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Google's Keyword Planner would have the most accurate data, one would assume. All the same, they don't make the full detail available to everyone - the amount of searches isn't shown as an exact number, but as a broad range, which makes it far less useful.
The tool still provides you with excellent keyword suggestions, allows you to monitor keyword trends, and see how the volumes change over time.
An advanced, paid tool which includes detailed analysis of your site's backlinks and their quality. Also includes competitor research and site auditing.
Focuses on avoiding Google penalties, with an innovative tool which simulates the risk of a potential new link.
Another innovative tool presents information on how quickly your site is building links so you can compare with your competitors and make sure you're winning the race.
KWFinder provides a detailed keyword analysis and report, including historical trends, search volumes, and cost-per-click information. It also analyzes the sites in the search results for authority and other ranking information.
Of particular interest is their long tail keyword analysis which identifies those not targeted by your competitors.
If the name didn't give it away, SpyFu is a keyword research tool with a focus on analysing your competitors keywords, showing you what keywords your competitors pay for (or rank for organically), the amount of clicks they get, and how much they pay.
It also allows you to monitor your competitors for AdWords campaigns, letting you know when ad spend changes, as well as informing you of competitor's keywords that you're not competing on.
One wonders how they come across this data, but they come highly recommended from around the web.
Admirably, SpyFu offers a no-nonsense approach to paying for their services, with low costs and unlimited data and downloads.
Game design articles from a game designer and artist
This tool allows you to bulk check the Domain Authority and Page Authority of a number of sites in one go - a nice time saving tool if you manage a lot of sites. The metric itself comes from Moz.
For free, it allows you to bulk check up to 10 sites.
A well-presented analysis of your backlinks, including domains, anchor text and URLs, and a comparison tool.
You get a preview of data for free, expandable to a basic analysis by registering - also for free - and much more data when you pay a fair price.
Serpstat is a general SEO tool providing position tracking, backlink analysis, competitor research, and a site audit.
The keyword research identifies Google volume, competition, and cost-per-click rates. It also provides analysis on niche questions.
For backlink analysis, Serpstat gives a detailed report on referring domains, backlinks with historical charts, and a quality score or rank.
Serpstat also provides a site audit functionality, identifying errors and recommendations, analysing meta tags, headings, redirects, accessibility, and inbound links. It's error reports are detailed and instruct you on how to fix them.
The cheapest tier provides a generous amount of data at a price that won't put you out of business.
This one's a bit different, it utilizes the auto-complete feature on Google and Bing to identify and track long-tail keywords, with a visualisation breaking up the queries into who/what/where/why/how categories.
Great reads on game design, particularly in the strategy space by professional game designer Keith Burgun. Founded his own studio, wrote books on game design.
Discussion of the theory of game design, and theoretical aspects of development as it relates to their game, Overgrowth.
A popular blog from professional game designer Chris DeLeon. Cred: worked at EA, had impressive success with games for iOS.
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