Whether your category is, you are going to love the tool I will introduce in today’s article.

Do you know that how you write your site content will influence the rankings in search engines?

Based on this principle, you can use TextOptimizer to boost your rankings and improve your SEO.

How TextOptimizer Works for Better Rankings

To start, simply enter your webpage address into the field. For testing, I used this link: https://bizsmallbiz.com/leadsgate/

The first result will give you some general information, like:

• what your text is about
• who is your test for
• the format of your text
• examples of words missing in your text

Based on the format of my text, I received a score of 86%, with overall good impressions:

To increase your writing style rating, you should:

• Prefer formal and elevated language; specific, precise and technical terms.
• Avoid relaxed language, contractions (I’ll), vague words.

Now, to proceed using the real power of TextOptimizer, click on “Optimize my text Now”, at the end of the page results.

You can choose to improve your ranking for Google or Bing (I went with Big G).

In the next step, you want to enter the search terms to improve your rankings for, including also your target location:

For the “leadsgate” keyword and target location in the U.S., I got a score of optimization of 96%.

Now, TextOptimizer will give you a list of words you can use to keep improving your webpage, no matter the optimization result you got.

You can sign-up for a free trial, by simply entering your email address:

I received in my email, a report with a list of words I can add (or replace) in the webpage I want to optimize.

Including, a list of tips:

Use TextOptimzer for Content Ideas

How many times have you found yourself without ideas, when trying to create new content for your website?

With TextOptimizer, you can get suggestions, by simply adding a keyword, to find new topics to write about.

After adding your query (for example “make money online”), you will get a list of topics, in form of questions.

Basically, what are internet users searching for about the keyword you entered, including:

• Number of people asking the question
• Number of sites publishing an answer

TextOptimizer Pricing

With the free trial, you can run the analysis of webpages.

With the PRO version, at 60$/month, you will get additional features, including:

• Text Optimization (to find words to add and remove in your content)
• Search the millions of questions people are asking (with content ideas for your next article)
• Excel file export (to keep data organized)
• Chrome & WordPress plugin (to write and optimize faster)

Final Words

You want to be able to create content to please both search engines and users.

With TextOptimizer, you can. Optimization is aimed at adding or removing keywords from your text, so to better match search engine expectations.

I found this tool easy to use, quick, and efficient.

In just a few minutes, I was able to modify my webpage, to improve the overall optimization score.

Try TextOptimizer now, there’s a free trial waiting for you!

Now, it’s over to you.

What tools are you using to optimize your content?

Are you going to give TextOptimizer a try?

Please share your thoughts in the comments below, and don’t forget to share the post, if you liked it!

In this post, I’m going to introduce you Spotibo, a new on-page SEO and analysis tool (there’s a free, forever plan, I’m sure you want to grab).

How to Get Started With Spotibo

You can sign up using your Google account (Spotibo will only get access to basic account information, like your username and email).

Registration is free, with no credit card required.

Once you signed up, you will get access to dashboard with all the features.

From the top left menu, you can add a new project. Just enter the desired URL you want to analyze and leave the other fields pre-compiled:

I decided to analyse nepetacataria.org, my niche site (monetized with Amazon and Adsense).

I want to see what I can do to improve the on-page SEO of this site.

So, after you add the URL, just click the Analyse button and give Spotibo a few seconds to complete the crawling and evaluate your web pages.

Once the analysis is done, click on Report to check the results.

As you can see from the overview:

Spotibo found on my site:

• 75 errors
• 120 urgent warnings
• 15 warnings
• 45 information

That’s quite a lot to check! Let’s dive into it.

Site Analysis with Spotibo

For every section of your site on-page SEO, Spotibo will tell you the issues and how to solve them.

Pretty neat!

Plus, you will have access to Explorer, which lets you control everything that needs to be fixed, filtering per content, links or tecnical aspects of the site.

Site Titles

Coming back to nepetacaria.org analysis, Spotibo found out that some of the title tags are too short, which means their length is less than 200px (it might be a case in which you are not using the full potential of the title tag, and where you don’t have relevant keywords and information included).

The solution offered by Spotibo is the following:

Check to see if you are using relevant keywords in your title and if it describes what your page is about. If you decide to rewrite it, make sure it is no longer than 600px. You can write your new title with our SERP preview tool and see immediately if it will work for all search engines.

Headings

The SEO tool checked my site and found out that headings in h1 tag are not set or might be empty. H1 is the important part of your content, and together with the title, it tells search engines what your page is about.

H1 is also essential for web accessibility, and its absence makes it more complicated for the handicapped to understand the content. Therefore, it shouldn’t be empty, and it should be written relevantly to your page and consist of your targeted keywords.

The solution proposed is the following:

Use your main heading in <h1> tag and make sure it is descriptive and consists of relevant keywords. We recommend using only one <h1> tag for each page, in most cases.

Also, Spotibo found other headings issues (that I can check in details in the Explorer section).

