If you own any website’/blog, and have been in this field for quite some time, then you must be familiar that in order to make some bucks online, your website must rank high in the search engines, for your targeted keywords. Search Engine Optimization is highly necessary to get organic traffic. The search engine optimization includes many tactics such as building links, doing keyword research etc. These tasks are damn hard to do, but thanks to SEO tools that make our work easy. There are many SEO tools meant to help you in optimizing your website for search engines. Picking up the best SEO tools is not any simple task. But you don’t need to worry about it, as we are here with the list of 5 best SEO tools for 2013.
Google Adwords Keyword Tool
If you are performing the things randomly without doing any keyword research, then let me tell you that you are surely going to feel sorry for this later on. Keyword Research is highly important as it helps you target the right keyword to use in your content. There are many tools to perform keyword research, but most of them are paid. Well, who cars about any other tool, when we’ve something from big ‘G’? Google Adwords Keyword Tool lets you do keyword research for free, and that also in very effective manner.
KeywordSpy
The competition in the virtual world of web is at its peak. It’s highly necessary to have the knowledge about tactics of your competitor. KeywordSpy helps you in knowing about the optimizing tactics being used by your competitors. The tool also tells that if your competitor is bidding for any PPC campaign.
SimilarSites
SimilarSites is a free online tool that is helpful for both normal visitors and webmasters. Talking about its use for the webmasters, they can easily check out the similar sites related to any particular site. This is the best and simplest way to check out the sites which are focusing the same niche that you are. Since this online tool is quite simple to use, so you don’t need to be expert make its perfect use.
SEOmoz
If you have ever search the web for any SEO related query, then the chances are quite high that you are familiar with SEOmoz. It is the best website to find all SEO related articles which are written by SEO professionals. The website has got great content to solve many of your SEO related queries. The Q&A portion of the site is just incredible where you can ask your SEO related questions to get answers from SEO experts. The site offers many SEO tools which come with trial version.
Google Analytics
All of your SEO tactics are near to waste if you don’t know their output. You must have the knowledge about how your SEO tactics are going. For which keywords you are getting and from where. Google Analytics is a free and best tool to do so. Most of the webmasters use this tool to track traffic on their website(s).
Author Bio:
Raj is a professional blogger and co-owner of several tech blogs including TechieDrive and TechieFusion
i know another free online backlinks checker: http://siteexplorer.info, this tool is similar with ahrefs, they are so good at checking backlinks, but the difference is that the one i said is free and no limit, it is just like a perfect ahrefs.