Five Great Tools to Assist You in SEO Process

Search Engine Optimization is a vast process that is used to increase the visibility on the search engines especially Google. There are two things, which work in the SEO process – (1) Knowledge of SEO expert or SEO team (2) Tools designed for SEO process. Here the SEO tools are the subject of vast consideration. They make it easier for you to accomplish the SEO process. They provide an easy way to know about the performance of your website, search the keywords and increase the visibility of your site. Here are some of the SEO tools you can consider.

1. Keyworddit (Keyword Research Tool from Reddit)

Reddit provides the reservoir of entertainment, market research and various types of advice. A subreddit can be found on everything, which creates niche communities on all the topics. Keyworddits is a free keyword research web app. It has been developed with the purpose to scrape subreddits and extract the keywords related to any topic along with the mention of their search volume.

The keywords Reddit provides you are not just based on the estimate. They are based on the comments of the users on the relevant topics. So, you get the authentic phrases searched by the users.

Searching the keyword through Reddit is very easy. All you need to do is to enter a subreddit name in the search box. You will get a list of auto-suggestion and can choose one among them, which are best suitable according to your requirement. After clicking one keyword, you get a complete list of keywords that are populated underneath.

The list you get is automatically sorted by total monthly volume in descending order (highest to lowest). The source of these volumes is GrepWords, which renders a custom API for keyword volumes.  It is supposed to be a reliable tool because most of the GrepWords volumes match closely with the volumes of Google.

Keworddit provides you the unexpected longtail keywords. This tool is helpful for you for providing random subjects in a niche, which connects you to a specific theme.

2. AnswerThePublic

AnswerThePublic is a visualization tool, which fetches and maps keyword suggestions or predictions, which you witness why you accomplish Google search. When you enter a keyword in Answer the Public, you are presented with questions, prepositions and alphabetical lists that are related to your query. It is considered as a part of the semantic search. It can be regarded as a means of search engine infographics that is on the fly. These images can be downloaded as well as used in presentation as well as reporting. The data can also be exported to a .csv file, which can be opened in a spreadsheet.

3. Open SEO Stats

Open SEO Stats is a Chrome extension that is free for all. It gives quick insights about the on-page SEO of the webpages. It is a very useful tool to allow you to identify on-page SEO elements such as Meta description, page title, Canonicals, H1’s and H2’s. With the help of this extension, you can quickly audit a webpage in an easy-to-read manner. It eliminates the requirement to scroll via the source code. 

4. Google Keyword Planner

Google Keyword Planner is the only tool, which provides keyword data directly from Google. The keyword has been prominently made for the AdWords users. It provides AdWords search volume and suggested bits and metrics on the competitiveness of the phrase. It has a handy expert feature that facilitates you to quickly get a cluster of keywords, which is further helpful for analysis and exploration. The tool also allows you to drill down into the more specific phrases. You can easily multiply your keyword list by combining a group of phrases. 

There are a number of aspects, for which this tool proves to be very helpful. First, it accomplishes high-level keyword research. Secondly, keyword grouping is very easy through this tool. Moreover, it is also possible to export keyword through Google Keyword Planner. For generating keyword ideas and estimating competition for a phrase also, Google Keyword Planner is very useful. Moreover, the search data can be discovered with the help of this tool.

5. Structured Data Testing Tool

This is again a free tool from Google. It facilitates you to test as well as to validate the structured data markup language from schema.org. You need to validate your markup by entering your JSON-LD, microdata or RDFa directly into the testing tool. You can also input a URL to have a tool to check for valid markup. The testing tool can provide you with feedback on errors along with facilitating you to analyze your markup to check for accuracy. In sum, this tool is perfect for testing structured data markup and detecting markup errors.

Summing Up

These are some of the perfect tools that can help you in the SEO process. Apart from these, there are a number of other tools you can find on the World Wide Web, which provide you a great way to increase the visibility of your website. With Google algorithm updates and the further advancements, it is hoped to get some other excellent tools in the coming time.

Guest article written by: Shubham is working with Canbayinc as SEO Analyst with 3 years of experience. He loves to write helpful information related to SEO and social media, best practices and tactics on a regular basis. He is passionate about football and loves to get some dust off his boots whenever free.