Meta Descriptions

The SEO tool found issues in the meta descriptions of my site too.

It told me that some of the meta descriptions are not set or might be empty. The meta description is an important part of SERP’s snippet, which influences users to click through to a page. Therefore, you should write a description for every important landing page.

The solution offered by Spotibo is the following:

If you consider such pages as important landing pages, fill out meta descriptions and make sure they are descriptive, consist of relevant keywords and that they are not longer than 1,750px. You can check its length in our SERP preview tool. If they are not important for organic traffic, you don’t need to make any changes, but the search engine will generate a description from the page’s content.

Redirections

Several issues were found by Spotibo in this section.

For example, there are pages with more than one redirect on my niche site. This means that if there are more redirections, the search engine has to visit more URLs. This takes too much time, and your crawl budget might be used up because of that. But you don’t have to deal with this issue unless there is a significant number of occurrences.

The solution offered by the SEO tool is the following:

Fix these redirections. Redirect all URLs to one final URL and remove all excessive redirections in between.

Indexation and Crawling

Several important issues were found in this section.

For example, some of my site pages are blocked by robots.txt

There are pages disallowed in robots.txt (e.g. Disallow: /category/1234), indicating to search engine crawlers that these URLs shouldn’t be crawled. Use “Disallow” only when you don’t want search engine robots to crawl unimportant or similar pages and to waste a crawl budget.

Note: You should not use robots.txt to hide your web pages from search results, because your page could get into search results anyway. If you want to block the page from search results, use noindex tags.

The solution offered by Spotibo is the following:

If you consider such pages as being important, you need to allow web crawlers access to your pages by deleting or editing the “Disallow” directive in robots.txt.

Not Found/Server Errors

Spotibo informed me that I have pages with 4xx on your website. The most common case with client error 4xx is probably 404 error, which means a page was not found. This is mostly a burden for your users, who click on the link that leads to the non-existing page.

Also, search engines are constantly trying to crawl these error pages on your website, which might use up your crawl budget and slow down the crawling of your pages. At the end, the search engine might even de-index pages after a few unsuccessful attempts to crawl it.

The solution offered by Spotibo is the following:

You can either recover the lost content on the page or you can redirect the page through 301 redirect to another relevant page. If none of these options work for you, you can find the links referring to the error page and remove them.

Explorer Section

In this section of Spotibo, you can check all your site issues, filtering by:

• URL
• Title
• Meta Description
• Headings
• Different kind of links
• Search Engines Access
• Canonical
• File size
• Charset
• Time of last crawl

Also, by visiting the left menu, you can directly check the following:

• Web pages
• Images
• Another content
• Redirects
• Client errors (4xx)
• Server errors (5xx)
• External Pages

Spotibo Pricing

With the registration, you have a free, forever plan, which includes:

• 500 URL’s per month
• 50 Websites limit
• Unlimited Users

If you need more than that, you can upgrade to Lite, Standard, or Advanced plans.

For example, with the Standard plan, at $59/mo, you will get:

• 300,000 URL’s per month
• 50 Websites limit
• Unlimited Users

Final Words

Spotibo has made the on-page SEO really simple. I found the tool easy to use and user-friendly.

The analysis of my site was fast (just around one minute), lots of issues were found and for each of them, I received a particular solution to fix the problem. I really liked it!

With the free, forever plan, you will get enough power to check your site, every month (or different sites, periodically).

So I definitely recommend to register at Spotibo and start improving the on-page SEO of your site today.

Now, over to you.

What do you think?

Are you going to test Spotibo?

Have you ever heard of it?

Please share your thoughts in the comments below, thanks!

Having the right tools will definitely make the difference.

The list I’ve written is divided into categories, and the resources mentioned can help you boost productivity, manage your time, increase your audience, make more money with your site or improve your social media following.

Huge Blogging Tools List

I use most of the tools listed in this post, and I suggest you to make a scan through the article to see if you can learn something new!

Or you can use one of the shortcuts below to jump directly to the content of reference.

New Content Ideas

Proofreading

Pictures for Your Site

Bookmarking

Analytics

Productivity

Keyword Research

SEO

Server Analysis

Social Media

Site Monetization

Affiliate Programs

Hosting Resources

Blog Marketing

Have a good reading!

New Content Ideas

Google Trends: find out what is trending at this moment over the internet or make a quick search based on your keywords

Quora: aside from creating your account and add your site links in the profile, you can run a research for your keywords to get several ideas for new posts.

Blog Title Generator: Enter your keyword and it will give you post ideas.

TweakYourBiz Title Generator: just enter a seed keyword and get several headline ideas, together with new post suggestions.

Content Idea Generator: rather than a real instrument, it’s a title generator of posts ready to make you smile.

Proofreading

Hemingway App: a free tool to help you increase your writing skills. Get suggestions in grammar, spelling, etc.

