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The Ultimate list of FREE web building and FREE SEO
Tools:
The purpose of this page is to supply resources for webmasters that
want/need to develope and promote a number of different websites, quickly,
easily and not spend a ton of money doing it…
SEO/SE Tools
Back Link Analyzer
-Here's a 100% FREE tool similar to Opti Link and SEO Elite, but it is free.
151 SEO Tools
- A nice collection of seo tools, many free.
SEO Surf - "…FREE software can change
the way you surf the net, optimize your websites for search engines, manage
link exchanges and promote your website for more visitors and traffic. All
that without spending a penny. "
WebCEO - "Web CEO is the
most complete SEO software package on the planet; plus, our SEO software
offers more for free than any other software package or suite for
SEO."
Copyscape - Check the "dupe factor"
of content.
Similar pages
checker - Sometimes a little slow, but a good compliment to Copyscape.
Webmaster Eyes - Here is a useful
tool to give you a quick PageRank snapshot in the SERPs for a particular
keyword phrase.
Advanced Google
Searches - A very useful google searcher. "Use this tool to search google
in many special ways. A useful resource for search engine optimization
(especially keyword research) among other things."
The Google PageRank Value
Report - will return the Google PageRank values for the list of urls
you give it. "The pagerank checker is very useful if you're using a browser
not supported by Google toolbars, or if you just want to check pagerank on
up to 10 sites at a time."
GoogSpy - Here's a new free tool that
lets you search Google Adwords by keyword or by company/website. Here's a
good intro article by Allan Gardyne explaining
some
uses for Googspy.
Veolocityscape - Goog Spy is
powered by this software, which looks very interesting by itself.
The PageRank
Search tool returns Google SERP plus the PageRank bar for each. Great
for checking strength of competition for keywords.
Yahoo Backdoor? -
This used to work a couple of years ago to get a site into Yahoo for free,
not sure if it still does, but worth a look.
Yahoo Site Explorer -
"Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo!
Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive
site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page."
Pingoat's - Google sitemap
maker
SE Rankings -This
utility can be use to check search engines for ranking and track those ranking
over time.
A list of IP
addresses that may be banned from the engines. Make sure your host isn't
on the list:
SEOpen: It's
an extension to Firefox to help with and analyze SEO. Quoting from the URL
above:"Current SEOpen features are all accessed through right-clicking an
open area on a web page; they include: * Yahoo Backlinks *
Pages in Yahoo Index * Google Backlinks * Google Cache * Pages in Google
index * Google Translate to English * Google Related * PageRank Check * MSN
Backlinks * Pages in MSN Index * Alexa Overview * Alexa Traffic * Alexa Related
* Alexa Backlink * Check DMOZ Inclusion * Keyword Density * Page Size Checker
* HTML Validator * Server Header Viewer * Wayback Machine *
Check robots.txt * Whois Info".
future-pagerank:
Get an educated guess as to the future PR of your sites.
GoLexa - "The Search Tool with Complete
Page Analysis for each Result".
Free SEO Tools - Similar Page Checker
- Search Engine Spider Simulator - Backlink Anchor Text Analysis - Backlink
Builder - Redirect Check…Plus many more.
80 Free SEO
Articles - "Read the latest articles about optimization and marketing
written by John Alexander and Robin Nobles of Search Engine Workshops."
SEO
SpyGlass is an extremely powerful competition research tool designed
to let you see exactly how your competitors got to the top in search engines
— so you can mimic their winning linking strategy, improve on it, and
blow right by them in Google, Yahoo! and MSN!
Quick Indexing
Tool - QUIT utilizes tons of techniques to get your site crawled and
indexed VERY quickly.
Smart
PageRank - Checks the PageRank of your backlinks and includes: Show PageRank,
Show nofollow, Anchor Text.
LivePR -
Spiders your site's pages and reports the Google
PageRank multiple data centers for each page it finds.
Keyword and Niche Research
Word Tracker FREE keyword
suggestion tool - Enter a starting keyword to generate up to 100 related
keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume.
GoodKeywords - "Good Keywords
makes use of various tools provided by search engines like the Overture
Search Suggestion Tool, Search Engines Like Yahoo, Google, MSN, Teoma and
other services like Alexa."
Search Term Difficulty Checker
SE Report - Here's one from
the "bookmark archives"….This may be the "grandfather" of all keyword research
site and was the first I found that dealt with the issue, long before Wordtracker
or any of the others…
I think it was early 1997 when I first subscribed to their free newsletter,
and they're still going strong.
