In this video you’re going to see my favorite SEO tools right now.
And did I mention that they’re all free? Well, they are.
Now, to be clear: this isn’t just a list of tools. That’s not super valuable. Especially for a video.
So what I’m going to do in this video is show you how to get the most out the SEO tools that I talk about. Including how I personally use each of them.
For example, one of the tools on the list is called Seed Keywords. This is one of those tools that a lot of people sleep on. But to me, it can be SUPER valuable. That is, if you know how to use it.
And in the beginning of the video I show you how to use this free SEO tool the right way.
It’s the same story for the other tools on my list, including Exploding Topics, The Google Search Console, and more.
For each of the tools I’ll show you what each tool is. And what it does. But I’ll also give you tactical ways to squeeze the most value out of each one.
So yeah, I hope you enjoy this list of my 9 favorite free SEO tools that I use all the time.
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Additional SEO Resources
SEO For Beginners: A Basic Search Engine Optimization Tutorial for Higher Google Rankings ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvwS7cV9GmQ
Keyword Research Tutorials For SEO ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2u5JCtiYWfvnSvAkoPwg5VY
On-Page SEO Checklist for Higher Google Rankings ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDYjjkvtOVo&
Link Building Tutorials (Step-By-Step) ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2tjUTuAHpHidz5e2hAedP_m
Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar ► https://ahrefs.com/seo-toolbar
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Over the past year, we’ve released around 14 free SEO tools. So, this tutorial is going to show you how to use them together and hopefully gain some traction from organic search.
The first free SEO tool is Ahrefs’ Webmaster Tools or AWT. AWT includes two of our core tools and will work for any websites you own. The first tool in AWT is Site Audit, which will scan your website for over 100 technical and on-page SEO issues and organize them into digestible reports.
If you’re unsure of what to do with these issues, we also provide details on what the issues are and how to fix them.
The second tool in AWT is Site Explorer, which lets you check backlinks and search traffic data.
In Site Explorer, you’ll see top-level metrics for your website like, Domain Rating, total backlinks, total referring domains, which are just unique websites that link to you, the number of keywords your site ranks for, and the estimated search traffic to your website.
You’ll also see an interactive graph that shows how fast you’re acquiring backlinks from unique websites, which is a good indicator of your website’s popularity on the web.
Site Explorer also allows you to see the keywords your website ranks for. Just go to the organic keywords report and you’ll see the keywords you’re ranking for, their search volumes, keyword difficulty scores, and the positions we saw these pages ranking in on this date.
You’ll learn how to use these tools in the video.
The next free SEO tool is Ahrefs Backlink Checker.
With our free backlink checker tool, you can see the top 100 backlinks pointing at a URL or domain.
How do you use our Backlink Checker tool? You’ll learn how in the video.
The next free SEO tool is Ahrefs’ Keyword Generator.
This tool lets you find keyword ideas for search engines like Google, Bing, YouTube, and Amazon. Just select your search engine and enter a broad keyword related to your niche.
We’ll then show you the top 100 keywords that include your phrase along with search volumes and keyword difficulty scores for the top 10 keywords.
It’s best if you can combine the next free SEO tool with Keyword Generator. And that tool is Ahrefs’ SERP Checker.
SERP checker shows you the top 10 rankings PLUS the SEO metrics for the top 3 pages. And beyond metrics, you can see non-personalized search results from 171 countries.
How do you use SERP Checker and Keyword Generator together? You’ll learn how in the video.
And finally, the last free SEO tool is Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar.
It allows you to see redirect paths and HTTP headers for any page, scan pages for broken outgoing links, see an on-page SEO report, and more.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:34 How Ahrefs Webmaster Tool (AWT) works
4:44 See competitors links with Ahrefs Backlink Checker
5:32 Find keywords with Ahrefs Keywords Generator
6:18 Review Google’s top pages with Ahrefs SERP Checker
7:07 Check SEO metrics with Ahrefs SEO Toolbar
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In today’s tutorial I’m going to share with you 7 free tools that will help you rank #1 on Google. Learn these SEO optimization techniques and skyrocket your rankings on Google! If you’re new to the world of SEO (search engine optimization), these seven free tools will go a long way in helping you formulate a strategy for reaching your goals.
