Here are some of our favorites, in no particular order: Cool Free Tool #1: Alexa toolbar www.alexa.com/site/download The Alexa toolbar gives you instant information about any website you visit. It's a downloadable "plugin" for your browser (IE or Firefox) and shows you a site's traffic, pagerank, related sites, who's linking in, and much more. It's one of our "must-have" research tools! Cool Free Tool #2: Google Website Optimizer http://services.google.com/websiteoptimizer Google offers this free "multivariate" and A/B testing tool to help you improve your conversion rate -- and your sales! -- by testing different versions of your site content to see which gets the best results. Google offers tips on what and how to test, so even if you're a "newbie," this tool can help you boost your site performance. Cool Free Tool #3: XML Sitemaps www.xml-sitemaps.com This quick and easy sitemap generator helps search engine spiders find their way around your site and index it faster so you can rank better in the search results. (And for 5 bucks, this site has a broken link finder that will search up to 500 pages for you.) Cool Free Tool #4: AdWords Keyword tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The Google AdWords Keyword Tool is a free tool that provides ideas for new keywords. It also gives you graphs showing the relative number of searches to amount of competition for those keywords among AdWords advertisers. This tool is invaluable both for your niche research and for your SEO and pay-per-click efforts. Cool Free Tool #5: Optiview www.optiview.com Optiview is a free site analysis tool. It lets you find out what your site looks like when it loads at different speeds and checks for images that make your site load slower than it should. The faster your site loads, the better -- which is why a tool like Optiview is such a big help. Cool Free Tool #6: Quantcast www.quantcast.com Would you like to find out who is coming to you site? It's really easy with this free tool that shows your audience's age, education gender, income and more. Cool Free Tool #7: Google Alerts www.google.com/alerts This simple tool helps you keep up with the latest news in your industry, get ideas for content, and check out your competitors. When it comes to research, Google Alerts are a huge time saver! Cool Free Tool #8: Blogger www.blogger.com Blogger is the twelfth most popular website in the WORLD. And it's the easiest way to get your own blog up and running in as little time as possible. With a blog, you can publish articles -- or any other kind of content related to your market -- and link it to your website to get higher rankings in the search engines! Cool Free Tool #9: Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net Audacity is a free audio recorder and editor you can use if you want to include any audio on your site. Plus, it's great for recording instant podcasts! Cool Free Tool #10: YouTube www.youtube.com These days, people are demanding more multimedia features on a website... and that includes video. YouTube allows you to host your videos on their site and makes it easy for you to show those videos on your site, as well. It's not just a time waster, it can help spread the word about your business! ... So those are 10 of our favorite free tools. Much Appericiated
Thankyou . I were used many tools there but I trust the tools from google most. PS alexa always detected as spam. I don't know how do I trust them.
Thank you for the list Looking forward for more of informative posts like this in future. Have a nice day , Good luck.
Awesome list! I've heard and used of most of these but I'm definitely excited to check out the other few that I haven't used. Thanks!
Some nice tools there. I also love WordTracker.com Although it isn't free technically you can take the free trial as many times as you like.