8 USEFUL FREE SEO TOOLS TO BOOST YOUR BLOG TRAFFIC



Can you imagine how frustrating it would be after you just finished creating an awesome blog with lots of contents and when you're done you have to start advertising your content, which is ok but what if you just starting out and don't have enough money to spare for adverts what would you do?

How cool would it be if you discover a way you could drive a massive amount of traffic to your blog without having to spend any money “Sounds good to be true right”.

I am talking about SEO. 

Search Engine Optimization helps to enhance your ranking in the search result; SEO ensures that your blog ranks consistently on a search engine when someone types in the keyword related to your website. 

Example, if you are into the "how to make money niche" and you write an article on how to make money from a blog, when someone types that keyword “how to make money from a blog”, SEO ensures that your blog ranks top on the search engine.

No matter the type of niche you are into, SEO is important as it can drive thousands of visitors to your blog without you having to spend money. 

SEO sometimes might be tricky to understand as there are certain things that you need to put in place to get it right and in this article, we will look at some of the free SEO tools you can use.

You don’t have to start looking for SEO experts to help you rank on search engines but with the use of some free SEO tools you can do this yourself and drive traffic to your blog. 

Though these tools are free most might not give you the result you are looking for so I will be highlighting the few best SEO tools you can use that will provide a tremendous result for you.

So lets get into the good stuff

Yoast SEO

This should be the first plugin to install if you are using a WordPress website as it helps to detect if your contents are SEO friendly or not. This best part about this tool is that the free version still works perfectly well. 

With this tool, your contents can be well optimized as you can input a specific keyword you want to rank for, a snippet generator, Meta description, etc. to help your contents rank on search engines. You can use the Yoast SEO tool to know the number of people that visit your blog on a daily bases.

Detailed.com

Whatever niche you decide to blog about, there are other people that are into it and they can be called your competitors. What could be much better than having to know who your competitors are? 

Detailed.com is an SEO tool that provides you with a specific rundown of the most popular websites related to your niche. This way you will be able to see the keywords they use to rank on Google and other search engines.

Google Page Speed Tool

Have you ever tried to open a web page on a website and it took too long to load what do you do? You get tire and move unto something else. This is what happens when you have a slow blog. Your Visitors will leave so you need the Google PageSpeed Tool. 

This tool helps you track the speed of your website on both Mobile and Desktop platforms and will proffer some solutions that you can use to improve the speed of your website.

Google Analytic

You sure want to know how many visitors you get on your blog on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly basis and Google Analytics provides you with the information you need. These SEO tools help you monitor the amount of traffic you get on your blog. 

I choose this tool as it not only shows the number of visitors your blog receives but also where that traffic is coming from, the amount of time spent on your blog and so on.

Google Adword Keyword Planner

This tool which is a feature in the Google Adwords advertising network helps its users get a rundown of keywords that people are searching for and can be used on a blog post. 

Though for this tool to be made available for you to use, you will have to spend a little amount of money to run ads. If you have a particular keyword in mind that you want to rank for, you need this tool to help check the number of monthly searches that keyword gets to know if it is a competitive keyword or not. 

The cool thing about this tool is even though your keyword has a high competition; it offers you other phrases you can use with the main keyword to also rank in Google search engine.

Bulk Google Rank Checker

When it comes to organic traffic generation, the most traffic goes to websites that rank in Google search engines on the first page. This tool helps you check where you rank in Google search engine on any keyword and also allows you to spy on the keyword your competitors are using which can help you modify and improve your own keyword.

Google Search Console

The Google search console is a most useful if you want to benefit from SEO, this tool helps you monitor your website, whatever is slowing your website down and every other information about your website can be seen from this tool. 

It also shows you how your website is performing on Google. All you have to do is visit the Google search console page, sign in using your Gmail account, submit your website and follow the instructions.

Woorank

If you are a freelancer and good at SEO and looking to land an SEO job then you should get these tool. This tool is a browser extension that lets you audit random websites from your browser, this way you would be able to pick out websites that you can help improves their SEO ranking. 

All you have to do is copy the information you have gathered and send it to whoever owns the website and explain to them how you can help them out.


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