7 free keyword research tools for SEO (that beat their paid alternatives)

1. Rank Tracker

2. Ubersuggest

3. Google Ads Keyword Planner

4. AnswerThePublic

5. Keyword Tool Dominator

6.  Google Trends

7.  Google Correlate

But, tools just suggest picking some quality keywords. I suggest this book called Easy Way To Do Keyword Research Demystified

Learn New Techniques for keywords research and collect some bunch of keywords and then use the tool to pick the right ones. 

Hi Tiger

I would start by grabbing a free copy of Screaming Frog. https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/

It will work for up to 500 pages but you will be able to inspect all your page title, find any 404 errors etc. 

It is also great for finding large images on your site so you can help improve your speed as well. It's normal my first goto tool when starting to look at a site. 

The paid-for version is fantastic but if your site is within the 500 limit then stick with the free version as its quite expensive. 

I got below data from previous site 

• Appspector: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...jjekpignblkeae
  A great tool to see what a website is built with and what technology it has.

• Canonical: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...obibjbdobjbhbo
  Great tool for checking the canonical urls (only on pages that are different to the canonicals)

• Redirect Path: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...ggjokdkkebmdll
  Really useful to see if there are any forms of redirects.

• META SEO Inspector: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...bmohobjkcfkaef
  Overall SEO inspector

• Page load time: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...pmkogoaohcdbig
  Useful to see your page load time.

• Screaming Frog: Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool & Crawler Software | Screaming Frog
  One of the most popular tools for crawling websites to see if there are any issues.

• BuiltWith: BuiltWith Technology Lookup
  Useful tool to see what software a company is using, great for when you're investigating a potential new client.

• BrightEdge: http://www.brightedge.com/
  Analytics tool, looks to be a high end high cost software.

• Text-Only Mode: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...er-info-dialog
  A neat little plugin to quickly turn off/on graphics on a page. Really useful to remove the clutter and see the meat of the site

• Page Explorer: Page Explorer, to check onsite SEO tags and elements
  Chedders runs this tool, useful to see elements of the pages (such as Title/h1/h2/time to get page/images etc) any feature requests and bugs please do message him.

• disable-HTMLhttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...oiklonhm?hl=en
  Useful to see the core of the page, great for seeing things that you may miss otherwise.

Great idea! I will have a look at some of the tools you proposed.

BuiltWith Technology Lookup

To know how a website is built, I often use this website as it's very simple and fast. It's pretty useful to find prospects by CMS if you work in an agency.

http://www.brightedge.com/

Awesome SEO analytic tool that gives you almost everything you need to track, monitor and report your performance but it's quite expensive.

Site Speed Plugin: JCH Optimize Website Speed Reports: GTmetrix Rank Tracking Rankwatch Image Compression: FileOptimizer Free SSL Let's Encrypt Free CDN Cloudflare

Text-Only Mode Chrome plugin

A neat little plugin to quickly turn off/on graphics on a page. Really useful to remove the clutter and see the meat of the site

Page Explorer Page Explorer, to check onsite SEO tags and elements

A small project of mine to quickly see elements and other useful things on a page. Includes images alt tags etc. Still under development so let me know of any bugs please.

I think it's mainly about getting the right toolset. 

Most SEO's use a variety of different tools. For example, one of my favourite tools is a link redirect checker.

The only tools you won't get for free really, are backlink checkers as they cost a lot of money to run.

Currently you can also get a 7 day free trial of SEO Powersuite Enterprise.   More than enough time to evaluate the software for use. 

Just click that Powersuite button on in the top right corner of the page and test drive it.

Many free SEO tools are available in the market some of them are.

1. Google Keyword planner, Analytics, Search Console
2. Uber sugget
3. Screaming frog (free upto 500 pages)
4. SEO web page analyzer
5. serprobot
6. seoprofiler
7. responsive design checker
8. small seo tools etc...

There are many free tools available online in Seo but it is very difficult to cycle fast in them.

Another tool I like is Page Explorer. It checks a lot on on-page elements.

WebCEO also offers a free 14 day trial: webceo.com

Google’s tools are often overlooked by new SEOs. And, I get it – you want the shiny new third party tool that promises the earth.

But, some of the most established SEOs I know use these tools to form the backbone of their campaigns.

Google’s tools are free and you can extract valuable data in just a matter of seconds. These tools are up to date with 2018 Google trends.

•  Google PageSpeed Insights 
• 2) Mobile-Friendly Test 
• 3) Ahrefs Backlink Checker
• 4) SEMrush 
• 5) Keyword Tool 
• 6) Moz Link Explorer 
• 7) Schema Creator 
• 8) XML Sitemaps Generator 

1) Google PageSpeed Insight

Page loading speed is one of the most important elements of a website. Better site speed leads to increased user satisfaction and higher rankings.

Google Page Speed Insights is a free tool that checks the speed of your site and provides suggestions to improve it.

2)SEMrush 

SEMrush is one of the best SEO software that every marketer must use. It conducts a comprehensive SEO audit and displays the percentage of search traffic and the number of backlinks that a site has. You can even conduct keyword research, topic research and detailed competitive analysis using this tool.

 Moz Link Explorer 

XML Sitemaps Generator 

 SEOquake 

 Google Analytics 

check all these tools to verify your website and to get good ranking

There are many free tools available that you can use for daily uses. Check the following:

• Answer The Public
• Woorank’s SEO & Website Analysis Tool
• Animalz Revive: Improve and update old content.
• CanIRank: Quickly answer the question: “Can I rank for this keyword?”.
• Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test: Get your site ready for Google’s Mobile-first Indexing.
• Ubersuggest: Get keyword suggestions and competition data.

You can Google for such other tools. But I would suggest you buy a paid tool for better reports.

1. SEO web page analyzer
2. serprobot
3. seoprofiler
4. responsive design checker
5. small seo tools etc.

Same question too! 😀

Thank you for bringing this up. My blog is barely a year old and I am also trying to find ways to make its ranking good. 

I tried using WebCEO but there is only 14 days free trial. 

I will check on the suggestion of others here too. 

I will also appreciate much if you could visit my site and maybe get some pointers from all of you too. Please drop yours here too so we can support each other. 

https://yourvirtualkhit14.wixsite.com/mysite