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Tool #1. Google Search Console
Google Search Console will show you all the keywords that you’re ranking for that are driving the majority of your traffic.
By creating your own headline or title tag that’s more appealing, as well as including the keyword, you’re more likely to get clicks.
Tool #2. Ubersuggest
Google Search Console has already showed you what keywords you’re getting traffic for. If you plug these keywords into Ubersuggest, it will show you all the long tail variations of those keywords. If you already rank for the headterms, it’s really easy to rank for the long tail terms.
Tool #3. Yoast SEO Plugin
This plugin will make your life so much easier if you run your website on WordPress.
Yoast SEO Plugin will help you optimize your code, title tags, meta description and create a XML sitemap.
Tool #4. Websiteresponsivetest.com
Your site needs to be mobile compatible and putting your website into this tool will tell you, if your website is responsive and mobile friendly.
Tool #5. Google Trends
By creating a brand, you’re going to do better on Google.
And Google Trends shows you how your brand is doing compared to other people. You want the bigger brand and Google Trends will show this.
Tool #6. Google PageSpeed insights
More people use Google on their mobile devices than on their desktop computers. That’s why speed is so important. Google has an index just for mobile sites. So, you want to ensure that your website loads as fast as possible.
Tool #7. Keywords Everywhere
Keywords Everywhere plugin will show you how many people are searching for your terms and related keywords as you’re using Google. It’ll give you more keyword ideas, because you can see the search volume and how good some of these keywords are.
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My 7 Favorite Free SEO Tools to Get Page #1 Rankings on Google | SEO takes too much time to do it manually, and if you unautomate a big chunk of your SEO work, you don’t need to break the bank to do it. Over the last sixteen years of being a SEO, I figured out the right tools to use to help you rank number one on Google. Today, I’m going to share my seven favorite free SEO tools that’ll help you get on page one of Google.
Now, before I dive into the tools, I’m going to break down them into three main categories. They’re going to be keyword research, then I’m going to go into link building, and then technical SEO.
So the tools will fit into one of those three categories. So let’s first start with keyword research.
The first tool I have for you is FAQ Fox. Most people think only as keywords instead of thinking of problem.
When someone’s looking for a new phone, chances are they’re not satisfied with their old phone. When someone’s looking up a math equation, chances are they don’t know the solution, hence, they’re looking it up.
FAQ Fox finds you questions that people want to be answered based on specific site that you want information from.
The second tool that I have for you is Ubersuggest Keyword Ideas. Ubersuggest has recently expanded its database from being a simple keyword tool where it has just basic terms, seed terms like marketing, to now over 1.2 million suggestions per keyword.
My favorite feature within the Keyword Ideas Report is the Comparisons Report, and the reason being is it’ll give you all the keywords that are comparison-based.
Typically, when someone’s searching for comparison-based keywords such as “Mailchimp versus ConvertKit,” they’ve already determined that they’re going to make a purchase.
The question is, what solution are they going to make?
Now, with Ubersuggest, it also shows you the search volume, the paid difficulty, the organic difficulty, and it even shows you all the other sites that are ranking, as well as how many backlinks they have, as well as social shares.
The second category of tools I have for you are related to link building. One of my favorite tools out there is a MozBar.
So the more authority that these sites have, and the more relevant they are, and when they link to you, it’s going to do way better than, let’s say, if Joe the Plumber linked to you.
See, with the MozBar, whenever you visit any website, it’ll tell you their domain authority and their page authority. It’s great to know which sites you should be focusing on when it comes to your link building versus which sites you need to ignore because it’s just not worth the time and effort.
The next tool I have for you is Backlinks by Ubersuggest. It’s another great tool!
