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Our Favorite SEO Blogs and Tools

  • May 27, 2009
  • by Jennifer Grappone

In Search Engine Optimization: An Hour A Day, we listed some of our favorite SEO blogs and tools. Here are the links from the book, and some updates.

SEO Blogs we Love

  • Search Engine Land– search news by Danny Sullivan and his team of SEO experts
  • SEOMoz Blog with Rand Fishkin
  • Aaron Wall’s SEO Blog
  • Matt Cutts’ Blog (for Google information)
  • Matt McGee’s Small Business SEM
  • Problogger.net (for those with blogs)
  • Occam’s Razor – web analytics blog by Avinash Kaushik
  • Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

Fun Tools for Site Assessment

  • Link validators: elsop.com
  • Slow page load checker: WebPagetest, Webmaster Tools
  • Accessibility check: cynthiasays.com, w3.org (for more links to accessibility evaluation tools)
  • Backlink Checker: backlinkwatch.com, Yahoo! Site Explorer, OpenSiteExplorer
  • Social Media Search: Socialmention.com, Wiki of Social Search Tools
  • Firefox/Chrome Extensions:  SeoQuake, YSlow, Firebug

More SEO Tools We Recommend

  • Wordtracker Keyword Tool for researching keyword search popularity. Wordtracker also offers a limited free keyword research tool. (This is an affiliate link so if you purchase access through this link, Wordtracker will show us a little love, too!)
  • Keyword Discovery – this fee-based keyword research tool has garnered many positive reviews – free trial available
  • Google AdWords’s Keyword Tool – free, you can get keyword ideas & search popularity numbers here
  • SEOMoz Page Strength Tool (or see their other SEO Tools)
  • A truly fabulous spider emulator at seo-browser.com
  • MSN’s set of SEO tools includes finding similar keywords, clustering keywords, and several others.
  • Rex Swain’s HTTP Viewer is a handy way to check if your 301 redirects are sending the right server message.
  • TouchGraph Google Browser a cool way to visualize your website neighborhood
  • Socializer – links to social bookmarking sites

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8 COMMENTS
  • SEO Company Pune
    February 5, 2010 at 6:06 am

    Hmmmm, Thank you so much for such article that is full of interesting and helpful information. I would surely go through all your mentioned list. Thanks again……..

  • Debbie "Takara" Shelor
    May 9, 2010 at 5:24 am

    Hi – I’ve been in this internet game for a long time. There is so much information out there, its sometimes hard to know the garbage from the helpful. Your information is very straight forward and I appreciate that. Thanks for offering clean, easy to understand, sound advice. How refreshing!

  • SEOP
    May 17, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    I admit I have tried so many SEO tools and was very disappointed with most of them. That is why I appreciate that you were able to compile a list like this one that can definitely help when those who are new with SEO. So thanks…

  • ahmed
    October 1, 2010 at 4:58 am

    I have tried so many SEO tools and was very disappointed

  • Rahul Batra
    October 25, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    You had put up a really good information. I had seen many people searching for SEO tools here and there but return empty handed. You have done a good job.

  • Web Designers Weston-super-Mare
    November 22, 2010 at 5:06 pm

    The Book was amazing, the Middle Brain tells a story 😉 Look forward to future books and advice. Can’t thank you enough. Regards Jason

  • Nishant Kumar
    January 11, 2011 at 3:00 am

    I am greatly thankfull to you for this nice post. It was very interesting and helped me with my own project I am doing. eAnswerNetwork (I) Pvt.Ltd. is a Company which organize the Search Engine Optimization and Web designing.

  • lizie
    January 4, 2013 at 12:52 pm

    I have been using http://www.backlinkwatch.com for a while but with this post I would definitely check Smart backlinks. Thanks a lot.

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