Ask HN: Do you use SEO tools? Which do you use?

5 points by nickfromseattle ↗ HN
I am launching a website and I believe SEO will be important to its success, lately I've been doing a good amount of reading on the subject.

Today, I saw GinzaMetrics was featured on Appsumo and realized I don't know much about the SEO tools available to me.

Anything you would like to share, I appreciate. Here are some starter questions:

What tool do you use?

What do you think about it? Positive experience overall, or something you could do without?

Does it save time/money?

Have you used more than 1 tool? Which do you prefer? why?

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You should definitely try the following:

1. SeoMoz - Nice articles and posts about SEO tips and techniques (www.seomoz.org)

2. websitegrader.com (Seems popular but haven't used it extensively)

3. Google Trends - See what topics are trending on Google Search and tweak your site content accordingly. (www.google.com/trends)

4. Google Insights - See what terms are more common during search and adjust your site content, meta tags and titles accordingly. (http://www.google.com/insights/search/)

5. Google Webmaster Tools - Monitor your Google rankings and more. (www.google.com/webmasters/)

6. Monitor your page rank and presence on other high traffic websites. (www.popuri.us)

7. Must read blog for all webmasters - googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com