101 Free Tools to Find Out More About Your Website

Analytics Tools - track and analyze traffic to your web site.

1. Google Analytics - My personal favorite Analytics software, not because it has the most and best features, but because it simply ties in to all my other Google services.

2. Yahoo! Web Analytics - Allows you to see real-time user behavior on your website.

3. Piwik - Open Source web analytics.

4. GoStats - A very basic stat counter tool.

5. Woopra - Free, real-time web tracking.

6. 4Q - An analytics/survey solution to find out why your visitors are on your site and if their needs are being met.

7. Mochibot - Track your Flash content usage.

8. Grape Web Statistics - Basic open source analytics.

9. StatCounter - Real-time configurable stats and hit counter.

10. MyBlogLog - Track your page visitors with visible, customizable blog widget.

11. Feedburner - Monitor who subscribes to your RSS feeds and what the most popular items on your feed are.

12. WebStats Basic - Basic web stat monitoring tool.

13. Lodgy - Real-time analytics and statistics.

14. Pagealizer - Suggests ways to optimize your landing pages to increase conversions. Free version is limited.

15. Sometrics - Social Media Analytics.

16. GoingUp - Combines analytics with great SEO Tools.

Comparison Tools - Compare your site against your competition.

17. Compete - Compare your site's traffic against competitors'.

18. Statsaholic - Compare traffic graphs and statistics across 3 domains.

19. Webslug - Compare how quick your site is against your competitor's.

20. SEO Chat Page Comparison - Compare the text on two pages.

Link Analyzing Tools - Link popularity checkers and more

21. Google Backlinks - Type "link:http://www.yourdomainname.com" into the Google search box without the quotes and replacing yourdomainname with your domain name.

22. Bing FromLinks - Type "LinkFromDomain:yourdomainname.com" into the Bing search box
without the quotes and replacing yourdomainname with your domain name.

23. Yahoo! Backlinks - Type "link:http://www.yourdomainname.com" into the Yahoo! search box
without the quotes and replacing yourdomainname with your domain name.

24. Google Search Domain - Type : "yourdomainname.com" -site:yourdomainname.com into the Google search box WITH the quotes and replace yourdomainname with your domain name.

25. Yahoo! Search Domain - Type : "yourdomainname.com" -site:yourdomainname.com into the Yahoo! search box WITH the quotes and replace yourdomainname with your domain name.

26. Bing Search Domain - Type : "yourdomainname.com" -site:yourdomainname.com into the Bing search box WITH the quotes and replace yourdomainname with your domain name.

27. Ask Search Domain - search Ask for your domain name to see what sites mention or link to your domain.

28. LinkScape - Shows your "mozRank", incoming links and more.

29. SEO Tools Site Link Analyzer - Shows outbound links and associated anchor text.

30. Market leap link popularity check - Check your link popularity across various search engines.

31. Webmaster Toolkit Link Popularity Checker - Easy link popularity checker.

32. Webmaster Toolkit Link Checker - Check to see if any links on your site are broken.

33. WebConfs Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer - Easy way to check what your backlinks are using for anchor text.

34. WebConfs Reciprocal Links Check - Check to see if your link exchange partners are still linking to you.

35. SEOTools Link Harvester - Web based link analysis.

36. Bad neighboorhood link checker - One of my favorites: check to see if you are linking to any "bad neighborhoods" ie. spammy or blacklisted sites.

Tools for Blogs - Various tools to learn more about your blog.

37. Technorati - Check your Technorati importance, measured by "reactions" to your blog.

38. BlogPulse - Blogosphere Trends and a tool to find blogs that link to yours.

39. Postrank - RSS item scoring system based on social engagement.

Rank Checking Tools - Check where your web site is positioned for given keywords on the search engines.

40. Market Leap Keyword verification - Checks your placement within the top 30 results for a given keyword.

41. Google datacenter search - Search multiple Google datacenters to see if your rankings differ.

42. SEO Chat Search Engine keyword Position - Check the position of your site on major search engines for a given keyword.

43. Self SEO Search Engine Ranking Report - See where you rank on the search engines for your keywords.

Keyword Tools - Tools to show you your website's keyword usage.

44. WeBuildPages Keyword Density - Measures your website's keyword density.

45. TermExtractor - Shows what keywords are being targeted to search engines in your page.

46. SEO Chat Keyword Cloud - A visual representation of the importance of keywords on your web page.

47. SEO Chat Keyword Density - Check your web page's keyword density.

48. GoRank Ontology - Suggest related keywords.

49. SEOMoz Term Target - Get a letter grade on how well certain keywords are targeted on your page.

Code Analyzers - Check your code to see if it is up to standards.

