10 Awesome SEO Tools worth Paying for in 2011
Compiling a top 10 paid SEO tools 2011 list is challenging: new and emerging trends seen at rapid rates. Plus, compiling list is always subjective; what one person views as worthy to be included another wants to replace with a different SEO tool. Maybe you can suggest others?
Still, here are, in no particular order, 10 top SEO tools that stand head and shoulders above the crowd in value and ease of use.
1. Market Samurai
My most favored paid SEO tool. Does pay-per-click advertising research, extensive keyword research and offers other all-inclusive search engine optimization applications.
It's a one time cost. Local installation.
2. Buzzstream
Word-of-mouth advertising is considered to be one of the successful ways to promote consumer products and services. Buzzstream is the online version of this marketing technique by enabling users to use an automated tools to build relationships and links to partners.
3. seoClarity
An automation tool which provides users with their statistical modeling, ROI reporting and data analysis.
Handles the most complex web sites with thousands of pages along with the capability of providing relevant comprehensive data on keyword research. They boost to be the only SEO tool which has the capabilities to synchronize reporting and metrics across international markets.
4. LotusJump
LotusJump is an easy platform anyone can use; you don't need to be an SEO strategist or analytic expert to use it.
Simply have to enter your URL and keywords and LotusJump provides you with different SEO tasks to complete, from "comment here" to "add an article here". Full instructions are also included which means even a newbie or novice website owner can capitalize on increasing traffic and inbound links.
5: Compete.com
Operating from the United States, Compete.com offers a traffic analysis based on online activity from panels and ISP data. A useful SEO tool for those who take their competition research seriously.
6: Experian Hitwise
Insight to online behavior. Experian Hitwise claims to provide the fastest and most robust insight to competitive branding, content strategies and search marketing by customizing data and analytics.
7: Keyword Elite 2.0
Another popular keyword research and potential money making tool. Many users are comparing this with Market Samurai, voicing their opinions on the pros and cons of each as they offer very similar applications.
8: Raven Internet Marketing Tools
Possibly the most concise collection of tools to manage the SEO of any web site from research, to monitoring execution and follow-up, all the way to reporting.
Best all-in-one value.
9: SEOMoz Pro Tools
Claims to be the biggest SEO community available. Offers comprehensive SEO tools and resources to make SEO management easy. Offering weekly crawls and rank tracking to help users be aware of issues which could impact on their performance.
10: Paid Directories…
I think no top 10 paid SEO tools 2011 list is complete without mentioning paid directories.
Think a tool should or shouldn't be on this list? Got a better idea for #10? Use the comment box!
James runs an SEO and Social Media company called Propel Digital. Follow Propel Digital on Facebook or Twitter!
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What about Majestic SEO for #10 ?
There is also Analytics SEO, saw their presentation at the SES New York 2011, looks pretty good.
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Market Samurai
the only tool I paid for SEo
Thanks for your sharing this great info~
I consider SEM Rush to be the most useful SEO tool in my arsenal.
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Just so you're aware Fraser, SEMRush data is something we offer within Raven. They provide us data for keyword and competitive research.
We have been using Domainface (Which is integrated with Market Samurai) to get high PR domains to power my link wheels and have had amazing results so I guess I would have Domainface at number 2 just under MS
Katherine
Speaking of tool…, Majestic powers AnalyticsSEO, and you mention them as if you had no idea. Joking of course.
Nice list,
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I can honestly say I have never paid for any SEO tools – maybe I should reconsider. I think of them as simpler and quicker – but not better than the manual tools that are available.
Having done a brief bit of research looking at this list here, then I might take a chance on paying for Market Samurai to see if it speeds up my workflow a little bit.
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Thanks for the great list. I love Market Samurai (although it seems a bit buggy lately) and have just started using SEOmoz (30 day free trial – can't beat that price). I haven't heard of any of the others, so I'll have to check them out.
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Good list of free tools .mainly tools are using for tracking purpose and its a unhidden secret that tracking ups 30 to 40 % of conversion .
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James, has also SEMRush which is great for competition analysis. It has a great database in English and other languages.
Does the Yahoo Directory still carry weight since the Bing "merger"?
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+1 for SEMRush and Majestic
Choosing between Raven and SEOMoz? No question, go with SEOMoz. OSE is great (but better in combination with Majestic). Moz's API is fantastic if you're advanced. And their upcoming competition comparison tool is amazing.
I've seen demos of enterprise tools like BrightEdge, SearchLight, and RankAbove. No idea where they get off charging the prices they do for products that are glorified rank trackers. Here's a hint, Authority Labs most expensive plan is $500/mo. That delivers 99.9% of the value most enterprise customers are actually buying.
Those are very great tools. But.., why isn't IBP on the list? Maybe some of us think that taking our money our from our pocket for paid directories is better than IBP. True…, what is better think on SEO than high quality backlinks?
Fantastic list of resources, I've found the SEOMOZ blog a really useful source of information and their opensite explorer tool is really useful (you get a fair amount of link data for free).
One tool that isn't listed (probably as it's not really a link building tool) is called Testimonial Monkey (www.testimonialmonkey.com) which can help automate the process of adding customer testimonials to your website. The user generated content is very natural and usually keyword rich so it can also help to have a positive effect on seach engine rankings.
I was actually torn between Keyword Elite and Market Samurai. Hmm..I think I should buy them both.
But Link Assistant is really good too for SEO. Most of the products you mentioned above are really good for PPC marketing.
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Great listing! I love to use SEOmoz tool with opensite explorer. It is really very effective tool in use. Moreover, Google Analytics is also useful.
I think Elite and SEOmoz are good one to data-drive analysis.