: Tools to monitor/analyse your website after launch I often launch a new website. Most of the time these are brand new websites with new domain names and new content. When I am done and go

@Megan663

I'd add Chartbeat.com to the list. No need to wait around for data to come in….Chartbeat does real-time monitoring of what's happening on your website RIGHT NOW.

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@Lengel546

Site speed is not just a factor that can marginally improve your website's Google ranking but well performing pages can help you save on bandwidth costs & result in a better user experience for the site's visitors. So you can run the site through some of these free web performance analysis & optimization tools & work on the recommendations they offer.

popuri.us is a tool you can use to check the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc)

If you offer a RSS feed for the site, you can find how it compares against competitor's feeds using Feed Compare

Use W3C Link Checker occasionally to check for broken links.

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@RJPawlick198

There are tons of tools. In general. I think you will find there are 2 kinds of tools.


Tools to Analyze how well written, the SEO friendliness, and speed of your site.
Tools to Analyze and watch the who, what, when, where, and how of the visitors that hit your site.


First to cover analyzing tools. These tools are great pre and post launch. Google Webmaster tools will gives you some idea about crawling issue, broken links, site speed, etc. I also find these tools helpful:


IIS7's SEO 1.0 Toolkit. It finds broken links, SEO errors, HTML errors, and a ton more.
W3C's HTML validator here, validator.w3.org/. Its great for the HTML nitty gritty.
SenSEO - www.sensational-seo.com/ Is also pretty good though it isn't up to date with the latest version of FireFox right now.


Then for monitoring tools you have a ton of options. Google Analytics is great and free.


Omniture, www.omniture.com/en/, is great but isn't cheap.
CrazyEgg, www.crazyegg.com, is a great heatmap tool. It lets you see where people click on your page. It isn't free either but it isn't prohibitively expensive.
This site, tools.seobook.com/ has some great tools. To get the full benefit you have to spend money but you can use the simple tools for free.
This site, www.seo-browser.com, will show you what you page looks like to the crawlers. It is free
SEOMoz has some awesome tools, some free, most aren't. www.seomoz.org/tools Bruce Clay's company also has some free tools and some that cost money. www.bruceclay.com/seo/tools.htm

Finally, www.dailyblogtips.com/top-25-seo-blogs/ is a list of the top 25 blogs as of a few years ago. The sites listed are full of tools and information you are trying to find.

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