Latitude brings you the 5 best Free SEO tools to help you analyse your website and those of your competitors. From Firefox plug-ins to link diagnosis websites to keyword analysis tools, we present you with the best all round instruments to help you gain the upper edge in your particular online market.

Before reading any further, we advise you to be using the latest version of Firefox, as any SEO guru will tell you it is the preferred web browser of anyone working within web marketing with its toolbar extension feature allowing you to install vital SEO tools which will be recommended within this article.

Firefox SEO Toolbar extension – This is an essential all round tool that displays the Page Rank, Alexa Rank and Popularity Index of any webpage. Alongside these useful features it also displays quick links to popular PPC engines such as Google AdWords, Google AdSense, Yahoo and Overture. There is also a tab that contains some essential SEO tools such as keyword discovery and a search engine view tool which allows you to view a webpage in the manner a search engine views it by displaying information related to the title, description, keywords, content and links – very handy if you want to optimise your website.

Link diagnosis – This website allows you to review inbound links to your website and gives you information on how relevant they are and what type of links they are such as No Follow links, missing links, text links and most importantly good links. The other handy feature of this site is that it shows which popular anchor text keywords are being used to direct traffic to your site.

Majestic SEO – Similar to Link Diagnosis but with slightly different features, Majestic SEO displays information on external backlink stats including a list of all the URL’s pointing towards your domain. An extra bonus with this tool is that it displays a backlinks discovery chart showing the number of links that have been linked to the domain over time.

Google Insights – You may have heard of Google Trends before – the website that displays information on the volume of searches for particular keywords over time however Google Insights is like the elder wiser brother that gives you a more in-depth analysis on what people are searching for. This tool is especially useful to find out what the latest keywords people are searching for related to your market and from this information it allows you to match your keywords accordingly, potentially increasing traffic to your site. As well as allowing you to filter the data based on location and time ranges, which similarly Google Trends lets you do, Google Insights also allows you to filter the data through a web search, image search, news search or product search.

Markup Validation Service – This final tool is used to check for errors and warnings concerning the page code within your website. Kamagra Soft It is especially useful for webmasters to see what errors could be blocking certain features on the website and which problems could also be blocking a search engine spider for crawling effectively.

Author Bio: Latitude is one of the largest and longest-established digital marketing agencies in the UK, with expertise in SEO, PPC, display advertising, social media, conversion analytics and affiliate marketing. Original article is here.

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