Top 5 Best 2016 SEO Tools You Should Be Using

August 19, 2016 2:54 pm // Author: David Moceri

Alright! 90 is just a lot of SEO Tools and we all have different tactics and strategies but I believe most of us are using the similar tools to optimize our website, but only with a different approach.

Below we have the Top 5 handpicked SEO Tools starting from 5^th to top #1. Let’s begin!

SEO TOOL #5: SPYFU

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Here’s what you need to know about this one:

Uses: SpyFu is highly useful for two important reasons.
1. Understanding your competition’s SEO platform.
2. Discovering under-served, un-tapped, or emerging markets.
Features: SpyFu also has several modules.

Compare Websites module
Keyword History module
Domain History module
Related Keywords module
Limitations: This program doesn’t have the depth of keywords that some competitors do, although this is changing. Also, the data for SpyFu is monthly, rather than real-time.

SpyFu is a solid SEO product.

It’s useful if you want to check up on the competition as well as find new areas in which to market.

Via – Best Keyword Research Tools For SEO: 2016 Edition

SEO TOOL #4: LONG TAIL PRO

For more than five years, nearly 100,000 marketers and search engine optimization professionals have been relying on Long Tail Pro for their keyword research and competitor analysis needs.

There are many ways to use Long Tail Pro, but let’s focus on the competitor analysis for the time being.

If you aren’t at the top of the rankings for your targeted keywords, it may be because your competitors have more high quality backlinks. This is where Long Tail Pro can help.

But doesn’t it take a lot of time to analyze the competition? It used to, but not any longer. There are many tools, including this one, for analyzing the competition in relation to each of your keywords.

Long Tail Pro helps you uncover important data, such as:

Keyword usage in the title tags.
Moz rank.
Domain and page authority.
Domain age.
Pagerank.
Number of backlinks.

A quick search for your top keywords will show you how you stack up against the competition. This may play a big part in helping you generate a more targeted strategy in the future, such as one that sees you securing more backlinks than your top competitors.

There are other features of the tool that enhance your link building and SEO experience: option to add notes, rank checker, real-time filtering, keyword research, and more.

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Via – Build Links Like The Pros: 13 SEO Tools That’ll Skyrocket Your Rankings

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SEO TOOL #3: MOZ

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Moz is a suite of user-friendly inbound marketing tools:

Open Site Explorer is a backlink analysis tool with helpful metrics approximating link equity.
Followerwonk shows data on Twitter.
Moz Local (formerly Get Listed) lets you see the state of a company’s local citations and is the first place you should go when you first start local SEO on a site.
Mozbar is a browser toolbar that lets you quickly get at Moz’s key features for the page you’re on.
The SERP Overlay (seen on the right) is part of the Mozbar and shows OSE metrics on individual search results.

Via – My 15 Favorite Free SEO Tools

SEO TOOL #2: GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOLS + BING WEBMASTER TOOLS

Constant website analysis, alerts, and error reports

These webmaster tools help give you a taste of what the two top search engines think of your site. It’s helpful to see any bugs, alerts, and indexing issues.

Pro tip: Each of these two tools requires a bit of installation on your site. If you’ve got a WordPress website, you can add the webmaster code automatically through a plugin like Jetpack or Yoast.

Via – 24 Simple and Free SEO Tools to Instantly Improve Your Marketing

Also Read: Grow Your Business with Search Engine Marketing

SEO TOOL #1: SEMRUSH

SEMrush is a freemium SEO tool which allows you to find competitive information like the keywords your competitors are ranking for, where they are building backlinks and what you can do to surpass them.

SEMrush can also help you for site audit and PPC bid suggestions. It’s a very handy and must have SEO tool.

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Via – 13 Best SEO Tools For 2016 You Should Be Using

FINAL THOUGHTS

This list may not be in your top 5 best SEO tools but these worked best on mine. Maybe we have a few in common. Like I said, different tools, different strategies and approach but it might end up with a similar result.

If there’s something best of the best tools there is, I’m sure that is our skill in handling an effective SEO strategy to rank on top of the search engines.

Good luck!