12 Free Tools to Manage Your SEO 2017

If you already have enough tools in the kit and feeling a little overwhelmed and unsure where to start first on your website, use this simple worksheet and conduct a website audit.  The worksheet will help determine which site pages you should work on first to begin optimizing your website for search.  Request a copy of the free website audit worksheet today. Related:GroupBuy SEO Tools

Otherwise if you’re the do-it-yourself (DIY) type person and want to optimize your website for search purposes, below is a list of 12 free tools used by many SEO professionals.

1. Bing Webmaster Tools – A source of research tools and resources, such as the Bing Getting Started Checklist, to help you improve your SEO on the Bing search engine
2. Copyscape – A plagiarism detection service to make sure your content isn’t being used elsewhere on the web
3. Google Adwords Keyword Planner – A way to learn what your customers are searching for, identify new keywords, and research keywords to add to your list
4. Google Analytics – Obtain website data and analytics
5. Google Trends – Search and identify trending topics to consider incorporating into your content
6. Google Webmaster Tools – Get data, tools and diagnostics for a healthy, Google-friendly site
7. Optimizely – provides tools to help you increase engagement, interactions, and conversions
8. MozBar – A web browser extension that gives valuable insights and metrics about a website; yours or somebody else’s
9. SEO ToolBar – This toolbar works on only Firefox and displays lots of useful SEO related information about the website you are on Related:GroupBuy SEO Tools
10. SEOquake – This tool provides useful data for every website displayed during a web search.
11. XML Sitemaps – A free online sitemap generator that will index up to 500 pages for any one website
12. Yoast for WordPress – This plug-in is a must for any WordPress website or blog