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The SEO Tools found in this section were designed to assist you in configuring your website(s) for search engine optimization within the different search engines. Please select one of the SEO Tools from below to begin optimizing your website(s) for top placement within the search engines. Our SEO tools do not support any secured server sites due to authentication issues.

Adsense Calculator
Google AdSense affiliates can use this calculator to gain a better understanding of what affects their earnings by experimenting with values.
AdSense Preview
This preview utility will give you a sense of which ads would be placed on a given page.
Advanced Meta Tag Generator
This tool helps you add meta tags to your site.
Alexa Rank Comparison Tool
The Alexa Traffic History Graph allows you to create a traffic history graph for any site.
Check Server Headers
Check your server to make sure the proper HTTP Status Codes (200, 301, 302, 304, 307, 404, 410) are being returned in the server headers.
Class C Checker
This Class C Checker tool allows you to find out whether some sites are hosted on the same Class C IP Range.
Code to Text Ratio
This tool will help you discover the percentage of text in a web page (as compared to the combined text and code).
CPM Calculator
This calculator measures the ROI (return on investment) of the CPM (cost per thousand) impressions advertising model.
Domain Age Check
Use this tool to find the age of a domain.
Domain Typo Generator
Enter a domain name into the box, and this tool will generate a list of suggestions of likely human misspellings and typos for the given domain.
Find Broken Links, Redirects & Site Crawl Tool
This is one of the best SEO tools out there! Use it to find broken links on your site and generate an XML formatted sitemap. You also have the option to export your data into a downloadable spreadsheet.
Google Freebase Tool
The Google Freebase tool is a knowledge base that allows commercial and non-commercial users to search for cross-linked data. Google Freebase operates by pulling data from an open and shared database of the world's knowledge composed by its community members.
Header Checker Tool
This SEO tool will check any web page's header tags. Use our header checker to find any page's status code to ensure that your URLs are returning the appropriate status codes and re-directs are working properly. A surprising number of indexing and ranking problems come from erroneous re-directs, so it's crucial to be sure all of the HTTP status codes are correct.
Image & Link Analyzer
This tool will query Google's various data centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a given URL. Want to see all of the images on your web page, along with their size, ALT text and a real size display of the image? How about a list of all of your page links - external links, internal links, style sheets, XML and other assets? Do you know which ones aren't working? Among our free SEO tools, this one is always popular for its multi-purpose functionality!
Keyword Cloud
This tool provides a visual representation of keywords used on a website.
Keyword Density
This tool will analyze your chosen URL, and return a table of keyword density values for one-, two-, or three-word key terms.
Keyword Density Analysis Tool
Enter a page URL and this free SEO tool will tell you the keyword density of all the phrases on the page. Find out how strong of a keyword message your content is sending with the Keyword Density Analysis Tool. Get hard numbers on your content ratios to find out if you need more or have too much. Use this tool to ensure a solid balance of keywords within your content, and to match the right keywords to the right pages.
Keyword Optimizer
Enter a list of keywords and this tool will remove any duplicate entries and re-order the list alphabetically.
Keyword Typo Generator
Enter a keyword or key term into the box above and this tool will generate a list of suggestions for likely human misspellings and typos.
Meta Analyzer
This tool will analyze a website's meta tags. Analyzing a competitor's keyword and description meta values is a good way to find ideas for key terms and more effective copy for your site.

