Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Google has it’s own URL shortener at goo.gl. According to Matt Cutt’s blog it was created so Google could use it for its own products, but then they decided to make it available to the public. If you log in to your Google account, you’ll get analytics and history features for the URLs you’ve shortened with number clicks, traffic sources and visitor profiles. Looks like it doesn’t have a feature yet to preview the full URL before clicking on it.

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.

Making all external links on your blog open into a new window is easy with the help of the SEM External Links plugin for WordPress. This plugin will also change your links to rel=”nofollow” or add an external link icon.

W3′s link checker tool is very simple, but works well. There are lots of link checkers out there, but many have limits on how many pages they’ll check, or you have to create an account and log in to use it. Depending on how big your site is, this free tool will take several minutes to check your site’s links. It will also generate suggestions on how to fix issues it uncovers.

This strategy may not be 100% fool proof, but using a service like Tynt may help you increase the number of backlinks to your website. It works by attaching a script to any snippet that a visitor will copy from your site; the script generates a backlink where the snippet it’s being copied to. The person copying and pasting could easily delete the link, but the site claims that most people actually leave the link intact. Their basic service is free.

You can get cache, search and feed info on an URL on FaganFinder, but our favorite feature is the links section. You can get link info on BlogPulse, BlogLines, Technorati and more without having to reenter your URL or waiting for a refresh – nice!

View, classify, and download comprehensive data about internal and external links to your site with Google’s WebmasterTools. You can also see how visitors get to your site.

If it hasn’t been obvious yet, we will give you a free backlink from RankRaiser.com, if you have a web related service you offer. If you have a free service, we’ll add your link to the Free Resources section, if you have a paid service and send an informational article, we will give you a link in the Articles section. Please send links to free services or inquiries for articles through our contact form.