SEO Tools Review: LinkDex, Raven SEO Tools and AuthorityLabs

If you are serious about SEO, you should consider using some software tools to help you manage and track your progress. Below are 3 tools that could help you.

LinkDex

LinkDex is a new solution that provides a suite of Online SEO Tools to help users promote their website. They provide services such as SEO Task management, Keywords Suggestions, Competitor analysis and Link Building. You may think that other services have that as well, but LinkDex manage to do it even better. They take the idea of SEO and simplify it thus allowing any website owner to do their own SEO.

Their Task management system is aimed at users who are new to SEO and want a checklist they can go through to optimise their Website to be SEO Friendly. The task manager has items like Keyword Research, Site Optimisation, Ranking Check, Content Check and much more. Admittedly these tasks are aimed at new users but the task manager allows more experienced users to add their Own Tasks and add Due Dates to those tasks.

Another feature of LinkDex is their Link Building tool. This tool takes a competitors website and finds the websites that are linked to it. From that list, LinkDex finds suitable websites that you use to place links to your website. Links have to be obtained manually by the user but the list of websites to place links is very comprehensive. This tool is a very useful tool for new and experienced users.

Keyword Ranking is an essential part of SEO. It is how you judge your progress and see if you efforts have paid off. Like other SEO Tools, LinkDex have a Keywords Ranking tool that tracks the rank of your keywords on Google and Bing.

Overall, LinkDex is a powerful SEO Software Suite that will help anyone new to the world of SEO.

Raven SEO Tools

Raven SEO Tools like LinkDex is a suite of Online SEO Tools for users to manage and track their SEO. Raven has been running for a few years and has a large number of users that use their tools. Some features of note are their Social Tracking tools, Google Analytics Integration, Email Marketing Integration and SERP Tracking Tools.

Social Tracking is not a very common tool found in SEO Software Suites, but Raven have included this feature in their package. This tool allows the user to track their Business or Website in various social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. This tool is extremely useful when you need to manage your businesses social standing by making it easy for you to find and track what is being said about your business and giving you a chance to respond.

Raven has even integrated links to a few external software solutions such as Website Analytics software Google Analytics and email marketing software Mail Chimp. Raven will display details from your Google Analytics and Mail Chimp account in their dashboard. This allows you find all the information you need in one place and also allow you to compare results and perform deeper analysis of your SEO Campaign.

SERP Tracking or Keyword Tracking is the core of any good SEO Suite. Raven’s SERP Tracking is very comprehensive allowing you to track keywords on Google, Yahoo and Bing. It even allows you to track according to country. The display of ranking is very intuitive and easy to read making this a very good SERP Ranking Tool.

The fact that Raven includes an extensive SEO Tool set shows that this SEO Software Suite is very comprehensive. Raven SEO Tools have multiple packages ranging from Solo Users to Agency Users. If you are an agency or experienced in SEO you should look at Raven SEO Tools.

Authority Labs

As previously mentioned, SERP or Keyword Tracking is the core of any good SEO Software Suite. Authority Labs do just that and they do it very well.

AuthorityLabs SERP Tracking tool allows you to track keyword ranks on Google, Yahoo and Bing according to country. Your website is checked against the top 100 results of each Keyword entered into their SERP Ranking tool. AuthorityLabs then classify the keywords found on a search result page according the link type and even display the search volume of that keywords. The tool monitors the movement of your website and lets you know if it has moved up or down in the rankings.

This is a good example of doing one thing and doing it very well. If you are looking for only SERP Tracking, then you will want to look at AuthorityLabs.

A quick recap of the 3 SEO Software Solutions.

LinkDex, ideal for newer users looking to learn about SEO and actually doing something about it. So if you are new to SEO, consider getting LinkDex.
Raven SEO Tools, a perfect solution for more experienced users looking for a broader feature set. I would not hesitate to recommend this software to anyone who has experience in SEO looking to manage their website better.
Authority Labs, for users only looking to track their keyword performance on search engines. Those who just want to track their Search Rankings and nothing else should consider getting AuthorityLabs.

One comments so far, add your own below

  • September 13 2011 at 2:49 pm mr morris

    Linkdex is a great bit of kit for analysing your historical seo progress, but does nothing to your actual rankings. The link building tab leaves most of the work up to you. Then you can either use a tool like Ignite SEO to build the links automatically, or find some good footprints and do it yourself.

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