SEO tools

Collection of Helpful SEO tools

1. Screaming frog – spiders websites’ links, images, CSS, script and apps from an SEO perspective. Allows you to quickly analyse, audit and review a site from an onsite SEO perspective

See screaming frog blog post on how to use it.

2. Web Developer – Firefox plugin

3. User Agent Switcher – Firefox plugin

4. SEOquake toolbar – checking page rank

5. Google Chrome tools:

• Broken Link Checker  -mixed reviews. When working with a lot of links has a tendency to return all the links as 408 timed out. But still useful to know about.
• Web Developer
• Redirect Path Checker
• SEOmoz Toolbar – limited free information. Otherwise need an account for more indepth analysis and information.
• Chrome Sniffer
• Google Analytics Debugger
• Microformats for Chrome
• Rulers Guides and Eyedropper Color Picker
• Word Count
• Source Kit
• Analytics Chrome Plugin Debugger

6. Yahoo plugins – works in basically everything except IE

• YSlow plugin

7. Less for Mac or for Windows -free application you can download to compress your CSS files

8. Google Compiler closure website