Here is the lists of my favorite SEO tools I used in maintaining my sites. There are a lot of SEO tools everywhere but after series of testings, I found the following tools suitable for my needs. It is advisable to use only a maximum of 2 tools in every category to avoid confusion. Using 5 tools in tracking your statistics may result different output so I advise you to use only the most effective tools.

The following tools are my personally-used tools

• Meta Tag Generator - This form will generate HTML META tags suitable for inclusion in your HTML document. These tags allow better indexing by robot-driven search engines, such as AltaVista, Infoseek and searchBC. elements.

• Meta Tag Analyzer - Analyzes your tags if they are robot friendly.

• Keyword Position Tool - Use the Search Engine Keyword Position Tool to check the search engine result pages of Google, Yahoo, and MSN to see what position your site holds for a particular keyword phrase.

• Google Keyword Analysis Tool - Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas.

• Backlink Checker - Detailed information about quality and quantity of backlinks pointing to your website. It will show you “anchor” text, pagerank, total outbound links on that page, and nofollow flag for each of your inbound link available.

• Dead link checker - The bot will visit your website and follow all links checking for their status. When finish you will see a report showing all the bad links found, not only 404 status.

• Page Rank checker - Page Rank Checker is a free tool to check Google™ page ranking of any web site pages easily and to display your site’s PageRank™ value on your web pages.

• Link Popularity Checker - The Link Popularity Checker tells you how many websites are linking to yours. Website popularity is an important factor in your search engine ranking. The more popular your site is, the better it will be ranked on the search engines.

• Webpage Analyzer - Web Page Analyser will read the page you specify, and put it through a few basic tests to see if qualifies as ’search-engine-friendly’ for the phrase you specify. It then gives a report on the good, and the bad points of the page in SEO terms.

My favorite Traffic Counters and Traffic Analysis Tools

• Addfreestat.com - My favorite traffic counter since 2003.

• E-referrer Traffic Counter - Another cool tool that shows the ranks of your traffic referrer. See the sidebar of this page.

• Feedjit - Widely used by most bloggers to track real-time traffic and to know the source.

• Google Webmaster Central - provided by google and is the most important tool a webmaster must have.

• Google Analytics - You know nothing about maintaining a website if you are not using this tool.

Other useful collection of SEO Tools.

• 136 SEO Tools - This SEO Tools page has links to the best SEO Tools on the internet and these tools will help you to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher.

• Digitalpoint Tools - Powered by Digitalpoint Forums and the most frequently used tools by webmasters and adsense earners.

• Searchbliss - We have built a large selection of free SEO tools to help you, the website owner in your efforts to achieve better search engine rankings.

• Self SEO - SEO tools, search engine tools and webmaster tools.

• SEO Administrator - SEO Administrator - a set of seo tools for website promotion and optimization.

• SEO Tools -  Free Search Engine Optimization Tools.

• SEOChat Tools -  The SEO Tools found in this section were designed to assist you in configuring your website(s) for search engine optimization within the different search engine.

• Seomoz Tools -   Webmaster and SEO tools for Free.

• Smart Page Rank Tools -   Enjoy Our Collection of SEO Tools.

• We Build Pages - Free Internet Marketing and SEO Tools

• Webconfs - Another collection of SEO tools and applications.

• Webmaster Toolkit - These tools offer help and guidance in the ever-changing world of search engine optimization.

If you know ay other effective tools different from what listed above, please post below.

Visit the whole lists of SEO Resources.

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