Hey Guys,
I'm going to introduce you a full list of all the SEO tools i've tried and what are they used for.
You probably don't care but who am i ?
In order to avoid, the wrong look you will have on my very few amounts of stars / rep, i feel like i need to justify myself to post here. So in short, i'm a SEO consultant for 6 years now with dozens of websites and 2 own corporate websites.
Before i start here are some definition :
Most of you have probably heard about the SEO hats you can have while rankings a website.
My input is pretty much summarized to this :
Black Hat : SEO hackers which are abusing some loop holes in SERPS and spamming tools to rank a spammy / scam / low value websites
Grey Hat : they know about loop holes and use the tool wisely to rank legit websites with value for the users.
White Hat : 2 levels here.
1) Trying their best to be Google proofed in doing whatever G is asking them to. It is mainly dealing with on site SEO. (Problem is Google happens to lie from time to time)
2) People who claiming that black / grey hatters are cheaters but they use an army of underpaid link builders to achieve the work of what a tool could do.
In what category i am ?
Most of you, may believe i'm in the very very black hat area with the knowledges / tools i have. Yes, i can create 2 millions of spammy backlinks over night, yes i can spoil a forum to its death by cracking captchas and posting bad posts, yes i can post thousands of tweets in minutes in reply to users...
But the truth is every single douche you can find on earth with a minimal investment can do so, and he isn't going to achieve anything down that road.
I believe i'm in the grey-white hat area as i focus a lot on "On site SEO" and i use my tools wisely to achieve a clean rankings. It has been working for me for years.
Why all this ?
The purpose of this post is to make you understand that the SEO world isn't black or white and you can pull out the strenghts of both to make your path.
I'm not going to introduce you shortcuts like cloaking, link farms, kw stuffing, heavy spamming which are either not working anymore or are aiming small (short terms) and basically not profitable for your websites. Sure, you can use the tools to do so but i wouldn't advice you to go down that road
So here you can find the tools you need that would be divided in categories (On site SEO and Off site SEO) and a quick summary of the proper use to make with them.
All the tools below are the ones i have and i'm using in a weekly basis at least.
**DISCLAIMER** The tools i'm going to introduce can harm your website and put it underground overnight if don't you invest time into learning how to use them properly.
On Site SEO :
- Xenu Link Sleuth : **FREE** Quick checker and crawler of your website to find 404 errors (not found / dead pages). Pretty useful, in order to avoid robots bouncing in dead pages
--> DISCLAIMER : You need to have a custom 404 page with your header / footer to allow robots to bounce to another page if they meet an 404 page.
- SEO Power Suite Edition : **up tp $700 + $80 each 6 months** A quite powerful suite of tools to analyze the backlinks and theirs factors, to check your rankings in many search engines, to analyze some onsite factors of your website or to follow your link exchanges (which are to avoid by the way)
- Page Speed Firebug Module : **FREE** This is a must have module to have a look to the factors which can improve your loading time. It is meant to be used in Chrome or Firefox, and if you are using firefox you need the addon firebug first.
- SEO Quake : **FREE** : Firefox module to quickly analyse the competitors like their Alexa rank, page rank, numbers of backlinks, number of pages indexed and so on. It is a must have to make a quick and prelimenary study of your competitors. You can definitly skip some keywords you may have wanted to target in a blink.
-Traffic Travis :**$97** Excellent competition analysis which can identify some criterias quickly and would give you a strong input on how serious are your competitors. There is also an on site analysis and ranking checker which may not be really convenient
- Marketing Samourai : **$77** Great to find keywords and study others factors of the competition, i've been using it in the past but some recent incidents which lead the tool to be unusable for a while made barry it.
- Keyword Scout : **$97 if you know where to look** : it is the best tool which will pull out datas from google adwords to find good keywords. You won't have a great competition analysis but it is excellent for some specific use (long tailed keywords, massive keywords list and so on..)
- TheBestSpinner : **$77 yearly** : THis tool is a must have. It allows you to spin a content to make it different. I would invite you to get information on spun content first. It is made to generate diffirent version of a text by picking synonym, you can generate non sense articles in a click or build dozens of quality ones from one. You would need such tools, if you are a tiered link builders.
Off Site SEO : To automate your linkbuilding
- Scrapebox : **$57 if you know where to look** : this tool is a must have even if you are a white hat SEOer ! It is the swiss knife of the SEO tools. You can do tons of things with it. It is genuinely build to post blog comments with your link in it. You can do it millions overnight (useless) but you can also manage your link list, mass check the pagerank, check proxies, find dropped domains with PR, scrape search engines for new backlinks, scrape emails from website, and much much more..
