The best free online tools for webmasters

Every webmaster has a lot on their plate, from writing and publishing content to maintaining website updates. And everything in between, with some handy online tools you can make some things easier for yourself. And perhaps discover more opportunities for your website to come out on top. Let's cover those in this article.

In this article we will briefly explain a number of tools that you can use to create and maintain your website and content. These tools can get you up and running quickly for any budget since they are free options to use. Many of the tools in this list are also available as paid options. These options can always be unlocked when you run into limits. And often also have more budget to spend for this. Let's start with the list of must have tools for your website!

Tracking and organizing email

Email tracking and organization is often a daily task that you run into, because every email address that you mention on your website will receive SPAM as well as regular emails. At MijnHostingPartner.nl we have a lot of tools to limit this. Like our advanced SPAM filtering and recognition, the extensive DNS records that can be added for extra security. And last but not least the automatic actions that can be added.

It's up to you, however, to keep track of your email and keep it under control, for which there is one central location. And that is your cell phone. As soon as an email arrives you can decide what happens to it. The best email client we have found for this is the Spark email client, used on Android, IOS and MACOS. And soon for Windows. This email client works particularly fine and excellent with our email servers. This is why we always recommend this as one of the first things to install for your email address. Email is and remains an important form of communication for your customers, suppliers and other companies. And even mutual communication.

Ahrefs and Semrush

Ahrefs and Semrush are similar to each other, both have a free version of their accounts available. Where you do get constrained, but can still give an important insight into your website. There is namely a deep dive into your website, where you rank in the search results and what position. How your backlinks are built from your own website. The website speed and suitability. And so on and so forth. Both of these tools can be devoted a separate article itself, and we'll probably elaborate on them in the future. But it is a good start for anyone who has a website to keep up with one of these two tools or similar tools and experiment with them.

Keyword surfer

Keyword surfer shows you quickly and easily in the normal Google search results what the data behind this keyword is. With useful information you can for example immediately see the estimated search volume in the country you selected, and the estimated pay per click cost of an ad. And also a number of suggestions for what else is going on around that keyword. So this is a handy tool for anyone looking for keywords to rank for and which make sense to target. This is a Chrome extension and therefore easy to add to your Google Chrome browser.

Grammerly

Grammerly is for now only applicable if you run English language websites, however this is a free tool and spellcheck that you can install within Google Chrome or other browsers. Which allows you to quickly pick out the errors. With suggestions and more extensive recognition than the standard spell checkers, Grammerly is indispensable for anyone working in English on their website.

Google Search Console and Analytics

Google Search Console and Analytics will often need no introduction. With these two tools you get a glimpse of how the mighty Google sees your website. Google Analytics is for tracking your direct website results and processing them into reports. Like the number of conversions and visitors to a specific page. And Google Search Console shows how your website is seen by the search engine. With few steps you can see immediately how there is insight. Install this easily within your hosting via DNS and a small addition in the header of your website.

Unsplash for copyright free images

Unsplash is a fine source of copyright free images that you can use on a website. A graphic often adds a lot to a blog post, a page or social media and can therefore almost be considered indispensable. Unsplash is an easy way to find images for this.

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