Online Tools For SEO, Development and Ammusement

Atlas Solutions
Microsoft Advertising ad management tool. Lots of free reports on online advertising
Google Ad Planner
Tools to help with online ad placement by defining audiences by demographics and interests and finding websites relevant to your target audience
Google AdWords Blog
Google blog post about their Ad Planner
Link Pricing
Free tool determines the approximate price per month for a text link ad for a specified web page
Pitch Rate
Free PR. Get on radio, TV and in the press. Connect with journalists. Find guests for interviews
Vericlix
Free click fraud prevention software
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                                      SEO Tools                                    

SEO Book’s: SEO for Firefox
Aaron Wall’s SEO for Firefox, is a Firefox extension that you can download and use on your Firefox browser. It was designed to append more data to Google and Yahoo’s search results for a quick and easy way to analyze your competitors. The great thing about this tool is it extremely customizable. You can tell the tool which data you want it to pull and which data you want to hide.







SEO Quake
This extension can be used in Internet Explorer or Firefox. Similar to SEO for Firefox, it appends data to each search result in the SERP’s. One of the benefits to this tool is you can save the data to a csv file.







SEO Book’s: Rank Checker
Rank Checker allows you to see where a given URL ranks in the search results for keywords and phrases that you choose. It pulls your ranking from Google, Yahoo and MSN.






Hubspot’s: Website Grader
Website Grader is a SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.






WebConfs: Search Engine Spider Simulator Tool
There are many “Spider Simulators” out there, however I feel this displays the information the cleanest. This tool will act as a search engine spider and crawl your website to show you what a search robot would see. This is a quick way to see if all of your pages are indexable or not by the search engines. This tool will also show you the content the spiders can see, as well as the meta data that is provided.

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                                Competitor Analysis Tools                               

SEMRush : Quick, Inexpensive, & Easy: This is a great tool that allows you to analyze competitive rankings, and much more. Analyze rankings by typing your top keywords into the search box. You will get the same output as going into the Google SERP directly, however, you have the added benefit of exporting this data into Excel, which is very handy. You can also access estimated monthly organic search traffic from competitors within this tool.


Open Site Explorer, powered by SEOmoz, is a fantastic tool that will allow you to understand the inbound link profile of both your own site and your competitors’ sites. Simply click on Compare Pages and add your URL and the URLs of sites you want to compare with to get a good high-level view of some main metrics.