Grammarly: I use this to double check my articles before hitting the “publish” button. Particularly useful for the non-native English bloggers. Get several tips in a matter of seconds after submitting your content. There’s a free and premium version.

Pictures for Your Site

Photopin: add your keyword in the search box and find your favorite images. It’s basically a search engines that takes all the pictures from Flickr under Creative Commons, which means you need to quote the source, before using them (code is provided).

Free Images: very easy to use. Over 410.000 photos available.

Stockvault: run a search, based on your keywords, and find your favorite picture, in a repository of about 54 thousand images.

MorgueFile: this one is very popular. Over 350 thousand photos, a great choice!

Pixabay: simple to use, just make your search. I like the “Editor’s Choice”, which suggests you the media selected by the Pixabay team.

Photo Rack: http://photorack.net

Free Pixels: http://www.freepixels.com

Free Digital Photos: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net

Pic Jumbo: http://picjumbo.com

New Old Stock: http://nos.twnsnd.co (“vintage” pictures)

We Function: http://wefunction.com/category/free-photos/

Gratisography: http://www.gratisography.com

Google image search: remember to add the appropriate link source before adding an image to your site.

Bookmarking

Pocket: bookmarking site and “read it later” app. Good both to get backlinks or to add articles to read when you have free time.

Delicious: pretty popular and old one, still working.

Pearltrees: same as Pocket, equal system, different design.

Analytics

Google Analytics: every serious blogger has Google Analytics code installed in his blog. Great to track a lot of metrics and analyze different data.

Facebook Insights: the Facebook analytics for your pages. Divided into 2 main parts: Users and Interaction.

YouTube Analytics: same concept, but for Youtube channel. Click on ‘Account’ and ‘Analytics’ which is under “additional features”.

TrenDemon: this is a new tool to create more revenue and conversions from your content and traffic, automatically using personalized content recommendation and call to actions.

Productivity

Trello: good for managing your tasks. I use it daily. Based on “cards” and “boards”. Your can also add team members.

Rescuetime: find your ideal work-life balance. This tool helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive.

Keyword Research

LongTailPRO: a must have tool for any serious blogger. Get profitable keywords to build niche sites that make money or simply to improve your blog traffic, by targeting long-tail keywords. Read my LTP 3300 words guide here.

Google Keyword Planner: the free keywords research tool offered by Google.

Market Samurai: read Chris guide.

CanIRank: a new keyword research tool launched recently.

SEO

Google Webmaster Tool: another must have tool for every webmaster, offered by Google. Get several suggestions to improve your properties, once claimed.

Bing Webmaster Tool: the same concept of GWT, but for Bing (I suggest you to get it, seeing Bing’s increased size).

Majestic SEO Site Explorer: another popular tool for checking your backlinks (and much more), which uses a freemium model.

Ahrefs: a great tool for check backlinks and monitor the SEO of your site, with a very loyal user base. Similar to most of its competitors, this tool uses a freemium model.

SEMRush: it’s one of the biggest free SEO tools available online and its age is a clear endorsement of its value.

WooRank: use it to get a fast and clear review of a website.

Open Site Explorer: SEO Moz tool. It’s basically a search engine for links.

Quicksprout: it scrutinizes your site from top to bottom, giving you precise details on SEO, SMO and comparisons with competitors.

Server Analysis

Pingdom: this site offers a free online tool that analyzes the loading time of a given URL. Plus, you can be notified when your site is no longer accessible. Good for monitoring your server status!

URI Valet: another free service, which allows you to view HTTP headers transferred during a request for a specific URL.

Downforeveryoneorjustforme: ” Is the site down for everyone or just for you?”

Social Media

Hootsuite: a fantastic tool for managing all your social media accounts under the same dashboard. I use the PRO version (you can even auto-post content from your blog’s RSS feed).

BufferApp: this app is used by many bloggers and social media marketers. Easily schedule your content, for free.

Followerwonk: this website provides valuable information on your Twitter account with the ability to compare your followers with those of other users.

Tweriod: this tool analyzes your Twitter account with a particular attention to the moments in which you generated more engagement.

JustUnfollow (now Crowdfire): useful site to manage your Twitter and Instagram followers. It’s free up to 200 daily actions.

Conversation Score: after analyzing your Facebook page, it provides information regarding your relationship with those who follow you, your habits, the percentage of likes in your posts and other useful statistics.

LikeAlyzer: it analyzes your Facebook page and gives you advice on how to improve your presence and your appeal, relying on dialogue, timing and posts that you have posted.

Twiends: use this tool to gain exposure for your Twitter account and receive new followers.

Tweepi: useful for “flushing” people who are not following you back on Twitter, or reciprocate following users who are actually your followers.

Tweetstats: it’s another free tool for measuring your Twitter profile.

Twitter Counter: a useful service to measure some parameters of Twitter, like the followers growth rate, the average number of tweets per day, and more.

