This document provides recommendations from Steve Lock on SEO tools, social media tools, and miscellaneous tools. It outlines both paid and free tools for tasks like analytics, link analysis, keyword research, content discovery, and social media automation. It also encourages building your own tools using resources like Python, Beautiful Soup, and Google services.
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5. Recommended SEO Tools...
=> Analytics SEO analyticsseo.com
=> howgoodisyourseo.com free lead generation tool.
=> Microsoft SEO Toolkit - microsoft.com/web/seo
=> Majestic SEO majesticseo.com
=> ChangeDetection.com monitor changes on webpages.
=> RelFinder visualdataweb.org/relfinder.php
=> Xenu Link Sleuth - home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
=> SEO Tools for Excel - nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools
=> Author Crawler - tomanthony.co.uk/tools/author-crawler
=> Virante - virante.com/seo-tools/duplicate-content
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6. Recommended SEO Tools...
=> Blekko.com use as a powerful SEO research tool.
=> Tineye.com can be leveraged to reverse engineer
display ads.
=> Ubersuggest.com amazing for long tail keyword
research.
=> SEOmoz Mozbar - seomoz.org/seo-toolbar
=> Rank Checker - tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker
=> Keyword Pad - goodkeywords.com/keyword-pad
=> Merge Words mergewords.com for keyword generation.
=> Screaming Frog - screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
=> Marketing Grader - marketing.grader.com
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7. Recommended Social Tools...
=> Summify.com automated, intelligent content discovery.
=> CrowdBooster.com powerful social insights.
=> Twitterfeed.com social media automation.
=> Seesmic Ping social media syndication.
=> Rapportive mine rich social contact details in Gmail.
=> SocialMention.com awesome social mining tool.
=> Topsy.com another awesome social mining tool.
=> Sharedcount.com many social APIs in one place.
=> Buffer bufferapp.com for automated tweet scheduling.
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8. Recommended Social Tools...
=> Parse.ly get insights from content publishing.
=> PostRank.com use with Google Reader.
=> Followerwonk.com for more Twitter insights.
=> FindPeopleOnPlus.com index on Google+.
=> Formulists.com automation of Twitter lists.
=> Gist.com social CRM type functionality.
=> Export.ly mine Twitter followers.
=> MarketMeSuite.com a powerful emerging platform.
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9. Misc Tools, Tricks & Services
=> MyBlogGuest.com easy way to get guest posts.
=> BusinessWire.co.uk leave URL fields blank for links.
=> Google hacks analyticsseo.com/brightonseo
=> Pomodairo productivity and time management tool.
=> Quick Markup quick-markup.com
=> Grab Y'all Links extract links in Chrome.
=> Visual.ly build infographics effortlessly.
=> Xmarks to sync and manage bookmarks.
=> TeamLab.com free collaboration & PM tool.
=> ToutApp www1.toutapp.com
=> DuckDuckGo - higher quality link targets than Google.
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10. Build Your Own Tools!
=> Udacity.com learn how to build a search engine in
Python.
=> Beautiful Soup library for coding powerful crawlers and
scraping in Python (in only a few lines of code!).
=> Google Docs - distilled.net/blog/seo/how-to-build-agile-
seo-tools-using-google-docs
=> RSS Owl create powerful social listening tools.
=> Use Google Alerts with Google hacks for automated link
prospect generation.
=> HamletBatista.com How to get Googlebot to teach you
advanced SEO
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