Top 20 Best Free SEO Tools For Bloggers

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 many more. Previously, We've published many articles on SEO which can be found in SEO Page and now we're going to discuss about another topic of SEO. 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.

2. Bing Webmaster Tools

Just similar as Google Webmaster Tools, Bing is another search engine which is second 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.

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. Install Google Analytics in your blog now!

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.

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.

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.
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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.

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.

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 much more.

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.

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.

12. Alexa

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 much more.

13. CopyScape

This is also well known tool for webmaster by which we can check the plagiarism of any webpage. It is common rule in blogging that we should not copy others content because it's illegal and has no benefit but if someone copies your content without permission then you can track your content violators through this tool. In simple words, we can check duplicate content through this tool.

14. Pingdom Website Loading Test

Pingdom website loading test is just alternative to Google PageSpeed Insights. We can also determine the loading speed or time through this tool. Pingdom website loading test allows us to check the loading speed from different countries of servers. After the process, it shows, how much did the webpage take to load, size of webpage and also gives tips to improve the loading speed. 

15. WordPress SEO By Yoast

This is the most popular WordPress SEO plugin which is being used by almost every WordPress user to SEO Optimize their websites and blogs. This plugin is free and is most recommended because it contains everything about SEO. It helps you to do on-page optimization like meta description, meta keywords, focus keywords, sitemaps and many more. 

16. WooRank

WooRank is another useful website review SEO tool which generates the SEO and other useful information about the given specific website. After generating review, it also gives the total score to that website by which we can know how much better we're going. The information is really brilliant which is being generated by this tool and we can easily know much about any particular website in a few clicks through this tool.

17. Drop My Link

Drop My Link is also a better tool for SEO Analyst which will help you to easily find such blogs on which you post comments and make backlinks through them. First you need to insert the keyword which can related to the top which you're linking back and choose the comment type blogs which can be CommentLuv blogs, dofollow comment blogs, .edu blogs and more. So, making backlinks through this tool is easier.

18. MozBar

This is also useful tool for Bloggers which is basically plugin and extension for browsers. This bar allows you to get known about the Domain Authority, Page Authority, Page Rank, Alexa Rank, Indexed Pages and other related to SEO things. When you'll be surfing any webpage, this bar will provide you all the above data about that current webpage in ease. You can simply analyze SEO of other webpages.

19. Buffer

Buffer is another most popular tool and application which be helpful for bloggers to drive more traffic. This is not mostly related to SEO but I would like to share them because this is awesome. This tool allows you to share the posts of your blog on different social networking sites with one click only. You can promote your blog on social networks while snoozing by scheduling posts. Simply, this tool helps you to socialize your content easily.

20. Craftkeys

Craftkeys is a useful tool for bloggers to analyze the competitor's keywords. By this tool, you can easily know that what keywords your competitor is trying to rank in Google and helps you to beat him/her. This tool gives you good information about keywords of the competitor just by giving domain, url or keyword.

Final Words

So friends, these were some best free SEO tools which can be useful for bloggers to rank their posts well in Google and drive good organic traffic. I think it is enough for today so let's end this post. I hope these tools are going to be helpful for every blogger and please share your views about this in comment and also it with your friends. Take a lot of care till the next post! Happy Search Engine Optimizing