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  1. Social Mention by BrandMentions
  2. https://brandmentions.com/socialmention/
  3. Social
  4. Free real-time social mentions search & analysis
  5. Social Mention finds who’s talking about your brand or competitors in the news & social media
  6. It also offers real-time social media search and analysis. Enter a search term and see who’s sharing what, right now.
  7. Bing Webmaster Tools
  8. http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster
  9. Tools Suite, Diagnostic
  10. Similar in function to Google Webmaster Tools, Bing offers a suite of interesting research tools and resources for webmasters.
  11. Bitly
  12. https://bitly.com/
  13. Social, Analytics
  14. Most people use Bitly for URL shortening, but the real power of this platform comes from its analytics.
  15. Boomerang
  16. http://www.boomeranggmail.com/
  17. Email, Productivity
  18. Boomerang lets you follow up on emails, even when you forget. Great for link building or any time you send a lot of emails.
  19. Buffer
  20. https://bufferapp.com/
  21. Social
  22. Optimize your online social media sharing. Buffer allows you to share with your audience at the optimal times for greater visibility.
  23. BuiltWith
  24. http://builtwith.com/
  25. Competitive Intelligence
  26. Use BuiltWith to discover what technology nearly any website was, well, built with. Great for competitive intelligence as well.
  27. Buzzstream Tools Suite
  28. http://tools.buzzstream.com/link-building
  29. Link Building, Tools Suite, Email
  30. Most people know Buzzstream as an outreach platform, but they also offer a number of free link-building tools. This company gets it.
  31. Caption Tube
  32. http://captiontube.appspot.com/
  33. Video
  34. Free and easy resource used to create captions for YouTube. Helps with usability and offers viewers a readable transcript.
  35. CircleCount
  36. http://www.circlecount.com/
  37. Social, Analytics
  38. Google+ analytics ramped up. Free resource to track your followers and analyze your shares. See how many followers you’ve gained over time.
  39. Content Strategy Generator Tool
  40. http://seogadget.com/content-strategy-ge...v2-update/
  41. Content
  42. This tool from SEOgadget helps you plan your content strategy intelligently, using keyword research and estimating your audience size.
  43. Convert Word Documents to Clean HTML
  44. http://word2cleanhtml.com/
  45. Content, Productivity
  46. Despite the rise of Google Docs, Word still dominates much of the world. Copying and pasting has always been a hurdle, but this tool makes it easy.
  47. Copyscape
  48. http://www.copyscape.com/
  49. Content
  50. Copyscape serves both as a plagiarism checker and a duplicate-content checker. Great to use if your content has been distributed across the web.
  51. Domain Hunter Plus
  52. http://domainhunterplus.com/
  53. Link Building
  54. This magic extension for Chrome not only helps you find important broken links, but also tells you if the links point to an available domain.
  55. Easel.ly
  56. http://www.easel.ly/
  57. Infographics
  58. Free tools for creating and sharing inforgraphics. The templates allow anyone to create a professional-looking graphic.
  59. Email Format
  60. http://email-format.com/
  61. Email, Productivity
  62. Email Format helps you find the proper structure for thousands of companies and organizations across the web.
  63. FindPeopleonPlus
  64. http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/
  65. Social
  66. The ultimate Google+ directory that’s great for research, outreach, and link building. Sort by keywords, profession, country, and more.
  67. Frobee Robots.txt Checker
  68. http://www.frobee.com/robots-txt-check
  69. Robots.txt, Technical SEO
  70. Many robots.txt files contain hidden errors not easily visible to humans. Run your file through this tool and you never know what you’ll discover.
  71. GetListed
  72. https://getlisted.org/
  73. Local, Moz
  74. This awesome local SEO tool scores your local SEO visibility and gives you actionable next steps to raise your score.
  75. Google Keyword Planner
  76. http://adwords.google.com/keywordplanner
  77. Keyword Research
  78. The tool to replace Google’s popular keyword tool has been derided by some, but still offers data not available anywhere else.
