5 Tools to Preform A SEO Audit For Your Website

Being fairly new to SEO but learning quickly, I wanted to find some tools that would be good in helping me become better at it, but also easy to use yet had some value. I came across 5 great ones that I am finding really helpful in my daily work.

Open Site Explorer

I have to say I learned some pretty impressive stuff here. They say more is better, and although Linkscape is pretty impressive with its 3000 link report OSE will give 10,000 links in a flash, albeit you have to be a member first though to enjoy this perk. One thing I can’t stand is wasting time, so if all my hard work in link building is going nowhere then I want to know now and it looks like this is the site to tell me.

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Best Tools for Brainstorming Content Ideas

This is a guest blog by Loren Baker, the SVP of Online PR at BlueGlass Interactive, a full service online marketing agency, and is a professional blogger & creator of Search Engine Journal, an AdAge Top 10 ranked marketing blog.

One of the most important things you will do as a blogger is create content. The more content you have, the more opportunities you have to be seen by the search engines and by your readers. That will give you a base flow of traffic. The more base traffic you have, the more likely it is that you will get links to your site. The more links you have, the better you will rank on the search engines. Starting and maintaining this continuous cycle is one of the most effective ways that you can improve your site’s success. Whether you are an established blogger, or planning a new blog, generating ideas for that content can be pretty difficult, however. There are some great free tools that will help you come up with things to say.

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