- Xrumer : **$590 + $10 a month** : Very expensive, powerful but dangerous tools ! This tool is meant to create forums posts it can break captchas, and create millions of links overnight. Most of the VPS hosting providers will ban you if you use it in a wrong way, and even your ISP could do so. Fortunately, this tool is expensive and not affordable to anyone, so internet isn't a battlefield. You can drives traffic to your website thanks to it or creating quality posts in many targetted forums for quality backlinks, you can deeply analyse your links and scrape search engines. You can also build forum profiles too. I don't master it complelty so i dont' use it much.
- SenukeX : **$147 a month** : Polyvalent tools to create tons of links on different platforms, CMS such as article directories, profiles, social bookmarking, high PR blog post, web 2.0 properties, and so on. I happened to use it from time to time, it is easy to handle but if you ask me not that efficient, because it is limited in the numbers of platforms supported. I didn't renew the subscription but it a tool you must know about.
- Celestial BlogBot Creator : **$77** : I use it daily to create blogs on wordpress and 40 others platforms and to post articles with links. Not quite famous in the SEO world but it is an excellent tool
- Bookmarking Daemon : **$147** : TO post bookmarks on custom lists which is great to index backlinks, pay attention that most of the bookmarking site have litterally no value and are barely indexed. Well developped and excellent to perform a few gigs.
- Slick Submitter : ** around $97** : The best web directories poster. You can do an automatic mode or semi automatic, there is an extendable built in list. If you have one website, it doesn't worth it though.
- Article MArketing Robots : **$77** : Great tool to post on article directories or if you have a blog network.
- Yahoo Answer Swipe : **$77** : Excellent tool to manage yahoo questions / answer. It can drive you traffic overnight. You can use it in an automated mode or just as an account manager to post quality answers (best use for me)
- Magic Submitter : ** around $30 a month** : You can use it to post many kind of backlinks like SenukeX but i mainly use it to post videos on video directories or doc sharing website.
I'm going to stop here even though, i have around a dozen more tools but as i'm either affiliated with them or help in the dev process, i'll skip them to avoid any misunderstanding.
Once again, please not that the purpose isn't to make you web spoilers, but to give you the strings to run a successful a full SEO campaign and to understand how it is really working besides what google want you to think.
Remember consider quality over quantity and you'll get my point and the right use to do.
I'm going to introduce you a full list of all the SEO tools i've tried and what are they used for.
You probably don't care but who am i ?
In order to avoid, the wrong look you will have on my very few amounts of stars / rep, i feel like i need to justify myself to post here. So in short, i'm a SEO consultant for 6 years now with dozens of websites and 2 own corporate websites.
Before i start here are some definition :
Most of you have probably heard about the SEO hats you can have while rankings a website.
My input is pretty much summarized to this :
Black Hat : SEO hackers which are abusing some loop holes in SERPS and spamming tools to rank a spammy / scam / low value websites
Grey Hat : they know about loop holes and use the tool wisely to rank legit websites with value for the users.
White Hat : 2 levels here.
1) Trying their best to be Google proofed in doing whatever G is asking them to. It is mainly dealing with on site SEO. (Problem is Google happens to lie from time to time)
2) People who claiming that black / grey hatters are cheaters but they use an army of underpaid link builders to achieve the work of what a tool could do.
In what category i am ?
Most of you, may believe i'm in the very very black hat area with the knowledges / tools i have. Yes, i can create 2 millions of spammy backlinks over night, yes i can spoil a forum to its death by cracking captchas and posting bad posts, yes i can post thousands of tweets in minutes in reply to users...
But the truth is every single douche you can find on earth with a minimal investment can do so, and he isn't going to achieve anything down that road.
I believe i'm in the grey-white hat area as i focus a lot on "On site SEO" and i use my tools wisely to achieve a clean rankings. It has been working for me for years.
Why all this ?
The purpose of this post is to make you understand that the SEO world isn't black or white and you can pull out the strenghts of both to make your path.
I'm not going to introduce you shortcuts like cloaking, link farms, kw stuffing, heavy spamming which are either not working anymore or are aiming small (short terms) and basically not profitable for your websites. Sure, you can use the tools to do so but i wouldn't advice you to go down that road
So here you can find the tools you need that would be divided in categories (On site SEO and Off site SEO) and a quick summary of the proper use to make with them.
All the tools below are the ones i have and i'm using in a weekly basis at least.
**DISCLAIMER** The tools i'm going to introduce can harm your website and put it underground overnight if don't you invest time into learning how to use them properly.
