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Let’s face it, we all want higher rankings for our targeted keywords. So here are 5 Free SEO Tools you can use to help you achieve those rankings…

5 Free Must Have SEO Tools

Unless you go the PPC route and pay for your traffic, SEO or Search Engine Optimization will play a major role in the success or failure of your website. Therefore, it’s in your best interest as a webmaster to learn everything you can about SEO and use the right SEO tools to achieve an advantage over your competition.

Needless to say, SEO or getting high rankings for your keywords is extremely competitive, especially for popular lucrative keyword phrases which bring in the big bucks. You must be at the top of your game if you want to compete.

One important factor in winning the SEO battle is using the right SEO software or tools. Major online companies use expensive software, hire SEO firms and have whole departments devoted entirely to search engine marketing – so you know your work is cut out for you.

You’re probably asking yourself how can the little guy compete against such stiff competition? Well, it is not as difficult as you might think or believe. For starters, you can use some simple SEO tools which will help give you a slight advantage if you use them properly.

Surprisingly, all of these SEO tools are free and any webmaster can take advantage of them in their ongoing SEO endeavors. I believe all webmasters must learn and master SEO in order to succeed online or get someone else to do it for them.

Over the years I have built up a passable knowledge of SEO due mainly from running 9 or 10 sites and working as a full-time online affiliate marketer. My livelihood depends on me achieving high rankings for my lucrative keywords in the search engines, mainly in Google. Also the daily running of two websites on Internet Marketing Tools has played a small part as well!

Along the way I have used countless SEO tactics and tools to try to increase my keyword rankings. Here’s a short list of my most helpful Free SEO tools that I use on a daily basis in the running of my websites:

1. SEO Book Keyword Research Tool

http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

This tells how many searches are made each day for my targeted keywords. Invaluable information to have for Search Engine Marketing and for choosing your keywords. Most experts suggest you go for the mid to low range keywords if you’re just starting out and targeting long tail keywords (three or four words) yields the best returns.

2. Detecting Online Commercial Intention

http://adlab.msn.com/Online-Commercial-Intention/Default.aspx

This MSN tool tells me the probability (percentage) someone clicking my chosen keywords is likely to buy. Another great tool for picking keywords if you’re trying to earn revenue from your sites. Higher the percentage, the more likely you will make a sale or earn revenue.

3. SeoQuake for Mozilla Firefox

http://www.seoquake.com

This is an addon for Firefox and gives you invaluable SEO information on any site you’re viewing. All the important info is here: Google PageRank, Number of Links, Traffic Rank, Whois, Keyword Density, NoFollow links… used in conjunction with Firefox this tool will prove invaluable.

4. Google Alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts

This is a great SEO tool if you use it to track and build your links. Just create Google Alerts for all your major keyword phrases and Google will keep you updated on current links being formed/indexed on your keywords. Also great for tracking articles, urls, competitors… and staying up-to-date in your niche.

5. WordPress

http://www.wordpress.com

This free blogging software lets you place very SEO friendly blogs on your sites. Social media, blogging, tags, RSS feeds… are becoming increasingly important for online success so you must get your sites into this whole mix in order to compete. WordPress is a valuable SEO tool for improving your keyword rankings. Blogger and Bloglines are other blogging alternatives you can use.

I use many more SEO tools but these are the top five. Try some of these handy tools and see if they can improve your own keyword rankings like they did mine. No harm in trying and you may be pleasantly surprised at the results.