50. SubmitExpress Meta Tag Analyzer - Analyze your meta tags.

51. SEO Chat Code to Text Ratio - Shows you the actual percentage of text vs. code on your page.

52. W3C Validation Tool - Check the markup language of any page.

53. XML Validate - Check and validate your XML files.

Tools to View Your Indexed Pages & Media

54. Google Webmaster Tools - detailed information about your website's visibility on Google.

55. Yahoo! Site Explorer - Lists backlinks, pages indexed by Yahoo!, most popular pages on your site and more.

56. Google Cache - Type "cache:http://www.yourdomainname.com" into the Google search box without the quotes and be sure to change yourdomainname to your domain name. Shows the last time this page was crawled.

57. Google Info - Type "info:http://www.yourdomainname.com" into the Google search box without the quotes and be sure to change yourdomainname to your domain name. Shows all the info Google has on your site.

58. Google Site - Type "site:http://www.yourdomainname.com" into the Google search box without the quotes and be sure to change yourdomainname to your domain name. Shows all the pages from your domain that are indexed at Google.

59. Bing Site - Type "site:http://www.yourdomainname.com" into the Bing search box without the quotes and be sure to change yourdomainname to your domain name. Shows all the pages from your domain that are indexed at Bing.

60. Google Images - search for your domain name to see what images from your site are indexed at Google.

61. Bing Images - search for your domain name to see what images from your site are indexed at Bing.

62. Google News - search for your domain name to see what news items come up from your domain or about it.

63. Yahoo! News - search for your domain name to see what news items come up from your domain or about it.

64. Bing News - search for your domain name to see what news items come up from your domain or about it.

65. Ask News - search for your domain name to see what news items come up from your domain or about it.

66. Market Leap Search Engine Saturation - shows how many pages from your domain each search engine has in it's index.

67. Google Banned Checker - Check to see if your domain is banned from the Google Index.

68. SEO Chat Indexed Pages - This will show you the total amount of pages from your domain that are indexed on major search engines.

Overall Domain Analysis Tools

69. Alexa - Traffic info and ranking.

70. popuri.us - Check your link popularity on social media sites as well as the search engines.

71. dnscoop - Find out what your site is worth, along with your Alexa traffic rank, web site's age and a lot of other information.

72. SiteReportCard - Checks backlinks, broken links, load time, spelling, keywords and a lot more.

73. DomainValue - Simple tol to find out an approximate value of your domain.

74. SEMRush Domain Report - Shows your SEMRush rank, traffic, keywords, competition and potential Ad buyers.

75. Pingdom Tools - Checks your domain for loadtime and technologies included on your site.

76. Builtwith - Technology profile showing what technologies are used on your site.

77. Netcraft Sitereport - Find out IP address, nameservers, ownership, age and a lot more about your domain.

78. Quarkbase - Shows your website's launch date, key people, bookmarks at delicious, traffic rank, and more.

79. Website Outlook - Domain value calculator.

80. Quantcast - Traffic and demographic information shown.

81. Webmaster Toolkit Web Page Analyser - see if your site qualifies as search engine friendly and go over the good and bad points of your site in terms of SEO.

82. SEO Chat Domain Age Check - Check your domain name's age.

83. Advanced Google Searches - Search Google for your backlinks, indexed pages, etc all in one place.

84. Ranks.nl Ranks Wizard - Check keyword desnity, prominence, backlinks, character count and a lot more.

85. SEO-Browser.com Advanced Mode - Shows meta tags, page size, load time, word count, character count, IP address, location, and much more.

86. Domain Tools Whois - So much information about your domain name including thumbnails and related sites.

87. SEOMoz Trifecta - Measure the popularity, influence and ranking ability of pages, blogs and entire domains.

88. iWhois Bookmarklet - Drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar and click it when you want to find out about any domain you are on.

Miscellaneous Tools

89. Adsense Sandbox - See a preview of what Adsense ads would show up on your site based on context and Geo-area.

90. socialmeter - Analyze your website's social popularity.

91. Copyscape - Find out if anyone has plagiarized your web site's content.

92. Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Take a look at your site's changes through time.

93. Internet Supervision URL Check - Checks your website's performance from around the world.

94. prchecker - Check the Google PageRank of your website.

95. SEO Chat Future PageRank - Check an approximate prediction of what your web site's PageRank will be in the future.

96. Webmaster Toolkit Search Engine Spider Simulator - See what Google sees when it crawls your site.

97. Webmaster Toolkit Link Appeal - Find out how appealing it is to get a link on your web site.

98. SEO Chat Page Size Lookup - Check the size of your pages.

99. WebConfs Redirect Check  - Check to see if your redirects are configured properly.

100. WebConfs Web Site to Country - Find out what country your web site is hosted in.

101. SEOMoz GeoTargeting Detection - Find out how well your site is targeted to your region.

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By Courtney @ 11:59 AM