEO also provides a nice graph of your link velocity as well as a pie chart of your anchor text.

Ahrefs – Ahrefs is a great tool for looking at link velocity and your anchor text distribution. It also seems to be the most liberal on finding every backlink known to man. The variations in backlinks from ahrefs and OSE can be literally thousands sometimes.

Google Webmaster Tools – Believe it or not GWT still provides about half of the links your website has. This tool can be used for other things as well such as finding out if a website had any previous manual spam actions taken against it or if your website is being blocked by a robot.txt file.

Email Marketing

Aweber – ($19 per month) Aweber is one of the easiest ways to start list building. You here it all the time in internet marketing forums and SEO conventions “I wish I started my list building sooner.” With Aweber it makes email marketing easy by helping you step by step create a list, build your form and upload it to a website.

Rank Checking Software

MySEOTool.com – ($99 per month) When Raven SEO Tools dropped their ranking and reporting software earlier this year I panicked because my clients loved their PDF reports with charts on their SEO rankings going up (or declining). I checked out about 6-7 keyword ranking software and MySEOTool was the winner. Easily create a new campaign, add your website and keywords and then setup automated reporting and your clients will never ask you for a report again. You can also integrate Google Analytics into the PDF reports.

Rank Checker Ace – (Free account) Rank Checker Ace is probably the best free rank checking software. The websites rankings are not presented nicely but its free!