Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Discover what topics and personalities are trending on blogs only. BlogPulse is not a search engine for the world wide web, but only a tool to search and analyze blogs and their content. It can be used as a search engine for blogs (blogs can be submitted to the site for free) and as a trending tool, to see what people and issues are currently being blogged about the most.

You can find out how many new blogs are being created and identified by and submitted to the site. BlogPulse lets you create charts and compare popularity of specific topics, follow discussions that spread form individual blogs and analyze a blog’s presence and influence.

You can also find the most popular links appearing in today’s blogs and find out how many blogs link to a specific site.

The web page performance test on WebPageTest.orggives you an overall speed test score with first view and repeat view data. The data is presented in numbers and as a graphic and also offers a full optimization checklist that includes info and tips on images, combining CSS and JS and cookies for example. This comprehensive test also offers the option to test multiple pages and compare them against each other.

Analyze backlinks from unique domains in an instant on MajesticSEO.com. They also feature a free bad-neighborhood checker which checks the backlinks on other domains hosted on the same server and a bulk backlink checker. Tools worked very well and quickly. The site also offers a pro version with which you can analyze competing domains, and also API services.

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.