Which SEO Tools do you use?

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I was using raven but am going to switch since they stopped the serp stuff...

currently looking at

SEO PowerSuite
SEO Moz
BringShare
HubSpot
#search engine optimization #seo #tools
  • It depend on your needs, for ex. if you're looking for to build backlinks then senuke, magic submitter, gsa search engine ranker etc.. are good. For keyword research long tail pro, keyword researcher and so on..
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  • Hmm. Scrapebox is a must have one. SEO powersuite is another great tool.
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  • I think seo powersuite is good.
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    • My favorite tools (aside from SEOmoz of course!)

      1) Google Analytics (of course)

      2) Statcounter (I love the IP tracking feature!)

      3) Traffic Travis (redundant/daily Ranking tracking)

      4) Google Webmaster Tools

      5) Adwords keyword research tool
  • Traffic Travis is also good to track SERPs- Free SEO Software | The Best SEO Management Tool | Traffic Travis
    Majestic SEO is also another option- Majestic SEO : Backlink Checker & Site Explorer
  • I have use google analytics .bakclikwatch.com,google webmaster,seo book rank checker etc
  • Well I use SEO Moz and Google Analytics which is enough for me, not need for other tools.
  • For keyword research, I use Market Samurai and SEOMoz mainly. As SEMaster mentioned above, it is depending on your needs.
  • Me too regularly use seobook toolbar.
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  • Not yet used any tool for seo process.
  • Google, Google keyword tool, IBP, competitor sites, my noggin. Some of the best SEO tools are always free.
  • SEO PowerSuite
    google analytics
    market samurai
    google keyword tool
    and lot of others
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  • SEO PowerSuite
    google analytics
    market samurai
    google keyword tool
    and lot of others
  • Wait... People are sill using senuke for backlinks?

    That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.

    Stay away from the program, or Google will kill your site.
  • Theres a plug in I use for Fire Fox called SEO Quake, its pretty helpful to me when deciding on a good niche and shows ranking and more info on all the sites in Google search...check it out !
  • Whatever works

    I do like SEOmoz though.
  • Seo Moz
    Google Analytics
    Google Trends
    Internet Marketing Ninjas
    Xenu Link Stealth
    Screaming Frog
    Back Link Watch
  • SEO quack is good tool for checking page links, page rank and alexa rankings...
  • Beside those free tools like , google analytics, google webmastertools and alexa ranking.
    I'm using some paid tools like webseo and spyglassseo tools as well. Its not only help me to track my on site data while we can track others site as well.
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    • i use TrafficTravis + Adwords keywords tool + Ultimate Demon lite (Bookmarking and Socialbookmarking)
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  • Hi,

    All softwares are good. But i can add you one more tool which is Seo Doctor for firefox add-on.


  • I LOLd on this answer.....
  • Hmmm, why did you LOL at that?
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    • I gather because the question was not about SEO but about SEO tools.
  • I use:

    1) Google WebMaster Tools
    2) SEO Power Suite
    3) Serpfox
    4) SEO Quake
    5) AWStats
    6) Scrapebox
    7) The Best Spinner
    8) Dragon Naturally Speaking
    9) Fiver
    10) WP Yoast

    Those are my 10 main "SEO" tools.
    I can't really think of any other tools I would want/need. I've considered getting something like magic submitter but I'm not sure I understand enough about SEO at this point. Its easy to use scrapebox the right way or thebestspinner, but some of these larger SEO tools frighten me. I would likely destroy all my sites if I made an investment like that. Plus the best "tools" aren't really tools at all, but strategies/testing and finding new & better ways to outsource.

    -Red
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  • Google Analytics, sometimes Traffic Travis and really rare Scrapebox, SenukeX. Of course when starting a new site, MarketSamurai is a must!
  • Recently i am Using SEOmoz.Really great tool.It reduce my work load.Specially SEOmoz is too much helpful for onpage optimization analysis and backlink checker tools.
  • no body is talking about AMR, is it that AMR is bad?
  • amr is noob software compared to article kevo
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  • Google webmaster tool, SEO Powersuite, Traffic Travis are the seo tools I suggest
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  • SEO powersuit offers great package of various seo tools.
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  • What exactly does Traffic Travis do? Is it like SEO powersuite, or is it more like Linkdex or SEO Moz?
  • +1 for SEO PowerSuite, it helps to improve all on-page and off-page aspects and is definitely the number one for rank tracking and checking a backlink profile of any site. I personally stick to the desktop tool, because there are no limits to a number of keywords to track and projects to create in SEO PowerSuite and you can also check rankings and run SEO reports as often as needed.
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    • Phew, I have tried several of the local machine rank checkers because of the unlimited keywords, but they keep locking up Google, throwing up CAPTCHAs, and failing. The first time I ran SEO Powersuite it got ranking for almost all keywords in a couple hours. It has never finished a run since that first time. Now it gets a couple words and finishes ... ?. I tried the (free) proxy bank and it got up to 19% in 8 hours and seemed to freeze. I have only 27 words.

