As loads of websites are being uploaded every day, it becomes essential to achieve high rankings in SERPs. That’s where the role of SEO appears.  There are so many things come under SEO like keyword research, on-page optimization, off-page optimization and link building etc. But there are still some hidden features of SEO that you might not be aware of. Here are some tools that may help SEO work more efficiently.

Blogs cape

BlogScape is another surprising SEO tool that allows you to check for popularity of keywords, URL and products. You can enter any word, phrase or URL and see a list of thousands RSS feeds appear. This list consists of the phrase you entered in the Blogs cape. Its advanced query operators enable you to follow the unique links that are associated to a specific domain.

Shared Count

Shared count tracks any website’s social sharing figures. No matter you are using Facebook, Twitter, LinkdIn and Google + for social sharing. Shared count also offers an open API and you can build your own tools at the top of it.

IETester

IETester is free downloadable software that allows you to submit different versions of Internet Explorers to check for browser compatibility alongside in a window. As in SEO when you check for browser compatibility, most of the times Google leaves you in a loop. IETester also checks for errors in the alongside window. It’s debugging option help you get rid of the problems that are hard to find.

Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine website enables you to see how a specific website appeared in the past – from 1996 to present. If you want certain content or links from the past that might have disappeared you can use Wayback Machine lets you stare in the past.

URI Valet

URI Valet is a combination of more than 10 different tools. It helps you check for server header and landing page load time. URI Valet also executes technical assessments and site examinations. It authenticates all the external and internal links of a specific page.

SEO Browser

SEO Browser enables you to take a quick look at your webpage’s SEO formation. It lets you see whether you have robot.txt for that webpage or not. Did you install analytics? SEO Browser is great to see complete page text at once.

Robot.txt and Robot.txt Checkers

Robot.txt prevents crawlers and web Robots to access some or all parts of your website. Search engine uses Robots to sort and archive websites. Use Robot.txt files if you have content on your site that you don’t want search engine to index. You can block and delete pages using robot.txt files.

Rank Checker

Rank Checker enables you to check your website’s current rankings. You don’t have to have third party tools to check your search engine ranking, Rank Checker does this all. It runs on your web browser.

Xenu’s Link Sleuth

Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a program installed to check for broken hyperlinks of any website. It works best to check all your website links and make sure they all work well. It is a great tool for your website maintenance and checks every single link your website has.

Another such SEO tool is www.kpmrs.com which helps you view keyword ranking’s report, and also give you website ranking reports for all search engines like Yahoo, Google, Bing etc. This tool is helps you in monitoring your progress and keyword positioning in your on-going SEO initiatives. And also helps in targeting keywords before implementing your SEO strategy.