  79. Google Analytics
  80. http://www.google.com/analytics/
  81. Analytics
  82. The most popular of all the analytics tools available, Google Analytics continually innovates and sets the standard.
  83. Google Analytics API
  84. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008004?hl=en
  85. API, Analytics
  86. The Google Analytics API is great for building custom reports and tools, and also for pulling data straight into Excel or Google Docs.
  87. Google Map Maker
  88. http://www.google.com/mapmaker
  89. Local
  90. Among other things, Google Map Maker allows you to contribute to public map information, which may be shared and incorporated into Google Maps.
  91. Google PageSpeed Insights
  92. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
  93. Speed
  94. Tools, data, and insights to improve your page speed. Page speed is correlated with better rankings and user engagement, so this matters.
  95. Google Public Data
  96. http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
  97. Content
  98. Drawing on vast public databases, Google public data offers a great starting point for content research, infographics, and more.
  99. Google SERP Snippet Optimization Tool
  100. http://www.seomofo.com/snippet-optimizer.html
  101. Technical SEO, CRO
  102. That SEO Mofo! Use this tool to see how your snippet may appear in Google’s search results. Add structured data, review stars, and more.
  103. Google Structured Data Testing Tool
  104. http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
  105. Structured Data, Technical SEO
  106. If you use Schema.org microformats or any other type of structured data, this tool will verify your markup.
  107. Google Trends
  108. http://www.google.com/trends/
  109. Keyword Research
  110. See what’s trending in Google search results and view keyword search popularity over time. A must for trends.
  111. Google Webmaster
  112. http://www.google.com/webmasters/
  113. Tools Suite, Diagnostic
  114. The interface recently received an overhaul, and Google Webmaster remains a must-have resource of diagnostic and health tools for site owners.
  115. IFTTT
  116. https://ifttt.com/
  117. Productivity
  118. IFTTT stands for IF This, Then That. The tool allows you to create automatic triggers between various apps, like Gmail and Twitter.
  119. Infogr.am
  120. http://infogr.am/
  121. Infographics
  122. A great free Infographics resource that allows you to easily create graphics and data visualizations.
  123. Internet Marketing Ninjas SEO Tools
  124. http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/tools/
  125. Tools Suite
  126. The Ninjas are some of the best SEOs and online marketers out there, and they’ve put some of their best tools online for free.
  127. Linkstant
  128. http://www.linkstant.com/
  129. Link Building
  130. This nifty analytics tool alerts you anytime someone links to your website. Great for outreach and intelligence gathering.
  131. Linksy.me Email Guesser
  132. http://linksy.me/find-email
  133. Email, Link Building
  134. Need to send an email, but you don’t have the recipient’s address? Type in what you know and this nifty tool will help you figure it out.
  135. MailTester.com
  136. http://mailtester.com/
  137. Email
  138. Need to send an email to an untested address, but you don’t want to spam them? Check it first with this mail tester to verify.
  139. MozCast
  140. http://mozcast.com/
  141. SERP Tracking, Moz
  142. Want to know if Google is testing its algorithm this week? MozCast gives you a daily weather report to track changes in the SERPs.
  143. MyBlogGuest
  144. http://myblogguest.com/
  145. Link Building, Content
  146. Guest blogging is still alive and thriving. MyBlogGuest helps you find the good opportunities out there.
  147. Panguin Tool
  148. http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/
  149. Analytics
  150. This awesome tool connects with your Google Analytics account to help you see if and when you’ve been hit by Google Algorithm updates.
  151. Pingdom
  152. http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
  153. Speed
  154. Pingdom offers an entire suite of speed tools to help analyze page load, DNS issues, and connectivity.
  155. Piwik
  156. http://piwik.org/
  157. Analytics
  158. Piwik is a lightweight web analytics solution, and a great alternative to Google Analytics.
  159. Rank Checker for Firefox
  160. http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/
  161. Rank Tracking
  162. This light and easy desktop tool checks rankings with the click of a button. Quick, easy and free.
  163. Rapportive
  164. http://rapportive.com/
  165. Email, Link Building, Productivity
  166. Rapportive works with your Gmail inbox to give you near-instant rich contact information for almost everyone you want to reach. A must-have for marketers.
