Well folks, here is our Top 10 SEO Software for 2012.

It would be fair to say there are two distinct people who would read this list..

1. SEO Consultants who do SEO for the clients
2. Self managed SEO – people who do their own SEO.

OK, fair enough.  Even though we do SEO for clients, there is no reason why self-managed campaigns cannot use this software.

In no particular order!

1. Market Samurai – Keyword research software package that enables you to Find and Target Profitable Niches with Pinpoint Accuracy.  This is bloody fantastic software peeps.. fabulous.
2. KeyWordSpy – Yes, I know, more key word software, but you can never have enough target keywords and phrases.  Besides, this software is great for determing the ‘right’ keywords you should be targetting.
3. SEO MOZ – as it says on their home page – SEO & Social Monitoring Made Simple.
4. Search Engine Watch – an unbiased look at each search engine and what each one is up to.
5. DigitalPoint Forums – yes, there are 100′s of forums but we like this one.
6. Raven Tools – aimed at the seo professional, who manages multiple campaigns, this software lets you take control of the campaign.
7. Majestic SEO – Backlink checker and site explorer.
8. ProBlogger – if you have a blog, its well worth listening and reading what Darren has to say.
9. Websyte Corp – SEO & Google Adwords Management.
10. websiteoptimization.com – last but not least, maximise your profits

All truly excellent software, without the hundreds of reasons why we chose them over the thousands of others.

All I can say is, we use each and every tool, every day and find them excellent at managing our campaigns which are doing very nicely indeed.

Seasons greetings

SEOMaster

Any webmaster worth his weight in SEO spends a lot of time (a lot of time) bookmarking his content on bookmarking web sites.

Don’t understand BookMarking?  You create a page of content aimed at one of your KP’s (key phrases).  You then bookmark your page at one of the top bookmark pages below..

• Digg
• Feed Age
• Propeller
• Slide Share
• Twitter
• Furl.net
• OYAX
• Stumbleupon
• Mixx
• Clipmarks

Good luck and happy seo bookmarking!

For any webmaster who does their own SEO, here are our top Must Have SEO Tools..

• Similar Page Checker
  Search engines are known to penalize websites that contain duplicate / similar content. Your content could be similar to other websites on the Internet, or pages from within your own website could be similar to each other. This tool allows you to determine the percentage of similarity between two pages
• Search Engine Spider Simulator
  This tool simulates a search engine crawler by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a search engine would see it. It also displays the links that a search engine would follow (crawl) when it visits the webpage.
• Backlink Anchor Text Analysis
  This tool help you determine the link text used by your backlinks to link to your wesbite.
• Backlink Builder
  This tool helps you build a LOT of quality backlinks. It searches for websites of the theme you specify that contain keyphrases like “Add link”, “Add site”, “Add URL”, “Add URL”, “Submit URL” etc, most of the results could be potential backlinks. Text links are important for ranking well in search engines.
• Backlink Summary
  This tool will give you a summary of your competitors backlinks.
• Keyword Density Checker
  This tool will crawl the specified URL, extract text as a search engine would, remove common stop words and displays the density of your keywords.
• Redirect Check
  It is import that a search engine is able to follow any redirects that you may have set up. This tool helps you determine whether the redirect you have created is search engine friendly.
• Link Price Calculator
  This tools will help you determine the appropriate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website.
• Reciprocal Link Check
  This tool helps you ensure that your link partners are linking back to your website. It also determines the anchor text used by your link partners to link to your website.
• Check Yahoo WebRank
  A Yahoo seo tools that helps you evaluate the importance of a URL as perceived by Yahoo
• Domain Stats Tool
  This tool helps you get all kinds of statistics of your competitor’s domains. The statistics include Pages Indexed by various Search Engines, Backlink count, Alexa Taffic Rank, and Age of the domains, etc.
• Domain Age Tool
  Older domains may get a slight edge in search engine rankings. This tool displays the approximate age of a website on the Internet and allows you to view how the website looked when it first started. It also helps you find out the age of your competitor’s domains.
• Keyword Suggestions Tool
  This tool will help you determine relevant and popular keywords related to your website.
• Website Keyword Suggestions
  This tools tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates.
• URL Rewriting Tool
  This tool helps you convert dynamic URLs into static looking HTML URLs.
• Keyword-Rich Domain Suggestion Tool
  Having a KEYWORD-RICH domain name is an important factor for Search Engine Optimization. This tool will suggest keyword rich domain names.
• Website to Country
  Many people wonder why their websites dont rank well in country specific search engines, most of the search engines determines country of the website based on the physical location of the website’s IP Address. This tools helps determine the Country in which the specified website is Hosted.
• Alexa Ranking Tool
  This tool allows you to get the Alexa traffic rankings of you and your competitors.