List of my favorite tools

List of my favorite tools:
Page Rank

Rank Checker (Ranking Tool) - Get a overview of your website's ranking

PageRank Lookup (PageRank Lookup - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - check the PageRank for a website

Google PageRank Prediction (PageRank Prediction - Predict Page Rank Predictor) - check predicted PR of a site

Multi-Rank Checker (Rank Checker) - View your Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking in bulk

PageRank Checker (PageRank Checker - Check Your Google Page Rank) - View your Google PageRank on different Google servers

Links related

Reciprocal Link Check (Reciprocal Link Checker) - check whether your link partners are linking back to your website

Link Popularity Checker (LinkWorth | LinkQuote - Text Link Quote) - a popularity score given to a website based on inbound links

LinkPrice Lookup (LinkWorth | LinkQuote - Text Link Quote) - check the price of your link
Link Price Calculator (Link Price Calculator) - another tool for checking the price of links

Link Checker (http://www.ranks.nl/cgi-bin/ranksnl/tools/checklink.pl) - check your links to see if it's still valid or not

Link Popularity (Link Popularity - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - checks the total number of web pages which link to a website

Link Price Calculator (Link Price Calculator - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - help to determine the approximate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website

Site Link Analyzer (Site Link Analyzer - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - analyze a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text

URL Rewriting (URL Rewriting - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - convert dynamic URLs into static looking HTML URLs

Link Extractor (Link Extractor) - Extract links from a specific web page

Link Shortener (Link Shortener - Short/Shortcut Link - Hits Counter) - shorten a web address

Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer (http://www.webconfs.comURLnchor-text-analysis.php) - check link text used by your backlinks to Link to your website

Keyword related

Keyword Verification (Search Engine Placement Check - Marketleap Search Engine Verification Tool) - checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword

Keyword Density Analyser (Mark Horrell - Keyword density analyser) - another SEO tools for keywords

Keyword Cloud (Keyword Cloud - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - a visual representation of keywords used on a website

Keyword Density (Keyword Density - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - another SEO tool for checking keyword density

Keyword Difficulty Check (Keyword Difficulty Check - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or phrases

Keyword Optimizer (Keyword Optimizer - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - optimizer your keywords with this tool

Keyword Suggestion (Keyword Suggestion Tool) - Find related keywords matching your search


Sitemap

XML-Sitemaps (Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps Generator) - Build your Site Map online (XML, ROR, Text, HTML)

Gsitecrawler (Google Sitemap Generator for Windows :: GSiteCrawler) - Google (and Yahoo!) Sitemap Generator for Windows

Validate XML Sitemap (Google XML Sitemap Validator - XML Sitemaps Generator) - Search Engine Optimizion Tool for validating your xml sitemaps

Search Engines

Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/) - tells you everything about your visitors

Google Banned Checker (http://www.iwebtool.com/google_banned) - check whether a site is banned by Google or not

Search Engine Bot Simulator (http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/se-bot-simulator.html) - SEO Tool to simulate search engine parsing of webpages and display discovered links.

Indexed pages (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/indexed-pages/) - check the no. of indexed pages for your blog

Spider Simulator (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/spider-simulator/) - simulates a search engine by displaying the contents of a web page

Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/redirect-check/) - checks the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with an HTTP response.

Search Engine Position (http://www.iwebtool.com/search_engine_position) - Locate your search listings on Google and Yahoo!

Search Listings Preview (http://www.iwebtool.com/search_listings_preview) - Preview your website on Google, MSN and Yahoo! Search

HTML related

HTML Encrypt (http://www.iwebtool.com/html_encrypter) - Hide your HTML source code

HTML Optimizer (http://www.iwebtool.com/html_optimizer) - Optimize and clean your HTML source code

HTTP Headers (http://www.iwebtool.com/http_headers) - Extract the HTTP Headers of a web page

HTTP Headers Viewer (http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/http-headers-viewer.html) - check HTTP headers for any specific URL