Klout: are you using it? This website has been always in the center of a debate, as an instrument to measure your level of online influence (be sure to not take these numbers as really the truth).

Social Mention: good to alert you whenever a specific keyword is mentioned on a platform of social media.

Oktopost: a powerful social media management platform, created especially for B2B marketers and with particular attention to LinkedIn.

Site Monetization

Google AdSense: Google contextual advertising network. The most popular way to monetize a blog.

Infolinks: in-text advertising solution, with various ad formats (read my review here).

BuySellAds: most popular online advertising network. Check my site marketplace at BuySellAds.

RankSeller.com: get sponsored post opportunities.

RankSider.com: same concept of RankSeller.

SponsoredReviews.com: get many job opportunities. But high competition.

SeedingUp.com: great way to monetize your site and social media audience. Check the interview with Johannes here).

LinkVehicle: sponsored opportunities and affiliate links to make money with your blog.

Affiliate Programs

ShareASale: a popular affiliate marketplace with many affiliate programs that you can join.

Hosting Resources

HostGator:  leading provider of web hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Discover why over 9000000 websites trust them for their hosting needs. I have a dedicated server and very happy with it.

FileZilla: desktop FTP tool.

Blog Marketing

Triberr: share your content and other members one. Get your audience amplified and increase your connections. See Chris article here.

JustRetweet: a nice platform where you can expand your social media audience, by sharing other members posts and gaining credits, while you want to submit your content and get it shared by other users. Read my review here.

ViralContentBee: good not only to boost your Twitter exposure, but also to increase your Pinterest and Facebook audience. My review is here.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed this list, and that you learned something new today.

Please add your favorite tool in the comment below, and let me know what you think!

Thanks.

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As you read earlier here on this blog SEO helps customers come through your front door.

One of the newer things in Google Webmaster tools I have explored is the data highlighter in the search appearance.

Google Webmaster Tools

Data Highlighter

This makes your data show in the rich snippets the way you want them to show up in search. Google can display your data more attractively to readers in new ways enhancing your results.

You can use these for articles, products, software applications, events and more. This is why product reviews are becoming more important for retailers or even for you if you are selling items on your blog or website.

This highlighter only works for pages that have been crawled by Google recently.  You can also organize your data via page sets.

If you make changes to your pages you can go back and delete them and add new ones once Google has crawled the pages.

You can watch the following video for more info:

Malware

If you site has been infected by malware (software that has been intended to damage or disable your computer via bad links, etc) you will know via Google Webmaster tools now.

Neat, isn’t it?

Author Stats

Now you can see how your posts are doing on Google. This data shows search statistics for pages for which you are the verified author.

It shows you the impressions and clicks for each of your posts. It also shows your average page’s position within the Google search.

I liked seeing the impressions for certain keywords, as well as which keywords are being looked for the most.

Google Analytics

Page Speed

This is new! I love how Google checks every page for speed and tells you how to improve the page speed for each of them.

This is easier than the old chrome extension for developers. I just deleted my extension to keep up my chrome browser’s speed running fast. (The extension used to slow it down to a crawl).

You can find this under Content near the bottom left of your Google Analytics page. I went right for the page suggestions which take a little time to upload.

I will say though some of the answers or suggestions they give are NOT all easy to follow. There are some you can easily understand – like optimizing images. Others are much more complex.

This is a great SEO tool overall.

Social Value

This SEO tool is fairly new at your Google analytics. I was surprised to see Twitter ranking way up there for my blog’s conversions.

People who visited my posts via Twitter. Stumble Upon still remains at the upper part as well and I don’t use it often anymore. Google+ is rising as well.

You can see where you may need to spend more time on which of the social sites with this SEO tool.

In-Page Analytics

This SEO tool is a must. It really gives you a clear indication of where people are looking and clicking on your blog or website.

Above the fold remains high for me. How about yours? If I look further I will see some click higher on posts below the fold.

Very interesting SEO data to digest.

There are many new tools in these FREE services that Google offers webmasters. I don’t like to post too many at a time for it can be quite overwhelming to many bloggers and webmasters including myself at times.

Learn a few new ones for this week and see how your blog or website can grow with some SEO love.

Have you explored these new SEO tools in your Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics for your blog or website? 

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About the Author:

Lisa Buben at http://inspiretothrive.com/

This tool should be used by every Online Marketer and SEO specialist. It helped me in SEO and my online work even more than Triberr helped me in my adventure with social networks.

Why?

Because with Market Samurai you can:

1)      Find Keywords for Your Blog or Website

2)      Analyze Keywords

3)      Find Perfect Domain Name for Your Site

4)      Analyze Your Competition

5)      Monitor Positions of Your keywords

6)      Estimate Cost of Your AdWords Campaign

7)      Find Affiliate Programs for Your Niche

Let’s find out some more details about each feature.

