SEO Software Tips

By Abby Johnson - Wed, 11/28/2007 - 9:31am.

In this greedy world we live in, we always take advantage of anything that’s free. Everyone loves free stuff. It’s just the way we are. So, what better way to track your site than with the free SEO tracking software available?

According to Aaron Wall, the Author of SEOBook, there are many useful software programs for tracking SEO results that are either free or relatively inexpensive.

These include:

* Google Analytics

* Mint Site Tracking Software

* Digital Point Forums

* SEO for Firefox

* Compete.com

* SEO Digger

Before accepting every free offer that comes your way, you need to research the software first. Each software program should contain a means with which track analytics, page rankings, your back links as well as your competition’s, the number of indexed pages, keyword density within pages, and all historical data.

Email scams are another matter that need to be carefully examined. These scams make unobtainable promises and then take your money and run! Aaron Wall describes this type of marketing as “the marketer is never above the medium.”

He explains that these spammers cannot comprehend what true marketing is if they think they have to use email spam to sell their product or service.

For more information, tune into the WebProNews video “Advice from Aaron Wall on SEO Tracking Software” and see which tracking programs he recommends.

News Tags: Search, SEO, Software, Tracking, links, Mint, Tips

About the author:
Abby Prince is a reporter/anchor for WebProNews.

Comments

Submitted by puppies for sale (WPN reader) on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 2:00am.

Excellent resource list

Excellent resource list. Most of these are pretty standard SEO and tracking tools.

Submitted by FTA Forums (WPN reader) on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 4:57pm.

Spam marketing and SEO Software - Caveat Emptor!

Great advice re: the spam marketing of some SEO software products. It's a really good idea as well to get references from companies who use certain software packages. A recent SEO software package I bought (which has a yearly subscription) recently stopped giving me any SE info from any SE but Google. Multiple helpdesk tickets later, i have still not received a response.

Take this list as a good starting point, then ask people in your network what they think of the software before you buy!

Submitted by Plus Size Formal Dresses (WPN reader) on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 4:50pm.

MCDAR

Great Tools - Im not sure that MCDAR works anymore though? Is there another tool similar? MCDAR was suggested by a poster, not the article. Great article btw

Submitted by FTA Keys (WPN reader) on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 4:39pm.

Free or Cheap Tools

I dont think Google Analytics needs vouching!! :)

This is similar to another WPN article i just read. The tools mentioned here are mentioned there as well with the exception of Mint, which I have not tried.

Xenu is great too - there are other tools that do the same thing but the reports from Xenu are easy to use. *Make sure you let your client know when you are using Xenu if their site is big!!!!! You can cause crashes. Usually, if the site is massive, they will give you a window to use the tool.

Submitted by clearpores (WPN reader) on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 11:01pm.

I can vouche for google

I can vouche for google analytics.. it's free, and there are hardly any softwares that has more features than google analytics

Submitted by Speeding Ticket (WPN reader) on Sat, 06/28/2008 - 4:46pm.

Links to Programs

Iwebtool.com

http://www.seoquake.com/

http://www.haveamint.com/

http://seodigger.com/

http://www.socialmarker.com/

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Hope this helps! All great tools. Particularly Xenu and SEO Quake.

Submitted by used buses (WPN reader) on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 2:15pm.

A Few Tools to Add

Very good list, a few that I can add off the top of my head are Social Marker, MCDar, SEOMoz free tools and Iwebtool.com

Use these tools quite often in the kinds of work that I do for my websites. SEOMoz in particular is very high quality and very helpful for analytical study.

Submitted by Hemroids (WPN reader) on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 7:12pm.

Thanks for the excellent resources

Thanks very much guys for the excellent resources, these will help me alot for my health website on hemorrhoids.

Submitted by SEO Company (WPN reader) on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 10:41pm.

Don't Forget

Good list, but you should include:

Google Adwords Tool
KWmap for semantic relationships.

Submitted by Acne (WPN reader) on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 8:27pm.

SEO Tools

Other very helpful SEO Tools:

SEO Quake
Xenu Site Checker

I find that a combination of all these tools allows most people the ability to cost-effectively run most small SEO campaigns, however you need higher level project management tool and ranking report programs to deal with corporate level SEO.

Submitted by Guest (WPN reader) on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 5:25am.

Google Analytics

Google analytics is a great tool. You can't do SEO without it.

Submitted by Gabriel Topala (WPN reader) on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 11:16am.

Links

Is it possible to add links to these SEO programs?
I did a Google search for "Mint Site Tracking Software" (http://www.google.com/search?q=Mint+Site+Tracking+Software&rls=com.micro...) and found 1,260,000 "results", but I didn't find the software.
Thanks,
Gabriel Topala
www.gtopala.com

Submitted by Jeremy Davis (WPN reader) on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 3:14pm.

The site for Mint is

The site for Mint is http://www.haveamint.com/

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