Meta-tags Extractor (http://www.iwebtool.com/metatags_extractor) - Extract meta-tags information from a web page

Meta-tags Generator (http://www.iwebtool.com/metatags_generator) - Generate and configure your meta-tags

META Analyzer (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/meta-analyzer/) - analyze a website's meta tags

Meta Tag Generator (http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/meta-tag-generator/) - help you to generate meta tags

Source Code Viewer (http://www.iwebtool.com/code_viewer) - View the source code of a page

Domain related

Alexa Traffic Rank (http://www.iwebtool.comURLlexa_traffic_rank) - View and compare Alexa Ranking graphs

Domain Age Tool (http://www.webconfs.com/domain-age.php) - find out the age of your competitor's domains

Domain Stats Tool (http://www.webconfs.com/domain-stats.php) - get all kind of statistics of your competitor's domains

Domain Availability (http://www.iwebtool.com/domain_availability) - Check the availability of domains

Domain Look-up (http://www.iwebtool.com/domain_lookup) - Retrieve a range of information about a domain

Domain Whois (http://www.iwebtool.com/whois) - Retrieve domain whois information

Instant Domain Checker (http://www.iwebtool.com/instant) - Check the availability of domains instantly

Ping Test (http://www.iwebtool.com/ping) - Check the presence of an active connection

Reverse IP/Look-up (http://www.iwebtool.com/reverse_ip) - Resolve a host to an IP address

Server Status (http://www.iwebtool.com/server_status) - Check if your website is online or offline

Website Speed Test (http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test) - Find out how fast your website loads

What Is My IP Address (http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/) - shows your ip address

IP to City (http://www.webconfs.com/ip-to-city.php) - determine the Country, City, Latitude and Longitude of an IP Address

Website to Country (http://www.webconfs.com/website-to-country.php) - determine the Country in which the specified website is Hosted

Web stats

Statcounter (http://www.statcounter.com/) - famous free web tracker

HiStats (http://www.histats.com/) - Free, real time updated web stats service

Addfreestats (http://www.addfreestats.com/) - provide free website statistics

Miscellaneous

FEED Validator (http://www.feedvalidator.org/) - for Atom and RSS

W3C Markup Validation Service (http://validator.w3.org/) - check for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards

Kontera Ads Preview (http://www.webconfs.com/kontera-preview-tool.php) - preview Kontera Ads on your website

Online spell checker (http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/spellcheck.asp) - simple online spell checking tools

Browser Screen Resolution Checker (http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/browser.shtml) - shows what your site looks like with different screen resolutions

Your Browser Details (http://www.iwebtool.com/browser_details) - View your IP address and your browser details

Anonymous Emailer (http://www.iwebtool.comURLnonymous_emailer) - Send e-mails to users anonymously

md5 Encrypt (http://www.iwebtool.com/md5) - Encrypt text to MD5

Online Calculator (http://www.iwebtool.com/online_calculator) - A simple online calculator

Google

1. Reporting Spam to Google - http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

2. Use Google to search your website - http://www.google.com/services/free.html

3. Submit your website to Google - http://www.google.com/addurl.html

4. Monitor Keyword Phrases - http://google.com/webalerts (This is neat to check out however does not help that much)

5. Googles Guidelines for Websmasters –

http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html (A must read new people)

6. Facts for Webmasters - http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html

7. Having Trouble? Contact Google Directly - http://www.google.com/ads/offices.html

Website Design & Tools

1. Free Forms for your website TFMail - http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/

2. Validate Your HTML - http://validator.w3.org/

3. HTTP Error Code Meanings - http://www.searchengineworld.com/val...errorcodes.htm (http://www.searchengineworld.com/val...errorcodes.htm)

4. Keyword Tracking - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/

5. Link Checker - http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/...0charset=utf-8
(http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/%7Echeckout...0charset=utf-8)

6. Search Engine Relationship Chart - http://www.bruceclay.com/searchengin...nshipchart.htm (http://www.bruceclay.com/searchengin...nshipchart.htm)
Bruce Clay does an excellent job of keeping this updated.

