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We all know the importance of SEO for any website. SEO<\/a><\/strong> helps gather more increased traffic towards your site, and it is an organic way you can utilize to get an attractive position in search engines. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>You can obtain data reports about your website’s status and success using SEO tools.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this post, we will explain many free SEO tools you can utilize to examine your website and work according to it. Before giving you the tools, we would like to explain what SEO tool is and why they are useful to us.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is SEO Tool?<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n

SEO tools are there to help you analyze your website to find out your strong and weak areas. They can give you a detailed report suggesting the areas you need to work on appearing in SERP and gathering traffic to your site.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They can even suggest to you how your competitors are performing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What are the uses of SEO Tools<\/span><\/b>?<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are a number of free and paid tools<\/a> present in the market. Each SEO tool has a specific function to perform. They can help you in a complete analysis of your site, keyword research, links, On-page and Off-page SEO, research, rank checking, site speed, WordPress SEO, and much more.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These can help you save time and money from manual SEO audits and provide you with better and faster results. They can help you create a strong SEO Plan for your website, and you can get a better analysis of your and your competitor’s site. You can find out how they are performing, what strategies they are following to get a better result, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, without any further delay, let us give you the list of free SEO Tools you can Utilize for a better result.<\/span><\/p>\n

23\u00a0Best Free SEO Tools<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n

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1. The Yoast SEO Plugin<\/h4>\n

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The plugin makes it very comfortable to optimize your WordPress site.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can easily install and use Yoast SEO Plugin on your site if you run it on WordPress. Its best part is it’s free to use.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Yoast plugin, you can improve, modify and optimize your content differently. It gives you three Different tabs, namely- SEO, Readability, and social, in which it gives you scores and suggests the areas to work on. <\/span><\/p>\n

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You can set meta descriptions, titles, and URLs for your content using Yoast. You can also generate an XML Sitemap.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Google Search Console<\/h4>\n

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GSC is a free tool provided by Google. It was earlier known as the Google Webmasters tool.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can use this to determine how Google crawls and index your website.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Probably, there will be no list of free SEO tools that can complete without the Google Search Console.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It helps developers and website owners observe, maintain, and troubleshoot their websites in search results. Additionally, you can analyze your website’s performance and search traffic using GSC.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Google Analytics<\/h4>\n

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Analyzing websites is made easier with Google Analytics, a service provided by Google. It can help website owners track and analyze their website performance and how visitors interact with their site.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using it, you can analyze the traffic on your site, where it is coming from, your site’s bounce rate, visitors on your site, and time spent on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using Google Analytics<\/a><\/strong>, you can better know your audience, manage ads, set goals, and more. You can find out whether your efforts are fruitful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although it is enough on its own, it can help you get much better results if combined with the Google search console.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can determine the keywords people use to locate your website, the CTR on those keywords, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. The Mobile-Friendly Test<\/h4>\n

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Google offers a Mobile-friendly test tool<\/a> to check whether your website is mobile-friendly. Your site needs to pass the mobile-friendly test to be considered SEO optimized.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is an SEO ranking factor<\/a><\/strong> set by google. <\/span>If your page isn’t mobile-friendly, it will give you specific areas to address.<\/span><\/p>\n

You don’t need to do anything much to make your site mobile-friendly. You only need to run your site through the test, and it will give you a green signal if you pass it or a red signal if you fail. Moreover, it will suggest the areas you need to address.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Answer The Public<\/h4>\n

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It is a free keyword tool that picturizes the questions asked in searches and the autocompleted suggested searches in an image.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can get keywords from it within a short time.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Generally, other SEO tools gather their data using google keyword planner. On the other hand, Answer The Public organizes the questions asked in blogs, social media, and forums into great keywords.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It categorizes the keywords in how, when, why, can, what, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Woorank’s SEO & Website Analysis Tool<\/h4>\n

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With this tool, you can get a list of SEO improvement areas within seconds. It is a very convenient chrome extension.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, it gives you the overall SEO score of your website, and then it suggests how you can improve your site’s SEO<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It gives you the details of your website’s performance, your weak areas, and how you can fix it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With Woorank, you can keep track of what is affecting your website’s SEO.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Animalz Revive<\/h4>\n

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This tool can help you improve and update the old content of your site.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Without this, you need to manually find out the older content on your site, due to which you are losing your traffic which is a big mess.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Animalz Revive makes this very convenient for you. It provides you with a list of older posts that needs your attention for an update.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This works in three steps:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n