Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Get free sitemaps of your website with up to 500 pages. XML-Sitemaps lets you create sitemaps in XML, ROR, text or html format that can be submitted to Google, Yahoo and other search engines. XML sitemaps can be used to create simple lists of all pages on a website, which can be used for analytical purposes, or as a navigation feature. This service will also create a list of broken links.

A service from seomoz.org, OpenSiteExplorer is a free link popularity checker and a backlinks analysis tool. You can get data on up to 1,000 links and unlimited use for free. You can choose to show only followed, non-followed or 301 redirects, links from internal or external pages only, and also filter by links to root domain or a sub-domain.

As you’re building a new website, or as a periodic maintenance strategy, you should check your website’s usability. Don’t wait until your website is ready to go live, but check occasionally to see what information some different online tools come up with. Type your URL in once and UITest’s will refer your URL to several tools to test accessibility, validate the website, test links, load time, performance and get WHOIS info. You can also see what your website looks like without color (design elements disappear) and what your website looks like in a search engine.

Checking links one by one for the nofollow attribute is tedious. NoDoFollow (by Zachary Fox)shows which links on a page have the nofollow attribute and which are regular follow links.

AddFreeStats free real time stats let you know where your visitors are coming in from, which links they’re clicking when they leave your site and also lets you track Google Adsense clicks.

Type in a keyword or keyword phrase and find out which sites rank highest in Google or Yahoo. With the help of Langreiter’s comparison tool you’ll see at a glance which sites rank high in either search engine. Now it’s up to you to figure out why…

This Wewe Monitor shows you how customer focused your website is. FutureNowInc’s calculator tells you how many customer focused words you’re using and gives you a customer focused rate and a self focused rate.

Get basic info such as Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, external backlinks (incl. .edu and .gov), some http status codes and more with a free account at Spydermate. You will also get a ‘SpyderRating’ which ranks your website’s overall web marketing effort.

If certain parts of your site aren’t spiderable, search engines can’t reach your pages. If you want to check if your pages are accessible to search engines, use a tool like
WebConfs’ spider simulator. Flash based content, content generated through javascript, content displayed as images etc may not be visible to search engines. This tool simulates a search engine by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a search engine would see it. It also displays the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) by a Search Engine when it visits the particular webpage.

Search by URL or by keyword: Spyfu shows cost per click for a keyword, click per day, cost per day, search volume, number of search results and advertisers (limited) and their ad copy. All info is based on Google AdWords.