Keyword Discovery - Here's
a site that purports to tell you the actual keywords that drives traffic
to various DMOZ sites.
Typo
Generator -This script is designed to generate human-misspellings &
common typing mistakes (typos) for a list of keywords.
Lexical FreeNet - "Connected thesaurus".
37+
Niche Research Resources - Lists a variety of mind-enhancing resources
to help you come up with tons of niches.
Powerful Linking Tools
Vile Silencer - This site has
a list of SEO friendly directories which will give you non-reciprocal links.
125
Legitimate Link Building Strategies - Over 30 SEO authorities offer their
best.."
Free and paid directories
including PR: -A good place to start looking for one way links.
Link Harvester
is a free open source link analysis tool….Link Harvester returns:
unique linking domains their IP addresses & unique c block addresses
of the links, links from .gov, .mil, .edu, or .ac.uk domains. Links from
these domains are likely rated better in authority type algorithms such as
Hilltop or TrustRank.
Google Link
Popularity Analysis Tool - This tool enables you to easy gather enough
data to analyze a page's link popularity. The Google Link Popularity
Analysis Tool only looks at Google links and the pages associated with those
links. The reports show PageRank data, internal and external link counts,
anchor text weights, class C IP reporting and much more.
Link Building Info - Suggestions
for increasing the link popularity of your Web site
WebSeoDesign - Here's a blog
dedicated to links and linking.
Link Hounds - This site has some
good and free linking tools:
123promotion Web
Directory
"Welcome to the 123promotion Web Directory Submissions Manager. Use this
free tool to track your submissions to various web directories.
Hub Finder - Useful
for finding the most strategic hubs to acquire links from.
AddUrl.nu - A list of 300+ free directories
to submit your domain to.
C Class Backlink Analyzer-
This tool investigates the links pointing to a website (backlinks), and groups
them according to the C-Class IP addresses they come from. For example,
if one backlink comes from 53.25.14.5 and another comes from 53.25.14.6,
they would be grouped together. Backlinks coming from the same C-Class IP
are most likely hosted by the same company, which may lower the site's search
engine ranking.
Free Relevant Links - Categorized
link exchange and they claim links grow steadily + one-way links !
QuidProQuoTM
Reciprocal Link Checker Software - QuidProQuoTM is a free utility that
enables webmasters to improve the efficiency of thier reciprocal linking
campaigns.
IP and DNS
DNS Stuff Has all sorts of dns
stuff…maybe that explains the name?
Discover the IP address of
any domain name:
The IP Report - Use this tool to
test for a duplicate Class C block or Class C subnet IP address in a list
of websites, these can be either hosted affiliate and internet marketing
sites or potential reciprocal link exchange partners (free one way links).
Psychic Whois - Here's a new tool
that's in beta that displays a bunch of useful and interesting info about
domain names…It's worth a look.
Web 2.0
Social Meter - Scans the major
social websites to analyze a webpage's social popularity. Currently we scan
Bloglines, Del.icio.us, Digg, Google, Rojo, Shadows,Technorati and Yahoo
My Web.
TurboTagger - Make Technorati
Tags.
Bum Demon - Here's some free software
that let's you enter a list of keywords, then check to see if they are available
to make pages for in Squidoo and Hubpages.
Scuttle - A free php script that gives you
your very own social bookmarking site.
Web Maintainence
Site Report Card - * Find Broken
Links * Check For Spelling Errors * Check Meta Tags * Validate HTML Syntax
* Get Page Load Time * Check the Link Popularity * Search Engine Inclusion
* Check Keywords.
Server
Header Checker - More important for SEO than one may think.
Xenu's Link Sleuth
- "Checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal"
links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets,
scripts and java applets. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs
which you can sort by different criteria."
Rich - Jerks dot Com.
Web Design Tools
NVU- A FREE POWERFUL and easy to use WYSIWYG
WEB PAGE editor, compare to FrontPage and Dreamweaver.
Gimp - A terrific free image/graphics
program known as the "free photoshop".
VCW VicMan's Photo Editor -
Now you don't have to fork out hundreds of dollars for a quality image editor.
This award-winning application is freely downloadable and comes with
a wide range of essential features for both novice users and professional
designers. With VCW VicMan's Photo Editor you can refine your digital photos,
draw artwork naturally and effortlessly, producing superb graphics for the
web."
www.oswd.org -Some excellent
"clean" open source templates.
WordPress Templates - Here's tons
of free templates that can be used with Wordpress, or "regular" sites with
a little modification.
Layouts 4 Free - Has a number
of good web page templates for you.
