Denver SEO Guru

When implementing a quality Search Engine Marketing and Seo Strategy to improve your website’s visibility, having a good set of free Internet Marketing Tools should be your first priority.

In this article I’m going to stick with free tools since most of what needs to be done can be accomplished with free software and online tools. This is especially important when you’re first starting out and figuring out just what you need for your situation. And, the software you pay for is not necessarily better than these free tools. What I’ve found is that the free applications are often bullet proof and work over and over again like a charm.

Below I’ve evaluated my top 10 picks for Free Seo tools and why I use them. You may already be familiar with many, but I hope you’ll check out the rest of them as I think you’ll find they may fill the holes in your SEO arsenal.

Disclaimer: Even though I’m sharing these with you and use them myself, neither I nor Intellidon Marketing officially endorses them and cannot be held responsible or liable for the success or failure of their use in your particular application (…got that out of the way).

Google Keyword Tool
This is actually called the Google AdWords Keyword Tool because it incorporates the bidding values that advertisers spend when they bid on keywords used in their Google ads and the traffic for all of the keywords from all of the users of the Google Search tool. Keyword analysis is the most critical aspect of SEO and this tool is invaluable.

Google Analytics
For corporate website tracking statistics, Google Analytics is excellent. You can identify sources of visitor traffic, how much, how long, which keywords were searched, what content they viewed, etc. You can also set up sales Goal funnels to track the visitor conversions through the paths you’ve set up on your website.

Firefox Browser
Although I use Internet Explorer for searching out of habit, when I’m doing my Seo Work, I use Firefox. The reason is the very important free plugins that can be integrated into the browser that give you some incredible insights when evaluating search listings, websites, social media and keywords.

SEOQuake
This is a powerful Firefox plugin that will help you in your SEO analysis and website promotion. It allows you to obtain and investigate many important SEO criteria in real time.

SEOBook
This Firefox rank checker plugin indentifies how Google views a site and provides numerous indications as to why a website is ranking above or below another including PR value and keywords. Its Seo Toolbar provides detailed information about any website visited.

Traffic Travis
This Seo Software is incredible, allowing you to find out why competitor websites are outranking yours and what you can do about it. It enables you to identify what you’re doing wrong with your website and how to correct it. As back links are one of the top necessities to Effective Seo, this program helps you identify the best back links to go after.

WordPress Websites
Not just for blogs, but going forward I recommend using the WordPress platform for building your websites. It’s a free content management system that Google loves. It helps organize your content and structure in an SEO relevant way. There are plugins that support your SEO efforts and others that enable you to do just about anything you need for a website. Although there are a large number of free templates (themes), you can also purchase pre-designed websites very inexpensively and easily build out your content.

Tubemogul
This free video distribution service provides a single point for publishing videos to the top video and social networking sites on the Internet. They also provide the ability to encode and create RSS feeds to syndicate your videos. With the analytics tracking, you can see who, what and where your videos are being viewed.

Article Submission
The site FreeArticleSubmission.com maintains a list of over 1,000 article directories and helps you keep track of all of the article directories you’ve submitted article to to help you maximize your link building efforts. Article directory submission is one of the best link building efforts you can do in your SEO efforts.

AdWords Editor
Every PPC (pay-per-click) campaign will begin with Google Adwords and the AdWords Editor is an excellent free software tool for managing your ad campaigns. It enables you to manage your keywords and edit your ads offline and then upload the finished campaigns at the push of a button. A tool like this really does enable you to maximize your ad campaigns exposure while keeping very tight controls on your spend, especially when running multiple campaigns and multiple ad groups to drive customers to your website.

When you’re first starting out implementing Seo Strategies and tactics, these Free Internet Marketing Tools will be invaluable. Later on down the road, if you need them, you can move on to some of the paid tools.

Author Steve Josephs is owner of Intellidon Marketing LLC, a Search Engine Marketing and SEO Services firm specializing in attracting new customers for local businesses through Online Marketing Strategies. See: Wikipedia on Search Engine Optimization.