1. Find Keywords for Your Blog or Website

First of all – you should create a new project. It’s very simple – type your main keyword, title of your project, file name and language, click “Create” and it’s done.

Now you should go to “Keyword research” area. For best results you should connect Market Samurai with your Google AdWords account. Specify needed length of phrases, type some keywords into “Add Keywords” area, click “Add keywords” button and Generate Keywords.

In the example below MS generated 737 keywords for me.

Now go to the next step:

2. Analyze Keywords

After generating keywords you should analyze them. It’s also very simple

In keyword research area you should mark (tick) interesting fields (organic, adwords, competition, commerciality), change match type and period, and click analyze Keywords.

I choose “exact” match type and period “monthly”. I also mark all of the fields…

Of course you can choose other setting – it depends on you.

Keyword analysis will take some time (2-10 minutes), so you can prepare a coffee…

Most important data for me are:

• amount of searches for the keyword
• SEOC (SEO competition) – total number of pages that mention a specific keyword term
• SEOTC (SEO Title competition) – total number of pages that mention a specific keyword term in title
• SEOUC (SEO URL competition) – total number of pages that mention a specific keyword term in URL

And of course you can order your keywords as you want.

If you are interested in this topic you can also read:

How to Find Keywords for Your Blog or Website

3. Find Perfect Domain Name for Your Site

Now it’s time to find proper domain name for your site. In “Domains” tab you should type some of your keywords.

Now you should choose needed TLDs (for this moment you can choose from: .com, .org, .net , .ca , .co.uk , .de , .eu , .in, .us, .org.uk , .me , .mobi , .tv , .info , .cc , .nu , .ws , .com.au, .co.nz, .me.uk, .biz)

You should also set prefixes and/or suffixes (it’s very important!)

I find a lot of my domains (org, net, biz and com) with that tool. For example this blog (NoPassiveIncome.com) and ProjectManagementBay.com (it’s not ready yet ).

At this moment you can search only for new domain names.

4. Analyze Your Competition

Now you can check how strong your competition is. For chosen keyword (in SEO Competition button area) you can find top 10 pages (you can add your own URL too – chose “Add custom URL”).

For “Top Ten” results you can see:

• Page url
• Domain age
• Page Rank
• Index Count (how many pages is indexed from the whole domain)
• Amount of unique domains referring to the page
• Amount of unique domains referring to the whole domain
• Amount of backlinks referring to the whole domain
• Amount of backlinks referring to the page
• Amount of backlinks from .edu/.gov domains
• Some onpage details (for example if keyword is in title, in url, in description, in header Tag)

Green color is good for you, red is not…

If you want to see some more details about specific page, you should click on the arrow near the URL. Here you can check for example:

• Alexa details
• Google trends
• Whois information
• ACRank Analysis (ACRank is similar to Page Rank)
• Anchor Text Analysis

The last 2 options are the most important here (because they show backlinks in details) and are from Majestic SEO (you don’t need to pay for it additionally!).

5. Monitor Positions of Your Keywords

With Market Samurai you can monitor for free 10 of your keywords (White belt plan). If you want to monitor more keywords, you must pay for it additionally.  I started to monitor with this tool some of my phrases recently, and it seems that it works properly.

6. Estimate Cost of Your AdWords Campaign

In “Keyword Research” area you can find estimation, how much you will pay (as an Adwords advertiser) if your keyword will be on the #1 of SERPs. I don’t focus on it, but for some marketers it can be an additional feature.

7. Find Affiliate Programs for Your Niche

Honestly I’m not using it. But if you want, you can find products in ClickBank, Amazon, Commision Junction and PayDotCom affiliate programs.

Example for “make money” keyword for Amazon.com

If you still don’t know, how to use this tool, below this link you can find more Market Samurai tutorials.

Has This Tool Only Advantages?

No. Market Samurai has one disadvantage – it’s not very fast tool. For me it works very well even with that speed. But if you want very fast tool – please try to find something else for you.

How Much Market Samurai Costs?

It’s not cheap tool. Normally it costs 149$. But using this link, you can download your free trial version and test it for 12 days since registration. There is no difference between free trial and paid version – so you can try each function.

Can I Get This Tool Cheaper?

Yes, you can. You should only download your free version of Market Samurai. After registration you will get an email with registration details. In this email there will be your unique link to download your free version, registration key and link to great offer – you can get Market Samurai for only 97$. But remember – since registration you have only 7 days for getting your Market Samurai for this promotional price of 97$ (instead of 149$ – it’s 35% discount).

Bonus

When I started using it at the end of 2010, I was able to install it on 2 computers at the same time. Yesterday I contacted with Market Samurai support – now you can install it (with one license!) on 5 computers which is enough even for a small business!

And what about you? What tool are you using for your online marketing? Do you use Market Samurai?

If not, you can try it for free here (my affiliate link). If yes, please share your experience with us in comments below.

