- Tool #1 – SEOPressor
- Tool #2 – Pingdom
- Tool #3 – Ahrefs
- Tool #4 – Mobile – Friendly Test
- Tool #5 – rmoov
- Tool #6 – Slerpee
- Tool #7 – YTCockpit
- Tool #8 – Screaming Frog
- Tool #9 – WP Super Cache
- Tool #10 – SEOmonitor
- Tool #11 – SEObility
- Tool #12 – Tend
Tool #1 – SEOPressor
Description From The Developer: SEOPressor plugin gives you maximum SEO clarity on your WordPress sites with a host of customization & optimization features designed for controlling SEO with ease. SEOPressor gathers the most essential SEO intelligence of your website and present them in one place. Gain important insights to your website’s SEO health with crystal clear clarity.
Our summary Of The Tool:
When it comes to ranking on Google and other search engines, SEO is a huge factor. The higher the SEO score and health of a site, the more trusted it’s deemed to be and the higher it appears in search rankings. With so many factors, it’s a good idea to have a software or plug-in that can help and this is where SEOPressor comes in.
Designed for WordPress sites, SEOPressor comes with an abundance of features designed to evaluate and improve a site’s SEO. The dashboard is broken down into several easy-to-read elements, including the site’s score and health, trends, warnings and errors. This makes it simple to make effective changes rather than guess how to improve.
The five building blocks of SEOPressor include on-page analysis, SEO intelligence, semantic builder, crawler control and link management. With the on-page analysis, users get instant feedback on how to improve a page’s SEO. It searches out over-optimization and unnatural attempts. The SEO intelligence sends alerts on items that need fixing. Semantic builder helps with the analytics and improving search relevancy.
Crawler control is essential to gaining rankings because without search engine crawlers, there is no listing on the search engines. With the dynamic crawler control, users have full control over how these crawlers navigate the website. Link structure is essential for visitor navigation and the improper structure can lead to higher bounce rates.
SEOPressor is very affordable at only $9 per month. Customers are charged on a monthly basis and can cancel the subscription any time they like without the need for an obligatory contract period.
Tool #2 – Pingdom
Description From The Developer: Pingdom is a global performance and availability monitoring solution for your websites, applications and servers. Pingdom can monitor the the load performance of your page, make sure your most important site interactions function smoothly and see how your actual visitors experience your site, all from a single, powerful platform.
Our summary Of The Tool:
Learning and understanding how a website is performing is a service that every business needs. It’s not enough to build a website, it has to be optimized to withstand the traffic and business it handles.
Pingdom is a versatile tool for eCommerce, developers and managers alike. Ecommerce websites can benefit from improved user experience, smoother interactions, a quicker website and reports that detail improvements. Developers can use Pingdom to gain a deeper understanding with root cause analysis and take a look at the data that quantifies a website’s performance. Webhooks offer detailed alerts and a Rest API makes it possible to automate interactions with popular applications.
Managers looking to put Pingdom to use will appreciate the ability to implement and understand the online strategy, with in-depth reports on how the website performs globally. They can work hand-in-hand with developers to optimize load performance and maximize site transactions such as those involving checking out and logging in. There’s also access to an abundance of reports that show the site’s performance in easy-to-read charts and graphs.
Pingdom comes with a 14-day trial, so users can test it to see if it works for their needs. After the two weeks are up, they can either cancel or sign up for a subscription plan that ranges from $11.95 to $249 per month, depending on the level of subscription and the frequency they choose to pay. Those who sign up for annual accounts will get one month for free.
Tool #3 – Ahrefs
Description From The Developer: Ahrefs helps you learn why your competitors rank so high and what you need to do to outrank them. Ahrefs’ SEO toolbar provides instant SEO metrics for any web page you visit and analyzes Google SERPs on the fly.
Our summary Of The Tool:
Ahrefs is a comprehensive tool that gives insight into a competitor’s website and how they rank, so users can use this information to beat them at their own SEO game.