Meta Tag Generator Tool
Quickly create new meta tags for your website with one of the best Internet marketing tools available. This tool will prompt you for various meta tags, including title, description, keywords and author and will then create the meta tags in a format you can copy and paste on to your pages.
On-Page Optimization Tool
See your site as the spider sees it with one of our most useful Internet marketing tools. This snapshot of your site's most basic information can give insight into minor adjustments that offer a major impact. Use this tool to evaluate your internal links, meta information and page content. Take what you learn from this analysis to structure your site to reach its maximum potential.
Page Comparison
Compares the page titles, meta information, and common phrases occurring on different pages.
Page Size
This tool will help you to determine HTML web page size.
Page Speed Tool
Does your page load quickly or is it slow to appear? How does the loading time of your page compare to the loading time of another page? What is the actual speed at which your page loads? Use this tool to analyze how long your page takes to load at a variety of connection speeds, to view what components of your page take the longest amount of time to load, and see a full break down of every component of your page. Also, use our cool "Compare 2 Pages" function to load your page side by side with another!
Robots Text Generator Tool
Building a robots.txt file can be confusing; many online SEO tools donít make the job easier. You need to prevent search engines crawling your site from accessing sensitive files, while permitting access to others. Use our free Robots.txt Generator and Comparison Tool to build or modify your robots.txt file, and see how your new robots.txt will work as compared to your old one.
ROI Calculator
This calculator measures the ROI (return on investment) of a CPC (cost per click) campaign.
Search Combination Tool
This SEO tool will generate all possible combinations of two separate lists of search phrases. Find new ways to promote your website, and reach your audience, when you broaden your keyword horizons. Use these phrases to modify and create new content, as well as to optimize title tags, URLs and internal linking structure. For a new insight into your keyword prospects, generate combinations to kick start the brainstorming process.
Search Engine Keyword Position
This tool checks the search engine result pages of Google, Yahoo, and MSN to see what position your site holds for a particular keyword phrase.
Side-by-Side SEO Comparison Tool
Find all the ways keyword text is used on web page with our free Side-by-Side SEO Comparison Tool. It compares two sites in a side-by-side report, so that you can quickly see how your page and a competitor’s page use keywords, how much text is on the page, and which keywords are used.
Site Link Analyzer
This tool will analyze a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text.
Social Activity Tool
Look at Facebook interactions and Facebook activity for a URL. This free tool brings two great Facebook information streams together on one page to give you insight into who is talking about and recommending pages relative to the URL. Try it when you're logged into Facebook and when you're not to get two different perspectives.
Social Image Resizer Tool
Optimized images are an integral ingredient to success for modern websites. With this free SEO tool, you can easily convert your favorite digital image into a banner, favicon, icon, Facebook profile picture or Twitter profile picture.
Spider Simulator
This tool simulates a search engine spider by displaying the contents of a web page in exactly the way the spider would see it.
URL Redirect Check
This tool checks for valid HTTP 301 headers.
URL Rewriting
This tool converts dynamic URLs to static URLs. You will need to create an .htaccess file to use this tool.

Webmaster Tools

The Webmaster Tools found in this section were designed to assist you to create great looking website(s). Please select one of the Webmaster Tools from the list below to begin.

Base64 Encoding / Decoding
You can use this base64 encoder and decoder to convert source text data from several code pages and encode them to a base64 string or decode base64 strings to a plain text.
Browser Settings
Use this utility to gather useful information about your web browser.
CSS Coder
This point and click utility will assist you by creating Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) definitions that you can cut and paste into your website.
CSS Navigation Menu
This utility will help you create an attractive CSS Navigation Menu without writing a single line of CSS.
Datetime Format Converter
This tool can convert any English textual datetime description into a UNIX timestamp or UNIX timestamp into human-readable English textual date and time.
DHTML Tooltip
Create cool mouse-over tooltips, to pop up helpful information when your site visitors move thier mouse over your links, images, and more.
Dig Utility
This option gives you web access to the unix Dig command, which returns technical Domain Name Service (DNS) information for your website(s).
Domain Whois Lookup Tool
You've registered your new domain and set up your webserver. Can it be reached? Is all of the information correct? The Domain Whois Lookup Tool will display all of your Whois information. It will also check to see if your name servers are actually returning the right information, and if your web server is responding.
DNS Lookup Tool
You can find out a great deal about a hostname or IP address. Our cool DNS lookup tool provides lots of information, such as who owns the domain, what the nameservers for the domain are, and who owns the block of IP addresses your hostname is from.
DNS Utility
Our DNS Utility offers basic Domain Name service queries, such as IP Address lookup, DNS Servers, and SOA records.
Dropdown Menu
Use this simple utility to create a menu inside a dropdown box. Simply add your menu options and our tool supplies the code for a Java-enabled dropdown.
Fetch HTML Content
This utility will fetch the viewable contents of a web page you specify. It removes all HTML tags, leaving just raw text.
Fetch Header
The Fetch Header utility will download and display the actual HTTP headers returned with the web page you specify.
.htaccess Generator
The easiest way to password protect your Apache-based website is to use .htaccess. This utility will generate the correct files (.htaccess and .htpasswd) based on the user name and password you supply.
Hide Your Email Tool
Website e-mail scrapers are becoming far more frequent. The amount of SPAM is rising on a daily basis. Putting your e-mail address on your web page in plain text is like painting a target on your inbox. Use our cool free Hide Your Email tool to convert website email addresses to a graphic or JavaScript format.
HTML to PHP Converter
This powerful online tool enables you to do all HTML to PHP conversion instantly.
HTML Encoder
Most web platforms have some way of manually encoding and decoding this escaped format. If not, you can use our online HTML Encoder to do the job.

