My top tools for checking website SEO performance. These tools allow you to look at your site and your competition to see how well their SEO is. I’ve put together a list of my favorite SEO tools that I have found work really well for me. Some are free and some are not. Take a look at these and see which ones you feel give you the best data. Each tool has its own strengths and weaknesses.

1. B Y : WA B A S H C O N C E P T S . C O M
TOP 5 BEST SEO
PERFORMANCE TOOLS

2. INTRODUCTION
• There are a ton of great SEO tools out there to use.
• These tools allow you to look at your site and your
competition to see how well their SEO is.
• I’ve put together a list of my favorite SEO tools that I
have found work really well for me.
• Some are free and some are not.
• Take a look at these and see which ones you feel
give you the best data.
• Each tool has its own strengths and weaknesses.

3. WOORANK.COM
• Woorank is a free to
try SEO performance
evaluator. You simply
plug in the site you
want to check and it
will run a test with
actionable items. The
output from this tool is
really clean and easy
to read.

4. WOORANK SEO FEATURES
• Traffic estimation
• Traffic rank
• Checks local directories
(eg Google Places,
Foursquare, Yelp)
• Social Sharing via
Facebook, Google+,
Twitter
• Mobile rendering and load
time
• XML site map check
• Robots.txt check
• Google Preview
• Title check
• Keywords
• Headings
• Images
• Backlink counter
• Pagerank
• Indexed pages
• Domain registration length
• Usability checks

5. AHREFS
• Ahrefs uses a
powerful indexing
service to give you
SEO reports on your
site. You need to
register with the site
to get the most out of
Ahrefs. The site does
a good job of
generating some
details site indexing
info.

6. AHREFS SEO FEATURES
• Crawls entire site to give index information on
pages
• Pulls title tags and meta data
• Full report on each page with page size and word
count
• Mentions tracker
• Site comparison tool

7. OPEN SITE EXPLORER
• Open Site Explorer is
a powerful SEO tool
by Moz. To get the
most out of the tool
you need to pay for
the upgraded
features. There are a
lot of nice features in
the free version that
crawls your site for
SEO details.

8. OPEN SITE EXPLORER SEO FEATURES
• Domain Authority
• Page Authority
• Social Media Metrics
• Inbound links
• Top pages
• Linking domains

9. BROWSEO
• BrowSEO is a unique
online SEO site crawler.
BrowSEO brings your site
up much like a web
browser would and
displays the page’s SEO
details in the side bar.
You can simply navigate
your site and each pages
SEO details are shown.
This helps view
consistency across your
whole site and how
search engines see your
site.

10. BROWSEO SEO FEATURES
• Internal Links
• External Links
• NoFollow Links
• HEAD details
• SERP Preview
• H1, H2, H3 headings

11. SCREAMING FROG SEO SPIDER
• Screaming Frog is an
incredibly powerful SEO
tool. Screaming Frog is a
small program you install
on your computer to
check sites for SEO issues.
What is really nice about
Screaming Frog is that all
of its features work for
free up to 500 pages. It
gives you a ton of data to
look at to really get a
good look at your site’s
details.

12. SCREAMING FROG SEO SPIDER SEO
FEATURES
• Errors – Client & server errors (No responses, 4XX, 5XX)
• Redirects – (3XX, permanent or temporary)
• External Links – All followed links and their subsequent
status codes
• URI Issues – Non ASCII characters, underscores,
uppercase characters, dynamic uris, long over 115
characters
• Duplicate Pages – Hash value / MD5checksums
lookup for pages with duplicate content
• Page Title – Missing, duplicate, over 65 characters,
short, same as h1, or multiple
• Meta Description – Missing, duplicate, over 156
characters, short, or multiple
• Meta Keywords – Mainly for reference as it’s only
(barely) used by Yahoo.
• H1 – Missing, duplicate, over 70 characters, multiple
• H2 – Missing, duplicate, over 70 characters, multiple
• Meta Robots – Index, noindex, follow, nofollow,
noarchive, nosnippet, noodp, noydir etc
• Meta Refresh – Including target page and time delay
• Canonical link element & canonical HTTP headers
• X-Robots-Tag
• rel=“next” and rel=“prev”
• File Size
• Page Depth Level
• Inlinks – All pages linking to a URI
• Outlinks – All pages a URI links out to
• Anchor Text – All link text. Alt text from images with
links
• Follow & Nofollow – At link level (true/false)
• Images – All URIs with the image link & all images from
a given page. Images over 100kb, missing alt text, alt
text over 100 characters
• User-Agent Switcher – Crawl as Googlebot, Bingbot,
or Yahoo! Slurp
• Custom Source Code Search – The spider allows you
to find anything you want in the source code of a
website! Whether that’s analytics code, specific text,
or code etc. (Please note – This is not a data
extraction or scraping feature yet.)
• XML Sitemap Generator – You can create a basic
XML sitemap using the SEO spider

13. CONCLUSION
• There are a lot of great SEO tools available to use. I
hope the tools I suggested help you in your SEO
endevors.
• Visit my website WabashConcepts.com for more
SEO articles.