SEO Resources for Marketers

[Jack Anderson]

Hello guys!

Over the time, I have made a compilation of useful SEO/Internet marketing resources I've been using. Hopefully, you'll find them useful / helpful for your online activities. Mind, that for some of these resources a paid subscription is needed, but you may as well use the free range of services they offer.

Keyword Research
1. Google AdWords Keyword Tool: https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool
2. Wordtracker: https://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
3. Ubersuggest: http://ubersuggest.org/
4. Latent Dirichlet Allocation Content Optimizer: http://www.virante.org/seo-tools/lda-content-optimizer

Competitive Keyword Analysis
1. SpyFu: http://www.spyfu.com/
2. SEMRush: http://www.semrush.com/

Backlink Investigation
1. Open Site Explorer: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
2. Majestic SEO Site Explorer: http://www.majesticseo.com/
3. Ahrefs Site Explorer: http://ahrefs.com/
4. Link Diagnosis: http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/

Website Crawling & Link Checking
1. Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool: http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
2. Xenu’s Link Sleuth: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
3. W3C Link Checker: http://validator.w3.org/checklink

Content & Markup Analysis
1. SEO Browser: http://www.seo-browser.com/
2. Copyscape: http://www.copyscape.com/
3. W3C Markup Validation Service: http://validator.w3.org/

Social Discovery
1. Shared Count: http://sharedcount.com/
2. SocialMention: http://socialmention.com/
3. Follower Wonk: http://followerwonk.com/

PR & Outreach
1. HARO – Help a Reporter Out: http://www.helpareporter.com/
2. Blogger LinkUp: http://www.bloggerlinkup.com/
3. MyBlogGuest: http://myblogguest.com/
4. DoubleClick Ad Planner: https://www.google.com/adplanner/

 

[Sudha]

This is so useful really. Thanks for sharing with us. Can I ask you a doubt? Back link investigation, do we need it still?

 

[Marek Skoczylas]

This is so useful really. Thanks for sharing with us. Can I ask you a doubt? Back link investigation, do we need it still?

You may do not need backlinks investigation tools, but you need HQ backlinks as never before

 

[Jack Anderson]

This is so useful really. Thanks for sharing with us. Can I ask you a doubt? Back link investigation, do we need it still?

Well, I've met people who still believe SEO is mostly is all about backlinks... It's hard to say if they matter, although backlinks from a high authority resource won't do any harm Anyway, I mostly use Ahrefs and Majestic to check the keywords competitors use. This is especially useful if the subject is sort of "narrow"

 

[emmabjones]

Great collection, Jack! I've used most of these resources and some of them are irreplaceable like the Screaming Frog tool and majestic.

 

[Mike Wilford]

Great post Jack - reassured to see we make use of them at this business. Screaming Frog is a long running faithful friend of mine.

 

[Henry Simons]

Useful stuff! Thank you.

 

[justinaldridge]

Good list Jack but I definitely wouldn't recommend using My Blog Guest these days as that site got hammered by Google when they came down hard on guest blog spamming. The site doesn't even rank if you search for "my blog guest" and associated sites got penalised too.

Best to avoid using that one.

 

[Jack Anderson]

Good list Jack but I definitely wouldn't recommend using My Blog Guest these days as that site got hammered by Google when they came down hard on guest blog spamming. The site doesn't even rank if you search for "my blog guest" and associated sites got penalised too.

Best to avoid using that one.

Thank you very much for this correction. To be honest, I myself used it ages ago, it must have been on the list for a while. Unfortunately I can't remove it from the list here in the thread, because the editing option seems to be inactive

 

[CoolsMediaJohn]

Great list! Massive fan of majestic and also Long Tail Pro for keyword research...

 

[durandl]

Well, I've met people who still believe SEO is mostly is all about backlinks... It's hard to say if they matter, although backlinks from a high authority resource won't do any harm

Are you serious?
Backlinks are still by far the most influential factor in ranking a site. Have a look at the SEO moz Search Engine Ranking Factors 2015. So not only backling won't hurt but they are necessary

 

[techpro]

Great list mark..! I would like to suggest an alternate website "Myblogu" that is also founded by same Lady "Ann Smarty" for PR & outreach after penalization of "Myblogguest".

 

[Jeff Nev]

Very useful, thanks. I also used a very good WordPress extension that ran real-time analysis of content as you created it. Can't remember the name though.

 

[Produsive]

very useful. Appreciate this!

 

[kritika singh]

Thanks a huge amount of great info ..................again thanks for sharing it................great stuff..I have used some of the links like adwords and screaming frog............