SEO tools

Link Building

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Link Search Tool

SoloSEO's keyword based link search tool

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Market Samurai

For those of you who know or don’t know SEO, MarketSamurai has proven to be one of the best SEO keyword suggestion, research, tracking competitor tools out there on the market. Click for 35% Off!

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Hub Finder 3.0

Hub Finder is an open source link analysis tool which looks for co occurring backlinks.

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Hub Finder 1.0

Hub Finder is web based software which looks for hub pages using the Yahoo! API. It allows you to find sites which link to common resources that you manually enter, or resources that rank well in Yahoo! for a specific term.

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Roboform

Roboform is an excellent tool to auto-fill forms when submitting to directories

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Business.com Coupon Code

Business.com have recently been doing a promo for their $100 free credit on PPC startup and $50 discount on Business Directory listings.

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Local.com Promo Listing

The way Local.com works is very similar to a local yellow pages website, where you can add your address and map location, this is also great for SEO particularly Google local map optimization.

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BOTW Link Submission

For those of you who don’t know, Best Of The Web directory is truely one of the best web directories on the internet apart from business.com and local.com.

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Submit URL

ListYourUrl.com is a do follow social bookmarking site where people can submit their websites and share their bookmarks with other internet users

Learning resources

11 Experts on Link Development Speak Out

Link development pros to sit down and do an interview.

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Web Links from the Search Engine's Perspective

A guide to how search engines use hyperlinks

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Finding Link Sources & Building Topical Authority Links

Andy Beal provides explanation on why topical links are necessary in link building campaigns

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Natural Link Acquisition

A grey hat look at link building campaigns

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Big Boards

Big Boards is the web largest directory of message boards and forums

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Forum Virus

Forum Virus is a large directory of forums and message boards

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Blog Catalog

The Blogger Social Network

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20 Linkbaiting Techniques

20 linkbaiting techniques from Problogger

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101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website

Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall provide 101 tips to link build

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102 Ways To Make Your Site A Back-Link Superstar

A giant list of all kinds of link building technique

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101 Ways to Get More Traffic

101 Ways to Get More Traffic to your website

Keyword Research

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Wordtracker

Wordtracker was established by Andy Mindel and Mike Mindel in 1997 to answer "What are people searching for on the Web?"

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Google's Keyword Tool

Google's official Adwords keyword research tool

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adCenter Add-in for Excel 2007

Microsoft's adCenter Add-in is a keyword research and optimization tool, based in Excel and including the Ad Intelligence model, which enables you to build keyword lists, plan keyword strategies and forecast daily keyword impressions.

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Keyword Discovery

KeywordDiscovery compiles keyword search statistics from over 180 search engines world wide, to create the most powerful Keyword Research tool.

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Wordze

Wordze provides multiple keyword research tools based on real search queries

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Niche Bot

Keyword Research that gives you access to over 295 billion keywords in 41 languages spanning 243 countries using multiple keyword sources

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Google Trends

Google's official trends tool

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Soovle

Soovle is keyword research tool that compares the amount of queries between 7 major websites in an appealing visual manner

Learning resources

12 Different Types of Links and How To Get Them

A informative guide that explains some of the kinds of links and the steps necessary to get them

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66 Ways to Build Links

If “Content is King“, then links are what put that king on the throne... 66 methods for building links

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131 (Legitimate) Link Building Strategies

A giant list of whitehat link building strategies

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Doing Keyword Research? Here Are Some Resources To Help!

Danny Sullivan lists some keyword research tools and explains how to use them

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An understanding of SEO Keyword Research

Tony Adam discuses how important it is to understand keyword research

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Advanced Keyword Research — The power of understanding your visitors

Hamlet Batista discusses the importance of understanding users while conducting keyword research

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How to Use Social Media for Keyword Research

Use social media to explore your niche and learn more about your audience

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Keyword Research for Bloggers

Keyword research can be the difference between a successful blog and one that goes nowhere. Learn to avoid the latter

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Advanced Keyword Research for SEO

Jordan Kasteler discusses how to perform advanced keyword research

Content Creation

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Copyscape

Defending your rights online, Copyscape is the leading provider of services that protect your content against online plagiarism and theft.

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Adobe Buzzword

Write and collaborate on documents anywhere, anytime

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Creative Commons Search

Creative Commons Search will help you find photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon utilizing Creative Commons enabled search services at Google, Yahoo!, and Flickr.

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Ontology Finder

The goRank ontology lookup tool checks the top 1000 Google results for your keywords by running a related word query.

Learning resources

SEO Advice: Writing useful articles that readers will love

Matt Cutts discusses how to write quality blog content and illustrates some of the benefits

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Powerful SEO Illustration: Importance of Keyword Clustering

A very powerful picture that explains a very powerful and important SEO principle.

On-Page Optimization

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Keyword Density and Prominence Tool

A tool that crawls and identifies the density and importance of a given keyword on a given page.

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SEO Tools

SEO tools for checking backlinks and much more

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On Page Optimization - A Complete Walkthrough

A complete walkthrough for doing on page optimization

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The Best Damn On-Page Optimization Process Checklist, Period

A very useful checklist for on page SEO

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SEO eBook

The ultimate SEO eBook that provides insider SEO secrets and tips to getting your site ranked highly in the search engines

Crawling and Indexing Issues

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Firefox User Agent Switcher

An essential Firefox plugin that gives the user the ability to change their browsers User-Agent

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IP Addresses of Search Engine Spiders

Are you interested in tracking the IP addresses of search engine spiders? You can see my latest lists of search engine IP addresses and User-Agents here.

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Managing Robots Access To Your Website

Controlling what content is blocked from being found in search engines is crucial for many websites. Fortunately, the major search engines and other well-behaved robots observe the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP).

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Search Engine Indexing Limits: Where Do the Bots Stop?

Serge Bondar discusses the finer points of online robots.

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Matt Cutts Indexing Timeline

A great post explaining Google's major index/crawler update, Bigdaddy.

Social Media Marketing

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Bit.ly

A url shortener website that provides free stats.

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Social Media Will Change Your Business

Old media's look on social media presented by Business Week

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An Introduction to Linkbaiting

The first of a three part series on linkbaiting and social media marketing

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Top 100 Social Media Tools

The top 100 social media tools list has been compiled from a cohort of learning professionals who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own personal learning/productivity and for creating learning solutions for others.