      SerpFox on the other hand seems to have no trouble at all getting rankings, but it's online and costs $24 for only 200 words.
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  • I use SEOMOZ and Google Analytics.
  • I am using SEO Moz, it is the best for me.
  • I use Google Analytics, Stat counter, Backlinkwatch, ahrefs, domain tools and so on.
  • I would recommend senuke and market samurai
  • Using Firefox browser is smart way to using so many seo tools, it has lots of seo addons which would work for seo tools.
  • SEO quack
    SEO PowerSuite
    Market samurai
    Google analytics
    Google keyword tool
    ....
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  • Thanks, but can someone shed some light on the Google lockout? After the 7 hour run of SEO PS, I waited for about a half hour before starting AWR. The first 5 keywords said "503 service unavailable." Since I have both AWR and SEOPS dialed way up in delay time, the first 5 words in AWR probably took 3 or 4 hours. So, how does the lockout work, I'd like to understand it?

    You know, Long Tail Pro had the default of 2 seconds, which was waaaaaaay too short. I had to set it at 30 seconds between queries to not get CAPTCHAs. At 25 seconds it gave me CAPTCHAs. Long Tail Pro took about 4 - 5 hours for 27 words going 500 deep, but LTP would frequently freeze (from what appeared to be a memory leak) and I would have to start it over again (Boooo!).

    The first time I ran SEOPS (with out of the box settings) it worked fine. Now it won't seem to even get one keyword from Google.

    So, does Google recognize SEOPS and say "no soup for you!"

    I thought the local apps with unlimited keywords were the most appealing, but they are starting to looks unusable if one keyword takes one hour and it may or may not get locked out, meaning a wasted hour.

    What about using HMA VPN Pro and set the IP to change every minute, would something like that work? Anybody try? But if I'm going to pay for a proxy bank I might as well just pay SerpFox to do it all.

    edit: I forgot to mention that I checked your help links. I had everything set as recommended, or higher, except the number of threads. I can bump that down from 5 to 1, maybe, and see if I can pull any data that way with SEOPS. But AWR has been running for 15 hours and is still running with 9 more hours to go.
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    • Warfornev,

      Google blocks an IP for up to 2 hours. The reason for that is unusual traffic from that IP: more specifically, excessively frequent queries or simultaneous queries.

      First you get a warning - a CAPTCHA. If you fail to enter it correctly, you get banned. If you click through search results pages really fast (1 click per second) and for a certain period of time - you're likely to get a CAPTCHA.

      Same if you use an application that sends requests to Google without pauses or with very short pauses.

      How do you end up sending simultaneous queries? Well, say you're googling something in your browser, while an application is sending queries to Google in the background; or perhaps you have 2 applications (e.g., an application from SEO PowerSuite and AWR) monitoring Google rankings at the same time - here you go, you're sending multiple simultaneous queries to Google and will soon get a CAPTCHA.

      With SEO PowerSuite you can access search engines directly or via proxies.

      If you are accessing search engines directly, then the number of threads should be equal to that of search engines being monitored.

      Say, if you are monitoring only Google.com, then you should set the number of threads (simultaneous tasks) to 1. If you set it to 2, you'll be sending 2 requests at a time to Google and it will first throw a CAPTCHA at you and then block you. So keep your number of threads equal to that of preferred search engines and use Human Emulation delays (make them longer if you notice that the default values are not enough).

      As I've already mentioned, you can also distribute your simultaneous search queries (threads) among several proxies.

      If you go to Preferences > Search Safety Settings > Proxy Rotation, you can either press 'Import' and specify your private proxies addresses and passwords, or you can press "Search" to let the application find some free public proxies for you.

      After you've populated your list with some free proxies, you can choose proxies from a specific country and uncheck those coming from other countries. You can also uncheck proxies that are marked red (it means they are slow) or the ones that are "Dead" (see their status).