You are a Blogger (or site owner, marketing specialist or SEO specialist) and you need traffic on your site. But how you can do it? Are there any tips and tricks? Can you use enterprise SEO services to boost your organic rankings and improve your business? Or maybe you should use tools, SEO tools, for getting tons of traffic?

Below I’ll describe you five SEO tools, which I use. Some of them are totally free, and some of them are really expensive. You must choose, what is best for you.

1. Alexa

Alexa is an online tool for basic website analytics. It’s based on huge database with relevant information and statistics about webpages.

Thanks to Alexa, you can very fast find out general traffic stats, what is an audience of the website (male/female, age, education, etc.), major sites, which are linking to your site.

The interesting thing is here a short overview, on top queries from search engines.

For example for Bloggers.com, most important three keywords are:

• Bloggers
• Top technology blogs in Nigeria
• Bloggers.com

Beside this, Alexa will show you Top 500 sites (worldwide, grouped by country or grouped by category).

Last interesting feature from Alexa is Alexa Toolbar, which can help you learn some statistics, related links and other things about browsed pages. It’s a plugin for your browser.

2. Google Keyword Tool

Google Keyword Tool is a totally free tool for finding keywords prepared by Google.

You can find keywords based on one or more words (or phrases). Important thing is to mark tick on Exact match, to find only specific keyword. Google Keyword tool doesn’t have a lot of options, but is simple – so I like it

Here you can read my article How to find best keywords for your blog or website  using Google Keyword Tool or Market Samurai (the next tool, I’ll describe for you)

3. Market Samurai

Market Samurai is another tool, for finding best keywords for your site and analyze your competition

It let you:

• Find best keywords for your sites
• Analyze your competition on specific keywords (it analyzes most important factors for pages, which are in top #10 in SERPs, of course for your keyword(s))
• Find proper domain name for you
• Find content among Wikipedia, Ezine Articles, Google News, etc
• Help you find affiliates programs for you (Amazon, ClickBank, Commision Junction)

There is a lot more functions of this great tool, but personally I use it mainly for analyzing my competition, research keywords for me, and find appropriate domains (for example I find my domain nopassiveincome.com thanks to Market Samurai ).

Market Samurai isn’t free tool. Paid version cost normally 149$ (it’s not cheap), but it is worth each cent I spent on it.

Here you can download free trial (12 days trial with some limitation). If you buy it during five days since downloading, you will get your Market Samurai only for 97$

4. SEMRush

SEMRush is a tool for analyzing organic keywords, competitors in organic search, AdWords keywords and a lot more. You can check it for ten Google databases (for instance for US, UK, DE, IT) and for Bing

For example, using free report for the website bloggers.com, we can get following results:

You can read (from the first table and first line), that most important keyword for organic search is bloggers. Bloggers.com is on 2nd position in SEPRs and this keyword generate 14,36% of organic traffic.

From second table (ads keywords) we find out, that bloggers.com doesn’t pay for ads.

And the last table (on the screen) show us, that major competitors for Bloggers.com are (in  organic search):

Youtube.com (1718 common keywords)

Zimbio.com (1088 common keywords) and

Facebook.com (987 common keywords)

Of course SEMRush offers a lot of others helpful reports – information about potential ads/traffic buyers or sellers, estimated traffic to specified site or backlinks report.

Using free version, you can generate only five reports a day, what’s much to less, even for bloggers

Paid version of SEMRush cost monthly from 69.95$ (Pro recurring version) to 499$ (Enterprise version)

5. Majestic SEO

Majestic SEO is a last tool, I want to describe today.

It’s a tool mainly for analyzing your (and your competitor) backlinks, top pages, etc.

With this tool, you can also check backlink history and neighbourhood of your domain.

Three days ago Majestic SEO launched two new metrics related with link profile – trust flow and citation flow. I plan to test it in the future, but now I couldn’t tell you anything more about these features.

For getting some details about your site, you must login in to the website (so firstly you must sign up to it.

It’s free of charge, if you don’t need in-depth analysis and you need it only for your site. For professionals there are three paid plans: Silver, Gold and Platinum (49.99$, 149,99$ and 399,99$)

And how about you – do you use some SEO tools for making your life easier? Or maybe there are some other tools, which are valuable for mention?

Disclosure – please note, that some of the links above are affiliate links and I earn a commission, when you buy something via them.

Each blogger use a lot of sources and tools. A lot of them  are available online.

Below  is a list of Top 100 websites, which every blogger should know and use. I spent a lot of hours preparing this list, but some websites may be out of date. If you find such links, please leave a comment about it below this article.

