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Jul 17 2008
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Online SEO Tools - the Ultimate Collection

All tools listed below fall under the following criteria:
they are all useful for SEOs;
they are all web-based (no desk-top ones or FireFox extensions so far);
they are all free.
If you know of any online SEO tools that were not mentioned here, please comment and I will update the post. I will do my best to continuously update the article to delete the tools that are no more available and add new ones.
Table of Contents:
Backlink Analyzing Online SEO Tools;
Keyword Research and Brainstorming Tools: Keyword Brainstorming Tools;
Social Media Based Keyword Analyzers;
Online Dictionaries and Glossaries that Help with Keyword Research Domain Name Online Tools;
On-Site Analysis Online SEO Tools: On-page Keyword Prominence Research Tools;
SEO Browsers;
Page Size and Load Time Checkers;
Additional Site Diagnostics Tools; Search Related Online Tools: Keyword Rank Checking Tools;
Tools that Compare Different Search Engine Results; Website Traffic and Demographics Report. 1. Backlink Analyzing Online SEO Tools

Options / Tools
Smart

backlinks
Analyze

Back Links

(currently not working)
Link

Diagnosis
Link Hounds Yahoo Backlink Info Checks links to
Page
Page
Domain
Domain, page, all deep links Best feature
Fast and smooth
Keyword-in-anchor-text search
Multiple sorting and filtering options
Data organization based on the linking domain Anchor Text
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- PR
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- Linking page outbound links
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Inaccurate
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- Nofollow highlight
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- Firefox Extension
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- Sorting options
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- Interface
user-friendly
simple
user-friendly
user-friendly Set Preferences
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+
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- Useful links
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whois data; site web archive; Google cache; linking pages.
More backlink checkers:
Backlink Watch (checks Anchor text);
Domain Backlinks Checker (sorts the results based on the first-and second-level domains); 2. Keyword Research and Brainstorming Tools
Keyword Brainstorming Tools

Tools that help expand your keyword lists with synonyms, related terms and keyword phrases.
Tools / Features
What you will find there Google Sets
Related terms (ie terms that are likely to appear in lists). MSN clustering tool
Word clusters (keyword phrases). Searchradar
Tag clouds and keyword definitions. Keyword Map
Related terms (synonyms and keyword phrases). Urban Dictionary
Related terms (related synonyms and urban words).
Social Media Based Keyword Analyzers

Use social media sites to explore how people use and tag your core term, its popularity and related words.
Features / Tools
TweetVolume
Twitter Search
Del.icio.us related terms Facebook Lexicon Data source
Twitter
Twitter
Del.icio.us
Facebook How to use it.
Compare up to 3 terms popularity.
See your term in live context.
See your term related tags.
See how often your term is mentioned across FB walls.
Online Dictionaries and Glossaries that Help with Keyword Research
Dictionary
What you can find there: The free dictionary
Your keyword definition (s), set phrases / idioms (use them to lighten up your writing style), examples of usage,

words of the same root (inflected words and derivations), thesaurus, classic literature mentions, keyword phrases, related acronyms.
Wordnet
Definitions and sample sentences using your key term. Rhyme Zone
Rhymes (can be real fun to play with by the way), synonyms, antonyms. Synonym.com
Keyword synonyms and antonyms. Cambridge online dictionary
Essential definitions and keyword phrases. Meta Glossary
The word definitions, related words and synonyms. Reference.com
Your core term synonyms and definitions. Merriam-Webster dictionary
Definitions and derived terms. 3. Domain Name Online Tools
Dynamic Tools for Domain Name Brainstorming:

Features / Tools
PsychicWhois
Domize
BustAName TLDs
6 (. Com,. Net,. Org,. Biz,. Info,. Us)
3 (. Com,. Net,. Org)
3 (. Com,. Net and. Org) Brainstorming help
domain name suggestions based on your previous searches and related terms
shows domain names one-character shorter than the one specified
Mixes the given keywords, suggests synonyms, adds prefixes and suffixes, shows both singular and plural versions, drops last vowel, checks for both hyphen-and non-hyphen versions
Additional domain name checkers and generators:
DomainsBot ( dynamically checks the availability of domain names for 6 TLDs:. com,. org,. net,. info,. biz,. us);
InstantDomainSearch (dynamically and really fast checks the availability of domain names for 3 TLDs:. Com,. Org,. Net);
DomainNameSoup (suggests alternative terms for your core term, has a handy typo generator, adds words before and after your term);
Suggest Name and (DotoMator) - has a fairly large database of available prefixes and suffixes that are sorted out in categories;
NameBoy (generates the list of domain names based on your primary and secondary (optional) terms). 4. On-Site Analysis Online SEO Tools
On-page Keyword Prominence Research Tools.
Online SEO tools that help analyze keyword on-page usage.
Element to analyze:
Ranks
SEOworkers
RankQuest Title tag
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+ Meta Description
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+ Headings

