SEO toolkit

[MissoldInvestments]

Im looking into purchasing some SEO tools ( Spades, Hammers, etc.. )

Just wanted some thought from people on here - seems to be a lot of conflicting advice.

Ive looked at link assistance, majesticseo to name a couple

Who would you recommend?

To give some background, we are not an SE0 Agency, just trying to do a bit ourselves

 

[ITsoldUK]

I am trialling SEOmoz and after 2 Weeks I am loving it thus far.

Indepth and helpful. Give it a whirl

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[MissoldInvestments]

for 99$ a month?

 

[MissoldInvestments]

the link assistant guy posted me this link - i have him on live chat at the moment - im getting reeled in by price i guess, but what do you think??
http://www.link-assistant.com/seo-software/seomoz-review.html

 

[MissoldInvestments]

but i guess all reports lean one way of the other..

Just want one thats basic to understand thats all

 

[ITsoldUK]

Yes. But there is a 30 day free trial...

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[ITsoldUK]

for 99$ a month?

You didnt say you wanted cheap/free now did you...

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[MissoldInvestments]

true I am looking for a paid tool - i dont expect to get a good one for free.

They have given me access for 2 weeks to try it out - on first looks its not very "sexy" looking, quite basic, and seems complicated to set up. But at least its a trial, will let you know how i get on with it - would be good if you let me know later about the SEOmoz one, I may go for that one if this one proves annoying

 

[webgeek]

I like:
- SEMRush for the competitor keyword info (similar to what Ahrefs used to do) - organic & ppc, the position tracker for multiple domains competing on same keywords
- Ahrefs for the backlink profiling, new/lost links reporting, anchor distribution by 1/2/3/4 terms/phrase and the Ahrefs Domain Rank (reveals weak sites masquerading as good ones)
- LinkResearchTools for a lot of reasons, the link detox in particular for easily identifying blog networks, de-indexed, pr stripped, etc.
- SERPFox for rank tracking

Free tools include the:
- Robin Gupta bulk Domain Authority/Page Rank/IP/Alexa checker
- MajesticSEO bulk backlink checker - for Citation Flow/Trust Flow (despite them not being strong indicators)
- pagerank.my-addr.com bulk PR checker
- Clicky web analytics
- Cloudflare/Incapsula threat protection/caching/remote firewall


Still need to trial Fishkin tools and the Wordtracker Link Builder tool

 

[terryuk]

Most software gives you information freely available, so it would probably be best determining what you want to achieve or shortcut before giving software / source information

 

[ITsoldUK]

Most software gives you information freely available, so it would probably be best determining what you want to achieve or shortcut before giving software / source information

Spot on Terry

You are paying for the convenience of having all the info in one place (plus it can highlight stuff you may miss) with little to no leg work.

I am of the opinion that the one I am trialing is ideal for saving me time on tasks that I need to be doing.

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[Picto]

I don't use it myself but the guys in the marketing department have been big fans of SEO Moz for a while. We've been through a few different solutions as well

 

I don't use it myself but the guys in the marketing department have been big fans of SEO Moz for a while. We've been through a few different solutions as well

Being a groupie or being number one on google are not quite the same.

 

[Picto]

Being a groupie or being number one on google are not quite the same.

I don't get the joke but we are number 1 on Google or near the top of page 1 in .co.uk, .fr and a few others for all or most of our most important keywords and phrases. I think the only prohibitive thing about it is the cost if you're managing a particularly large campaign, so we can only really monitor our top keywords and phrases with it

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

I don't get the joke but we are number 1 on Google or near the top of page 1 in .co.uk, .fr and a few others for all or most of our most important keywords and phrases. I think the only prohibitive thing about it is the cost if you're managing a particularly large campaign, so we can only really monitor our top keywords and phrases with it

You've hit the nail on the head SEOMoz is too expensive for large campaigns where lots of search terms need to be tracked.