Need 3 Free Web Testing Tools You Will Stop and Use Today?

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1. Adrienne says:

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   You are right Sheila, those are great tools to use.

   A friend of mine recently had her entire blog copied and she was pretty upset when she found they had literally copied the whole thing. Not just a post or two but the entire blog. So for those types of issues, Copyscape is really a must.

   I believe I first heard about Hubspot by Marcus and a friend sent me the link recently to grade my site. Since it dropped with this last PR update he thought it might help me. It’s a really cool tool I must admit.

   The heat map is another cool tool, you are so right. Before I saw this I had no idea how important it is to have things placed on your blog so that when brand new people land on it, there are certain things they will see first. I found that to be pretty fascinating.

   Thanks for sharing, haven’t thought of these in awhile.

   Adrienne
   • Sheila Atwood says:

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     Adrienne,

     Thanks, so glad you are familiar with these tools and use them.

     I heard about HubSpot from Marcus also and I am glad I did. The website grader has been an eye opener for me.

     I am fairly new to heat maps, but they have fast become a tool I use all the time.
2. Rancid says:

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   You gotta love free web tools, although is kinnda hard to find free quality service out there. I’ll name just a few that I use:
   tools.pingdom.com – will test your website loading speed (very useful)

   seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html – will analyze your pages from the SEO point of view, its a great way to verify if your website and pages are SEO friendly

   Google adwords tools – no need for details here.
   • Sheila Atwood says:

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     Rancid,

     Thanks for the extra tools I have checked them out and I will be adding them to my list. They are very nice.

     http://tools.pingdom.com/

     http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html – This site has several more really nice tools

     I am using my Google Webmaster tools more and more all the time. I am hoping others are doing the same, it sounds like you are.

     Appreciate your comment.
3. Brankica says:

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   Hey Sheila, I love Copyscape because it saved my “behind” numerous times when checking for duplicate content when people send me their guest posts. I also used the Website grader before.

   I love heat maps and I am going to check these links as soon as I post the comment, opened them in separate tabs so I don’t forget

   I recently wrote about Clicky which is my favorite tool at the moment, because it gives me all the stats in real time. So I would suggest people to check it out, it is free for one website.

   Thanks for the tip on the heat maps, I was going to check out the Crazy Egg, but never got around to it, cause I plan so many things with my blog that it would not make sense to scan it in details and optimize when I didn’t even finish the basics I had planned. This is regarding to not such a low price on Crazy Egg which I can’t justify (yet).

   Brankica
4. Sheila Atwood says:

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   Brankica,

   Thanks for the suggestions!

   Clicky is an excellent tool. I will be putting it on one of my sites. I like the fact that you can test your bitly URLs and the split testing feature is very nice.

   http://getclicky.com/

   I plan on doing some redesigning based off of the heat map I have done for my site.

   Although CrazyEgg is not free it is a nice option and the $9.00 option could be worth it for some people.

   https://www.crazyegg.com/pricing/a
5. Lisa Raymond says:

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   I LOVE Hubspot’s Web Grader and Twitter Grader tools! (OK, mostly because of the silly messages they have pop up while the analysis is running!) I’ll have to check these two others out and see how they rock. Do you use all three together? In order to use Copyscape, wouldn’t you have to know someone took your post, or is it mostly for those you are guest blogging for?
6. Sheila Atwood says:

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   Lisa,

   All three tools are very different. CopyScape does search the web to find content that has been copied. It can even pick up little snippets of copied content.

   Heat maps show the hot spots on your site. They show you where to put you most important information. I am working on some simple changes for my site based on my heat map.
7. Glen @ how to make a website says:

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   We’ve been using Hubspot for over year now and happy to see some good results. It’s quite pricey but they’re worth it.