6 SEO Tools for Quick Site Analysis
November 19th, 2009 | Written by: april
There are several useful SEO tools which provide a quick snapshot of how your website looks to search engines. To diagnose the “optimal” health of your site, the key evaluation questions to consider are:
1. Does your site have titles, h1s, and meta descriptions with keywords?
2. Do your images have alt tags?
3. Do you have a sitemap.xml and robots.txt file?
4. What is the page rank of your site?
5. How many in-bound links point to the URLs on your domain?
Here are a few SEO tools which allow you to quickly and easily assess your website from a search engine perspective:
1. WebsiteGrader provides a well rounded synopsis of both on-site and off-site SEO factors. This great SEO tool takes into consideration over 50 different variables and assigns your site a grade value out of 100 points. The analysis includes titles, meta descriptions, headings, image alt tags and incoming links etc.
This SEO tool also includes an at-a-glance analysis of web 2.0 factors which can play a role in your site’s ranking. WebsiteGrader provides a rough SEO report of how many times your site has been syndicated and bookmarked on social sites like digg and delicious.
2. Cubestat is a very similar SEO tool, minus the social-sphere analysis. It provides a quick report of your titles, headings, meta descriptions, etc. alongside daily page views, domain age, DMOZ directory listing and rank graph.
3. Statbrain reveals an estimated number of visitors to your site per day, including your site’s Alexa traffic rank, your meta description and keywords, and provides link information according to Google, Yahoo, Altavista and All the Web.
Here are a few exclusive SEO tools which provide analysis based on a single variable:
4. Prchecker returns the page rank of your website
5. SEObook provides a useful link popularity tool which compares the number of links pointing to your site versus the number of links pointing to your top competitors.
6. SEOmoz facilitates many handy collections of free and membership-only analytic SEO tools, including a great search rank checker in Google, Yahoo and Bing.
It’s always handy to have a few useful SEO tools tucked away for those occasions that you want a quick site analysis. Please feel free to share any SEO analytic tools you find of value.
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