  167. Remove Duplicate Items
  168. http://ontolo.com/tools-remove-duplicates
  169. Productivity
  170. Ontolo offers a suite of link building software and a few helpful productivity tools for link builders. The remove duplicates tool solves a common problem.
  171. Robots.txt Checker
  172. http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml
  173. Robots.txt, Technical SEO
  174. Use robots best practices and discover hidden errors in your robots.txt files that may cause search engine crawling problems.
  175. Schema Creator
  176. http://schema-creator.org/
  177. Structured Data, Technical SEO
  178. Everyone loves using Schema.org, but the microformats are difficult to write by hand. This generator from the folks at Raven simplifies the task.
  179. Scraper for Chrome
  180. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scraper/
  181. Productivity
  182. If you’ve never scraped a webpage, you’re missing out. Scraper for Chrome puts the power of simple web scraping in your hands without the need for code.
  183. Seer Toolbox
  184. http://www.seerinteractive.com/seo-toolbox/
  185. Tools Suite, Analytics, Link Research
  186. SEER opened up its internal toolbox for everyone in the world to use. These are the same tools used in-house at SEER, and they rock.
  187. SEO Toolbar
  188. http://tools.seobook.com/seo-toolbar/
  189. Tools Suite, Toolbar, Technical SEO
  190. On of the most popular tools available, The SEO Toolbar puts a ton of information at your fingertips including backlinks and competitive research.
  191. SEO Tools for Excel
  192. http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools/
  193. Tools Suite, Analytics, Social
  194. You don’t need to be an Excel ninja to use Niels Bosma’s SEO Tools for Excel. This plugin does so many things many SEOs won’t work without it.
  195. SEOgadget Links API
  196. http://seogadget.com/api/
  197. API, Link Research
  198. The SEOgadget Links API lets you easily gather not only backlink data but contact information as well. A huge time saver.
  199. SEOgadget Tools
  200. http://seogadget.com/tools/
  201. Tools Suite
  202. This suite of tools from the Gadget lab includes several Excel plugins, a content strategy generator, and more.
  203. SEOQuake
  204. http://www.seoquake.com/
  205. Toolbar, Tools Suite, Technical SEO
  206. More raw data than any other SEO toolbar out there.
  207. SharedCount
  208. http://www.sharedcount.com/
  209. Social, Analytics
  210. Want to know how any piece of content was shared socially across the major services? This is the tool to use.
  211. SharedCount API
  212. http://www.sharedcount.com/documentation.php
  213. API, Social
  214. Harnessing the combined statistics of Google+, Twitter, Facebook, and more, the SharedCount API puts a ton of social data at your fingertips.
  215. Similar Page Checker
  216. http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php
  217. Content, Technical SEO
  218. Use this tool to check for duplicate content issues. The Similar Page Checker will give you a score of how closely the HTML of two pages resemble each other.
  219. Sitemap Generators
  220. http://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generat...Generators
  221. Sitemaps
  222. Google offers a slew of free, top-notch sitemap generators. Most of these live on your server and generate new sitemaps automatically.
  223. Social Authority API
  224. https://followerwonk.com/social-authority
  225. API, Social
  226. How much reach and social authority do your followers have? How about the people you’re trying to connect with? The free Social Authority API will tell you.
  227. Social Crawlytics
  228. https://socialcrawlytics.com/
  229. Social, Analytics
  230. Social Crawlytics allows you to conduct competitive research by showing you your competitors’ most-shared content. Lots of other features as well.
  231. Anchor Text Over Optimization Tool
  232. http://www.removeem.com/ratios.php
  233. Link Research, Technical SEO
  234. Worried about Google’s Penguin algorithm hitting you for over-optimized anchor text? Simply type in your URL for a full report of which links might raise flags.
  235. Text Cleaner
  236. http://www.textcleanr.com/
  237. Content
  238. Some of the best tools solve the simplest problems. Text cleaner cleans up all kinds of text formatting when copying and pasting between aplications.
  239. Ubersuggest
  240. http://ubersuggest.org/
  241. Keyword Research
  242. Every SEO loves Ubersuggest for its ease of use and wealth of keyword research ideas. Utilizing the power of Google Suggest, it returns hundreds of potential results.
