B2B SEO Consultant Alternatives: Best 5 Tools
Looking for alternatives in place of an SEO consultant? If so, it can be possible only through some SEO tools. We will try to cover the best tools that help your site on both technical SEO as well as on-page SEO.
Technical SEO Consultant Alternatives
Tool 1: Screaming Frog (Free)
This tool identifies the technical issues found on the site. All you have to do is the following:
Step 1: Install the tool on your PC/Desktop.
Step 2: Enter your website URL in the tool.
Step 3: The tool populates a list of technical as well as on-page issues on the website.
Step 4: List down the issues along with the respective solutions to your web developer.
Step 5: Once the developer completes the audit fixes, run the audit again through the tool to check there are no high or medium priority issues.
What are all the major issues that get covered in the Screaming Frog tool?
Screaming Frog helps you uncover both technical and on-page SEO issues across your website. Here are the issues:
1. Crawlability Issues
2. Duplicate Content Issues
3. Page Title Issues
4. Meta Description Issues
5. Header Tag Issues (H1–H6)
6. Orphan pages
7. High size Image
8. Canonical issues
9. Response code errors: 404 pages
Tool 2: Google PageSpeed Insights
This tool identifies website speed issues, mainly:
- FCP (First Contentful Paint)
- LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)
These are the main parameters from Google’s perspective, along with JS and other rendering issues.
How to use the tool?
Step 1: Go to Google PageSpeed Insights (mention PageSpeed URL).
Step 2: Enter your website URL.
Step 3: The tool populates the issues along with recommendations.
Step 4: Share the report with the developer and get the issues resolved.
Step 5: Once issues are fixed, run the test again and re-check the issues.
Issues get identified in Google Insights tool
- Core Web Vitals
- JavaScript Issues
- CSS & Render-Blocking Issues
- Image Optimization
- Font & Text Issues
- Mobile Performance Issues
- Desktop Performance
Understand the scenarios When Do You Need a B2B SEO Consultant through this blog.
On-Page SEO Consultant Alternatives
Tool 3: SEMrush
It is a paid tool that helps us find keyword opportunities in your niche, including opportunities to appear in the AI Overviews section of Google.
The tool is slightly expensive if you go with the premium version. But you can go with the basic plan – $165/month. There is a free trial available for 7 days. You can check out the pricing here.
How to use SEMrush tool for keyword sourcing?
Step 1: Log in to SEMrush.
Step 2: Go to the Keyword Magic Tool option from the side panel.
Step 3: Type your niche-based keyword.
Step 4: Select the keyword difficulty up to 30.
Step 5: List down and compile these keywords.
Step 6: Based on intent, develop blogs, resources, product, or service pages.
SEMrush Tool
SEMrush is a comprehensive tool that helps with:
- Site spam score
- Domain overview
- Keyword gaps
- Competitor analysis
- And more
To start keyword research, the Keyword Magic feature is especially helpful.
Read our blog on How to Find AI Overview Keywords through SEMRush
Tool 4: AnswerThePublic
When SEMrush’s paid version is not a possible choice, AnswerThePublic is a good alternative. This tool covers most of the questions asked by your target audience for a particular keyword.
- You can perform 3 searches per day in the free version.
How to use the tool
Step 1: Go to AnswerThePublic.
Step 2: Type your keyword.
Step 3: The tool populates all related questions for that keyword in a diagram format.
Step 4: Take a screenshot and convert those questions into blogs, resource pages, or content ideas.
Tool 5: Google Search Console
This free tool offered by Google helps us understand which queries our website is appearing for in search results.
How to use the tool
Step 1: Ensure you have connected your website with the tool.
Step 2: Once that’s done, go to Search Console → Performance → Search queries.
Step 3: Review the queries you’re ranking for and:
- Develop new content, or
- Update existing content based on the populated queries.
Step 4: Repeat this process regularly until you notice a shortage of new queries.
Google Search Console is a goldmine when used properly and effectively.
Wrap-up
These 5 tools can be alternatives to a website SEO consultant for your B2B business when you have a limited budget.
However, hiring a B2B website consultant is a better choice when:
- You want to grow drastically within a few months, and
- You have a healthy budget to invest.
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