free SEO tools

There are a myriad of free SEO tools available,

 and even many sites that list these free tools the compendium

 sites are generally supported by advertising, and must

 therefore practice good SEO themselves to be successful.

Some good sites that list and provide links to free

 SEO analysis tools

 http://www.trugroovez.com/free-seo-tools.htm, http://www.webuildpages.com/tools/, and http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/11-link-popularity-tools.html.

Some of the most useful and free single-purpose SEO tools are:

• NickeBot: a keyword discovery tool that helps pinpoint the
   right keywords for optimization, http://www.nichebot.com/.
• The SERPS Tool: the SERPS or Search Engine Positioning 
  tool helps you discover your ranking across Google and 
  other major search engine in one fell swoop,
   http://www.seo-guy.com/seo-tools/se-pos.php.
• Meta Tag Analyzer: checks meta information for errors 
  and relevance to page content
  , http://www.seo-guy.com/seo-tools/se-pos.php.

These tools can definitely be time savers, particularly if you

 have a large amount of content you need to optimize. 

The price is certainly right!

Individual tools also can serve as a reality check: by running 

 your pages through one of these tools you can get a pretty 

good feeling for how well you have optimized a page. 

However, you should bear in mind that there is nothing

 that one of these tools can do for you that cannot also

 be done by hand given the knowledge you have learned from this article.

Individually, SEO analysis tools available on the Web

 can help you with your SEO tasks. However, to get

 the most from these tools you need to understand 

underlying SEO concepts, as explained in this article, 

before you use these tools.

Over time, as you progress with SEO, you will probably 

accumulate your own favorite SEO analysis toolkit.