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Apr 5, 2022, 17 tweets

Our startups get 1.5 million+/month organic traffic.

SEO is key to our marketing strategy, and we recommend the same for others.

So we are sharing our list of 7 SEO tools

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Also, check our FREE course on SEO here:buildd.co/courses/startu…

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1/ Ahrefs

Category: SEO

Use case:

Use Ahrefs to track the progress of domain authority, backlinks, ranking keywords and also for keyword research

Features:

- Monitor your website rankings for specific keywords
- Analyse the backlink profile for your competitor's website
- Use the site audit tool to crawl your site and get a Health Score

Alternatives: Moz, SemRush

Website: ahrefs.com

2/ Google Search Console

Category: Tracking

Use case:

Use search console to track & fix technical errors, request indexing for pages & submit sitemaps

Features:

- Provides more accurate & relevant insights. Eg. pages with high avg duration, top sources etc.
- Provides you search specific data about your website: Keywords you rank for, no. of clicks etc.

Website: search.google.com/search-console…

3/ Answer the public

Category: Keyword Research

Use case:

Used for finding seed keyword ideas or blog topics

Features:

- Shares popular, filtered results from Google autocomplete
- 2 free searches/day

Website: answerthepublic.com

4/ Google Pagespeed Insights

Category: Tracking

Use case:

Simply enter your page's URL and the tool start analyzing your page's performance

Features:

- Suggests how a web page can be improved. Should ideally optimise to have green scores on both desktop & mobile
- Provides both lab and field data about a page.

Website: pagespeed.web.dev

5/ Yoast

Category: On-page SEO

Use case:

Use the free Yoast plugin for WordPress and get on-page & technical SEO stats for a particular page

Features:

- Provides SEO and readability analysis. Eg. keyword density, keyword presence in headings, etc.
- Add meta description & title for your blog.
Shows a Google preview.

Website: yoast.com

6/ Grammarly

Category: Writing

Use case:

Use Grammarly to check for grammatical errors & typos

Features:

- Has a free browser extension to run it on the content you write anywhere on the web
- Provides word and sentence suggestions that are clear

Alternatives: ProWritingAid

Website: grammarly.com

7/ Hemingway App

Category: Writing

Use case:

Hemingway highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors

Features:

- Export to Microsoft Word or other editors. Publish directly to Wordpress & Medium.
- You can format your text with the toolbar
Free to use

Website: hemingwayapp.com

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