Ecommerce SEO Tools

This SEO tools list covers the main ecommerce SEO tools that we regularly use.

SEO Toolbars (Browser Extensions)

Search Analytics

  • Google Analytics - This free program is one of the most widely-used SEO tools, providing Google data on audience stats, marketing channels, customer acquisition, and conversion. Premium version has deeper data on the customer journey, actionable insights, & remarketing
  • Clicky - Real-time analytics data, includes heat maps
  • Mint - One-time purchase around $30, self-hosted, simplistic interface
  • Open Web Analytics - Open source, includes click-stream data, heat maps, mouse tracking, and click tracking
  • CrazyEgg (owned by Neil Patel)
  • Matomo - Free, open source self-hosted program with a learning curve and a mobile app. Protects your data and your customers' privacy
  • WebTrends - Website analytics, measurement, and testing
  • Adobe Analytics (formerly Omniture SiteCatalyst) - Online marketing and Web analytics.
  • IBM Digital Analytics (formerly Coremetrics) - Online marketing and Web analytics.

Ecommerce SEO Tools - Suites & Platforms

  • Google Search Console - (Formerly Google Webmaster Tools) Check links to your site, search queries, crawl errors, indexing issues, and site warning message.
  • Bing Webmaster Tools - Learn user searches on Bing, get demographic data, explore backlinks, submit your sitemap, and augment keyword research.
  • SEOClarity - A lot of customizable actionable insight data, reporting, content analysis, rank tracking, and SEO recommendations.
  • Moz Pro - Tool set with On-Page Grader, Analytics, FreshWeb Explorer, Rank Tracker, Keyword Difficulty, Crawl Test.
  • Raven Tools - Tools for managing and reporting on your online marketing.
  • BrightEdge - Reporting, rank tracking, and automated recommendations for SEO, content, and social media.
  • SERPStat - Keyword research, analytics, ad analysis, competitor research, rank tracking, page audits, create infographics.
  • Bruce Clay SEO Toolset - Keyword stats tool, check site crawlability, page analyzer, link analysis, and more.

Research Tools

  • SEO Book Keyword Tool, Keyword Revealer, and KW Finder - Three tools worth checking out for keyword search volume research data.
  • SpyFu - Another great tool for competitor keyword research, and site ads usage research.
  • Google Trends - Find out what people are searching for on Google as you compare the popularity of search phrases.
  • Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Answer "What did this site used to look like?" by checking this massive archive.
  • Ad PreviewTool - Emulating Google's defunct Preview Tool to review ads without racking up impressions charges.
  • SEM Rush - Contains many tools like keyword mining, competitor comparison, keyword tracking, and keyword difficulty.
  • Adwords Keyword Planner - This used to be the best tools for keyword research but now search volume data is listed in broad ranges... not very useful anymore.
  • SEOquake - SEO tool for checking site backlink stats; keyword density; no-follow links; page info, age, and other metrics.

Search Engine Algorithm Tools

Site Crawlers

  • Screaming Frog Guide - Ideas for how to apply Screaming Frog to identify site issues.
  • Xenu Link Sleuth - Powerful crawler crawls all links on your site and reports on status codes, content type, and page size.

Sitemap Creators

Google Guidelines Information

Site Quality Tools/Checkers

SEO Tools

  • Google Analytics Checker - Check your whole site for Google Analytics code or AdWords code in one click.
  • Feed the Bot - Check how well your site follows Google webmaster guidelines.
  • BrowSEO - Text-based browser.
  • SEO Browser - Another text-based browser.
  • WebPageTest - Run a website speed test world-wide and get speed optimization recommendations.

Design Tools

  • Encycolorpedia - Find color schemes and gradients, name HTML color codes, palette generator, web safe colors.

Developer/Coding Tools

Meta Tag Tools

Link-Related Tools

  • Open Link Profiler - A backlink profile review tool - the free version provides quite a bit of data.
  • Ahrefs - This is the best tool for analyzing backlinks to your site, charts with new and lost links, link quality, and anchor terms.
  • moz OpenSiteExplorer - Check out the top backlinks to your site, anchor text, page and domain authority, and filter.
  • SEO Majestic - Get a breakdown of backlinks and anchor text, trust flow and citation flow charts.
  • Dead Link Checker - Checks for broken links on your website.

Local SEO Tools List

Social Promotion Tools

    • followerWonk - Analyze Twitter and social follower segments; graph and track social media metrics.

Let us know if you have any favorites that you think should make our ecommerce SEO tools list!