To excel in SEO, you must know the exact tools that can help you achieve that.
Over the years of constant researching and testing out SEO tools in the market, I’ve compiled some that really served me well. Since I stumbled across this post, I thought I’d share with all of you this piece of knowledge that I’ve written down in my handy notebook.
So yes, here’s a brief list of the best free/freemium SEO tools that have helped me since the start of my career:
SEO Suite
- BiQ - I was given the first-hand experience to try out this tool. This is an SEO suite that has innovated the pricing model by providing granular cost control. What caught my eye was their unique approach stating, “Pay Only For What You Use & Don’t Pay For What You Don’t Use”. From keyword intelligence to rank tracking, (there are more core SEO modules!) they've designed it perfectly for SEOs and marketers like us.
* Here’s a blog I’ve written that talks about BiQ in-depth: My Revolutionary SEO Suite: #BiQ Cloud
* Update: BiQ SEO Suite is now open to the public! Sign up for a FREE account here —— BiQ SEO Suite - World's First SEO Suite That Democratizes Pricing
SEO & Content Related
- [NEW] LiveKeyword by BiQ -Another wonderful creation from the BiQ team! If you are doing SEO content, LiveKeyword will be the best Chrome extension for your keyword research. It shows related keyword suggestions together with their search volume, cost-per-click, and competition, all for FREE!
- GDoc SEO Assistant - No matter who you are in the company, you’ll always want to improve your content for better SEO. This tool lets you check your overall score, shows you the most relevant keyword data, and gives you data-driven SEO suggestions
- Blog Title Generator - Get endless catchy titles and create blog topics to help you in your content writing!
- Grammarly - This tool has proven itself to be another helping hand for those of you who do content proofreading and editing. Grammarly checks for spelling errors, grammar mistakes, punctuation misfits, and vocabulary usages.
- LSIGraph - Extremely easy to use and efficient when searching for LSI keywords related to your topic that you can sprinkle in when writing in your content. Highly recommended!
- LinkVector - This is a tool that specializes in internal linking. It helped me discover all the internal and outbound links of my domain. The best part? I am able to discover linking opportunities to sites I’ve missed out on!
- Buffer - To keep my Twitter and Facebook appear constantly updated, I use this life-saving tool! By scheduling all my posts beforehand, I’ve saved tons of time and energy.
The Google Suite
- Google Keyword Planner - Use this to search for keyword ideas that are relevant to your product, service and target customers. This is exceptionally helpful to those of you who are running a campaign.
- Google Trends - To check how frequently your targeted search term is entered into Google over a period of time, use this tool!
- Google Analytics - Definitely used this very often. The implications of analyzing your website traffic, knowing who your users are and seeing what's working and not are huge, so you’ll certainly be needing this.
- Google Search Console - When doing SEO, you’ll need a tool that’ll help you monitor your website’s performance in the Google search index.
- Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test - This tool effortlessly checks whether your website is mobile-friendly or not.
Images & Videos Related
- Canva - As someone who is a non-designer, I relied on this tool heavily when I needed to create images for my blog posts. Thanks for beautifying my blogs Canva!
- Flaticon - When some icons aren’t found in Canva during my attempt to design a simple image, I would resort to this 2nd option; Flaticon. They do wonders, I’m telling you!
- Wibbitz - On some days, I’ll need to quickly create short videos for my social media updates - I’d turn to this platform! Yes, no production experience required.
Well, these are the tools that have helped me greatly when I had zero budget and knowledge. Oh, I still use them today!
Thanks to their creators, SEO is made simpler for me and you! I hope you’ll give them a try and let me know if it’s helpful to you too.
PS: I’ll update this space whenever I manage to find other useful tools in the near future :)
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