There are many Free SEO Tools on the internet as well as tools that you will have to pay for. There are tools which can submit your site to 100’s, even 1000’s of link and article directories at the same time, toolbars which will check page ranks and sites which will check page rank, backlinks and give an estimated value of your site all in one go.

Here are a few of the best SEO Tools:

Page Rank Checkers / Backlink Analyzer

dnScoop – dnScoop is a website which shows you a few statistics about the SEO state of your website. It shows you Google Page Rank, Inbound Links, Domain Name Age, Domain IP Report (See which other sites are hosted on the same server)

Page Rank Predictor – Want to find out what PR your site will have? Try here. I would not take this guesstimate as an accurate prediction though, more like a bit of fun.

Keyword Tools

Keyword Suggestion Tool – This tool will show you links to suggested keyword monthly search volumes and much more, so you can see what terms are searched for most on all of the search engines.

Hittail – Hittail tells you what keywords your visitors you are using to find your website from search engines. It also suggests what you should optimise your site for. It can be as easy as putting these terms in a

ir tag and they will help a lot.

Firefox Plugins

Live Page Rank – This is a plugin which will display the Google Page Rank of the page you are viewing in the bottom right hand corner.

SEO for Firefox – This will show up when you do Search Engine searches, under each search result it will show information like Page Ranking, links in DMOZ, Backlinks, Technorati links and .gov links.

Blog Tools

Everytime you post on your blog you should ping. These sites will help you get in the largest blogging directories online.

Ping o Matic
Feedshark

Pingoat

Link Submitters

digiXMAS Directory Submitter – Using Paid Mode it will add your site to hundreds of directorys automatically with you just having to choose categories and entering CAPTCHA confirmations. Paid Mode costs $15 per site but if you have many sites this price will go down. This is a valuable tool with helping gain back links and many of the top Link Submission companies use this.

Free Mode will allow you to still add your link to many directories it is just a bit more time consuming as it is not fully automatic. You will have to manually go through each directory and check the details and then press submit, whereas Paid Mode does everything for you.

Article Submitters

digiXMAS Article Submitter – This is a great tool used for submitting articles to around 1000 article directories at the same time. It will register you to the directory, it will access your email and activate the registration and will then submit the article to many, many sites.

This is semi – automatic which means you will have to input CAPTCHA fields and choose some locations where you want your article to be shown but it is very speedy with the accuracy and detail of manual submissions.

The software is free but there is a small charge of around $10 per article for submission (Which is a steal for around 1000 article directory submissions)

RSS & Blog Submission

Submit Em Now – This will submit your blog & RSS feed to over 100 directories. Great for backlink building.

Social Bookmarking

OnlyWire – This takes the URL and and the title information from the page and submits it to 18 different Social Bookmarking pages.

Social Marker – This is the same sort of site as OnlyWire but it will submit your link to a lot more sites.

Make sure you bookmark this link as I will be constantly adding new tools as I come across them. If you have any or know of any great tools to help with SEO then please feel free to leave a comment with the information on this.

You have a website and can’t figure out why it’s not showing up at the top of Google’s search rankings. You go to Google.com for some guidance but get lost trying to find answers.
Certainly, achieving visibility in Google’s search rankings can be a mystery. To help solve the riddle, USA TODAY sat down with Google’s Matt Cutts, an engineer and active blogger, who has five easy tips on how to “optimize” your site so Google (GOOG) and the rest of the world can find it.

More and more businesses are turning to the Web to find customers: $5.8 billion was spent on advertising in the first quarter alone, up 18.2% from the prior year, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Google’s share of Internet searches continues to rise as well — to a record 61.8% in May, according to measurement service ComScore Media Metrix.

If you haven’t “optimized” your site, here’s how:

1. Spotlight your search term on the page.

“Think about what people are going to type in to try and find you,” Cutts says. He tells of meeting a chiropractor from San Diego who complained that his site couldn’t be found easily using Google search. The words “San Diego chiropractor” were listed nowhere on his site. “You have to make sure the keywords are on the page,” Cutts says. If you’re a San Diego doctor, Des Moines architect or Portland ad agency, best to let people know so immediately, at the top of your page.

2. Fill in your “tags.”

When creating websites, Internet coding language includes two key tags: title and description. Even if you don’t know code, which is used to create pages, software programs such as Adobe’s Dreamweaver have tools that let you fill them in in plain English (rather than “

As like all expert web developers, the ability to time the changes Google will update your site and review the articles for improved SEO (Search Engine Optimization) results, is valuable for you. You’re welcome to the cosmos of “Google Dance”. The Google Dance is the predetermination of time, when the actual upgrade will be done.

What actually occurs is Google directs crawlers to explore the Internet, generally executed to DNS (Domain Name Servers), after crawling all of the accessible tables it starts to go through all individual web sites and updates the subject matter on Google.com. Therefore whenever you find out your rank on the Google Toolbar, you will be able to know when your general link popularity has changed.

Understanding search engine optimization and what is required to better your overall ranking. Webmasters are searching for methods to increase the odds of inferring when the next “Spidering” would begin. There are different versions and hosts that go out and crawl 1000s of servers at one time, it needs time to relay and decode this data back to the web host that Google.com draws its data from.

A few programmers have designed programs that in reality go out to the information centers themselves to check approximately at what time the last index was set out. Looking upon the data returned from the trace the precise time and day of the month are pinpointed. Is there truly that much of an advantage to executing it this fashion? It counts, if you’ve a major update that you prefer to optimize your web site, you may wish to know when the last time Google inspected your site for subject matter to maintain statistics fresh and appropriate.

There are numerous data centers that Google employs to crawl across the world. Each center has a particular area it deals and all the data is took in aggregated and given back to populate Google.com. With this several data centers the opportunities for constant indexing is excellent, but not assured.