5 KICKASS Website Analysis Tools To Improve Your SEO Score

Once your website is built and content is in place, your job as a blogger/webmaster are far from over. This is only the beginning! SEO is one of the most important things to keep in mind as you continue to build and shape your site into an empire. How do you know if you site’s SEO is as high as it needs to be? You use website analysis tools to learn your SEO score, and improve the factors that are low or lacking!

Every website analysis tool you use will give you a different rating, but they will all reveal different things that need your attention as well. Your SEO score really is a dynamic, ever-evolving beast that needs your constant attention. In my “What is SEO” post, I discuss the various factors and elements that go into the SEO of your site. These same elements are factored into your SEO score. Learn them, know them, dream about them when you sleep! Welcome to the SEO show: the story of you life as a website person.

What Is A Website Analysis Tool?

Through the years, I have discovered a handful of kickass website analysis tools that give you a birds eye view of why your site is or isn’t ranking for your chosen keywords. These tools will grade your site based on numerous factors such as:

• nofollow/dofollow links ratio
• total number of backlinks and referring domains
• duplicate content
• Indexable pages not in sitemap
• site speed
• images without an alt attribute
• indexed pages with more than one H1 tag
• and much, MUCH more…

I think you get the point. There are so many factors that you need to be aware of. There are SEO aspects, technical aspects, and content aspects – all of which count towards your overall SEO score. Google is a smart cookie. They can see your entire site, how popular it is, what people say about it, and how good you are at conveying your personal message to your intended target audience. No website analysis tool will give you the whole story, but by using a few tools, you can get data that the other tools may have missed.

#1 SEMRUSH

SEMRush is a pretty awesome tool that allows you to check out the SEO of your competitors and find competitors keywords. It does a heck of a lot more than that though. Watch the video below for a demonstration of the SEMRush tool in action (credit goes to the folks over at NichePursuits.com)

Recommended: My secret weapon has always been my keyword research tool developed by the same guys from the video above! Check out my review for Long Tail Pro and unleash the power of the long tail!

SEMRush will allow you to do make the following analytic reports:

• See your competitors best keywords
• Discover new organic competitors attempting to rank on Google
• Uncover your competitor’s ad strategies, budget, ad copies, and keywords
• Spot new display ad publishers and analyze their display ads
• Conduct a deep link analysis
• Understand referring domain’s authority
• Learn how to make money with your videos
• Find the right keywords for SEO and PPC campaigns
• See your competitor’s best performing product listing ads
• and much, much more!!

The reports above don’t include the tools and projects SEMRush endows you with. Just click here to see what SEMRush offers you. You can even start for free! How cool is that?

#2 ONPAGE.ORG 

Getting a competitive edge is cool and all, but sometimes you want to dissect your own site and make it even better. I don’t remember exactly how I found this site, but it is pure gold. Onpage.org breaks down all the aspects of your site, and will actually show you everything you need to address that may be holding your site back from a higher SEO score.

Once you have signed up for Onpage, you will be able to immediately get a diagnostic on your site so you can see right away what you need to fix and what may require additional attention. Onpage will crawl your site and display your results on an easy-to-follow dashboard (shown below)

You can crawl your site once a month (anytime with the PRO upgrade) and they will even email you the results of the crawl. Your features are far more powerful with the Pro upgrade. This software is very powerful and will help you deal with the negative aspects of your site so you can propel in the SERPs!

#3 TRAFFIC TRAVIS

If SEMRush is too expensive for you at the moment, I totally get it. Traffic Travis is a great alternative for anyone that wants to spy on their competition and analyze where their site lies in respect to those they are competing against. For the past several product reviews I have written, I have used Traffic Travis to outrank my competition and get on page one.

Get Traffic Travis and get started for FREE through this link.

The free version will meet your most basic needs. You can only do two projects at a time (two pages of your site), but you can always delete your projects and start new ones when you are ready to optimize your next page. With the pro version (one time payment of $100) you can start unlimited projects and see how it ranks on all the search engines locally and internationally.

Here are a few of the many Traffic Travis features:

• Perform a full SEO health check on any site you desire.
• Find out why competitors outrank you, then beat them.
• Discover the juiciest links your competitors use to rank their content, then use those links for your own content.
• Keep tabs on your competitors to spot keywords you should target.
• Monitor your keywords and see how they are ranking on a regular basis.
• Find respected link partners and build quality backlinks.

You don’t need to buy Traffic Travis to be successful with it, however, it will be much more effective and powerful if you do the upgrade.

#4 SPY VISIT TOOL

The first three tools are for diagnosing your SEO score and seeing where you fit in terms of your competition. The Spy Visit tool is something different and quite special. You can read my full review on Spy Visit here. Spy Visit will allow you to see exactly what your website visitors are doing on your site. You get several weapons in your Spy Visit aresenal to dissect your visitor intent and see which elements of your site are drawing the most attention.

Click here to try Spy Visit for 7 days before making a committment!

For my full tutorial of Spy Visit, watch the video above (it’s pretty crazy).

If seeing what your visitors come to your site for is important to you, then Spy Visit is what you are looking for. Remember, Google factors in what your visitors do on your site and how long they stay there. By tracking your visitors, you are remaining proactive in your pursuit to improve your SEO score.

#5 Ahrefs!

Most people that are attempting to figure out their site’s/competitor’s backlinks and how they are ranking almost always stumble upon Ahrefs eventually. Ahrefs is one of the most utilized position tracker/site optimizer services available on the web.

Ahrefs is yet another service that offers a free version and various paid versions, depending on the size of your business and what you are looking for. As you grow your site, you may want to consider the upgrades. For now, if you are new to SEO and site building, the free version will work just fine.

Ahrefs will allow you to track the following stats and data from a convenient dashboard:

• Your Ahrefs site rank (when compared with all other visible sites on the internet)
• Domain health (considerable various issues (critical/non critical)
• Domain/URL rating (the two are not the same)
• Backlinks
• Referring Domains
• Organic keywords
• Tracking keywords (up to 5 with the free version)

My favorite feature is the tracking keywords. I simply load my most lucrative keywords, and it updates me everyday on where they are ranking on Google. I am also emailed once a week with my ranking keywords and their net changes throughout the week. Keep in mind, you will get this with the free version!

Website Analysis Tools And Your SEO Score Conclusion

In this article, we have discussed five tools/sites you can utilize to better analyze your site’s SEO/health, and track your competition. Most of these sites and tools offer a free version to give you a taste of the features before you make any type of serious investment. It is important to have at least a few of these tools in your pocket if you are planning on using SEO to make a huge income. Your SEO score may be just a number, but it can make the difference between hundreds a month, or thousands.

I hope you have learned some new places to better your site. I like to live by a little motto: Better your site, better your life. If you take the appropriate actions with the info your website analysis provides, you can rake in some serious dough. It will take work, though – and planning. Using these website analysis tools gives you access to all the data you will ever need to design the plan that is right for your site.