Posts About ‘Tools’

8 Free Technical SEO Tools

It’s Tools Week here on State of Search and as such we’re celebrating all those great, informative and handy tools that help make the technical and analytical aspects of our roles that little bit smoother and quicker. Whilst we have a number of posts planned on the bigger premium tool suites; plus a tonne on the link tools I thought it might be handy to collate a list of disparate free technical SEO tools that help us solve problems and answer questions. I recently posted here about handy Chrome Extensions for SEO, so in this post I thought I’d focus more on web (plus a little software.) (more…)

What Tools were We Using (And what are we?)

People tend to make choices based on their surroundings. And many business decisions are made based on what the competition does. So people look at what others are using for tools as well. In 2011 Searchenginejournal did a ”SEO Software Survey” in which they looked at what others are using. You can see the results in the infographic below.

However, we want to know what you are using now! Help us find out by filling in this survey and help us get a great overview of the State of the Tools! (more…)

Tools News Update: Updates, changes and additions to different SEO Tools

With the Tools Week now under way we thought it would be a nice idea to do a quick round up on some of the news around several tools in SEO in the last few months. Find below an overview of news from amongst others Majestic SEO, Linkdex, Linkresearchtools, Raventools, Searchmetrics, Ahrefs and Cognitive SEO.

Let’s get started! (more…)

11 Technical SEO Tools you Should be Using

As an SEO, I use a wide range of tools to help me with my job. There are loads of tools out there and being honest, I often forget about some of the ones I have available to me. Today I wanted to show you the contents of my bookmarks when it comes to technical SEO. I’ll talk about the tool itself and highlight some SEO tasks that it can help with.

I will be talking about XML Sitemap Validator, Bulk HTTP header response checker, W3C Internationalization Checker, Web Page Speed Test, SEO Toolkit for IIS, Built With, Schema Creator, Reverse IP lookup, Spy on Web, Check Websites on same IP C Class and Screaming Frog. (more…)

6 Great Project Management Tools for Improving Agency Efficiency

This post is part of the State of Search Tools Week in which we will be taking an extensive look at Tools in SEO, with posts, demo’s and more.

Background

Over the last two years we’ve tried and tested a stupid amount of different project management tools, both for the design / development side of the business and for our online marketing team. We’ve found that because of the differences in the way that the two departments work (sprints, phased projects and support work vs retainers and consultancy), it’s very difficult to find one tool that fits all. We’ve also found that more technical members of the team respond better to different options. So, having learnt a lot about the features that have helped us to improve our efficiency, I thought I’d write a blog post with my findings.

I’m sure some people will think that trying these tools was a waste of time, however we’ve found that using more advanced tools (that are highly customisable) to improve our processes has helped us to significantly improve our efficiency and output (which ultimately saves us money). (more…)

What is the State of the Tools? Tell us!

Next week Tools Week starts on State of Search. We will be looking at all sorts of different aspects of tools and we will be looking at specific tools as well.

But we’d also like to know how you think about tools. And to do that we created a survey which will help us understand the “State of the Tools” in SEO. By answering the questions in the survey we will be able to get a nice overview of what the state is, how are ‘we’ using tools and what we want in tools.

Answer this survey (will take you probably about 15 minutes) and we will write you a great overview of what the State of Tools looks like!

Answer the survey below. And spread the word! (more…)

Majestic SEO now Supports 9 Languages

Majestic SEO is now available in 9 Languages:

French,
German,
Italian,
Chinese,
Russian,
Polish,
Brazilian Portuguese,
Spanish…
and English

” Developing and maintaining a site if this scale in multiple languages has been an interesting challenge. The first challenge was to rebuild our site architecture to be able to handle language files. We develop too fast to be able to translate every upgrade into 9 languages, so you need to be able to launch nimbly but handle language files independently. Just getting that right was hard.

Next comes a process. Every time we add or change the site, translation files (we call the delta files) build up with anomalies of English fields/words that have changed since we last upgraded the language files. We can then put delta files into the translation process and make this independent if the function development cycle.

It’s quite a process.” – Dixon Jones – Majestic SEO

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Tools Week on State of Search

After the enormous succes of the event week here on State of Search the next themed week is already getting close. Next week, in the first week of March, State of Search will host a week completely dedicated to a topic which is close to many of our readers: SEO Tools.

We will be taking an extensive look at tools and SEO and will be showcasing some tools as well. This week is meant to get you informed on everything around tools: which tools are there, what are others using, what do you need in a tool and which tool to choose and where possible how-to’s. And we will be hosting some very special hangouts where tools will demo the best of what they got! (more…)

Majestic Announce Fresh Index increased by 90 Days

Exciting News today from the Majestic SEO camp in that they have been working hard to increase the Fresh Index Data.

Previously 45 days, you can now see Fresh Index data from the last 90 Days which means that you can report quarterly link data.

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The Top 30 WordPress Plugins

There is no denying it, where ten years ago a “CMS” was still relatively new for some, now WordPress is becoming the standard for CMS-es. You can even hardly call it a CMS anymore. It’s a platform. And it’s open source. Which makes there are many, many plugins being written for it every day. And people are using them. Jeff Bullas decided to create an overview of the thirty most downloaded WordPress plugins. Top downloaded one is an SEO plugin, All in One SEO Pack. Yoast’s SEO plugin is on spot 13. (more…)

A Look Inside Searchmetrics’ thoughts and ideas

Today in London the UK Searchconference takes place. It is a gathering of winners and judges from the UK Searchawards. One of the winners was Searchmetrics, they won the best tool of 2012 award. Founder of Searchmetrics Marcus Tober came in to talk about their tool and the thoughts behind it. An insightful talk which gave some insights into how Searchmetrics think.

Searchmetrics was already founded in 2007. One of the important things for Searchmetrics is that they have a scalable technology. As like many successful tools they have a strong partner network. (more…)

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