  243. URI Valet
  244. http://urivalet.com/
  245. Technical SEO
  246. A great tool for digging into server headers, canonical information, analyzing redirect problems and more.
  247. Virante SEO Tools
  248. http://www.virante.org/seo-tools
  249. Tools Suite
  250. Virant offers a number of high quality SEO tools to the public. These are often the same tools developed for the Virant team, opened up for public use.
  251. Wayback Machine
  252. http://archive.org/web/web.php
  253. Competitive Intelligence
  254. Want to see the history of your website or your competitor’s site? The Wayback Machine allows you to step back in time and track important changes.
  255. WebPagetest
  256. http://www.webpagetest.org/
  257. Speed
  258. Quick and easy website speed tool. Offers suggestions for improving performance.
  259. Wordle
  260. http://www.wordle.net/
  261. Content
  262. Create beautiful word clouds. Great for visualizations, graphics, and research.
  263. Wordstream Free Keyword Tools
  264. http://www.wordstream.com/free-keyword-tools
  265. Keyword Research, Tools Suite
  266. In addition to its paid offerings, Wordstream offers a suite of free keyword tools offering access to thousands of keyword suggestions.
  267. Xenu’s Link Sleuth
  268. http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
  269. Diagnostic, Technical SEO
  270. Winner of the ugliest-SEO-tool-on-the-planet award, Xenu is also one of the most useful. Crawl entire sites, find broken links, create sitemaps, and more.
  271. XML-Sitemaps.com
  272. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
  273. Sitemaps
  274. XML-Sitemaps offers probably the easiest sitemap creation solution anywhere. Great for smaller sites when you need a sitemap in minutes.
  275. Yahoo Pipes
  276. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
  277. Content, Productivity
  278. A great mashup tool that combines different feeds into content and other magical creations. Used for link building and whatever you can dream of.
  279. Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin
  280. http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
  281. Technical SEO
  282. If you could only choose one WordPress plugin for you site, the first would be from Yoast, and so would the second. This one sets the standard.
  283. YouTube Analytics
  284. https://www.youtube.com/analytics
  285. Video, Analytics
  286. Offers video-specific analytics for YouTube videos. A must-have for YouTube video publishers.
  287. Free and Paid
  288. Ahrefs
  289. https://ahrefs.com/
  290. Link Research, Link Building
  291. One of the more popular link research tools, Ahrefs offers a large index and nice anchor text distribution charts. Mostly a paid tool, but they offer some free data.
  292. Banana Tag
  293. http://bananatag.com/
  294. Email
  295. Banana Tag allows you to track your emails after you send them. For example, check your email open rates from Gmail.
  296. CloudFlare
  297. https://www.cloudflare.com/
  298. Speed
  299. How do they make CloudFlare free? It works both as a CDN and a security service to provide your website with speed and safety.
  300. Followerwonk
  301. https://followerwonk.com/
  302. Social, Analytics, Moz
  303. Perhaps the coolest thing about Followerwonk is the ability to track your followers. Smart SEOs also use it for outreach and research.
  304. Keyword Eye
  305. http://www.keywordeye.com/
  306. Keyword Research
  307. Keyword eye adds a twist to keyword research by adding rich visualizations — essential when you want to move beyond keywords to valuable concepts.
  308. KnowEm
  309. http://knowem.com/
  310. Social
  311. KnowEm allows you to check 100’s of social profiles at once to check availability. Looking for the perfect brand name? Check KnowEm first.
  312. Majestic SEO
  313. http://www.majesticseo.com/
  314. Link Research, Competitive Intelligence, Link Building
  315. You’ve probably seen Majestic SEO link charts all over the Internet. Great crawling technology combined with several free options make for great link research.
  316. Majestic SEO API
  317. http://blog.majesticseo.com/general/maje...explained/
  318. API, Link Research
  319. Majestic makes much of its backlink data available for free via its API.
  320. MozBar
  321. http://moz.com/tools/seo-toolbar
  322. Tools Suite, Toolbar, Moz
  323. The standard SEO toolbar for legions of marketers, the MozBar allows you to perform over 50 key tasks right from your browser. Highly recommended.
