As webmasters, we inevitably need to utilize many different tools, whether it be templates, link checkers, website analysis tools, logo designers, snippets of code and especially SEO Tools.
Here are some great free Webmaster and Search Engine Optimization Tools.
Free Website Templates:
Free Niche Site Builders – Allows affiliates to quickly and easily build and maintain multi-page affiliate marketing price comparison websites directly from multiple merchant product datafeeds. AffiliStore 2 has been created using PHP and MySQL and has a simple installation interface.
Website Design Tools, Banners, Photo Editing and Buttons
Gimp 2 – Photo Retouching, Image Authoring, Banner Creator, Logo Maker and lots more! Fantastic!
FreeSerifSoftware – This website offers 5 free softwares, including logo maker, picture editor, 3-D Website Graphics
Favicon Generator – This tool creates personalized bookmark favicons, from your own personal design, which also display in browser tabs and headers. Great for site branding, symbolism and a way for your visitors to easily identify your site in their bookmark list. Fantastic!
Nattyware-Pixie – Website Design Color Picker Tool.
Google Gadgets – Add a variety of gadgets to your websites for your visitors use and pleasure, like weather reports, search, to-do lists and more.
Logo Design
Logo Ease – Simple Logo Maker, very user friendly!
Cool Text Logo Maker – Haven’t used this one, but it looks good.
Logo Design Engine – Make logos and buttons. Has great images, add text, edit font and colors. Very user friendly!
Likno Button Maker – Create custom buttons.
Free Website Widgets
Google Page Rank Widget – Nifty widget to show off your Page Rank on your website/blog with options to add Yahoo and Google Index Stats.
Spring Widgets – You can create an RSS reader with multiple feeds; badges for your profile on social networks such as MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo; countdown application widgets and other cool gadgets for your blogs and websites.
Social Bookmark – All-in-One Button – Create a social bookmark add button for all social sites personalized with your website info embedded.
AddThis – Another social bookmark widget creator that also can be personalized with your website information and logo.
Robots Tool
Create Robots.txt – Fill in your parameters and the robots file is generated. This website has complete guides and tutorials on everything robots.txt.
Link Cloaker Tools:
Tiny Url – Make your long links Tiny/Cloak Affiliate ID’s. Great Tool!
Add Me Affiliate Link Cloaker – Affiliate link cloaking tool, allows to select a no-follow tag for the link.
Website Forms/Auto Responders:
Contact Form Killer – Free tool to add contact forms to your sites
Aweber Free Trial – The best and most popular software to create newsletters, auto responders and website sign up forms for your websites. For email and subscription marketing of your websites.
SEO – Backlink Building Tools
Backlink Builder – This is a great tool! It searches for websites of the niche/theme you specify that contain keyphrases like “Add link”, “Add site”, “Add URL”, “Add URL”, “Submit URL”, “Add Article” etc. Then presents them in a list with hyperlinks, no easier way to build reciprocal backlinks for you websites. Must Have!
Fast Blog Finder – Fantastic! Searches for Do-Follow Comment Links blogs for the keywords entered. Free version provides 50 results for each keyword.
Backlink Checkers for Search Engine Optimization Analysis
Free Backlink Checker from SEOPro Must Have! – Complete and comprehensive backlink report including, Home Page PR, Linkpage PR and your anchors, see my detailed review here: Best Free Backlink Checker
Link Assure Reciprocal Link Checker – Check if your link partners are still linking to you.
BRL Reciprocal Link Checker – Check on your reciprocal link partners.
WebConfs Reciprocal Link Checker
Bad Neighborhood Link Checker – Find out if your links are dangerous! This tool will scan the links on your website, and on the pages that your website is linking to, and flag possible problem areas, such as bad neighborhood sites and sites that have been penalized by Google. Must Have!
Free Website Analysis Tools:
Search Engine Stats
Google Webmaster Tools – See how Google views your site, including, index pages, crawl stats, robots.txt and sitemap validity and more. Must have!
Yahoo Site Explorer – Yahoo webmaster tools. See how your site is indexed in Yahoo and view all backlinks Yahoo has for your site. Google does not update backlink information often, but Yahoo does! See all your backlinks by site and number.
MSN Webmaster Tools – See how your site is indexed and crawled in MSN search engine.
Google Analytics – Check your site stats, visitors and traffic. Complete Reports – Must Have!
Stat Counter – Check your sites stats, visitors and traffic. Some prefer Statcounter over Google Analytics.
