hi guys have been doing some seo on my site and now need to monitor the progress. Could you guys share what tools you use and how your experience have been with them. thanks in advance
Its Google Analytics. There is no other tool that can monitor the seo progress report of the website. It is best.
yes google analytics is best....but if you want to another then try woopra...it is free until 30000 page imressions
Use Google webmaster tools & Google Analytics. If you've also optimized your website to other search engines like Bing, Yahoo etc. then also use Bing webmaster tools, and Yahoo site explorer or whatever yahoo having now.
If you are looking for free tool then no doubt Google Adwords and Analytics tool . But if you are looking for Paid tools then you can go with various tools like SERPAnalytics (keyword tracking + monitoring tool ) , SEMRUSH , keywordspy etc are good to start with.