Use this free tool to check your rankings on Google with advanced criteria. Our favorite is the ability to specify the last modified timeframe so yu can find documents that have been modified recently but the language, document type and Google contry specifics as well as some of the other features are very handy as well.

As an SEO it can be a real pain to run searches over and over again to see how your website ranks for multiple phrases. Use this tool to see how your site (or your competitors' sites) rank for multiple phrases at once.

For those of you who've ever wanted to check how you fare against your competitors for specific phrases we now provide a solution. This is version one of this free SEO tool and soon we'll be adding in the ability to check multiple phrases for multiple domains. Who knows, maybe we'll even add in scheduling so you can have the rankings emailed to you on a regular basis. You'll just have to keep visiting to find out.

Welcome to part three of this three part series on SEO tools and resources. In the last two articles we discussed the variety of Firefox extensions used for SEO as well as an assortment of other free or affordable SEO tools. In this article we'll discuss some of the resources you'll want to access on a regular basis to keep up to date and informed on the goings-on in the search engine and SEO realm.

We're doing to cover a few different types of resources below and I'm going to try to keep this article to a reasonable length so let's begin ...

Every SEO uses different tools and resources. Some tools are paid, some are free and some are internally developed tools that we use for ourselves and our clients - but we all use them. Very often I get asked what tools people should use if they're looking to optimize their own sites and what resources they should use to keep up with the latest going's on. While telling people how to optimize their own sites and what the tools we use isn't generally the best of business practices – I just can't help myself. If your budget doesn't allow for the hiring of a professional SEO company – trying it yourself may be the only option. I also try to remember that once-upon-a-time I was optimizing my own sites and was new to SEO and without the open advice of others already involved in the community – I wouldn't be running a successful SEO company today. To this end, it only seems right to provide a list of some of the main tools we use on virtually every site.

Welcome to part two of this three part series on SEO tools and resources. In the last article we discussed the variety of Firefox extensions used for SEO. In this article we'll discuss some of the free and affordable tools you can use to better your organic optimization efforts. To make sure that when I say affordable I mean for virtually everyone I'm going to set the bar at $100/yr or ownership. Admittedly, we use tools that cost more than this but many of those tools will be out of some people's price range.

Here are some of the key tools you need to use to help insure the successful optimization of your website.