11 Online Tools To Help Optimise Your Website

For all you DIY SEO’s out there, I have put together a list of 11 useful online tools to help analyse, optimise and compare your website.  Why 11 and not 10? Well it was 10 but then I wanted to throw in another. I make no promises, you might not get top ten rankings using only these bits and bobs alone, but used properly, these are some awesome weapons for your SEO armoury. Have fun!

1. LinkExaminer

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/Network/lnkexam/Freeware.htm

• Emulates indexing by the search engines.
• Identifies broken links and redirects

2. Yahoo Site Explorer

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

• Analyses inbound links and reviews cached pages

3. OpenSiteExplorer

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org

• Checks the popularity of links and analyses backlinks.

4. Webconfs HTTP/HTTPS Header Check

http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php

• Inspects HTTP/HTTPS headers

5. Webconfs Similar Page Checker

http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php

• Analyses the uniqueness (content) of each page

6. SEO Browser

http://www.domaintools.com/seo-browser

• Lets you see pages as the search engines see them

7. WHOIS Lookup Tool

http://whois.domaintools.com

• Reviews domain stats: owner, age, etc.

8. Google Webmaster Tools

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

• Displays site problems found by Google

9. Firebug

http://getfirebug.com

• Inspects your HTML code

10. YSlow

http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow

• Analyses the size of different elements of your page. I.e. images, text, code, etc.

11. SEO Quake

http://www.seoquake.com

• Web related stats: PR, inlinks, etc.