Everything you always wanted to know on SEO and web content optimization for search engines

SEO Tools & Resources

Find here links to SEO tools and resources. A brief explanation of what a SEO tool or what a SEO resource is all about is provided along with the relevant link. All links are external to this blog.

SEO Tools

The following tools are available at http://oy-oy.eu/

Duplicate Content Analysis: Check the selected site for duplicate content. When search engines find multiple instances of the same content they to select a single one as the default to be displayed page in their results. It could be that a web site has multiple pages with the same content, this is the case when you duplicate content via separate navigation.
To WWW or not? Domain check: Check a selected domain and suggest which naming type is better between www.example.com and example.com
Page Title and Headers: Check a selected page URL for the page title (in <HEAD> >>> <TITLE>,) and every page's header (the <h(n)> where (n) is a number among 1 and 9).
Link Analysis: Check every link found on a submitted page, reports anchor text, title and/or alt.

Keyword frequency: Give a URL this tool extracts the top ten keywords for every of the following group: 1 word keywords, 2 words keywords, three words keywords. Page's title, description and keyword tags as well as all other indexable text such as ALT-attributes are taken in consideration, all text available to spiders is analyzed.
Spider simulator: Analyze a given page separating content among title and headers, all found links are reported together with their relevant anchor text.
Recognized links per DC: Check all known Google's Data Centers for a given page indexed links
Google Pagerank in general: Query defaul datacenter for Google.com checking for the entered URL's pagerank (PR).

The following tools are available at Microsoft adCenter Labs

Keyword Group Detection: Given a keywords display a list of suggested keywords somehow related
Search Result Clustering: Cluster search results into semantically related groups.

The following tools are available at SEOmoz

Page Strength: Potential strength of a page

Browsers add-ons

SEO for Firefox

A useful add-on for Firefox, SEO fof Firefox is a free extension for the well known internet browser that gives you an massive amount of marketing data when you search through Google and Yahoo. Among the data returned: the page PR, Alexa rank, Technorati links, del.icio.us tags, and many more.

Find SEO for Firefox at: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html.

SEOpen

Provides tools including Google backlinks, Yahoo backlinks, PageRank check, http header viewer. All features are available via right click menu.

SEOpen for Firefox.

RankQuest SEO Toolbar for IE and Firefox

A browser's plug-in/add-on featuring more than 30 differente tools.

RankQuest SEO download for IE and Firefox.

SearchStatus for Firefox

Features include: Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

SearchStatus

Keyword density checker

Analyze your web site rendering a tag cloud with the most used keywords. It also returns keywords occurrences and percentage.

Keyword Density Checker and Keyword Cloud.

Link Harvester

A free open source link analysis tool, it uses Yahoo! API and provides CSV outputs. Features include: unique linking domains, IP addresses & unique c block addresses of the links.

Link Harvester

Crazy Egg

Visualize users navigation on your web site, free and pay plans available (you need to insert code in your pages). Among the features a heat map highlighting users navigation on your web pages.

Crazy Egg

Search through a selection of SEO resources

Search through a selection of SEO Resources via the Google Custom Search Engine Provided by The blog that exploded Find all the resources considered by the search engine in the results page, just make a search: