Keyword analysis

is the starting point of search engine optimization.Despite the benefits, most search marketers don’t spend nearly enough time on keyword analysis because it’s time-consuming and repetitive.

Though there are innumerable such tools out in the market, i will list out the best & Absolutely Free tools here:

• Alexa : Free web traffic metrics, top sites lists, site demographics, hot urls, website comparisons,web directory, Page ranks, ratings & much more.

• Domain Age tool : This tool tells you the approximate age of the website.

• Check Google Pagerank : Without installing the google toolbar. How Cool is that?

• Google Adwords : I absolutely recommend this tool to check keyword popularity & to get new keyword ideas. One can generate keyword ideas from descriptive words / phrases or website content.

• Keyword Density Checker : Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site’s theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage

• Search Status : For every site you visit using, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

• Keyword Cloud : Another Keyword Density Checker.

• Related keywords lookup tool : The goRank ontology lookup tool checks the top 1000 Google results for your keywords by running a related word query.

• Link Popularity Checker : Tells you how many websites are linking to yours. Website popularity is an important factor in your search engine ranking. The more popular your site is, the better it will be ranked on the search engines.

• Link Value & Link Price Calculator : The linkprice calculator reckons the link value per month of a entered website. This link value is calculated from many search engines important factors.

• Link Analysis of External & Internal Links : The link analysis displays all internal and external links of a website with the corresponding anchor texts in a summary table.

• Meta Tags Generator : Create your sites meta tags instantly to help achieve higher search engine ranking. Includes title tag, description, abstract, keyword, and robot meta tags.

• Sitemap Generator : Having a sitemap is the utmost important thing while optimizing the site. The sitemap is generated in HTML format, Text Format as well as Un-compressed XML format.

• Cloacking Detector : The cloaking detector simulates the Googlebot based on User-Agent to detect cloaked content., So you can detect websites on which the content presented to the web crawler is different from that presented to the user.

• What is Hosted on that IP : This tool lets you view the virtual hosts on a particular IP.

• Keyword verification Tool : verification tool checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword. One tool you must keep handy while ranking your keywords.

• SpiderView : With the spiderview simulator you can see all the information a search engine spider receives from a website. Definetly worth a visit as it changes your perspective on what keywords to highlight so that the bots discover it.

• SEO TOOL SET : Search Engine Optimization tools, Most of them under one roof.

• URL Rewriting Tool : Static URLs are known to be better than Dynamic URLs because of a number of reasons. This tool helps you convert Dynamic looking URL’s into Static looking URL.

Also read,

• Do a Self Keyword Analysis
• 12 Absolutely Free Keyword Suggestion tools, Keyword Popularity tools
• 21 Free Keyword Density Analyzer tools to optimize your website