The Best SEO Tools for Beginners

This is one of my favorite topics to talked about because if you wanted to learn Search Engine Optimization for your career. You need to learn the needed SEO tools in order to be organized and to deliver accurate results. I am excited to share the tools i utilized in my starting career. Just to set proper expectation, there are a lot of SEO tools whether paid or free. This post is intended for individuals who have zero knowledge to limited ideas to Search engine Optimization. Let’s start!

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SCREAMING FROG

This is a very great web crawler for up to 500 pages. It analyze and gather data in a very easy columns to help you determined seo issues that needed improvements. You can download it for free! However if your website has more than 500 pages such as big ecommerce site, the paid version is recommended to start crawling 500+ pages and unlocked advanced features like javascript rendering,custom extraction, spelling and grammar errors and many more starting at 259 usd/annually. The Free version is still very cool to use and will really recommend it to try.  

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Google Search Console

This tool is very helpful to check page indexability, crawlability, helps you check your website’s performance, you can submit your website’s sitemap to help your brand to appear on the google search engine results page (SERPS), and many more! Verify your that you are the website’s owner and you can now gather data to interpret the results of key performance indicators like Click through rate and impressions.

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WordPress

Do you know you can create a free website in WordPress? the only downside of it is that it’s a random generated URL that you cannot customized. Almost everyone is using wordpress due to its features and beautiful themes to help catch the attention of your potential customers or visitors to visit your brand. I am personally using Astra theme and Elementor to easily build this portfolio website. I am happy with it’s features though it may take some time to get it, it will be worthit!  

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Ubersuggest

I really like this tool because of it’s free keyword research though limited but will give you an accurate results! You can track backlinks and the best practices of your competitors like what’s their ranking keyword? What are their backlinks? How’s their content quality? You can create an account and avail its 7 day free trial and get your website audited to learn how to improve your online organic traffic. 

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Google Analytics 4

This is also a free tool to help you check your organic traffic, landing pages, demographics, and many more! I am so amazed with this tool as this will help you know which pages are commonly visited by visitors and can have an idea which pages need improvements.

Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO

This tool Yoast SEO has many different features that help you set up your site to help search engines like Google understand your website better. It will optimize your content and pages so people will actually be able to find them when searching for them!

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SEMRUSH

Semrush is an all-in-one suite for online visibility and discovering insights. It also has a free plan in which you can use for your website audit. The premium version can help you analyze competitor’s links and keyword, PPC, SMM, Keyword research, and campaigns.

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AHREFS

It is also an all-in-one seo tool which are commonly used by marketing professionals like seo and sem. It can crawl, perform audit, keyword research, stores data in a very simple and user-friendly interface. 

Key Takeaways:

There are still tons of seo tools and softwares to mention. Keep in mind that some people may recommend some tools that might fit to your liking or uncomfortable to use. I believe with hardwork and dedication, everything can be learn! Never stop learning.  

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