Top 10 Pre­mium SEO Tools For You To Try Ab­solutely Free

There are a num­ber of SEO tools avail­able for you out there. Those tools typ­i­cally au­to­mate time con­sum­ing SEO re­search and mon­i­tor­ing tasks for you.

While each tool has its own fea­ture set, here are some of the fea­tures you’ll find in many of them:

  • They’ll an­a­lyze your page con­tent for spe­cific key­words, and give you tips how to im­prove your search rank­ing for the given keyword.
  • They’ll mon­i­tor your rank­ings for your most im­por­tant key­words. You’ll see which key­words you’re rank­ing high for, and you’ll see rank­ing changes.
    Pay at­ten­tion how many key­words are al­lowed at spe­cific price points, you’ll find great dif­fer­ences be­tween some of the SEO tools below.
  • They’ll show you who is link­ing back to your site (in­bound links), in­clud­ing im­por­tant in­for­ma­tion like an­chor text of links, site au­thor­ity, and more.
  • They’ll help you to find back link opportunities.
  • Some track men­tions of your brand key­words on other web sites and so­cial me­dia sites.
  • Some help you to man­age your SEO projects, in­clud­ing man­ag­ing cus­tomer projects for SEO agen­cies and consultants.
  • You’ll be able to ex­port re­sults into PDF, csv or Ex­cel re­ports, some brand­able, some not.

If you are look­ing for the best SEO tools that you can try for free, here’s a list of the 10 pre­mium SEO tools that you can check out at no cost!

Top Ten Pre­mium SEO Tools You Try Free: 

1. SEO Profiler

SEO Pro­filer has one of the most com­plete fea­ture sets, in­clud­ing a high num­ber of key­words (twice as much as Tool #2 be­low) even in the cheap­est plan. Their fea­tures include

  • rank mon­i­tor­ing,
  • site au­dits and op­ti­miza­tion tips,
  • link build­ing tools,
  • an­a­lyz­ing com­pet­ing web sites,
  • brand­able reports.

They have a lim­ited trial that’s com­pletely free, and a full trial for just $1. Paid plans start at $49.

SEO Pro­filer

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2. SEO­moz

SEO­moz has a 30 day free trial of­fer with com­plete ac­cess to their SEO tool-set. Af­ter their free trial ends, plan starts at $99 a month. Do not miss their for mem­bers-only re­sources. Af­ter go­ing to your Pro Dash­board, sim­ply scroll down to see their PRO re­sources that in­cludes dis­counts for mem­bers, we­bi­nars and a list of their top di­rec­to­ries where you can sub­mit your website.

SEO­moz is also known for hav­ing one of the most com­plete fea­ture sets among SEO tools, and for a Q&A fo­rum where lots of pro­fes­sion­als (and a few ‘not so pro­fes­sion­als’) are ready to an­swer your ques­tions. Plans start at $99, twice as much as SEO pro­filer, but the fo­rum might be worth the ex­tra cost.

seomoz

3. Raven Tools

Raven Tools has a 30 day free trial of­fer for their in­ter­net mar­ket­ing tool-set. Af­ter their trial, plans start at $99 per month. This will cover un­lim­ited web­sites and projects. They are known es­pe­cially for their link man­age­ment tools.

How­ever, they of­fer sev­eral other tools as well. These will help you with al­most every­thing in your in­ter­net mar­ket­ing campaign.

One fea­ture that makes them stand out from most oth­ers on this page is man­age­ment of PPC campaigns.

screenshot raventools

4. Au­thor­ity Labs

Au­thor­ity Labs al­lows you to keep a track of your key­word rank­ing across mul­ti­ple do­mains. Com­pared to the tools above the fea­ture set is limited.

This tool of­fers a 30 day free trial pe­riod, no credit card re­quired. Af­ter the free trial, plans start at $49 per month. This al­lows mon­i­tor­ing of 250 key­words over 50 domains.

screenshot authoritylabs

5. Whoosh­Traf­fic

Whoosh Traf­fic is a key­word rank­ing mon­i­tor­ing tool. It of­fers a 30 day free trial. Af­ter the free trial, pric­ing from $49 for 300 key­words mon­i­tor­ing in un­lim­ited do­mains. More­over, you will re­ceive un­lim­ited email alerts telling you about your rankings.

In ad­di­tion to their key­words mon­i­tor­ing tool, they of­fer other SEO tools within beta.

screenshot whooshtraffic

6. Web­MeUp

Web­MeUp is a spe­cial­ized SEO dash­board tool cur­rently in beta. It comes as a 15 day free trial, af­ter which plans start at $19.95 per month. While this is in­cred­i­bly cheap, the cheap­est plan is lim­ited to 1 do­main and only 50 keywords.

The Web­MeUp tools al­low you to check traf­fic, search so­cial met­rics for your site along with other competitors.

screenshot webmeup

7. Cog­ni­tiveSEO

Cog­ni­tiveSEO of­fers a 14 day free trial pe­riod for their link analy­sis tool-set. Af­ter their trial ends, pric­ing be­gins at $19 per month. This tool is great for both small busi­nesses and blog­gers alike. They’ll in­clude some unique fea­tures like clas­si­fy­ing links and web­sites into groups, for ex­am­ple fo­rums, blogs, press re­lease etc.

They’ll also of­fer To-do list man­age­ment and Cam­paign man­age­ment for agencies.

screenshot cognitiveseo

8. SEM­rush

SEM­rush is a key­word or PPC re­search tool which does not nor­mally come as a free trial. How­ever, if you click on be­gin your free trial op­tion, you can re­ceive a 14 day free trial for their tools. Af­ter this of­fer ends, you can sub­scribe at $79.95 per month. This tool is great for con­tent research.

One fea­ture you won’t find in the other tools here is spy­ing on com­peti­tor’s ads.

screenshot semrush

9. Link Prospector

Link Prospec­tor is one of the most pow­er­ful dis­cov­ery tools for build­ing link op­por­tu­ni­ties. The free trial is a sin­gle free credit. You could use it for dis­cov­ery re­ports of your choice. Also, you can uti­lize this tool to lo­cate var­i­ous types of links, rang­ing from top­i­cal blogs to directories.

This tool is very dif­fer­ent form the other tools on this page. It won’t re­place any of them, but in­stead of­fers a unique ap­proach to find­ing back link opportunities.

screenshot linkprospector

10. Ma­jes­tic­SEO

Ma­jes­tic­SEO is great for ba­sic func­tion­al­ity. It is a link re­search tool. This tool of­fers a free ac­count that’ll al­low you to run a de­tailed re­port on your own web­site. It’s well known for its back link re­search tool site ex­plorer, but it of­fers lim­ited ac­cess to other tools.

screenshot majesticseo

Re­mem­ber, if you do not do SEO work for a liv­ing and want to carry out some im­por­tant search mar­ket­ing work for your web­site, you are in luck with the above cheap and free tools! Give them a try, and later de­cide on the one that’ll give you the best value long term.

Or you could sign up for one tool per month, and thus get con­ti­nous in­for­ma­tion on your sites for a full year for free while learn­ing the ins and outs of search en­gine optimization.