There are a plethora of technical SEO tool lists and articles out there, with some free and freemium tools to full-on paid tool lists.
This list pulls together eight of the more unheard-of tools to help you on your quest to improve the technical state of your site (for free).
With all the factors there are to consider when it comes to technical SEO, these tools can help you with bigger and some small elements.
You don’t have to be a developer to use them as they are all fairly user-friendly and can save you time having to bother a developer as well.
Let’s get started and make these tools less unheard-of!
1. Merkle SEO Pagination Testing Tool[1]
Making sure that the pagination across a website is vital to allow search engines to see all the pages in a series.
Pagination being implemented incorrectly is one of the biggest problems especially when it comes to ecommerce sites as well as sites with news and blog sections.
Simply put the URL in you want to check the pagination on and click run, it quickly tells you if the (rel=”prev/next”) tags have been implemented correctly.
2. BarracudaPanguin Tool[3][2]
Probably the best go-to tool when your organic traffic has dramatically dropped off, or you are no longer seeing your site in the SERPs anymore.
You can quickly find out if your site has been affected by a Google algorithm change as well as any historical algorithm changes which may have affected the site.
This tools also links up to Google Analytics to gain the further insight needed.