For better navigation, I order them in such groups of links

Search engines

WP themes

Plugins for WordPress

Free blog platforms

Statistics

Hosting for blogs and websites

Advertising and affiliate systems

Photos and pictures for bloggers

Tools for keyword analysis

SEO tools and analysis

Mailing lists and autoresponders

SEO blogs

Blogs with tips & tricks about blogging

Motivation and self-help websites for bloggers

Lists of most important blogs

Reviews for bloggers

Boost visits on your blog

Outsource your work (or find a job as a freelancer)

“Knowledge” websites

Social & networking sites

Websites with other multimedia

Free time for bloggers

Top 100 websites for bloggers

Search engines:

1.       Google.com – most famous search engine in the world

2.       Bing.com – 2^nd search engine for English language market

3.       Search.com – aggregate in one place search results from best engines

4.       Baidu.com – 1^st search engine for China language

5.       Yandex.ru – the largest search engine in Russia

Wp themes

Some free WordPress Themes:

6.       WPdaddy themes – a lot of free WP themes (but be careful – some of them are not free!)

7.       Free WordPress  Themes 4 U (if you need to remove sponsored ads, you need to pay 19.95$ to get the key)

8.       TopWPThemes  – another website with some themes for WP

And some paid WP themes:

9.       Theme Junkie – premium WordPress themes with one-time fee starting at 29.95$ (but for 39.95$ you will get allWP Junkie themes and life time support). This blog is based on one of WP Junkie themes – Smart Blog theme

10.   Thesis WP Themes – pricing starts at 87$ for one website

Plugins for WordPress:

11.   WordPress Plugins – official WordPress.org site with thousands plugins

12.   WordPress Plugins from yoast.com – some useful plugins made by Joost de Valk, most of them are free

13.   WPMU DEV – WordPress plugins by WPMUdev team

Free blog platforms:

14.   Blogger.com – Google’s platform for bloggers, integrated with Google Accounts

15.   WordPress.com – it’s free and open source platform for bloggers.

16.   Xanga.com – network of blogging and social networking communities

17.   Tumblr. – you can share here everything you want – text, photos, videos, links, etc.

18.   Moveble Type – another social publishing platform

Statistics:

19.   Google Analytics – free statistics with huge amount of reports and tracking tools.

20.   Piwik – open source web analytics tool. It is really good tool, but needs installation on own web server

21.   AWStats – free tool for advanced web statistics analysis

22.   StatCounter –Statistics tool for your website with real-time analysis of the visitors.  It’s free for 250k monthly pageload. Above it, it’s paid monthly

23.   Site meter – this counter and statistics tracker has, similarly to StatCounter, 2 options. SiteMeter Basic is for free, and Sitemeter Premium is starting at 6.95$

Hosting for blogs and websites:

24.   Hostgator – this blog is hosted by Hostgator – it’s not free hosting (prices started at about 4$ a month) but it’s stable and easy to use

25.   BlueHost– another hosting recommended by some bloggers

26.   OVH – hosting for sites in Europe

27.   IQ.pl – hosting not only for Polish sites

28.   GoDaddy.com – another hosting for your website

Advertising and affiliate systems:

29.   Google AdSense is most famous advertise program(based on contextual advertisements), both for small and for very big portals. Google equivalent for ads publishers is Google AdWords

30.   Zanox.com – this network offers publishers and advertisers a lot of affiliates program. It’s European market leader in this area.

31.   Clickbank – it’s online program for buying and selling digital or information products. It’s one of the biggest affiliate’s network system

32.   Tradedoubler – this is also European program for affiliate marketing, with a lot of websites and ads publishers

33.   Chitika –  it’s non-contextual  online-ads service, which may be used simultaneously with Google AdSense ads

Photos and pictures for bloggers:

34.   Fotolia.com – one of the best stock with royalty free photos, images, videos and vectors

35.   Istockphoto.com – another website with a lot of royalty free images and photos. You can also get discounts on istockphoto with a promo code.

36.   Photoxpress.com – some photos and images on this website are free of charge

37.   Flickr.com – photo sharing and image hosting website

38.   Shutterstock.com – another stock with royalty-free photos, illustrations and vectors

Tools for keyword analysis

39.   Google keyword tool – It’s very popular keyword tool, feeded with data by Google. It’s not perfect, but it’s free of charge!

40.   Market Samurai – this keyword analysis tool has a lot of useful  functions  – keyword research, seo competition, finding domains, etc. This tool is used by more than 200 000 users (including me). It’s paid tool (price is not low – it’s one time fee of 149$), but there is 12 day trial – you can download it for free here! If you buy it in 5 days since downloading, you will paid only 97$ for it

41.   Keyword Research Suite from WordStream – it’s free only in very limited area, paid plans starts at 329$ a year

42.   Traffic Travis – another tool for keyword research. It has both free (limited for 5 projects) and paid (only 97$) versions

43.   Keyword Elite – it’s keyword Research tool by Brad Callen. It also cost 97$

SEO tools and analysis:

44.   Majesticseo.com – site explorer for your backlinks, neighbourhood checker and more. It’s better than Yahoo Site Explorer was!