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+ Alt tags
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+ Anchor texts
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+ Bold text
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+ Text 1 -, 2 -, 3-word phrases
1 -, 2 -, 3-word phrases
1 -,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 2 -, 3-word phrases
SEO Browsers

Features / Tools Domaintools SEO browser
SEO Browser General benefits find prominent elements (keywords) of the page; check page elements visibility and accessibility. Additional features
optimization score and tips on improving it
page meta tags, domain IP address, header response, page size, total number of links, words and images,
One more great tool to see text-only version of the site: LynxView
Page Size and Load Time Checkers

Features / Tools
Web Page Speed Report
Page Size Extractor Total page size
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+ Images
total size of the images
total number and size of the images JavaScript size
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- CSS size
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- Each page object size
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- Download time
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- Additional features
list of useful recommendations on reducing size of particular elements
total number of hyperlinks, full list of all links on the page
Additional Site Diagnostics Tools:
Bad Neighborhood Tool (scans external links on a page and detects 'bad links').
Search engine SPAM detector (detects a few types of black-hat tricks: hidden text, doorway pages, keyword stuffing, etc).
(Recently improved) Trifecta Page / Site / Power tool (allows only one search per day for non-pro SEOmoz members) - offers an exhaustive report on your site / page power and ways to improve it. 5. Search Related Online Tools
Keyword Rank Checking Tools
Online tools that check any term (s) rankings across various search engines.

Most valuable rank checkers:
Features / Tools
SeoMoz Rank Checker
Search Engine Forums Tool
Shoemoney Serps Script
SEObook Rank Checker best feature
Archives the results
Checks multiple terms
Fast and easy to use
Advanced search options (+ international data centers) export the results
Yes
No
No
No several terms at a time
No
Yes
No
No # of results checked
100
10
100
1000 overall # of SEs
4
1
4
1 # of SEs at a time
1
1
4
1 link to the actual results page
Yes
No
No
No registration required
Yes
No
No
No term of use
Paid (with daily free 5 searches)
Free
Free
Free browser plugin
Yes (Browser Button)
No
No
No main drawbacks
Would be great if the history / reports could

be split into projects (ie domains checked) and SEs
Checks only top 10 results
No way to export / save results
No export feature.
Note: the tools may be checking different data centers, so the results can be slightly different from tool to tool.
More rank checking tools:
Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool; Ventio Google Position; SEOChat Keyword Position Check;
Searchenginegenie Rank Checker;
Mike's Ranking Reports. KeywordEnvy (checks up to 5 terms at a time and represents data in a handy graph.
Tools that Compare Different Search Engine Results

Features / Tools
Prase
Thumbshots
Fuzz Find # of SEs
3 (Google, Yahoo, MSN)
2 (Google and Yahoo)
3 (Google, Yahoo, Live) (+ Del.icio.us) Additional Features
Sort by Google PR; start from any result;

set the min. PR to filter low-PR sites
Graphic representation of ranking differences.

Highlight the site you want to track
Sort the results based on

any Search Engine or Del.icio.us

More search related tools:
Pagerank Search allows to sort Google search results by Google PageRank or by relevance. 6. Website Traffic and Demographics Report

Features / Tools
Alexa.com
Compete.com
Google Trends
Quantcast Traffic unit of measurement
percent (compared to overall Internet users measured by Alexa)
number of people
(Average)
number of unique people / number of visits Time range
3 months
per month
(Average)
per month / per week Compare traffic
up to 5 domains
up to 5 websites
up to 5 websites
No Demographics report
No
No
No
(U.S. only)

visitors' gender distribution; age; household income; ethnicity; education.
Additional features
Shows traffic distribution across different countries; related websites; sites linking back to the one being checked
(U.S. only)

Reviews time spent on site compared to overall time spent in the Internet by US people (average change in this metric); average time spent on site by one person; number of pages per one visit.
Reviews stats over different periods of time (eg past month, past year, in a given month / yeah) on different territories (countries, states, cities). Besides, the tool will also show you Shows audience composition (passers-by, regulars, addicts)