SEO: Essential SEO Resources and Tools

Blogs: Read articles from some of the leaders in Search Engine Optimization and learn how you can improve your website.

www.seomoz.org/blog
www.seo-scoop.com
www.mattcutts.com/blog
www.seroundtable.com
http://blog.outer-court.com/

Search Engine/SEO News: Stay up-to-date with the latest search engine and SEO news.


www.seomoz.org - Top SEO firm. Their site has a lot of articles and tools
www.searchengineguide.com
www.pandia.com/sew/index.php
www.searchenginenews.com
http://searchenginewatch.com
www.seo-news.com
www.seoproject.com
www.sitepronews.com
www.webproworld.com
www.seoresearchlabs.com Free SEO E-Book
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=webmasters - Search Engine submission tips
www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors - Seacrh Engine ranking factors.
http://download.alexa.com/index.cgi - Alexa toolbar
www.google.com/webmasters - Google webmaster tools
www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm - A chart of search engine relationships
www.searchenginecolossus.com - A listing of search engines by country

Forums: Communicate with other designers about SEO-related topics.

http://forums.spider-food.net
www.highrankings.com/forum/
www.ihelpyou.com/forums/
www.seorefugee.com

Keyword Tools: Improve your rankings by targeting and optimizing for the right keywords.

www.wordtracker.com/
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal - Google’s keyword tool.
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ - Overture’s keyword suggestion tool.
www.seotools.kreationstudio.com/keyword/
www.yooter.com/keyword/

Various Tools

www.webuildpages.com/seo-tools/whoischeck-bykeys.pl - Checks age and Yahoo backlinks of the top 100 domains in Google under your specified Keyword or phrase
www.webuildpages.com/neat-o/index.htm - Checks your backlinks and the anchor text used in those backlinks.
www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ Meta tag analyzer. See how search engine spiders view the meta tags of your website or other websites.
http://tools.summitmedia.co.uk/spider/ - Spider simulator
www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php - Spider simulator
www.webceo.com - Web CEO
www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-search/ - The PageRank Search tool allows you to search Google using any keyword(s) you wish. It will then return, in order of Google relevance, the sites associated with those keywords. Each result displays a graphical bar with the PageRank of that particular site.
www.seochat.com/?option=com_seotools&tool=10 - Page Rank lookup.
www.dead-links.com/ - Find dead links on your website.
http://validator.w3.org/checklink - Dead link tool from W3C
www.linktiger.com - Another free dead links tool
www.recip-links.com/ - Reciprocal links checker
www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php - Keyword density checker
www.webconfs.com/anchor-text-analysis.php - Anchor text analyzer
www.stargeek.com/code_to_text.php - code to text ratio calculator
www.seologic.com/webmaster-tools/link-popularity-check.php - Link popularity checker
www.seologic.com/webmaster-tools/search-engine-saturation.php - Search engine saturation checker
www.seologic.com/webmaster-tools/meta-tags.php - Check the meta tags of a page
www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/link-popularity/ - Another link popularity checker
www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/ - See where you rank in various search engines for specific search terms
www.trafficzap.com/keysug.php - Keyword generator
www.trafficzap.com/metagenerator.php - Meta tag generator
www.selfseo.com Provides a variety of free SEO tools
www.digitalpoint.com/tools - A variety of SEO tools from Digital Point
www.googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php - Google Rankings ultimate SEO tool
www.keyworddensity.com - Checks your keyword density
www.webuildpages.com/tools/default.htm - Several different tools from WeBuildPages

Other:


www.marketverticalpartners.com/tools - Website SEO Checkup
http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword - Keyword Suggestion Tool
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-list - Keyword List Generator
www.seochat.com/seo-tools/code-to-text-ratio - Code to Text Ratio Tool
www.seochat.com/seo-tools/indexed-pages - Indexed Pages Tool
www.seochat.com/seo-tools/url-rewriting - URL Rewriting
www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php - Similar Page Checker
www.webconfs.com/domain-stats.php - Domain Stats Tool
www.seoadministrator.com/log-analyzer.html - Log Analyzer