On Site SEO :
- Xenu Link Sleuth : **FREE** Quick checker and crawler of your website to find 404 errors (not found / dead pages). Pretty useful, in order to avoid robots bouncing in dead pages
--> DISCLAIMER : You need to have a custom 404 page with your header / footer to allow robots to bounce to another page if they meet an 404 page.
- SEO Power Suite Edition : **up tp $700 + $80 each 6 months** A quite powerful suite of tools to analyze the backlinks and theirs factors, to check your rankings in many search engines, to analyze some onsite factors of your website or to follow your link exchanges (which are to avoid by the way)
- Page Speed Firebug Module : **FREE** This is a must have module to have a look to the factors which can improve your loading time. It is meant to be used in Chrome or Firefox, and if you are using firefox you need the addon firebug first.
- SEO Quake : **FREE** : Firefox module to quickly analyse the competitors like their Alexa rank, page rank, numbers of backlinks, number of pages indexed and so on. It is a must have to make a quick and prelimenary study of your competitors. You can definitly skip some keywords you may have wanted to target in a blink.
-Traffic Travis :**$97** Excellent competition analysis which can identify some criterias quickly and would give you a strong input on how serious are your competitors. There is also an on site analysis and ranking checker which may not be really convenient
- Marketing Samourai : **$77** Great to find keywords and study others factors of the competition, i've been using it in the past but some recent incidents which lead the tool to be unusable for a while made barry it.
- Keyword Scout : **$97 if you know where to look** : it is the best tool which will pull out datas from google adwords to find good keywords. You won't have a great competition analysis but it is excellent for some specific use (long tailed keywords, massive keywords list and so on..)
- TheBestSpinner : **$77 yearly** : THis tool is a must have. It allows you to spin a content to make it different. I would invite you to get information on spun content first. It is made to generate diffirent version of a text by picking synonym, you can generate non sense articles in a click or build dozens of quality ones from one. You would need such tools, if you are a tiered link builders.
Off Site SEO : To automate your linkbuilding
- Scrapebox : **$57 if you know where to look** : this tool is a must have even if you are a white hat SEOer ! It is the swiss knife of the SEO tools. You can do tons of things with it. It is genuinely build to post blog comments with your link in it. You can do it millions overnight (useless) but you can also manage your link list, mass check the pagerank, check proxies, find dropped domains with PR, scrape search engines for new backlinks, scrape emails from website, and much much more..
- Xrumer : **$590 + $10 a month** : Very expensive, powerful but dangerous tools ! This tool is meant to create forums posts it can break captchas, and create millions of links overnight. Most of the VPS hosting providers will ban you if you use it in a wrong way, and even your ISP could do so. Fortunately, this tool is expensive and not affordable to anyone, so internet isn't a battlefield. You can drives traffic to your website thanks to it or creating quality posts in many targetted forums for quality backlinks, you can deeply analyse your links and scrape search engines. You can also build forum profiles too. I don't master it complelty so i dont' use it much.
- SenukeX : **$147 a month** : Polyvalent tools to create tons of links on different platforms, CMS such as article directories, profiles, social bookmarking, high PR blog post, web 2.0 properties, and so on. I happened to use it from time to time, it is easy to handle but if you ask me not that efficient, because it is limited in the numbers of platforms supported. I didn't renew the subscription but it a tool you must know about.
- Celestial BlogBot Creator : **$77** : I use it daily to create blogs on wordpress and 40 others platforms and to post articles with links. Not quite famous in the SEO world but it is an excellent tool
- Bookmarking Daemon : **$147** : TO post bookmarks on custom lists which is great to index backlinks, pay attention that most of the bookmarking site have litterally no value and are barely indexed. Well developped and excellent to perform a few gigs.
- Slick Submitter : ** around $97** : The best web directories poster. You can do an automatic mode or semi automatic, there is an extendable built in list. If you have one website, it doesn't worth it though.
- Article MArketing Robots : **$77** : Great tool to post on article directories or if you have a blog network.
- Yahoo Answer Swipe : **$77** : Excellent tool to manage yahoo questions / answer. It can drive you traffic overnight. You can use it in an automated mode or just as an account manager to post quality answers (best use for me)
- Magic Submitter : ** around $30 a month** : You can use it to post many kind of backlinks like SenukeX but i mainly use it to post videos on video directories or doc sharing website.
I'm going to stop here even though, i have around a dozen more tools but as i'm either affiliated with them or help in the dev process, i'll skip them to avoid any misunderstanding.
Once again, please not that the purpose isn't to make you web spoilers, but to give you the strings to run a successful a full SEO campaign and to understand how it is really working besides what google want you to think.
Remember consider quality over quantity and you'll get my point and the right use to do.
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