All you have to do is go to Ubersuggest, type in a URL, click on the Backlinks button in the left navigation. When you do that, you’ll see the Backlinks Report. It’ll tell you the domain score of the site. It’ll tell you the authority of all the URLs linking to that site. It’ll even tell you the anchor text, the link growth over time, how many new links are getting over each and every single day, and how many links are losing each and every single day.
You’ll even see anchor text. You’ll even see things like how many no follow links a website has versus do follow, when these links first came to that site, when they link out. You’ll see when the link is also lost, the exact date.
Now, what I mainly use the Ubersuggest Backlinks Report for is typing in my competitor URLs, seeing what pages on their site are popular, what’s getting the most links, and I typically start from there.
The third category of tools I have for you are related to technical SEO. So let’s start with the Panguin Tool.
The next tool I have for you is Structured Data Markup Helper.
Look, if you want to maximize your voice traffics, over 50% of the searches now are voice-based, this will help. If you want things like rich snippets,if you want those star ratings, you need Structure Markup.
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STOP Paying for SEO Tools – The Only 4 Tools You Need to Rank #1 in Google | When I got started in SEO, there were dozen of tools out there. They were all expensive, and, hey, unless you wanted rankings, you would have to pay for one of these tools. But times have changed. There’s not just dozens of tools now, there’s hundreds of tools. And because of that, there’s a lot of free ones as well. Today, I’m going to breakdown why you should stop paying for SEO tools, and only use these four free tools if you want to rank number one on Google.
So, tool number one. You ready for this? Google Search Console.
Here’s what I love Google Search Console for. I do a comparison of my traffic right now, for the last 30 days, to my traffic six months ago. And I look for the pages that have the biggest drop off in impressions and clicks. I now know that these are the pages that I need to go back on my site, go and adjust and update.
You may add some videos if you think that helps improve the experience. You delete the stuff that doesn’t make sense. You shorn out the fluff, because sometimes, you may have just long articles because you were trying keyword stuff.
The second tool I have for you is Structured Data Markup Helper. Look, if you want those star ratings on your site, you want to be included in the rich snippets, you want your listing to stand out, you got to use structured data.
But how do you use structured data? Well, it’s complicated because depending on the type of website you have, the structured data is going to look different.
So that way, when someone’s doing a search on Google, they can see all those little breadcrumbs, and that helps increase your click-through rate.
The third tool I have for you, Google Trends. This is super important. The reason being is if your brand continually gets searched more and more, you’ll notice that your rankings increase. So, it’s all about brand building. And you’ll find, “Hey, Neil, “why do I need to increase my brand?” Well, Google, Facebook, and all the social sites out there have issues of fake news.
And Google Trends shows you that.
Now, last but not least, another free tool, Ubersuggest. If you want to do SEO, Ubersuggest has the features of Moz, SEMrush, Ahrefs, pretty much the majority 80 plus percent of their features for free.
So, if you want to site audit, well there’s an SEO audit report in Ubersuggest that breaks down your load time, your title tags, your meta description, your code errors, your URL issues, your redirect issues.
And it tells you how to fix each of them. And it breaks down in priority on which ones you should change first to get the maximum amount of traffic. You’re looking for more keywords to go after? Ubersuggest also has a keyword ideas report.
And the keyword ideas report shows you all the keywords that you can go after. According to Jumpshot, roughly 49% of the searches that happen on Google get no clicks. Well, with Ubersuggest, they’ll show you keywords that are based on questions, comparisons, prepositions.
These are all high intent keywords. So if you after them in your copy, you’ll find that you’ll get more clicks, more traffic, and those visitors that are aligning on your site will convert because you’re not just going after generic keywords now. There’s also backlinks report.
You can put in any URL of your competitor or your site. Shows you who links to them. And then you can hit up all those people, assume you put in a competitor URL, and ask them to link back to your site if your content’s better.
This will give you an idea of the type of content you should produce versus the type of content you shouldn’t produce.
And, of course, last but not least, there’s a traffic analyzer report that shows you how much traffic your competitors are getting versus you. So you have a rough comparison of what you need to do to improve your traffic.
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