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SEO is primarily the basic engine for online business success<\/a>. It drives traffic to your website, it affects your website clickthrough rate and can determine the buying behavior of visitors to our website. But effective and result oriented SEO is not so easy. It takes time and requires proper planning and implementation. One of the most effective ways you can drive results that work for your website is to use SEO enhancement tools<\/a>. This post lists all the tool types you will ever need. It is not a complete list of available SEO tools but it contains the tools you will need to perform the needed SEO your website will require to excel.<\/div>\n
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All the SEO tools we have recommended here are free so that makes it easy and available for starters and experts. We have also categorized them to make it easy to spot the relevant tools you will need for different purposes. Here we go.<\/div>\n
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List of Categories:<\/div>\n
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  1. Keyword research tools<\/li>\n
  2. On-page SEO\u00a0tools<\/li>\n
  3. Link building\u00a0tools<\/li>\n
  4. Technical SEO\u00a0tools<\/li>\n
  5. Rank tracking tools<\/li>\n
  6. Analytics tools<\/li>\n
  7. Local SEO\u00a0tools<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Further reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    User Experience: An Important SEO Factor<\/a><\/p>\n

    Best Intelligence Tools for Market and Competitive Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    27 On-Page SEO Checklist For Top Search Engine Performance<\/a><\/p>\n

    Keyword research tools<\/h2>\n

    These tools help you discover the topics your audience is searching for.<\/p>\n

    1.\u00a0Answer The Public<\/a><\/h3>\n

    Answer the Public pulls the questions people are asking (and a few other types of queries) from Google\u2019s autocomplete results. It\u2019s super useful for generating topic\u00a0ideas.<\/p>\n

    Answer the Public is a free tool and allows you to do two searches a day for\u00a0free.<\/div>\n
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    Further reading:\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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    11 Most Important SEO Metrics For Google Ranking<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    2.\u00a0Google Keyword Planner<\/a><\/h3>\n

    Google Keyword Planner is Google\u2019s keyword research tool. Use it to generate keyword ideas based on up to ten seed keywords, or from a website or\u00a0URL. While Keyword Planner does have limitations such as a lack of absolute search volumes, it\u2019s useful for finding keyword ideas that you might struggle to find using traditional keyword research tools.<\/p>\n

    If Bing is a search engine you want to optimize for, don\u2019t forget they have their own Keyword Planner\u00a0tool.<\/div>\n

    3.\u00a0Ahrefs\u2019 Keyword Generator<\/a><\/h3>\n

    Keyword Generator is one of the free tools offered by Ahrefs. It pulls the top 100 keyword ideas for any seed keyword or phrase from their database of over ten billion keywords across 170+ countries. It shows the estimated monthly search volume\u00a0for each suggestion, plus Keyword Difficulty (KD) scores\u00a0for the first ten\u00a0ideas.<\/p>\n

    You can also see the top 50 related questions. Keyword Generator can also find keyword ideas for Bing, YouTube,\u00a0and Amazon.<\/p>\n

    4.\u00a0Google Trends<\/a><\/h3>\n

    Google Trends shows the popularity of a topic over time. Use it to catch and capitalize on trending topics, and avoid creating content about those with waning interest.<\/p>\n

    Further reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Best Content Strategies To Improve SEO And Website Ranking<\/a><\/p>\n

    5.\u00a0Keyworddit<\/a><\/h3>\n

    Keyworddit extracts keywords from Reddit. Just enter any subreddit (e.g., \/r\/bigSEO), and it\u2019ll pull a list of keywords\u00a0with estimated monthly search volumes. It\u2019s useful for finding topics that your audience are interested in, but that you may not have otherwise considered.<\/p>\n

    6.\u00a0AlsoAsked.com<\/a><\/h3>\n

    AlsoAsked.com scrapes the questions from Google\u2019s People Also Ask (PAA) boxes. Use these to find subtopics and questions that might be worth answering in your article.<\/p>\n

    7.\u00a0Keyword Surfer<\/a><\/h3>\n

    Keyword Surfer is a free Chrome Extension\u00a0that shows estimated global and monthly search volumes for any query typed into Google. You can also see similar keywords and related terms in the sidebar. This makes it easy for you to do keyword research and competitive analysis\u00a0without leaving the SERPs.<\/p>\n

    Further reading:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    10 Unwholesome Practices That Hurt Your Website Ranking<\/a><\/p>\n

    On-page SEO tools<\/h2>\n

    These tools help you optimize your pages to\u00a0rank higher in the search engines.<\/p>\n

    8.\u00a0Rank Math<\/a><\/h3>\n

    Rank Math is a\u00a0WordPr<\/a>ess<\/a> SEO<\/a> plugin<\/a>\u00a0that helps with on-page and\u00a0technical SEO.<\/p>\n

    Here are a few things it can help\u00a0with:<\/p>\n