Dumb SEO Questions

(Entry was posted by Kate Too on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 04/17/2014).

If you could only pick THREE SEO tools or three types of software brand which would you choose? And why?

Question: If you could only pick THREE SEO tools or three types of software brand which would you choose? And why??
This question begins at 01:17:20 into the clip. Did this video clip play correctly? Watch this question on YouTube commencing at 01:17:20
Video would not load
I see YouTube error message
I see static
Video clip did not start at this question

YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Kate Toon: Question: If you could only pick THREE SEO tools or three types of software brand which would you choose? And why?
  • Dave Elliott: Screaming frog: The crawler is very useful for finding things like short meta-descriptions and titles as well as checking for consistency in your titles and all sorts of other useful things. i find myself relying on its information a lot

    Moz: It gives me a lot of useful stats, and gives me a lot of good information as to what needs changing on-page.

    Google analytics/wmt:  ;it gives me all the stats i need to work out what is working and isn't working in my seo campaigns and all the stats that i could ever need to justify my employment.

    I also use google adwords, for the keyword planner a hell of a lot and market samurai for keyword research.
  • Kate Toon: Thanks +Dave Elliott ; I have somewhat oversubscribed to software and need to cut back so this is really helpful.
  • Marcus Wong: +1 for Screaming Frog. Love it for its ability to sort and export data. ;

    SEO Powersuite - Value for money and surprisingly good all around SEO suite. I like their Support.

    GA/GWT - You really can't go wrong with these. Except maybe GWT, maybe because it's free, so it's quite slow to update.
  • Luke Chapman: My list would actually be the same as +Dave Elliott's ;

    Screaming Frog is amazing - check out ;http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide for some great guides on how to use it for all sorts of things.

    Moz/OSE

    Google Analytics
  • Ranu Jain: Hi Kate,

    I would to add two more tools here:

    i. Raven Tools: It is very helpful to

    - Manage keyword lists
    - Competition Analysis
    - Manage and report on Twitter/Facebook profiles and campaigns
    - Track social mentions
    - Automate site crawls
    -  ;Various metrics comparison
    -  ;Google Analytics and Google/ Bing Webmaster tools integration

    ii. SemRush : It is one of my most favorite tools.  ;It is best for ;

    - Organic Research
    - PPC keyword Research ;
    - Multiple domain comparisons covering organic and paid search strategies

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 04/17/2014).

All Questions in this Hangout