7. Link Popularity Checker (Uptime Bot) - http://www.uptimebot.com/

8. Character Counting - http://a1portal.com/freetools/charcount.htm (This is great when optimizing your title or meta tags)

9. Character Encoding - http://www.itnews.org.uk/w_qrefs/w_i...p_charsets.cfm (http://www.itnews.org.uk/w_qrefs/w_i...p_charsets.cfm) (Ever wonder what those iso-8859-4 or utf-8 were or how to use them?)

10. Converting Hex to Dec or Vice Versa - http://www.hypersolutions.org/pages/hex.html#DectoHex

11. Ascii-Dec-Hex Conversion Code Chart - http://www.sonofsofaman.com/misc/ascii/default.asp

12. Ascii-HTML View Conversion Chart - http://a1portal.com/freetools/asciicodes.htm (This is an excellent resource when placing ascii code on your website. Remember to use the correct character encoding)

13. Ascii Chart in .GIF Format - http://www.jimprice.com/ascii-0-127.gif

14. Customer Focus Tool - http://www.futurenowinc.com/wewe.htm (Tells you whether your website is focused on your customers or not)

15. Dead Link Checker - http://www.dead-links.com/ (Doesn't crawl links within Frames or JavaScript)

16. Adsense Simulator - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/ (This will give you an idea of what ads will be displayed on your website before you place them)

17. Google Page Rank Calculator - http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank...lator.php3?pgs= (This is an advanced tool for finding out what you need to get your PR to the next level.)

18. Page Rank Finder - http://www.seo-guy.com/seo-tools/google-pr.php (This is a great tool to find quality websites with the PR that you are looking for to exchange websites with. This tool only looks at the home page not the link pages. This tool looks at 10 pages or 100 results)

19. Future Google PR - http://www.searchengineforums.com/ap...e/type:rphans/ (http://www.searchengineforums.com/ap...e/type:rphans/) - This is an article that tells you what datacenter your Google PR is updated on first.

20. Keyword Analysis Tool - http://www.mcdar.net/ - This tool is a must. It's quick and easy to use

21. Keyword Density Analyzer - http://www.webjectives.com/keyword.htm

22. Keyword Difficulty Checker - http://www.searchguild.com/cgi-bin/difficulty.pl (You will need a Google API for this one)

23. Free Google API - http://www.google.com/api

24. Rocket Rank - http://www.rocketrank.com/ - This will only check the top 20 of the following SE's:
(All The Web DMOZ AltaVista Overture Excite Web Crawler HotBot Lycos What U Seek Yahoo)

Keyword Suggestion Tools:

25. WordTracker & Overture Suggestions http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ - This is the best one of the three

26. Adwords Suggestion - https://adwords.google.com/select/m...=KeywordSandbox

27. Overture Suggestion - http://inventory.overture.com/d/sea...ory/suggestion/

28. Link Analyzer - http://www.scribbling.net/analyze-web-page-links Analyze the ratio of internal links vs. external links. This is a good tool when determining page rank leakage.

29. Link Appeal - http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/link-appeal.shtml (Want to know whether or not you actually want your link on that page?)

30. Link City - http://showcase.netins.net/web/phdss/linkcity/ (This place has EVERY tool under the sun for everything you could ever possibly want)

31. Link Reputation - http://198.68.180.60/cgi-bin/link-reputation-tool.cgi (Reveals baclinks pointing to the target URL along with a link survey for each backlink.)

32. Google PR Tools - http://www.thinkbling.com/tools.php (This guy has tons of fantastic tools. He is not as popular as some of the rest yet the tools are great)

33. Protect Your e-mail address - http://www.fingerlakesbmw.org/main/flobfuscate.php (Obfuscates your e-mail so spambots don't pick it up from the Internet)

34. Digital Points Ad Network - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/?s=2197 - After using all of the tools and more on this page. This has helped out the rankings faster than anything else.

