By: Paddy Moogan
Need More SEO Tools? Google Has Some!
ToolsFor those still looking for SEO goodness to read around the holidays, here are some tools that Google provides that you can use for SEO tasks.
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By: Mike Pantoliano
Excel For SEOs: Manipulating URL Strings with Functions
ToolsOver the past few months, I've been preparing a guide with the tentative title, Excel for SEOs: Lessons for Aspiring Ninjas. I've embarked on this great journey because sometime during the #Mozinar back in September I decided that my Excel abilities were far too limited, especially compared to all the smarty pants that were giving great presentations and advice about data analy...
By: Rand Fishkin
6 New Tools Every SEO Should Check Out
ToolsThere's some terrificly useful new tools on the market that very few SEOs are aware of or using (at least, if my experience is any indication). It's my duty, therefore, to share with some of these shiny new sites and let you explore, engage and apply to your campaigns and efforts. Hopefully, these will add great value for you, and expose them to folks who really need their help. ...
By: Patrick Ahler
Top 10 Must Have SEO Extensions for Google Chrome
ToolsEvery few years I make a browser switch and my web use evolves sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse. My particular evolution went something like this: Netscape, IE, KDE Konquerer (switched from Windows98 to Debian - so no more IE), Mozilla Phoenix (early Firefox), IE (what do you know... went back to Windows), Firefox, IE, Firefox, and over the last year Chrome. My latest switc...
By: Rand Fishkin
Content Optimization: Revisiting Topic Modeling, LDA & Our Labs Tool
ToolsMany times as SEOs, we think about the "on-page optimization" process as simply following the best practices for placing our targeted keywords (and possibly, some variations of them) on the page. My previous blog post about Perfecting Keyword Targeting covers this in some detail. But, we also know tha...
By: Sam Crocker
5 Datasets You Can Buy and Use for SEO (and a few for free!)
ToolsHaving access to data and large data sets is something any SEO worth his salt craves. Sure, managing a massive dataset or database can be a bit of a hassle, but having good information is key and there are a handful of uses for other people's/sites' data sets that are readily available for purchase online. Big budget linkbuilding isn't the only way to spend your SEO budget these days! Le...
By: Rand Fishkin
Vote & Decide What's Next for the SEOmoz Web App?
ToolsThe team at SEOmoz has been hard at work this week, smoothing out a lot of the initial bumps we've seen with our beta launch of the new web app. We anticipated the app would be popular, but I don't think any of us were prepared for just how many keywords needed rank checking/grading and pages needed crawling/error-checking. Our queue to fetch ...
By: Rand Fishkin
New SEOmoz Web App Now in Beta for PRO Members
ToolsIf you've been using SEOmoz's tools for a while, you've likely come across the same frustration that many of us have - they're great, but it's such a pain to run a separate tool and separate report for each aspect of your SEO. That's why, for the past year, we've been working towards building a new platform to house all of the features and functionality of the SEOmoz toolset (and lots of new st...
By: Danny Dover
SEO Chrome Toolbar is Here! Download the Mozbar for Chrome Today
ToolsUse Google Chrome? Download the SEO Toolbar Extension from SEOmoz for Chrome! Get quick access to a SERP overlay, many On-Page SEO factors, plus Domain & Page Authority.
By: Rand Fishkin
6 Ways PRO Can Add Value in 15 Minutes
ToolsI've been hearing from a lot of our PRO members that they feel both overwhelmed and confused by all the offerings in PRO. I know it's tough when there are 30+ pages on which unique types of PRO content exist and even the dashboard doesn't link to all of them (that's our fault for bad organization - I promise it's getting better by the end of summer). Hence, this post is all about what to do in your first 15 minutes inside PRO to get lots of value that can actually move the needle on your SEO actions and search traffic.
By: Richard Baxter
How To Make Awesome Ranking Charts With Excel Pivot Tables
ToolsHow to make super awesome, spiffy looking ranking charts, measuring positioning by keyword, over time. If you love Excel, you'll love this post...
By: Michael Gray
How To Use Google Alerts For Quick and Easy Domain Alerts
ToolsThere's no shortage of posts and tutorials built around setting up a monitoring dashboard. Everyone has a favorite. Mine is from Marty Wientraub from Aim Clear (see How to Build a Reputation Monitoring Dashboard). There are new services that spring up every few months about...
By: Will Critchlow
API and Dataset Cheatsheet - Building Quick & Dirty Tools
ToolsA cheatsheet and inspiration for APIs and data sources that can be used to build SEO tools. You can use these sources to build research tools or linkworthy content and I'm looking forward to seeing some of the community's output.
By: Rand Fishkin
30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them (Part 2 of 2)
ToolsLast November, I authored a popular post on SEOmoz detailing 15 SEO Problems and the Tools to Solve Them. It focused on a number of free tools and SEOmoz PRO tools. Today, I'm finishing up that project with a stab at another set of thorny issues that continually confound SEOs and how some new ...