Top 8 Must have Free SEO Tools for Beginners

 

Now, is difficult finding a list of free SEO tools to optimize your online business or blog for both users and search engines.

 Tools are essential to practicing SEO and getting a better understanding of how the online industry operates, but many of these tools are very expensive which makes it hard for beginners to learn the basics of SEO. 

As a newbie, is not essential to start by purchasing a tool that costs a lot of money, though they are more advance. Is very crucial you start by utilizing the free tools when learning the basics of SEO so you don’t waste a lot of money while learning. 

Once you know what you’re searching for and what you’re doing, then you can move on to the advanced tools. For now, the free SEO tools am going to list in this blog post will get the job done for you. 

Am also going to list some advanced tools that offer free package so it will enhance your learning process

Here is a list of the top 8 free SEO tools for beginners

 

Google Analytics: This tool is even used by the topmost advanced bloggers and internet marketers to check their daily statistic and know how they can improve their SEO score. When using it as a beginner, you may be confusing at first but with continuous use, you will get to understand the tool.

Google Analytics is a website or blog analytics tool that provides statistics and basic information for search engine optimization and for marketing purposes. 

This tool is part of the Google marketing platform and it’s 100% free to use by anyone with a Google account (Gmail account).

 

Google webmaster: Every SEO expert uses this tool, so the sooner newbies get on board the better for them. This tool is also known as google search console. 

Google webmaster is a service offered by Google to help users observe, preserve, and troubleshoot their website presence in google Search results. 

This helps improve how Google sees and understands your website. So, all website owners or managers need to make use of this awesome and free-to-use tool.

 

AdWords keyword tool: When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), keywords play important role in boosting your search appearance in search engines. 

Google AdWords is an advertising platform that enables advertisers to show their ads on google's search results page, based on the keyword they are targeting. 

This tool can also be used for doing keyword research because it has almost all the features of other advanced tools since it shows the competition rate, global monthly searches, and local monthly for every keyword you attempt. Even the top SEO experts make use of these tools for their research.

Related: What are keywords and why are they important?

Open site explorer: This tool enables you to find link chances through your competitor’s backlink research. 

This awesome tool is developed by Moz and helps you to track the links leading to your competitors’ website, this tool is very crucial for off-site SEO. It’s also known as the search engine for links.

 

Yoast SEO: This is a must-use plugin for WordPress bloggers. The Yoast SEO plugin makes it easy for your website or blog to reach the peak of technical search engine optimization (SEO) Standards. It also gives you a step-by-step guide on how to optimize your content for SEO and overall readability.

Alexa Rank: This tool enables you to see the global and local rank of websites or blogs. You can download the chrome extension which makes it easy for you to text any page.

Open SEO stats: This tool was formerly known as PageRank status. This tool is more like the Alexa rank but it’s more advance since it has more features like; page info, SEO stats, site info, and links stats.

 With all the features built-in show that beginners can use this tool to find authoritative link-building opportunities because it provides full details for every page you scan with. You can also get their chrome extension.

Bing webmaster tool: Since you know google isn’t the only search engine, it means it’s also important you optimize your website for Bing even if you are a total beginner. Bing almost have the same features as that of google console but there is a slight difference but when it comes to result, they give the same result.

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Final Thought

I highly recommend you learn about each tool mentioned above. The information I give above for each tool is just an overview of it there is more information you need to learn about them.

If there is a free tool that has helped you learn SEO in the past or present that’s not listed here, please let me know.

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