  324. Mozscape API
  325. http://moz.com/products/api
  326. API, Link Research, Moz
  327. Companies everywhere incorporate the Mozscape API into their own products, but it’s also available to individuals, and much of the data is free.
  328. nTopic
  329. http://www.ntopic.org/
  330. Content
  331. nTopic is one of the few proven methods for giving your content a relevancy score and offering keyword suggestions to improve it.
  332. Open Site Explorer
  333. http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
  334. Link Research, Moz, Competitive Intelligence, Link Building
  335. When Google and Yahoo started removing backlink data from the public, Moz built Open Site Explorer to fill a huge need. See backlinks, anchor text, popularity metrics and more.
  336. Piktochart
  337. http://piktochart.com/
  338. Infographics
  339. A cute and easy infographic generator. No experience required.
  340. RowFeeder
  341. https://rowfeeder.com/
  342. Social, Analytics
  343. RowFeeder allows you to track social usernames, hashtags and keywords and load that information into Excel for easy social media monitoring.
  344. Screaming Frog
  345. http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/
  346. Diagnostic, Technical SEO
  347. A powerful website crawling tool with a ton of features and customizations. A must-have for most serious SEOs.
  348. Searchmetrics Visibility Charts
  349. http://suite.searchmetrics.com/en/research
  350. SERP Tracking, Competitive Intelligence
  351. Track the search visibility of any website, in addition to tracking winners and losers in Google’s search results.
  352. SEMrush
  353. http://www.semrush.com/
  354. Tools Suite, Keyword Research, Competitive Intelligence
  355. The paid and organic keyword data offered by SEMrush is often scary good and comprehensive. Also great for researching competitors’ ads.
  356. SERPmetrics
  357. http://serpmetrics.com/flux/
  358. SERP Tracking, Competitive Intelligence
  359. SERPmetrics flux charts track the flux for US search results across Yahoo, Bing and Google over a 30-day period. A paid API is also available.
  360. SimilarWeb
  361. http://www.similarweb.com/
  362. Competitive Intelligence
  363. Impressive competitive intelligence across a number of online industries. Competitor website stats are hard to come by, but Similar Web does a good job.
  364. StatCounter
  365. http://statcounter.com/
  366. Analytics
  367. Free, quick, and lightweight analytics solution. Often used by those who want to avoid using Google Analytics for privacy reasons.
  368. Trello
  369. https://trello.com/
  370. Productivity
  371. Project management and tracking made simple. Used and endorsed by Moz.
  372. Whitespark Local Citation Finder
  373. https://www.whitespark.ca/local-citation-finder/
  374. Local
  375. Finding local citations is key to local SEO. Whitespark offers a number of free and paid solutions to find the local citations to rise above the competition.
  376. Whois Lookup
  377. http://whois.domaintools.com/
  378. Competitive Intelligence
  379. Find registration, contact, and administrative information for any domain.
  380. Wistia
  381. http://wistia.com/
  382. Video
  383. The king of online video, Wistia offers SEO-friendly solutions for video hosting. Both free and low-cost options available.
  384. Free Trials
  385. Moz Analytics
  386. http://moz.com/products
  387. Tools Suite, Diagnostic, Moz, Rank Tracking, Social
  388. The flagship of the Moz software suite, Moz Analytics offers a dashboard of all your important marketing data in one place with actionable analytics for better marketing.
  389. Optimizely
  390. https://www.optimizely.com/
  391. A/B Testing, CRO
  392. Easy A/B testing and analytics to help you move toward success in your CRO efforts.
  393. Raven
  394. http://raventools.com/
  395. Tools Suite, Diagnostic, Content, Social
  396. Raven offers a classic suite of SEO, content, and research tools popular with many marketers.
  397. Visual Website Optimizer
  398. https://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
  399. A/B Testing, CRO
  400. Visual Website Optimizer allows you to run A/B tests with a simple online editor that lets you test content without knowing code.
  401. Wordtracker
  402. http://www.wordtracker.com/
  403. Keyword Research
  404. A powerful keyword research suite used by many top marketers, Wordtracker offers a generous free trial option.

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