45.   Alexa.com – it provides a lot of information about websites, their audience, traffic and keywords. Completely free and without registration

46.   Whois.Net – tool which help you reveal who is behind each domain

47.   WayBack Machine – it’s “time machine” for websites. If you want to see, how did web page look like in the past, you must use this time machine

48.   CleverStat – on this site you can find a lot of useful SEO tools for bloggers and website owners. Some of them are free (for example PaRaMeter, which allows you to check Google PageRank), some aren’t…

Mailing lists and autoresponders:

49.   AWEBER – email marketing software (used also by me) with prices started at 19$ a month (you can try it for 1$ for first month)

50.   Constant Contact – email, event and social marketing solution for you with 60 days trial

51.   Get Response – email marketing platform with powerful autoresponder with few pricing plans

52.   iContact – another autoresponder with additional features

53.   MailChimp – free email marketing service. It’s totally free for 12k emails per month (or for 2000 subscribers)

SEO blogs:

54.   Matt Cuts blog – blog of Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Web spam team

55.   SEOmoz blog– most famous blog (and not only blog) about SEO

56.   Search Engine Land – news, tips & tricks about Google, Bing, search engine marketing and search engine optimization

57.   Search Engine Watch – very helpful site about SEM, SEO, PPC and Paid Search advertising

58.   SEO Book Blog – another valuable blog about SEO

Blogs with tips & tricks about blogging:

59.   Smartpassiveincome.com – very smart blog about blogging and with very detailed income  reports, owned by Pat Flynn

60.   Johnchow.com – very interesting blog with one of the best free ebook: The Ultimate Blog Profit Model

61.   ProBlogger.Net – most famous blog about making money online directed by (maybe even more famous ) Darren Rowse

62.   Dailyblogtips.com – blog about tips & tricks for bloggers. By Daniel Scocco.

63.   Entrepreneurs-Journey.com – Yaro Starak gives here a lot of advises and tips for internet entrepreneurs

Motivation and self-help websites for bloggers:

It’s very hard to describe all the staff, which is on each of the site. But I strongly recommend to visit them at least one time, to see what’s inside

64.   PsychologyToday.com – a lot of articles, not only about motivation, but also about creativity, setting and achieving goals and lot more

65.   Brian Tracy blog – official blog of Brian Tracy, motivational and self-help specialist

66.   StephenCovey.com – website of Stephen Covey, author of bestseller: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Unfortunately his blog isn’t updated since some time, but despite this, there is a lot of motivational stuff  on this website

67.   FourHourWorkWeek.com – blog and site of famous author Tim Ferriss

68.   StevePavlina.com – website of Steve Pavlina, blogger about personal development. Another great website!

Lists of most important blogs:

69.   Technorati.com – list of top 100 blogs

70.   Bloggers.com – this website is dedicated for bloggers, categorizes blogs and bloggers

71.   List of top blogs by Wikipedia – no comments

72.   Top ten lists of blogs – top ten list of blogs by blogs.com

73.   Top blogging news with Alltop– news from most popular blogs and more…

Reviews for bloggers:

Unfortunately I didn’t use any of them, so there are only links to most popular reviews sites. If you have some experience with this type of sites, please share your knowledge and leave a comment

74.   Reviewme.com

75.   PayPerPost.com

76.   PostGenius.com

77.   SponsoredReviews.com

78.   SharedReviews.com

Boost visits on your blog:

79.   Digg.com – a social news site. Some time ago it was more popular than Facebook

80.   StumbleUpon.com – recommend your website to more than 20 millions of StumbleUpon users

81.   Reddit.com – social website, where you can submit your content and vote for another

82.   Delicious.com –(in the past – del.icio.us) – you can find here a lot of cool sites and shares your own links with others

83.   4chan – this site mostly concerns on sharing images

Outsource your work (or find a job as a freelancer):

84.   Elance.com – marketplace for freelancers and people (or company) which want outsource their work

85.   Guru.com – you can outsource your projects here or find freelancers for hire

86.   oDesk.com – another website, where you can find job as freelancer or hire somebody to your projects

“Knowledge” websites:

87.   Wikipedia – free online encyclopedia with more than 20 million articles

88.   Ask.com –most popular question-answering service

Social & networking sites:

89.   Facebook – most famous social site in the world. You must be in

90.   Twitter – share short messages with others. Follow friends, experts and celebrities

91.   LinkedIn – it’s world’s most popular professional  and business-related network.

92.   Google+ – another network, some people like it, some not

Websites with other multimedia:

93.   YouTube – free video sharing platform owned by Google

94.   Vimeo – another site, where you can find, view, download and upload  videos

95.   Live365.com – radio online with a lot of stations

Free time for bloggers:

96.   Dilbert – you don’t know, who Dilbert is?

97.   Demotivational Posters – you must see it!

98.   Break.com – website with funny videos and pictures

99.   Jokes.com – jokes for almost everyone

100.   Garfield – and everything is clear…

Disclosure – please note, that some of the links above are affiliate links and I earn a commission, when you buy something via them.