16 Free Tools, Built From Real SEO Work.
These 16 free utilities cover on-page checks, structured data formatting, crawl control files, migration validation, social sharing tags, and campaign tracking.
They are built to solve the same small, recurring, practical problems that come up constantly in real client SEO and technical work — organized into six categories, completely free to use, with no account required.
Why Give These Away for Free?
These tools solve the practical, recurring tasks that happen every day in SEO — checking a robots.txt file, validating a sitemap, or generating schema markup. Rather than solving them privately every time, I built them as tools anyone can use.
Find the Right Tool
16 tools organized across 6 distinct technical and content categories.
On-Page & Content Tools
On-Page SEO Checker
Analyzes a page's title tag, meta description, heading structure, content length, and keyword usage, flagging common on-page issues and opportunities.
Open ToolImage SEO Checker
Reviews images on a page for alt text, file size, filename structure, and format, highlighting what's helping or hurting image SEO.
Open ToolStructured Data Tools
Crawl Control & Indexing Tools
Robots.txt Generator
Creates a properly formatted robots.txt file based on the crawl rules you specify.
Open ToolRobots.txt Tester
Tests whether specific URLs are allowed or blocked by an existing robots.txt file.
Open ToolXML Sitemap Generator
Creates a properly formatted XML sitemap from a list of URLs.
Open ToolXML Sitemap Validator
Checks an existing XML sitemap for formatting errors or issues.
Open ToolSitemap-to-URL List Converter
Converts an XML sitemap into a plain list of URLs for auditing or bulk processing.
Open ToolCSV-to-Sitemap Converter
Converts a CSV list of URLs into a properly formatted XML sitemap.
Open ToolMigration & Redirect Tools
Redirect Rule Generator
Generates properly formatted redirect rules for common redirect scenarios.
Open ToolRedirect Mapping Tool
Helps map old URLs to new URLs during a site restructure or migration, keeping redirects organized.
Open ToolSEO Migration Redirect Checker
Validates that redirects are correctly implemented and working after a site migration.
Open ToolSocial Sharing Tools
What These Tools Are Great For — and Where They Stop
A free tool can tell you that a page is missing a tag or that a sitemap has a broken URL. It can't tell you which of the 200 issues on your site actually matter. Knowing when to use a tool versus when to get help is critical.
These tools are a great fit if:
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You need a quick, one-off check or file generated — a single page's on-page elements, one robots.txt file, one sitemap.
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You're a student or course learner practicing hands-on SEO skills and want to check your own work.
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You're a developer implementing a specific SEO recommendation (schema, redirects, sitemaps) and need a fast, no-login utility.
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You want to spot-check something before deciding whether it's worth deeper investigation.
You need more than a free tool if:
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You need a full-site audit, not a single-page check. See SEO Audits course or the SEO Audit service.
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You're planning or executing a site migration and need a complete, managed process. See SEO Migration Services.
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You need ongoing technical management, not a one-time generated file. See Technical SEO.
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You need help prioritizing which on-page or content issues actually matter. See On-Page SEO or Content Optimization.
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You want to understand why AI search visibility matters for your structured data. See AI SEO.
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You need a full campaign tracking and attribution setup. See Analytics and Measurement.
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You want to actually learn how to interpret and act on what these tools show you. See the Course Catalog (particularly the Foundational Track).
Getting the Most Out of These Tools
These tools give you data or output — a list of issues, a generated file, a validation result — but interpreting that output and deciding what actually matters is a separate skill entirely.
Treat a tool's output as a starting point for investigation, not a finished verdict. A page that passes every technical check can still fail to rank if the content doesn't match search intent. If you want to build the judgment to prioritize what these tools flag, I recommend starting with the Foundational Track or the SEO Audits course.
Being Honest About the Limits
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These tools check one page, one file, or one specific item at a time — they don't run ongoing, automated monitoring across an entire site.
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They surface issues and generate output; they don't prioritize which issues matter most for your specific business or judge trade-offs.
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They don't replace a full technical, content, or migration audit for complex or large-scale sites.
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They don't provide strategic recommendations — only the specific check or file each tool is built to output.
Need Help Beyond the Tools?
If you've run the checks and realized you need someone to interpret the results, prioritize the fixes, or just handle the execution for you, the next step is a strategic service or a structured course.