Free Online Services and Tools for Webmasters
List of services and tools for SEO and other tools useful for webmasters. Some software to download and install are included also.
Design
- Google chart. Online service to design and display charts on your Web pages. The chart may be a line or a pie, in 2D or 3D.
- Round corners. Create boxes with rounded corners.
Checking pages and site
- Validator W3C. Checking the validity of the HTML or CSS code of a page.
- Spider simulator. Emulate a robots and displays error messages.
- Seobot. Browser showing pages as crawlers see them. View also Lynx.
Rating a website: PageRank, Trafic, Density of keywords
- Ranks. Occurences of keywords.
- Search Status. Firefox extension that display the PR and the traffic for Alexa.
- SEO Quake. Browser extension, that adds a toolbar to display lot of useful data for ranking a website.
- Seologs. PageRank on several data centers.
- Google's toolbar. Displays the PageRank and help to access some services.
- Sparky, Alexa's toolbar. Produces the graph of the trafic of a website. Allows to compare websites.
- PRWeaver. Software to download to display results with PageRank.
Checking position in search results
- Widexl ranking. Rank on Google for keywords and perhaps Yahoo and Live. Suggests keywords.
- Ezer. Check for position of a website on keywords.
- Cleverstat's Google monitor query. Software to download to check the position on keywords.
Advices for keywords
- Google suggest. When a word is typed, Google suggest some others that are frequently requested.
- Google trends.
- Keyword Search Engine.
- Seobook.
- Insights for search. More powerful that Google Trends. Displays the geographic distribution and the changes over time for the demand on keywords.
Backlinks
- C Class. Group backlinks from same origin and rate their value.
- CleverStat's Backlinks Master. Backlinks analyser. Free software to download.
- Kartoo. Display a relational map of website related to yours, according to links.
- Urltrends. Analysis of backlinks and external links.
- Backlinks. Display backlinks on some search engines (here).
- Domain pop backlinks. Overview of backlinks to a website (partial).
- SEOCentro. Indicator based on a sum of backlinks for main search engines.
External links
- Kevin Freitas' link checker. Firefox extension that display broken links in current page.
- Check Link. Online tools from W3C to check a site for broken links. May hang up on some sites.
- Xenu's Link Sleuth. Link checker to download for Windows.
Analysis of a website
- Copyscape. Search sites similar to your. May be achieved also by a search on Google with a sentence from your pages between quotes.
- Squish. Technical Web service, let know the host of a site among others.
- Who hosts who. Type the domain and know who is the host.
Browser compatibility
- Scapture. Screen capture under various browsers.
- Icapture. Screen capture under Safari and Mac/
- Lynxviewer.
Robots
- Robot Stats. A small PHP code added to your home page detects the passing of robots and stores the dates in a SQL database.
Sitemap
The best means to submit a sitemap is to include its URL into the robots.txt file.
- Simple map. Convenient for a site edited locally and put online then. Build an XML or HTML sitemap. Available here.
- Google sitemap generator. Command line XML sitemap generator.
- Google Webmaster Tools. Many tools from Google including sitemap services.
Statistics for shared hosting
- Google Analytics. Complete statistical reports, including bounce factor, mean time on the site, percents of clicks on links in a page. A JavaScript code must be inserted in each page.
- PHPMyVisites. Requires PHP and MySQL. A PHP code must be inserted on each page.
- ClickHeat. How where visitors clic in your pages. Require a JavaScript code, PHP, a database. A similar tools is integrated into Google Analytics too.
Statistics for dedicated hosting
Multi-purpose sites
- Seochat. List of tools for SEO.
Web applications
- Prism. Put Web applications on the desktop.
Gadgets
- Touchgraph. Displays links as a map, and allows to navigate on the map.
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