Free SEOmoz tools

If you want to use social media to build your business, you are likely using all kinds of SEO and Internet marketing tools, and a strong toolset is going to make your efforts more productive. Here are some free tools that SEOmoz offers forlink building and competitive analysis.

1. Term Targeting- This tool is going to evaluate a site and determine how well it performs keyword optimization. You can run the report once a day for free, and can be used for your personal site, as well as other sites.

2. On-Site Optimization Tools- This is to help you analyze your on-site optimization factors.

3. Crawl Test- This is a tool that tells you how accessible your site is according to search engines, and what you can do to improve it, and thus improve rankings. It can only be used once a day.

4. Open Site Explorer- This is a tool that helps you analyze the first 1000 backlinks any domain has. It also offers a lot information for various link metrics. It allows you to sort these links, you can see only followed, nonfollowed, or 301 links, you can see internal and external pages, etc. You can use this tool to see the top 20 linked to pages for a domain, and the most used anchor text. Open Site Explorer does not limit the number of reports you run daily, and can help you compare two URLs side by side. It shows more advanced metrics for the top 20 backlinks a domain has. In other words, it gives you all the information you could want for a given domain's backlinks, from the highest authority domains linking to the domain in question, to the links for a subdomain.

5. Trifecta- This tool will tell you the strength of a domain as well as its popularity. If you do not want to pay for the membership to Trifeca, you can run one report a day. The report will include information like the PageRank, the top ten pages on any given domain, how many Google News mentions it has, the Alexa rank, Yahoo Site Explorer backlinks, DMOZ links, and more. In addition to producing this data, it produces some advice for how your rankings and score can be improved with SEO, design, and more. Useful tool.

6. Historical PageRank Checker- This tool will let you know if your page or someone elses' is getting stronger or weaker by evaluating it going back 3 years.

7. Free Keyword Research Tools- The free tools to help you research your keywords for optimization are useful, and there are a number of options to both Pro members and the free members.

8. Term Extractor -This tool is going to break down 1-3 word terms for a page, and tell you what the page is focused on, the HTML tags those terms show up in, and more.

There are other free tools as well. Learning to use them can help improve your page ranks, and effectiveness.