      If you uncheck the option "Use direct connection if no proxies are available", then the application will only send queries through proxies, and never use your actual IP (it will not get blocked).

      If you check the option "Look for new proxies when there are no alive proxies on the list", then the software will find new proxies when all of the proxies on the list are dead (unresponsive) or blocked by search engines.

      When you feel that the proxies on your list are not very productive, you can select them all and press the "Check" button, then remove those that have the "Dead" status.

      Note that the number of threads you set should not exceed the number of proxies in the Proxy Rotation list, otherwise some of the proxies will be sending simultaneous queries and will eventually get temporarily blocked.

      When using Proxy Rotation there is one feature you must make sure you've switched off: the rotation of search engines' data centers. You can find it if you go to Preferences > Search Safety Settings. The two Rotations don't work well together.

      You can also reduce the number of queries that Rank Tracker sends to Google by applying various Rank Checking Methods in a more flexible way.

      You can find these settings under Preferences > Rank Checking Mode. When you're checking keywords' rankings for the very first time, you can choose the "100 Results Per Page" method with the "Refine results in the "10 Results Per Page" search" option unchecked. For all the subsequent checks you can use the "Last Found Position" method.

      Hope this helps!
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  • google analytics for me
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    • I am using the search engine visibility service from http://www.xnynz.com/seo-tool/ This tool does a lot of automated SEO services. Some of them are,
      * instant submission to Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & AOL
      * One click submission to over hundreds of search engines and directories
      * Keyword generator and research tool to find niche keyword and phrase develop keyword strength to your website.
      It does many more SEO services resulting in Better traffic and increased ranking.
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  • I recommended below are my favourite

    Google Analytic
    Google Webmaster
    SEOMoz
    Ahrefs
    woorank
    open site explorer
  • So many out there guys, I'm currently keeping my eye on: Search Engine Optimization Services SEO Promotion Ranking Marketing and More but will compare it to others and report on the accuracy.
  • * Google Webmaster Tools
    * SEO Spyglass
    * Traffic Travis
    * MajesticSEO
    * Common sense
  • I use All in one SEO, Market Samurai, Google Keyword Tool, and Cyber Niche Finder. There are actually a whole host of SEO tools to choose from, and you can try them all if you want, but I would suggest you choose only a couple and just stick to them.
  • The Main SEO Tools Are Given below:

    1. Google Webmaster tool
    2. Analytics tool
    3. Page Rank Checker Tool
    4. Back link watcher tool
    5. Web Site Analysis Tool

    Thanks
  • Google AdWords Keyword Tool, Wordtracker Free Keyword Suggestion Tool, SEOBook Tools, RSS Feed Creator, XML Sitemaps Generator
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    I like SEO Powersuite because I think the reports look very professional. And I hated working with my own report templates. So... a tweak here and there and I have good quality reports to send to my clients with one click. I did the math considering the cost of labor it pays for itself in a month. Good stuff!
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  • - for keyword analysis - Keyword Research, SEO Analysis & Link Building Tools | Wordtracker
    - for link analysis - Ahrefs Site Explorer
    - for audit - SEO Tools - Check Your SEO For Free Without Registration
  • SEO PowerSuite
    google analytics
    market samurai
    google keyword tool
    & lots of bots made using UBot Studio..

    There are several other tools I use..
  • Open Web Analytics - it's a self-hosted alternative to GA. I don't like Google messing around with my private data
    GeoRanker - a SERP checking tool that works very well on a local level
    Seoptimer - a very handy plugin for Google Chrome
    OSE and Ahrefs - great for monitoring backlinks
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  • - Google Analystic for analysis of site behaviour
    - All in one SEO plugin for on page SEO
    - Magic sumitter / No hands SEO for off page SEO
  • Traffic & Tracking
    Google Analytics (the most cost effective tool out there)

    Backlinks
    GSA Search Engine Ranker

    Creating Backlink Reports
    Reporb

    Emailing My Clients On Updates
    Mailchimp
  • hello friend, you can also seek some good stuff with following SEo tools

    (a) screaming for link analysis
    (b) http://www.oko69.com for competitive backlink check.
    (c) wonderwebware for XML sitemap.
    (d) cuterank for keyword rank check
    (e) Xenu link slauth for website links check
    (f) majesticSEO for backlink checking

    thanks
  • Also, Firefox browser would also give you some SEO tools in form of SEO addons, easy to use, I would say, there is no doubt to it....
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