Free tools to help improve your site's SEO ranking

Are you wanting more traffic to come to your site, so that you can sell more product(s)? This can be accomplished by improving your website's organic search engine optimization. It is very important that your store have all of the basic search engine fields populated, in addition to other things like content, backlinks, image tags, and much more. There are quite a few things that you can do yourself before putting down some cash on an expert to help you out.

Things to know:

1. It will take time and research to build up your SEO ranking.
   
2. BigCommerce provides the fields to insert your search engine content, but you must populate those fields.


3. You must know who your competition is, and research what they are doing in regards to SEO.


4. If your competitors are paying for adwords or sponsored links then you might want to consider doing the same.


5. After making changes to your site it could take time(weeks) for anything to be reflected within search engines like Google.


6. Everything is important! You must have unique and informative: content,videos,images,keywords,title,description for every page.

List of Tools:

Google Webmaster Tools
http://www.google.com/webmasters

Google Keyword Tool
www.adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Website Grader
www.websitegrader.com

Check Backlinks & Anchor Text
www.bluebacklinks.com

Search Engine Spider Simulator
www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

Alexa Ranking
www.alexa.com

SEO Book – Free SEO Tools
www.tools.seobook.com

Spy on Your Competitors
www.spyfu.com

Search Engine & Directory Submission Tool
www.ubl.org