SEO and keeping your website up-to-date and managing your backlinks is an ongoing task for any business website that you want to succeed. There are plenty of tools to help you with the job. So, let’s take a look at some of the most useful onsite SEO tools you can use right away.
Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine is a pretty neat tool that allows you to see what a website looked like at a specific date. This is a very important tool you can use to investigate changes in your website traffic when you did some changes especially if you don’t have a backup of your site.
GTMetrix
GTMetrix is a tool to check the speed at which your page loads. It can also diagnose problems and looks for ways to improve the page load speed. It is important to optimize your page load speed as it will affect your SEO ranking. There are a lot of tools available that can measure your page load speed but GTMetrix is favored by most because it has a great balance between being user friendly and thorough.
Check My Links
Check My Links is a great tool to use to check if your pages have broken links. It is a Google Chrome extension that checks broken links with just a click of the button. Now, why is it important to make sure there are no broken links in your webpages, Broken links are bad for user experience, which are penalized for poor user experience.
SemRush
SemRush is a great tool to use if you are doing keyword research. It allows you to study which keywords will best suit your site so you can build a great onsite SEO strategy. Most SEO professionals use this tool because it has great balance between domain monitoring, keyword research and crawling which you can’t find in any other tool.
KWFinder.com
KWFinder.com is another strong keyword research tool you can use. It isn’t as comprehensive as say SemRush, but it gets the job done. It does keyword research and recommendation. The good thing about KWFinder.com is its affordable pricing and ease of use.
Moz Pro
Perhaps the most comprehensive SEO tool available in the market today, Moz Pro has the most available features in any SEO tool. It does keyword research, position monitoring, site crawling and a lot more. The only drawback to this powerhouse of an SEO tool is it can be pretty overwhelming to use if you are not an SEO professional.
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