Link Building Tools To Help Market Your Site

There are a lot of link building, publicity and social media tools out there to help you build links and market your site. Here are the tools I know about, have used or my friends use and like. Some of these links are affiliate, most are not.

Link Building

SEOBook Public Tools (free)

Free Firefox Extensions
Keyword Tool
Analytics Tools
Keyword Research
Competitive Research
Pay Per Click Tools
Link Analysis
Rank Checkers

SEOBook SEO Tools (membership Join Now)

Competitive Research
Local Rank
Website Health Check
Duplicate Content Checker
Domain Keyword Tool
Keyword List Comparison
SEO Site Planner
Hub Finder

SoloSEO Link Tool (free) Search on your keywords plus a metric and it brings back sites you can add your link to “your keyword + directory”
http://www.soloseo.com/tools/linkSearch.html

Open Site Explorer (free and membership) Backlink checker and analyzer
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org

Bad Neighborbood Link Checker (free) Tool will tell you if the site you want to link to is associated with “bad” sites through linking
http://bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm

Majestic SEO (free and paid) Backlink checker and analyzer
http://www.majesticseo.com

Link Research Tools (paid) Has multiple link building tools, good one.
http://www.linkresearchtools.com/

Ontolo Tool Set (free and paid) Prospecting and analyzing tool. Good one but not for newbies.
http://ontolo.com/

Trends

Ice Rockets (free but loads slowly) Tracks trends, reports what’s hot
http://trend.icerocket.com/

Google Trends (free)
http://www.google.com/trends

Trend Watching (free and paid) Sign up for the trend report and keep up with what’s trending
http://trendwatching.com/

Broken Links

Broken Link Checker (free) Checks for broken links
http://www.1-hit.com/all-in-one/tool.broken-link-finder.htm

Xenu (free) Old time favorite
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Rank Comparison

Langreiter Tool (free) I’ve been using this one for years, love it. Search on your keyword and it will compare search results between Google and Yahoo!
http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-google.html