35. Sandbox Detection Tool - http://www.socengine.com/seo/tools/sandbox-tool.php - Is your website being sandboxed?

36. Spider Simulation - http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ - See what the spider sees on your website

37. SEO-Toys - http://seo-toys.com/ - These are some things that I had in my favorites. Some of them are okay.

38. Multiple SEO Tools - http://www.free-seo-tools.com/ - This website has a variety of misc. tools on it that you can use to better your search engine rankings.

39. Bot Spotter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/botspotter - This is a phenomenal script that will track what bots hit your website at what times. (Runs on PHP enabled websites)

40. Net Mechanic - http://www.netmechanic.com/toolbox/power_user.htm - This will break your website down and tell you any errors that you may be unaware of.

41. Statcounter - http://www.statcounter.com/ - This will track your clients throughout the dynamically created pages of your website. This is a free service.

42. Dr. HTML - http://www.fixingyourwebsite.com/drhtml.html - This will test your website for any errors that you may be unaware of and tell you how to fix them.

43. Page Rank Calculation - http://www.sitepronews.com/pagerank.html

Newsletters & Articles

1. Site Pro News - www.sitepronews.com (http://www.sitepronews.com/)

2. In Stat - http://www.instat.com/ (This has some decent insight)

3. Page Rank Explained - http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank....olbar_pagerank (http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank....olbar_pagerank)

4. Seach Engine Ratings and Reviews - http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/

5. Database of Robots - http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/html/index.html
(Ever wondered anything about the spiders that are out there?)

ISAPI Rewrites

1. URL Replacer - (Free) - http://www.motobit.com/help/url-repl...od-rewrite.asp (http://www.motobit.com/help/url-repl...od-rewrite.asp)

2. Mod Rewrite2 - ($39.90US) - http://www.iismods.com/url-rewrite/index.htm

3. URL Rewrite - (23.00EUR) - http://www.smalig.com/url_rewrite-en.htm

Link Exchanging

1. Links Manager ($20.00US /mo)- http://linksmanager.com/cgi-bin/cook/control_panel.cgi (This is great for the beginner however you will find out that you need to majorly adjust your pages manually in order to spread page rank throughout them otherwise you end up with 20 pages with no PR and 1 page with PR.)

2. Page Rank Finder - http://www.seo-guy.com/seo-tools/google-pr.php

3. Link Appeal - http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/link-appeal.shtml

Search Engine Submissions

1. Submit Express - http://www.submitexpress.com/newsletters/dec_15_00.html (A lot of people utilize this service. I don't utilize it)

2. Alexa - http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmaste...tml#crawl_site (http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmaste...tml#crawl_site)

3. AOL - http://search.aol.com/aolcom/add.jsp

4. DMOZ Dummies Guide - http://www.dummies-guide-to-dmoz.or..._not_google.htm (http://www.dummies-guide-to-dmoz.or..._not_google.htm/)

5. DMOZ Instructions - http://dmoz.org/add.html

6. DMOZ Resource Forum - http://resource-zone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=396 (This is where you go when your website doesn't show up in DMOZ after you have submitted READ THEIR RULES FOR ASKING)

7. ExactSeek - http://www.exactseek.com/freemember.html

8. Google - http://www.google.com/addurl.html

9. Yahoo http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request (You must have an account)

10. Yahoo Directory Help - http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/appropriate.html

11. Yahoo Express Submit TOS - https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/express/terms

12. Yahoo Submit Help - http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/su...uggest-01.html (http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/su...uggest-01.html)

13. MSN - http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?

ALink Reciprocal Link Checker (http://www.info-pack.com/alink/)

AMeta Meta Tag Editor (http://www.info-pack.com/ameta/)

XML Sitemap Maker (http://www.xmlsitemapmaker.com/)
RSS Feed Maker (http://www.rssfeedmaker.biz/)

Webpage Size Checker (http://www.info-pack.com/pagesize/)

Google's new Search-based Keyword Tool to the list, its hotness: http://www.google.com/sktool/#