HTML Entities Encode / Decode
Copy and paste any HTML document and this tool will convert all the relevant special characters to their respective HTML entities.
IP Convert
Easily convert between standard dotted-quad and decimal IP address notations.
Meta Tags Generator
Use this utility to create the Meta Tags for your site, based on the information you supply.
Online Spell Check Tool
Correct spelling is a key ingredient to great SEO. Optimize the quality of the text content on your web page with the Free Online Spell Check Tool, another free SEO tool from Internet Marketing Ninjas.
Password Encryption Utility
This tool will encrypt any given series of letters or numbers using 3 popular encryption methods.
Password Generator Tool
Do you ever find yourself being asked for a password that contains all sorts of upper and lower case characters, plus numbers, plus symbols? Here's a no-brainer way of generating that password.
Password Strength Checker
Test your passwords to see how strongly they adhere to best practices.
Pattern Extractor
Use this utility to extract information from a web page, matching either one of our pre-defined formats, or a Regular Expression (RegEx).
Ping Utility
This utility sends small packets of information to a website, and measures the amount of time it takes to come back. This can help you narrow down speed issues.
Pop-Up Window Generator
Use this easy form to generate the JavaScript required to open a new browser window using custom location, sizes, etc.
Regular Expression Pattern Extractor
This tool will extract information from any block of text that you specify, using a Regular Expression (RegEx).
Regular Expression Match
If you have a complicated RegEx you are trying to get right, use this utility to test it.
Scrollbar Color for Internet Explorer
This tool will generate all of the required CSS definitions that allow you to customize the scrollbar color in Internet Explorer.
Source Viewer
HTML Source Viewer is a simple yet useful utility for viewing the actual HTML source code for a given webpage.
Syntax Highlighting
If you have a need to show source code or data on your website, you can use this utility to add syntax hilighting to your output. Quite simply, syntax highlighting colorizes your code based on pre-defined keywords. Use this utility to generate the HTML to show your code colorized for easier readability.
URL Encoding
This utility will take any URL and encode all special characters into HTML values.
Web Safe Colors
Use this reference to access the set of 216 common colors that allows an accurate and consistent display on every Internet Browser. These colors can be used with all of the popular web browsers, on IBM and Apple platforms.
What's My IP Tool
How many times have you wondered what your IP address is? How about finding out what city the search engines are probably using for optimizing local searches? Would you like to know if your browser has JavaScript or Adobe Flash enabled, or is compatible with the newest web standards like HTML5 and CSS3?

Deprecated Tools

These tools are considered to be deprecated because their efficiency and accuracy have been affected by updates by outside sources to the calls and functions upon which they were based. We are currently evaluating them to see if they are worth updating, or if they should be removed altogether.

Domain Age Check
Use this tool to find the age of a domain.
Floating Layer
Ever wish you could have a floating window, that you could open and close at will, while letting the user control where it appears on the screen? This utility will create the code for you!
Future PageRank
This tool will query Google's various data centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a given URL.
Google Dance
This tool will query Google's three main web servers, showing the different statuses during updates. Watch Google Dance.
Google Keyword Suggestions
The keyword suggestion tool for Google will help you choose relevant and popular terms related to your selected key term.
Google Search for Multiple Datacenter
This tool searches your keyword/phrase in different Google data centers.
Google Suggest Scraper
Shows frequently searched for phrases starting with the words and letters in your query.
Google vs Yahoo
This tool will run a search query in Google and Yahoo search engines and then graphically compare the results.
Indexed Pages
This tool will return the total link count for each URL from major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista, and AlltheWeb).
Keyword Difficulty Check
Use the Keyword Difficulty Check Tool to see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or keyword phrases.

Keyword Position Check for Multiple Datacenter
This tool will help you to find the position of your site in Google for a specific keyword/phrase.
Link Popularity
Enter a valid URL, and this tool will query all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Teoma) and then return that URL's total link count for each one.
Link Price Calculator
This tool can help you determine the approximate amount you should be paying per month for a text link.
Multiple Datacenter Link Popularity Check
This tool will give a back link count for a URL from multiple Google data centers.
PageRank Lookup
This tool streamlines the process of checking PageRank for your sites. Enter a list of URLs and it will return the PageRank value for each one.
PageRank Search
Enter your Google search here, and our tool will search Google and display the PageRank next to each resulting answer.
Search Engine Comparison
This tool allows you to perform your own comparisons, and displays the results visually, making it easy to see both the rankings and comparative positions of pages in search engine results.
Whois
Use the Whois utility to locate the registration details of existing domains.