I love doing SEO.  There are so many resources that you can do nearly everything for free. Chalk it up to link-bait, but some of the best tools are actually free.Keyword and competitive research:UberSuggest: long tail keyword research. Keywords often don’t show up in Google’s keyword planner.Word Frequency Counter: good for competitive/keyword researchWayback Machine: check old or deleted pages on any website. Comes in hand for competitive researchBuiltwith: find out what websites are built with (CMS, etc.)Content:APIs Dashboard: all of the most popular APIs on the webDraw.IO – draw simple charts and graphsUnsplash | Free High Resolution Photos  – Free Stock imagesInfogram and Piktochart – create free infographicsFindTheBest – great research search engineButterick’s Practical Typography – learn typographyLink Building:Google Images: reverse lookup an image to find if an image or graphic you created has been used without attribution, then reach out to ask for a link.Google Alerts: Get alerts when a keyword is mentioned  in content. Google for citation link building.Technical SEOSEOTools for Excel: Suite of tools, including pulling meta title, meta description of URL, checking HTTP status codes of URLs and more. A personal favorite.Screenfly: test your website on different devices and resolutionsAyima redirect path chrome extension: shows redirect path of any given URLGoogle Webmaster blog: not a tool, but contains the answers to some of the most difficult technical SEO questionsMy personal choices:Free Tools – SEO Tools HQPaid Tools – SEMRushSo lets get this show on the road!Wayback MachineGet in the DeLorean, because we are going back in time! The Wayback Machine is the most complete historical archive of the Internet. It allows you to see what a website used to look like. This is a great investigative tool if you notice some odd traffic changes after you’ve updated your website, and you don’t have a site back-up available.Keyword Tool: 750+ Google Keyword Suggestions for Free. Use 192 Google Domains & 83 LanguagesThis freemium tool is great if you want something that is quick and simple to use to obtain a ton of keyword ideas. A unique aspect to this tool is that you can utilize it for Google, YouTube, Bing, Amazon, and the App Store keywords. Keyword Tool: 750+ Google Keyword Suggestions for Free. Use 192 Google Domains & 83 Languages is especially useful for long-tail keywords that won’t show up in the Google Keyword Planner, because of the low search volume.Another very similar tool is Ubersuggest, which is another fan favorite here in the office.Redirect Path (New for 2017!)Redirect Path is a free Google Chrome extension that helps you discover HTTP header and redirect errors, so that you can spend more time fixing the problems, rather than looking for them. This little plugin is most convenient for when you’re just looking into just a few pages.Structured Data Testing Tool (SDTT)Commence x-ray vision. This next tool from Google is a user-friendly way to examine on-page schema code, as well as test schema markups. All you need to do is supply the markup or the website URL, and get going!Google TrendsCorrectly predicting the future moves of your opponent in chess is essential for victory. The same came said for marketers in their industry. Knowing where your market is heading gives marketers a huge advantage. Here, Google Trends can lend you a helping hand.Google Trends shows changes in search volume for different topics, search terms, and entities. Mastering this tool can keep your content current and one step ahead of the competition. For search marketing, it just makes good sense to analyze changes in search query behavior. Even everyday bloggers can improve their results by understanding which topics are trending.GTMetrixManaging how quick your page load speeds are can majorly impact SEO, as well as UX. GTMetrix is a tool to examine the load speed of a page and diagnose opportunities for improvement, so you know how you can further polish your website. Many other page-speed tools exist, but GTMetrix is an office favorite, because of its balance between being thorough and user-friendly. Other tools that you might find helpful: Pingdom and Google PageSpeed Insights.Web Developer ToolbarThe Web Developer Toolbar is a staple during the technical phase of our SEO audits. It allows you to find or disable information from CSS, JavaScript, images, cookies, and more. Read here to learn more about how to use the Web Developer Toolbar.BuiltwithBuiltwith does about what you might expect it to. It is a website profiler tool that tells you what technology was used to create the site. You can find out which CMS the site was Builtwith (get it?), what analytics have been implemented on the site, and much more! It is a great tool for those of you that are doing SEO client work.Bing Webmaster Tools (BWT)Often the overlooked brother of Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools is a great way to keep tabs on how your site is working on Bing, which houses more than 20% of the Internet’s search traffic. It also offers benefits beyond Bing by providing insights into crawling, indexation, on-page keyword optimization, and other elements that can impact your performance in Google.Google & BingAs obvious as it may seems, it would be wrong not to include them. Google and Bing search engines themselves are very useful SEO tools. Mastery of search engine functionality is part of mastering SEO. With some search magic, you can examine indexation and duplicate content, find content scrapers, check keyword rankings, analyze SERP listings, and scout for outreach and link prospects.Here are some helpful guides to get you started:Search Operators | GoogleAdvanced Search Options | Bing25 Killer Combos for Googles Site Operator | Moz10000 Search Engine Queries for your Link Building Campaign | Optimize SmartScreaming Frog’s SEO Spider ToolThe SEO Spider Tool is an awesome website crawler. With it, you can get critical data on every URL. Download it and take it on a spin. Once you see all of the data, you will have questions, and that’s why I got some resources ready for you:Official Screaming Frog User Guide10 Features in the SEO Spider You Should Really Know | Screaming Frog BlogFree Excel Workbook for Analyzing Screaming Frog Data | Sean McQuaide, LunaMetricsGoogle Keyword PlannerGoogle Keyword Planner is the creme de la creme of keyword research tools. Simply give it a seed word, and keyword suggestions will start pouring in, along with estimates of average monthly searches.MozMoz is a suite of user-friendly inbound marketing tools. Below are some of our favorite free Moz tools:Open Site Explorer is a backlink analysis tool with helpful metrics approximating link equity.Moz Local (formerly Get Listed) lets you see the state of a company’s local citations and is the first place you should go when you first start local SEO on a site.Mozbar is a browser toolbar that lets you quickly get at Moz’s key features for the page you’re on.The SERP Overlay is part of the Mozbar and shows OSE metrics on individual search results.Google Search ConsoleGoogle Search Console is a must-use tool that helps you visualize how your site may appear in search and teaches you how to influence different appearance elements. It also provides you with crawling errors, html improvement suggestions, and much more.Here is an official help guide to get you started.Google AnalyticsChances are if you are reading this blog, you have used or at least looked at Google Analytics before, so it should come as no surprise that this made it to the top of our list.The most valuable SEO data is that which helps you better understand your visitors and how they interact with your site. No tool quite delivers that data like Google Analytics, and none of the previous tools mentioned does a better job providing data that helps you understand the number that matters most – the bottom line.Read-detailed SEO Checklist guide, suitable for SEO beginners, before you start spending mon