Keywords are the backbone of all SEO efforts, and Ahrefs knows how to find not only relevant keywords, but the ones that competitors are ranking with. Users can also access “Top Pages” which shows which sites are sending the most visitors to the competitor’s site, so they can form a comparative strategy.
Backlinks are second to keywords, and having high-quality links is key. Ahref’s robots crawl over 50 million websites to get the details, which are updated every 15 minutes, so users are never left waiting long. Plus, with the advanced reports and filters, it’s easy to hone in on a specific piece of data.
Rank Tracking works with both the user’s mobile and desktop sites, tracking the keyword rankings and displaying all of the information on a handy chart. Users can access this information and even set up automated reports to stay on top of all the changes as they occur.
Ahrefs has four different plans that range from $99 to $999 per month. Users can try a smaller trial of the Lite and Standard accounts, which gives them 7 days for $7. The trial also gives access to all of the tool’s features during these 7 days, without limitation so users get the full experience to make a final decision.
Tool #4 – Mobile – Friendly Test
Description From The Developer: Search Console’s Mobile-Friendly Test Tool is a quick, easy way to test whether a page on your site is mobile-friendly.
Our summary Of The Tool:
In today’s world, it’s not enough for a website to be accessible by computer. It needs to be mobile-friendly too, whether it’s for a smartphone or a tablet. To test a website, a user only needs the free Mobile-Friendly Test tool.
A visit to Mobile-Friendly Test’s site lets users enter a site URL to determine if it’s technologically savvy and easily accessible on mobile devices. Once a user enters the website URL, Mobile-Friendly Test analyzes the site and issues a score. They can then view additional resources including accessing a mobile usability report for the entire website, learning more about web pages being mobile friendly and even participate in a discussion group.
Users can also access the Search Console through the Mobile-Friendly Test website. Here they can test all the URLs across a domain whether it’s a subdomain, https or http. This requires DNS verification which is simple to do. Users can also look at specific URLs if they’re curious about a page or two.
Mobile-Friendly Test is free for everyone to use and it takes just a few minutes to analyze a site and determine whether or not it needs improvements to make it more accessible.
Tool #5 – rmoov
Description From The Developer: rmoov is a backlink removal tool that allows you to submit link removal requests to webmasters quickly and easily. Use it to ask webmasters to remove bad links from a single URL or multiple URLs, multiple domains – whatever you need to rmoov, this is the tool to help make it happen!
Our summary Of The Tool:
Backlinks are a major part of Google ranking algorithms, but only if they’re quality links and not just links for the sake of having more. Companies and individuals who have been penalized for having too many “bad” links can benefit from rmoov’s service.
Rmoov makes it possible to remove bad backlinks with little fuss. Users create a campaign where they upload a list of URLs that they need backlinks removed from and customize the email templates. Rmoov does the rest and keeps the user updated on the status of each link.
Users have a variety of tasks they can do within the campaign. They can edit or pause them, add notes to specific domains and generate reports that they can use to submit a reconsideration request to Google to have their site reinstated. Reports include domain cleanup status, clickable links, mail records and disavow reports.
There are five different subscription levels ranging from Basic, which is free and lets users have a single active campaign, up to Agency, which costs $399 per month and allows up to 50 active campaigns. Those who need more can request a tailored solution from rmoov to get a plan that suits their needs.
Tool #6 – Slerpee
Description From The Developer: Slerpee allows users to optimize how your website looks in Google by giving a Google SERP preview in real time as you edit your website HTML title and meta description copy.
Our summary Of The Tool:
There’s so much that goes into optimizing a web page, but many people don’t think about the Search Engine Results Pages, or SERPs. These include a short snippet of the site and come up when specific search terms are entered. Slerpee helps its users create optimized SERPs that show up when viewers and shoppers are looking for their products.
