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What seo tools you use most?

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Most answers here point to the same truth: pick tools by the task you need to solve, not because they are popular. Organize work into core categories — crawl/index health, traffic analytics, keyword/intent research, backlink quality, on‑page checks, and speed/mobile — then keep one reliable tool for each category so you have a single source of truth for decisions.

A compact, repeatable workflow you can apply immediately:

  1. Baseline technical audit — crawl the site, inspect server responses, robots/sitemap, redirect chains and canonical tags; fix any 5xx, long redirect chains or accidentally blocked sections first.
  2. Content and intent mapping — assign target intents to existing pages, merge thin/duplicate pages, and update titles/meta/snippets to match intent. Prioritize pages that already get impressions or conversions.
  3. Link and performance hygiene — review incoming link relevance and anchor diversity, remove or disavow clearly spammy links, and prioritize fixes that improve perceived speed (reduce largest contentful paint, remove render‑blocking assets, add caching).

Quick checks (run from a terminal):

# check robots and headers
curl -I https://example.com/robots.txt
curl -I -L https://example.com/somepage   # follow redirects, see final status

# quick log check for frequent 404s (replace access.log)
grep '" 404 ' access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

Measure what matters: organic sessions, index coverage, top landing pages and their conversion rate, crawl errors, backlink relevance, and core web vitals. Cadence — quick weekly checks for traffic and errors, monthly crawl + backlink review, quarterly content/gap audits. This advice ties back to the practical categories raised by and the analytics/backlink focus called out by and : choose the smallest set of tools that gives you those signals and act on the highest‑impact fixes first.

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Member Avatar for Ketul_1

There are many free tools available for seo.
I prefer,
(1) Google webmaster tool
(2) smallseotools(dot)com
(3) siteprice(dot)org
(4) Bing webmaster tool

Member Avatar for Mudassir Hasan

Google webmaster tools is the best SEO tool for me. Besides it I use SEO quake, ahrefs and Google analytics as well.

Member Avatar for Daljeetkaur

Your question is not little clear. What types of SEO tools you are talking about?
Are you talking about Google Webmaster Tools?
Do you want to know about Google Adwords Tool?
Google Analytics Tool?
Google Adsense Tool?
Keyword planner tool?

or any other? There are different tools for every thing like if you want to know your website health report then google webmaster tool, for traffic purposes, google analytics is an option, to know best targeted keywords, google keyword planner tool. There are different online seo tools that are helpful in SEO purposes.

Member Avatar for Hemanth Malli

Hi,
We have so many regular tools used in the SEO. There are Robo Form, Inform Enter, Google Web Master, Google Analytics, Keyword Planner, etc…

Member Avatar for jobtardis92

Google webmaster tool
Back link watch
Google adwords tool
These are the best tool for SEO.

Member Avatar for Ketul_1

Please mention your work that check on tool.

(1) Keyword analysis
(2) Competitor analysis
(3) Site analysis
(3) Page speed analysis
(4) SERP checking
(4) Contenet analysis
(5) SEO friendly site analysis

Member Avatar for juliancdranga20

I am agree with Daljeet kaur that Your question is not little clear. What types of SEO tools you are talking about?
Because in seo many tools are used for various tasks like for analytic we use analytic tool. To check the backlinks of site we use backlinkwatch tool. To check the error in our website we can use google webmaster . In seo various tools are used to check sites.

Member Avatar for KristinaRoy
  1. Google webmaster tool (To check over all performance of website)
  2. Google Keyword Planner (To keyword research)
  3. Google analytics & Statcounter (To check traffic)
  4. Ahrefs (To check backlinks)
  5. SEO Quake (To check Inbound and outbound links)
  6. Moz tool (To check PA and DA)
  7. Alexa tool (To check Alexa rank)
Member Avatar for WebOutGateway

For Social Media Management and analysis:
• Hootsuite
• Buffer

Keyword Rank Checker
• Google Page Speed

Backlink Research Tools
• Majestic SEO

Keyword Analysis Tools
•Semrush
•Google Keyword Planner

Link Management Tool
• Raven Tools

Member Avatar for Nada_1

Now these day Google webmaster tool and Google analystic tool is best for full website optimization. But, another we use other many of tools for testing website reputation and their SEO steps. Below are tools used by me for my website analyst.
Google AdWords Keyword Tool, Keyword Planner tool, Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery, Bing Keyword Research Tool,SEO Quake

Member Avatar for Gagandeep SEO

there are many tools for seo available on
smallseotools.com
seositecheckup.com
there are many sites for seo tools.

Member Avatar for Saaedj

There are dozens of seo tool
webmaster tool
raven seo tool
linkdex tool

Member Avatar for kingston22

Google webmaster tool
Seomoz tool bar
Smallseotool.com
webrank tool bar

Member Avatar for jobtardis

Webmaster tools , google analytics , seo centro , semrush , wordtracker .

Member Avatar for businessstreet2

There are some online plugin for SEO which help you most to decrease your work effort. these are the best plugin for SEO is SEO Quake, Autofill, SEO Book Keyword Tool, Keyword Discovery and Webrank toolbar.

Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

Well, If I talk about myself then I usually don't use any tools other than the Google's tool i.e. Google Keyword Planner and Google Analytics.

Member Avatar for Rajan Verma

Best SEO Tools are:-
1. Screaming Frog
2. SEO MOFO – Snippet Optimizer
3. Netpeak
4. Outreachr
5. Ahrefs
6. Opensite Explorer
6.1 Moz Toolbar
7. SEO SERP Workbench (for Google Chrome)
8. Rank Checker (for Firefox)
9. Cognitive SEO
10. SEO Analysis with Seoptimer
11. SeoTools for Excel
12. Majestic SEO
13. Buzz Stream

Member Avatar for thefasninja1

Google keyword planner
Google analytics
Google webmaster tools
Awebber

Member Avatar for aidan29

there are many tools, but I prefer ahrefs

Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

well ahrefs is another great piece of art but what about Google Webmaster tool I guess you may have missed it ! :P

Member Avatar for vantrendin

SEO-browser
Wayback Machine
enu Link Sleuth
SEO Quake

Member Avatar for Ainu011

Besides Google webmasters/analitics/keywords tools try using one of free FireFox addons like webrank seo toolbar or SEO site tools or searchstatus etc. they are good to check on competition stats.

Member Avatar for phillipf

My SEO tools list (the best I believe):
Market Samurai + Keyword Planner for keyword research
Scrapebox for scraping backlink resources
Serpbook for rank tracking
IBP for creating link building report

Member Avatar for ashleywoodliff

Mostly I use screaming frog etc. but I think I'm gonna start using some others from this article, they might be very helpful

Member Avatar for danielpeterson

Google formal place on web page owner best methods really has not modified much over the years. What has modified is the look for engine's capability to implement these recommendations through enhanced methods. The execution of Panda, Penguin, and Hummingbird has had a powerful effect on the SEO scenery.

Google's He Cutts has pointed out that no one should be amazed when a web page that has not followed the recommendations is punished. What Cutts looks over or selects to neglect is something that I have known as the "Google Paradox". I suspicious the Search engines paradox is the main cause for one dark hat community participant showing his wish to "punch He Cutts in the face

Member Avatar for shapna.patel.5

Google Webmaster Tools
Google Analytics Tools
Google Keyword Planner
Ahresf.com
WebMeUp.com

Member Avatar for Glenn Rodgers

There is no doubt that the GOOGLE web master tool and GOOGLE analytics tools are the best for the successful SEO process.

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