SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is a brilliant thing for Bloggers and Webmasters to drive the real unlimited traffic from search engines. There are many basic and advanced things for SEO which we learn step by step and also implement them on our blogs like optimizing template, adding meta descriptions, creating robots.txt file, submitting sitemap and much more. Previously, We've published Mind Blowing Benefits of Blogging. In this post, we're going to share the top 20 best free SEO tools for bloggers which can be helpful to drive more traffic and perform better in SERPs.
1. Google Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools allows you to submit the whole sitemap of your blog/site to Google for the index in its search engine. Once the sitemap the completely indexed then you blog will be appearing in Google search and through that you can receive organic traffic. It also has advanced features by which you can track the most popular keywords from which you're getting traffic and all other information about the traffic which is coming from Google search engine. You can also calculate the backlinks with this tool.
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2. Bing Webmaster Tools
Just similar as Google Webmaster Tools, Bing is another search engine which is 2nd most popular across the world. Through this tool, you can submit sitemap to Bing search engine and easily get traffic from there. It also helps you to optimize your blog for search engine better than previous. This is almost same with the above tool just the search engine is changed.Also Read : How To Show AdSense Ads in Mobile Version of Blogger
3. Google Analytics
Google Analytics is one of the most popular tool to get the accurate and real statistics data about the visitors of your blog/site. There are many features in this tool that's why it is known as best. It counts the pageviews, daily visitors, monthly visitors of your blog. Bounce rate, geographical location of visitors, trackbacks, real-time (live) visitors, information of paid and free keywords and much more things are also available in this tool just free. So now Install Google Analytics in your blog now.Also Read : How To Add Twitter Feeds Widget in Blogger
4. Google Keyword Planner
After Google Analytics, Keyword Planner is also a useful tool for bloggers to get better ranking in SERPs. This is a keyword research tool by which you can decide better keyword for your content. Simply, with this tool, you can know that how much time a single keyword in searched in Google in the single month. You should target such keyword which may have high searches monthly and after that you can be able to get good traffic from search engines.Also Read : Google custom search engine for blogger
5. Google PageSpeed Insights
Google PageSpeed Insights - This is another free SEO tool provided by Google which helps you to know the page speed or loading speed of your blog. Every blogger and webmaster wants to reduce the loading time of his blog/site and this tool can be helpful at the time because this doesn't only calculate the loading time but also finds and provide you some tips by which you can easily speed up your blog.Also Read : How to increase google pagerank
6. Google Structured Data Testing Tool
As the days are passing, Google is trying to make it's search engine more easy and useful with correct result. You guys may be noticing that slowly slowly Google is changing design or view of search results. So, this is Google structured data testing tool which helps you to know that how your blog appears in search results. After testing, it also gives you some tips to appear your blog beautiful in search results.Also Read : How To Make Money Online With Google AdSense
7. Google Trends
Google Trends can also be helpful for bloggers to do better keyword research because this tool helps to know that what's trending in the current days, which topic is most popular in the current and how much time it is search and also from where it is searched. It also gives more advanced information. We can also search the custom keywords with this tool and easily get information about these custom keywords.Also Read : How To Create Sitemap Page in Blogger
8. Keyword Density Checker
Keyword Density also plays role in search engine optimization and Keyword Density Checker tool can be helpful for us bloggers. For normal and proper SEO, we should do only 2-4% keyword density in our articles which will help us to get better ranking in search engines but if we write more than limit then there is chance to be penalized by Google penguin which will decrease our organic traffic.Also Read : How to get free unlimited backlink to your blog
9. SEOquake
SEOquake is most popular free SEO tool which is a extension or plugin for our web browers like Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera. After installing this tool, whenever you will open any webpage in your browser, a bar will appear which will be having SEO information for that webpage. It consists of Alexa Rank, Page Rank, Domain Authority, Backlinks, Indexed Pages, Page Authority and many more.Also Read : Tips To Drive Social Media Traffic Towards Your Blog
10. Open Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer is a website explorer which gives SEO information for the particular given domain. Through this tool, you can know the Domain and Page authority of any domain name, counts the backlinks and also gives more information. This tool also contains the premium version which is not free but free version also gives good result.Also Read : Top Ways To Earn Money From a Blog
11. Ahrefs
Ahrefs is a backlink checker and site explorer tool by which you can easily check the backlinks of your blog. The total number of backlinks, kind of backlinks such as nofollow and dofollow, the location of backlinks and much more you can get from this tool. This also has premium version which will be provide more better data but free is also fine for blogger.Also Read : How To Change Title Of 404 Error Page in Blogger
12. Alexa
Alexa is my favorite. Alexa is a well known algorithm for SEO Analysts and Bloggers. It is owned by amazon company and Alexa gives the rank to the every website on the internet. Most of bloggers try to improve their alexa rank which shows that the blog is going better and it is better than other webs on the internet. Alexa doesn't only rank the sites but also gives the information of that site related to SEO. That information consists of global rank, specific country rank, bounce rate, pageviews and visitors percentage, organic traffic percentage, keywords, backlinks and many more.Also Read : The Importance Of Automation Tools In SEO