Slerpee is easy to use. Users enter the URL of the page they’re optimizing and then open it in the editor. Here, they can see a live Google preview of what the page looks like when it comes up in the search results. They can add a title and meta description to improve its ranking optimization.
Those who are doing the research for either a colleague or client can benefit from the capability of drafts. They can save and share these drafts with others to get insight or feedback. Slerpee also displays the keyword optimization results when users open a website page with the SERP editor. They can see the ranking keywords and how many are on the page to compare the site with their own.
Slerpee is available through the Chrome web store as an extension or users can access the tool through the website for convenience.
Tool #7 – YTCockpit
Description From The Developer: YTCockpit’s search engine allows users to search keywords on Youtube, find profitable keyword ideas, and get high-quality traffic.
Our summary Of The Tool:
Anyone who makes YouTube videos for monetization needs to know how to optimize the video to get the best results. Enter YTCockpit, a search engine that focuses solely on YouTube and helps users seek out the best keywords to use.
Many people aim to create a video that goes viral, but despite the fact that you see these almost everywhere you look, they’re actually quite rare. The best way to make money is to create a consistent formula and YTCockpit helps with that.
Using the search engine, YTCockpit produces an array of keyword results that have an ample amount of search volume. In addition, the tool also shows how easy or hard it is for users to rank using these keywords. The higher the difficulty, the more ad spend users will have, which can affect a budget.
YTCockpit analyzes hundreds of videos each minute, so the results are plentiful and users can sort them by the pertinent factors. Plus, users can segment the keyword data and learn what to target in order to get the best results.
YTCockpit has three subscription levels: personal, pro and agency. Personal costs $19 per month, while the pro and agency cost $39 and $99 per month, respectively. Users can save up to 40% off the cost by paying for an annual subscription rather than monthly. There’s a 30-day, money-back guarantee for all levels.
Tool #8 – Screaming Frog
Description From The Developer: The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler, that allows you to crawl websites’ URLs and fetch key elements to analyse and audit technical and onsite SEO.
Our summary Of The Tool:
Screaming Frog is a crawler tool that works efficiently on small and large websites alike. It provides results in real-time, so users aren’t kept waiting for results. It takes a look at onsite and technical SEO, as well as other factors that can hurt optimization attempts.
The SEO Spider Tool is versatile and helps find errors on the site that may be hurting ranking and optimization. Broken links and server errors are sure to frustrate customers, and redirects can be just as annoying, so the tool locates these so the development team can fix them.
The analysis tools take a look at the meta data and page titles as well as fetch user data through Google Analytics to see where customers are being lost. Duplicate content can hurt a website, so the Spider Tool finds these instances so they can be removed.
Screaming Frog also offers services for agencies who are looking to help clients improve their rankings and draw traffic. These include search engine marketing and optimization, PPC management, link building, content and social media marketing, analytics and conversion rate optimization. Agencies can use these services to propel their clients to success and also provide effective insight that helps grow their clientele as well.
Users can download the Screaming Frog software for free, or there’s a license they can buy for £149 (around $180 USD) per year. This gives access to extra features including scheduling, crawl configuration, extractions, integrations and much more.
Tool #9 – WP Super Cache
Description From The Developer: WP Super Cache plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog.
Our summary Of The Tool:
Anyone who owns or operates a WordPress site knows how dynamic it can be. The problem with this is that it often results in slow-loading pages, which can increase customer bounce rates. The answer lies within WP Super Cache, a plug-in that speeds up loading times by creating static pages.
WP Super Cache is easy to install and users can choose from three different ways to serve cached files: Expert, Simple or WP-Cache caching. Expert is the quickest way to load pages because it bypasses the PHP coding, which is helpful during periods of extreme traffic. Simple is the most commonly used setting and recommended by the developers because it’s easier to configure. WP-Cache caching is mostly used for those visitors that the site already knows, but it’s slightly slower than the other two options.
