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  <body>&lt;p&gt;Zeke Camusio, a serial entrepreneur and founder of The Outsourcing Company, shares his list of the Best Free SEO Tools.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When it comes to Search Engine Optimization, there is a lot of repetitive work that needs to be done. You have two options. You can do everything manually (which can take forever) or you can benefit from amazing free SEO tools that are available to you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEObook Rank Checker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This amazing Firefox extension allows you to check your search engine rankings in seconds. Just enter your website URL, the keywords, and find out your positions for Google, Yahoo, and MSN.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEO for Firefox&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tool is awesome. It lets you see relevant data about the best ranked websites for a given keyword. Once you understand why others are ranking so well, you can copy their strategy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.seobook.com/seo-toolbar/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEObook Toolbar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another great tool from Aaron Wall. It shows you very useful information such as PageRank, incoming links, and traffic data.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-difficulty/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keyword Difficulty Tool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tool allows you to check how difficult it will be to rank for a certain keyword.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://seogeeks.info/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page Analyzer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tool allows you to check several vital metrics at once.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ranks.nl/tools/spider.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keyword Density Analyzer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Excellent keyword density tool. This is another Keyword Density Analyzer tool that I like a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwebtool.com/visual_pagerank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Visual PageRank Tool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A great way to see the PageRank of all the pages on your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.backlinkwatch.com/index.php&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Backlink Checker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most powerful free backlink tool available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.justsearching.co.uk/tools/keyword-competition/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keyword Competition Check Tool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will love this one. Enter the keyword you want to rank for and you can see an analysis of your top 10 competitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/robots-generator/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robots.txt Generator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use this tool to control what pages you want the search engines to index from your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.copyscape.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CopyScape&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very useful service that allows you to check and avoid duplicate content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nameboy.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NameBoy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having your keywords in the URL of your website is very important. This cool application suggests available domains based on the keywords you want to rank for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Search Engine Optimization Analysis Tool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A great way to analyze your pages and improve them for the search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search Engine Spider Simulator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tool shows you a website just like the search engines see it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Backlink Builder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very useful backlink tool. Enter a keyword and it returns a list of websites where you can list your own site and get valuable backlinks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-summary.php&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Backlink Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See who is linking to your competitors and ask them for links too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google Keyword Tool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hands down, the best free keyword tool available. Find related keywords and find out the search volume of several keywords at once.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-search/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PageRank Search&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sort search results by PageRank. Very cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seomoz.org/tools&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEOmoz SEO Tools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably the best collection of SEO tools in the market. Some of them are paid but most are free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you found this list useful. These tools save us hundreds of hours of work every month.&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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  <summary>After an Extensive Research, Zeke Camusio Reveals the Best Free SEO Tools Ever. If You Want to Rank High on Google and Yahoo, You Can&#8217;t Afford to Ignore this List. </summary>
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