05 Jun SEO tools

SEO tools

Search engine optimization should be an ongoing effort to improve your website’s organic search ranking and find new avenues to create content to expand your reach in meaningful ways. Free traffic? Who doesn’t want that?

Many people talk about SEO as if it is its own thing, siloed from their digital marketing strategy. Often we hear from new clients looking to improve their SEO when migrating websites or starting a new site altogether. The problem is, if you are just now starting to talk about SEO at these points, you have waited too long. If you are not continually monitoring your website, you are bound to make mistakes or let opportunities fall through the cracks.

SEO tools are online services, software’s and browser extensions frequently used by webmasters, SEO specialists and

agencies.

Types of SEO tools are:

Google Web Toolkit(GWT)

Backlinks Analysers

Ranking Checkers

SEO Reporting

Content Analysers

SEO Browser Extensions

Keyword Research Tools

Competitor Inspection Software

With over 1.2 billion websites, it’s a challenge to drive a decent amount of traffic from search engines. It’s almost impossible to get a good amount of web traffic without using some tools particularly if you are a beginner to SEO.

Now the question is what are the tools that you should use for SEO?

Most people do not have the time to try out all the tools and end up feeling overwhelmed by the excessive number of tools available to them.  Therefore, instead of just giving a monster list of SEO tools, Fast Forward Marketing decided to ask few SEO experts  a simple question- “What are the 3 best SEO tools that you would recommend in 2018”

Here are the answers to the question and the top SEO tools recommended by the industry experts.

The Top SEO tools based upon recommendations

#1: SEMrush – (17 recommendations)

#2: Screaming Frog – (10 recommendations)

#3: Google Search Console and Moz tied with– (9 recommendations)

#4: Ahrefs – (8 recommendations)

#5: Majestic SEO and BuzzSumo tied with- (4 recommendations)

Apart from these top 5 SEO tools, good responses have been received for the below tools also-Searchmetrics and Google Analytics.

Some of our favourite tools.