What are your favorite free SEO tools?

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

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  Jacek Wieczorek: Pulno.com because I co-created it and launched really nice link diagrams lately. 😎
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  Brenda Michelin: Just tried it out. Pretty damned cool. One confusing I encountered is the sitemap warning. It may help if you specify whether it is the xml sitemap or the html sitemap.
  Other than that, I really like the interface. I currently use so many of these tools, but your tool is the first one to reference GDPR-related issues such as annonymyzing GA links. Seriously thinking of subscribing. Thanks.
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  Dave Elliott: Google SERPs cause i can find out what Google has indexed and do stuff about it.
  
  https://keywordsheeter.com/ - pick a few seed keywords and it comes up with loads more
  
  Google DataStudio - actual control over Google data and can make things pretty/concise and send out a weekly/monthly report.
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  Victoria Gitelshtein: Neilpatel.com always make some first checking there about website.
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  Dave Elliott: Ewww. I can`t begin to say how much that tool(and the site...)gets wrong about literally every site I`ve ever fed it.
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  Victoria Gitelshtein: Dave Elliott probably. its free you know. I took it for the first impresion and mostly it is helpful about it. I do not use it for exact ranking of key-words.
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  Andy Wigglesworth: Easiest question ever, Dumb SEO Questions is the best free tool for SEO ;)
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  Laurie Hice Michaelson: haha im thinking more of audit tools and keyword ranking etc.
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  Andy Wigglesworth: Laurie Hice Michaelson haha aye, i just wanted a shoutout from Jim :D
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  Laurie Hice Michaelson: Andy 😂🤪
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  Jim Munro: Sorry I was late. I was just tidying your rooms and looking out the window to see if you had arrived yet, Andy Wigglesworth . :)
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  Andy Wigglesworth: haha one day mate, one day :)
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  Jesse McDonald: Answer the Public is great for semantic topic/keyword research. It was also really cool when paired with Keywords Everywhere but that just went paid a month or so back.
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  John Weaver: +1 on Answer the Public!
  
  Bummed how Keywords Everywhere setup their paid plan. It is so dumb. If it was a monthly fee I would have paid for it. :(
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  Matthew Longley: ahrefs for links, semrush for keywords, screamingfrog seo for technical seo, seosurfer for on page seo.
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  John Weaver: Why use ahrefs and frog when Rush covers both? Curious not arguing/bashing. :)
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  Matthew Longley: John Weaver Ahrefs provides better link data and frog is better for technical spidering of e-commerce sites. Semrush is the best for competitors keyword data.
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  Tim Capper: Check out the new alsoasked com site, pretty nifty
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  Dave Elliott: Yeah mark knocked it out the park with that. Very cool.
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  Perry Bernard: Tool schmool. Many are good for automating some checks but to draw conclusions from them is often dangerous or plain wrong. Use any tool’s insights with caution and always apply common sense first and foremost.
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  Marina Dolcic: I worked for Morningscore in their Beta phase and I still use it today. I use the page heath check the most as it gives a nice overview of quick fixes
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  Christine Hansen: Screaming Frog for 100 million things, but usually checkup on page titles, h1, h2 and the infamous character counting. (Also use Morningscore, Marina Dolcic, tho premium). And of course GSC for catching CTR friendly keyword variations.
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  Marina Dolcic: Christine Hansen oh Screaming frog, very useful tool. I also use a tool for the meta lenght - it’s called metatjekker. It counts pixels instead of characters and I find it more precise. The interface is in danish but it is so straightforward that it really makes no difference
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  Christine Hansen: Screaming Frog also shows pixel counts including metadescriptions. One can use Screaming Frog to write em, but I use another tool for that, as you do. Plenty of free tools for that.
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  Richard Hearne: CURL