Google Tools

Google, being the most popular search engine, plays a major role in SEO. However, Google offers many tools for SEO. These tools are used for SEO as well as for other applications. Major Google tools are as follows:

Web site promotion tools - A webmaster would use this section to search keyword and key phrase rankings.

Web site analysis tools - Webmasters can use these tools to analyze various sites for Meta tags of any given site, check out your friends’ sites or competitors’ sites.

Link popularity tools - This is a useful set of tools to see how a sites links compare relative to one another.

Miscellaneous tools - This set of tools is a webmasters mix bag of goodies. Get your domain name typos, and keyword / Phrase typos generated automatically.

Some of the popular tools in SEO are:

• Google Notebook: An easy way to organize your notes; integrates with many other Google applications, such as Gmail.
  
• Google Docs: You can use Google Docs as a free Web-based spreadsheet and word processor.
  
• Google Scholar: A simple way to search for scholarly literature on any subject you can think of.
  
• Google Calendar: Plug in your daily calendar with the multi-faceted Google Calendar
  
• Google Desktop: Find what you're looking for on your computer more easily with Google Desktop.
  
• Picasa: A free image editing and organization tool from Google.
  
• Google Scholar: A simple way to search for scholarly literature on any subject you can think of.