Tools
There are a ton of SEO Tools on the web here are just a few:
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is probably one of the best sites for analyzing your web traffic. It provides you with figures and graphs that give you the following information and more:
- The number of visitors and percentages for new and returning
- Which pages were viewed
- Time spent on each page
- Keywords that were used to find your site
- Which Search Engines directed traffic to your site
- Other sites that referred users.
- Location of users both country and city
- Load time of a page
- Tracks traffic from Social Media
- Shows source of traffic
organic - from search results
referal - Google related sites
paid - ads
campaigns -differentiates product promotions - Conversion rate - From clicks to sales
- Flow of traffic tracks user from page to page
- And more
- Open a Google account: http://www.google.com/accounts you do not have to open an account if you have gmail
- Go to Google Analytics to sign up
- You need to verify ownership
Google will give you javaScript that will include a number that identifies your site which you need to place on every page
- Sign-in to Google Analytics and check your stats, its as simple as that.
Social Media Analytics
A list of sites that provide analytics for social media. Most of the site charge a fee.
Web Toolkit
Google offers a Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google Wave and the new version of AdWords. It's open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world.Google
The expanded search information includes:
- Diagnose potential problems that may impact your page ranking.
- Which links from other sites link to your site
- Top search queries that direct users to your site.
- Suggestions for improving your site's HTML
- Check to see if your site has been hacked
Firefox addons
Firefox has a lot of addons that will help you with SEO, one of them is seoquake-seo-extension. this will give you a lot of information about a site which will appear in search results as shown below. If you go to a page the same results will appear at the top of your browser.
Webmaster Tools
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools you need Google login and you also need to verify your site
Speed
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.htmlOther Web Analytics Sites
Both Alexa and Semrush provide free web analytics. All you need to do is go to either of their sites and type in the url for the page that you want to have analyzed. Both of these sites give some information that compares your rank and that of your competitors. Semrush allows limited views of the information after you have viewed a number of times you need to join and pay a fee.
Other Web Tools by Search Engines