Open ClipArt Library - This project
aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely
used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public
Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons.
Cool Styles - This
page has lots of code to produce really cool effects and stylings using CSS.
Cheat Sheets
- Here's a bunch of printable "cheat sheets for most webmaster languages,
such as CSS and html.
Color Pix -
And a free program to tell you the hex values of any color on your screen:
CSS School - Everything you need
to know about CSS.
Color Picker - My favorite
online "color picker".
Color Blender
- Here is a pretty cool color blender. From the website: "Pick a color value
format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick
the number of midpoint you'd like to see. The palette will show the colors
you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values
of those colors.
Hex Mixer
-Quickly choose and specify web-safe colors with Hex Mixer.
I Like Your Colors - It
will visit the site you like and give you the colors used on that site.
Crazy Dad Color Picker - Its
an online app that lets you choose a color and then it visits Flickr.com
and finds public domain photos that match the color you selected. Great for
finding photos to compliment a site design.
The Psychology of
Color - Here is one discussing The Psychology of Color in Marketing.
Well Styled
Color Schemes - A great Tool to generate color schemes. It is extremely
useful for generating color schemes and its Free.
More FREE Site Templates:
openwebdesign
eyetemplates
rickyswebtemplates
freesitetemplates
webgfx.ch
mywebtemplate
Free Online Banner and Button Generators
3d Animated Banners
- Just insert your text, choose a font and colors and you have a banner/header
for your site.
Cool Text - "An online graphics
generator for web pages and anywhere else you might need an impressive logo
without a lot of work. "
FlamingText - Offers
some very cool baanner designs for you to create free banners and website
headers online.
Downloaded from a Noah Fleming Membership Site
Content
Scriptmill Comments
- A simple (and free) php script that allows your site's visitors to add
their comment and opinions to your pages. Another way to allow your visitors
to write content for you for free.
FreeBase - A collection of
GPL databases that can be used to create content for your sites.
Article Dashboard
- a Free php script that allows you to accept submission of articles to build
content for your sites.
Content Rover - A search engine for
finding content you can use on your site.
Search Creative Commons
- Full copyright applies to most stuff on the web. But this search helps
you find photos, music, text, and other works whose authors want you to re-use
it for some uses — without having to pay or ask permission.
Misc. Stuff
OpenSourceCMS - Try out the best
forums and blogs before you install. Gives "you the opportunity to "try out"
some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in
the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here,
allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs…"
Word Press - The powerful, free
blog you run on your own hosting.
Simple Machines - A full featured,
secure forum software, Forums are great for having your readers write SE
content for you.
Wink - Here's a free screen
capture program similar to Camtasia. Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation
creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software
(like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots,
add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective
tutorial for your users"
Open Office Free office suite
-"OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite
and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites,
the product is free to download, use, and distribute. " Great for
creating PDFs for FREE.
Audacity - Free, open source
software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X,
Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Scribus - A free alternative to Adobe
Pagemaker and Quark Express. Use it to make outstanding documents for printing.
Snapfiles -
A vast assortment of free software tools.
Roboform is the top-rated Password
Manager and Web Form Filler that completely automates password entering and
form filling.
InFormEnter
(Same as ROBOFORM, but for Firefox) adds a small, clickable icon next to
every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be
inserted - no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently
used information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want
to be available from the form menu.
Lupas
Rename v4.2b (freeware), you can extract the titles from HTML pages and
use them for the filename. WARNING: be sure to download Lupas Rename
v4.2b and not v5.0 as this function has been removed from v5.0!
Folder
Lock is an easy to use tool to create a password protected folder, perfect
for creating backups on remote drives.
TagCloud " Essentially, TagCloud searches
any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and
lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the
tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with
that keyword."
Stick Its - Desktop
"Stickies" … Looks like those stick notes you buy at the store. Ya
know the little yellow ones…
Xml Feed Generator - How would
you like to be able to spider any of your static html sites and instantly
produce an RSS feed from the content on each page? No changes to your website
html are neccessary, XML Feed Generator will use the content existing on
your page to build a valid 2.0 RSS feed that you can use immediately to get
more traffic and backlinks to your websites. "
Protection
AdSense Shield - This script
hides your AdSense ads for 24 hours to prevent click fraud. It shows some
other alternate ad chosen by you containing whatever you want Yahoo, Clickbank,
Commission Junction / eBay / Amazon).
DDOS Deflate - IF you find your
server/site is under a DDOS (denial of service) attack, try this script.
FREE SPECIAL BONUS! TONS OF FREE WEB 2.0 RESOURCES!