Google Data Base Checker – Check your websites in the 700+ Google Databases
Google Alerts – See if your site is mentioned. Enter search parameters, like your site name or KW and Google automatically sends you alerts when there are new Google results for your search terms. Alerts with results from news, blogs, videos and gourps.
Search Engine Optimization Tools & Internet Marketing Analyzers
SEO Rank Checker – Monitor website rank
PR Checker – Domain Page Rank Checker, also has a nice widget to show off your rank on your websites. Good Tool!
Multi Rank Checker – Multiple domain page rank checker, allows you to check several domains at once.
Website Grader – SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website by giving you a grade. Great Tool!
GoLexa – Complete Page & Site Analysis – For your sites and competitors – Must See!
Blog Juice Calculator – See how much juice your blogs and competing blogs have. Must have for bloggers!
Keyword Spy – See what KW your competitors are using and tells you the exact terms and phrases that are driving the most traffic to your competitors’ websites. Great Tool!
Compete Site Analytics – In-depth analysis to compare the growth of two or more websites. Great Tool!
Touch Graph – Reveals the network of connectivity between websites as per Google.
Index Rank Website Growth Analysis – Uses a scale of 1-10 to determine indexing rate of a website which helps to determine its growth. Must Have!
Xinu Returns – Check your sites PageRank, Backlinks, Indexed Pages and Rankings in popular search engines, social bookmark sites, technorati and more. Great Tool!
Conduit – On demand website syndication that builds traffic and revenue.
Meta Tag Analyzer – Analyzes the Meta Tags of your site and identifies problems and fixes for SEO. Good One!
SEO Toolbars
SEO Toolbar for Firefox – SEOBooks live toolbar for firefox that shows all pertinent SEO info for whatever site you are viewing, like highlighting no-follow links and pages, page rank, number of index pages in major search engines, site age and lots more. Must Have!
SEO Quake Toolbar – Similar to the Firefox SEO Toolbar, shows pertinent SEO and Internet Marketing information and is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer. Must Have!
MSN Labs Internet Marketing Tools:
Here are some excellent Internet Marketing tools from MSN Labs.
MSN – Online Commercial Intention – Predict a customer’s intension to buy, sell, or complete another kind of transaction based on her search queries or recently visited URLs.
Explore MSN – Analyze publisher website content and its audience to provide advertisers insights for ad placement and targeting.
MSN – Search Volume Seasonality Forecast – Forecast the seasonality patterns of search queries.
Keyword Research Tools:
SEO Book Free Keyword Suggestion Tool
Word Tracker Keywords Free Trial
Keyword Discovery – Free Trial
Google Adwords Tools
Google Adwords Keyword Tool – Gage KW searches and competition in Google Adwords.
Google Adwords Traffic Estimator – Shows the estimated cost per click for selected KW. This one is good if you do not yet have a Google Adwords account and just want to know how much your KW are costing.
Long Tail Adwords – Quickly see the Long Tail Adwords and Keywords you could be missing out on.
Add URL – Search Engines & Other Places:
My Design Award – This site gives awards for best website design, they also get lots of traffic and views of your site, and you also get a nice backlink!
Twitter – Create a profile for each of your webwesites and follow some people
LinkedIn – Create a profile and add your websites
MyBlogLog – Create a profile and add all your websites and blogs, join groups and add contacts!
Social Marker – Add your sites/content to over 65 Social Bookmark/Web 2.0 Sites from one browser window – Must Have!
Claim your Blogs @ Technorati – Add your blogs to Technorati and set automatic pinging for whenever you update.
All Browsers Website Display Checker:
Have you ever seen how your site looks in different browsers? Especially in Internet Explorer? You might be surprised at what you find.
Different browsers display sites in different ways due to code issues, and IE is just a bug fest with its constant problems with frames and CSS display. Use the tool below to get screenshots of how your site looks in over 65 browsers and then use the hack codes to make changes accordingly.
Browser Shots – Screenshots of how your site looks in over 65 browsers.
How to Guides on Fixing Problems with Website Displays Different Browsers:
Internet Explorer Website Browser Display Fixes – Very simple and easy to use guide.
Comprehensive Guide to Fix Display Issues in most Browsers – Provides Hack Codes to add to your sites which will solve display problems in most browsers. Made for webmasters who have some understanding on how to edit and add code to their sites.
Net Mechanic – This site has a lot of information that is worth reading on Browser Display Issues. Provides a free trial of their HTML Box Tool, which will fix these issues.