The idea behind WP Super Cache is to keep visitors on your site. Slow loading pages tend to drive traffic away. The plug-in can help retain traffic and reduce bounce rates, which is a win for any type of business.
Tool #10 – SEOmonitor
Description From The Developer: SEOmonitor acts as a data scientist disguised as an app. Every keyword, topic and ranking gets meticulously analyzed and then surfaced in bite-sized insights. With just a quick glance you get to be on top of your campaigns. Organise your teams with tasks straight from the app.
Our summary Of The Tool:
Staying on top of SEO can be tedious work, especially for those who provide a service for multiple clients. SEOmonitor can help cut this work in half with its arsenal of robust tools that are designed to quickly analyze topics, keywords and ranking.
SEOmonitor comes with a series of built-in features including forecasting, competition insights, traffic segmentation, reputation tracking and others. Each of these works together to create a tool that services SEO as a whole. Tracking traffic and trends helps see who campaigns are reaching and whether it’s the target audience or not. Users can segment this data to be useful and sort through visitors by what they visit, bounce rate, and other factors.
Keyword tracking and research along with topic explorer features help customers improve their optimization by seeing what their competitors are ranking for. They can then put these practices into play, and eventually best them. All of the information is displayed on a comprehensive dashboard that’s easy to navigate.
The pricing for SEOmonitor varies, depending on the number of websites and keywords that a user needs. Prices start at €199 per month (around $220 USD) for 1 website and 4100 keywords and increase from there.
Tool #11 – SEObility
Description From The Developer: Seobility is a online SEO software for better website optimization. Their all-in-one SEO software & tools include website crawling and site auditing, a Google rank tracker with daily updates, a backlink checker and link building tools, and continuous monitoring and whitelabel reporting.
Our summary Of The Tool:
With so many factors involved in SEO, it’s not uncommon for individuals, marketing professionals and managers to get lost in a sea of information. That’s where SEObility helps to ease the process by providing a series of tools that do most of the work for you.
The software comes with three main components: onsite auditing, rank tracking and a backlink checker. The onsite audit involves a crawler, which goes through every nook and cranny of a website to check for link issues, duplicate content and optimization issues.
The keyword ranking monitoring works to ensure that the keywords a user has work for their site and ultimately, their ranking. SEObility also shows concrete examples of where a user can optimize to get better results. The backlink checker looks to make sure that the links are on valuable websites and also help find sites to implement backlinks on.
SEObility has three subscription options: basic, premium and agency. The basic account is free and includes a single domain. Premium and agency cost $50 and $200 per month, with 3 and 15 included domains, respectively. The premium account comes with a 30-day free trial with subscription costs starting immediately after the trial expires. Subscribers can save 30% by paying for the year upfront, which costs $420 and $1,680 for the premium and agency accounts.
Tool #12 – Tend
Description From The Developer: Tend offers a searchable feed of every action people have taken on or off your site. Tend helps to understand who people are on your site, groups them by what they did, tracks where they came from, and finds out what they did on your site.
Our summary Of The Tool:
Campaigns and web traffic are a must for any type of business. When optimized correctly, they increase clientele and therefore, revenue. How do you know when you’re successful, though? Traffic numbers don’t tell the entire story, and that’s where Tend comes in.
Tend is a website tracking tool that aims to show users what action viewers are taking on a website. Every viewer is traced, and then grouped on the dashboard for easy analysis. Not only do users see who is visiting, but they also find out where they come from and the actions they’re taking while they’re visiting a website.
With this information, users can evaluate their tactics. They learn where the visitors come from, which ads are most successful in driving leads and the types of content that are performing the best. Then, it’s possible to connect the dots, getting answers to the pertinent questions and seeing how these strategies work over an extended period of time. Tend helps users get to know the visitors to their website, what they’re doing on the site and how they can ultimately improve.
Users can try Tend for 21 days free, without the need for a credit card. If they like it, they can then sign up for the full plan which is $49 per month and accommodates up to 5,000 contacts.