Free Online Tools - Which Are Your...

Not sure how I forgot about these two:

http://www.google.com/trends

http://adlab.msn.com/

 

http://adlab.msn.com/ForecastV2/KeywordTrendsWeb.aspx

this is a pretty decent tool from the MSN site

The trending tool is pretty interesting. I don't deal with too many seasonal products, but I can see the use in budget planning or even what type of affiliate program to start.

Apart from the many tools mentioned above, I really like seodigger.com. It gives you information about what keywords a certain page is ranking for on Google and in what position. The data is sometimes a bit out of date (a few weeks) but it gives you a good idea of where you stand and what keyword phrases your competition is ranking for. You may even get some new content ideas based on the competitive data they provide. Registration is free.

WOW! www.seodigger.com is great. I was amazed at how fast it came up with all the results.

BTW- Went to Rome a few months ago. Loved it!

I have to agree with the SEO for Firefox. I just found it this week and it's been so helpful.

I also like this site which has various tools
http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html

I love HitTail.   While much of the same information (e.g. referring keywords and/or sites that users found your site through) can be collected via Google Analytics, I like the way that HitTail presents the keyword searches that visitors use to find your site, listed in chronological order.  it's exportable to excel so it's easy to organize. I also like that you can reproduce a given search from right within the interface.  And, they provide a list of suggestions of which "long tail" keywords might give you the biggest bang for your seo buck so you can customize a blog post or page to those keywords. (separate from the chronological tally of search queries or site referrals)

HitTail is free for up to 100K site visits/month.   Otherwise it starts at $9.95/month which is damn near free ;-)

http://hittail.com/pricing/

a great new tool is Website Grader...www.websitegrader.com
clean simple tool that includes info like links, technorati ranking, on page optimization, pagerank, domain info, alexa etc etc.

worth checking out...

For the Novices out there especially, Graywolf brings up some good points in his review of  Website Grader

That tool would be so much better if you didnt have to get a report emailed to you and could do it on the fly.

This is the first time I have seen this tool. It is excellent.

Some Firefox Add Ons that I really like are.

SearchStatus
SEO for Firefox
SEO Open

If I had to choose 1 tool and ONLY 1 tool out of all of the tools mentioned so far it would definitely be SearchStatus

Simply cannot live without it.

http://Megite.com

Just give them an OPML file and they will create a custom meme tracker that is far more useful than Techmeme and a real time saver.

I have to agree with alot of what you put and Excel. Two others would be

CI
spyfu.com

Keyword
ask.com's Narrow/Expand Search options

Whilst not necessarily free and not online, one of the best tools has to be Excel!

A great way to manipulate, cololate and graphically represent all of the data that helps make informed decisions.

Pivot tables would have to be one of my favorites!

That would have to be http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends for keyword research and finding traffic quantities.