Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Google’s first SEO Starter guide is a no-nonsense guide to optimize your website for search engines. It includes instructions for writing page titles, info on navigation and URL structure, best practices, how to make use of the meta description tag and making sure your mobile site gets indexed. The updated version of the Google SEO Guide follows the same format, but promises the following additions/improvements:
* Glossary to define terms throughout the guide
* More example images to help you understand the content
* Ways to optimize your site for mobile devices
* Clearer wording for better readability

This free SEO guide published by Google is an exception from all the overhyped e-books and guides available on SEO. It provides all necessary information you need to get started with search engine optimization and is well written and illustrated. It provides lots of examples incl. how to use heading tags and optimize your images, but also tips for basic ‘good practices’ like having a useful 404 page and a sitemap. If you’re working on your first website, or you need a ‘to-do-list’ for an existing website, this guide will be of tremendous help.

Can your site handle a large increase in traffic? Pylot is a free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.

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…

.htaccess is usually easy to configure, but there is also lots of room for errors. You can edit your .htaccess configuration files by hand, or you can use htaccesseditor.com’s .htaccess file editor instead.

Test a page multiple times to get an idea if it loads easily or lets the viewer wait. WebWait is a website timer. Use WebWait to benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection. It takes into account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading.

A basic tool to see how difficult it will be to rank high for a given keyword or keyword phrase in the SERPs. SEOchat doesn’t give specific info about how they arrive at the result (anything else besides number of searches and SERPs?), but a few test searches turned out pretty realistic results.

This tool at SEOworkerss gives you an overview of basic aspects of your page, like meta tags; keyword density; page load time; title meta tag relevancy to page content; robots.txt file and more.

Are the right keywords prominent on your page? Find out with the keyword analyzer at Ranks.nl. It also lets you compare the results to your competition and shows meta, outgoing links and more.