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The 5 Tools I *Really* Use Everyday

Brett Alan | September 8th, 2011
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If you hang around in internet marketing circles for any length of time, you quickly become accustomed to being pummeled with recommendations for game-changing tool sets that boast everything from total business automation to complete online domination. While most those tools don't  hold up to their lofty product descriptions, there are a handful of road-tested programs that have remained in my online utility belt for years.

Today, I share my tried-and-tested toolkit with you. These are the 5 tools that I REALLY use everyday.

1. Open Site Explorer

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According to the 2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors from SEOMoz, off-page factors contribute to over 50% of what determines search-engine rankings. If you want to enter a competitive market and play with the big boys, you'll need a tool that helps automate the back-link acquisition process.

In my opinion, there's no tool on the web that can do a better job dissecting the back link profile of your competition and target link building opportunities that will make a measurable impact than Open Site Explorer. This is an invaluable tool for anyone involved in organic search.

Open Site Explorer

2. Xenu Link Sleuth

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Here's an oldie but a goodie. I feel like Xenu Link Sleuth has been around longer than SEO itself and its longevity is a testament to how valuable the tool is to internet marketers.

Xenu provides a quick crawl of websites and finds things like broken links, 404 errors, redirects and more. The first step I take when conducting a website audit is to plug the URL into Xenu Link Sleuth for some easy, best-practice action items.

Xenu Link Sleuth

3. SEO Toolbar From SEO Book

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This toolbar works in FireFox and Internet Explorer and displays key SEO metrics like backlink data, number of pages indexed, and on-page factors right in your browser. If you don't use this already, you should.

SEO Toolbar

4. Google Webmaster Tools

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In 2011, this Google product has become increasingly valuable to competitive webmasters. Scrutinize back-link data, run diagnostic checks, and even submit URLs that haven't been indexed directly to Google. As a result, Google Webmaster Tools has become a mainstay and automatic upload for any website I work on.

Google Webmaster Tools

5. Google Analytics

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So Google Analytics might not technically be a tool, but why let semantics get in the way of a great product? Again, Google Analytics is one of the few programs I reference daily. Set up some basic goals and start identifying the keywords that are delivering the most ROI for your website.

Google Analytics

So there you have it, the 5 tools I really do use every single day. Now that I've shown you mine, feel free to share the tools you couldn't go a day without in the comments.

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About the Author: Brett Alan

Brett Alan sells SEO reseller services 24.7.365.

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3 thoughts on “The 5 Tools I *Really* Use Everyday”

  1. Innes Donaldson says:
    September 8, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    Open site explorer and google webmaster tools are the two main tools I use on a pretty much daily basis. Google Analytics is very good also as a means to see where my website current sits, what its doing where it is and where it can go with some good planning.

    1. Brett Alan says:
      September 8, 2011 at 5:10 pm

      Awesome Innes. Let me know if you’ve got any other recommendations for me to add to my own tool belt.

  2. Ray Willis says:
    May 20, 2013 at 1:34 pm

    For some reason, I haven’t been using SEO Toolbar. I work in Chrome mostly, and use SEO Quake. I’m going to download firefox now though and give it a go.

    Thanks for the tips.

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