The best free SEO tool depends on your specific needs and goals. However, some of the most popular and well-regarded free SEO tools include:

• Google Search Console: Google Search Console is a free tool from Google that provides you with insights into how your website is performing in search results. It can help you to identify and fix technical SEO issues, improve your website’s visibility in search results, and track your website’s performance over time.
• Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a free web analytics tool from Google that provides you with detailed insights into your website’s traffic and audience. It can help you to track your website’s performance, identify your most popular content, and understand how visitors are interacting with your website.
• Ahrefs Webmaster Tools: Ahrefs Webmaster Tools is a free tool from Ahrefs that provides you with insights into your website’s backlinks and organic traffic. It can help you to identify your most popular backlinks, track your website’s organic traffic, and identify any potential SEO issues.
• Screaming Frog SEO Spider: Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a free SEO tool that crawls your website and identifies technical SEO issues, such as broken links, duplicate content, and missing meta tags.
• Ubersuggest: Ubersuggest is a free keyword research tool that provides you with keyword suggestions and insights into search volume, competition, and CPC.

Whether SEO or PPC is better for you will depend on your specific business needs and goals. Here is a brief overview of each:

SEO (search engine optimization) is the process of optimizing your website and content so that it ranks higher in search engine results pages (SERPs). This can help you to attract more organic traffic to your website.

PPC (pay-per-click) is a form of online advertising in which you pay a fee each time someone clicks on your ad. PPC ads typically appear at the top of SERPs, above organic results.

Here is a comparison of SEO and PPC:

The best SEO plugins for WordPress will depend on your specific needs and budget. However, some of the top-rated SEO plugins include:

• Yoast SEO
• Rank Math
• All in One SEO (AIOSEO)
• SEOPress
• The SEO Framework

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1. Delete Temporary Files

Manually removing temporary files in Windows gives the most immediate results to clean up the C drive and regain space.

Below, we show you some tricks that clean out your various temporary files automatically, but those methods (like Storage Sense and Disk Clean-up) won’t do a complete job of clearing out temporary files, and there’s a good chance that the biggest, most hard-drive-hogging temporary files will remain in your Temp folder for a bit longer. (The automatic methods will wait for files to reach a certain age – one week, usually – before deleting them.)

Note: make sure you’re not running anything when deleting temporary files manually. If you delete temporary files related to an app you’re currently running, it may crash, and you may lose whatever you were working on at that moment.

To find your main temporary files folder, the default directory is “C:\Users\Your PC Username\AppData\Local\Temp.” Alternatively, you can hit Win + R, then enter %temp%or search for “delete temporary files” from the Windows 10/11 search box or Windows 11 Start menu search.

To see how much space the Temp folder is taking up, select everything in it using Ctrl + A, then right-click any file and click Properties. If you’re okay with moving forward, make sure everything is selected using Ctrl + A, right-click, then click “Delete.”

You can find a summary account of all these temporary files from “Storage” under “System.”

To remove these temporary files, go one level deeper and erase what you don’t need. These files include downloads, Windows Update Cleanup, diagnostic data, viewer database files, thumbnails, Recycle Bin data, and more.

Also read:7 Ways to Expand Your PC Storage without Deleting Anything

2. Storage Sense

Windows has a handy feature called Storage Sense, which monitors the storage space on your PC, then jumps in and cleans things up if you’re running low. It does basic things like clean up your Recycle Bin, remove old files in your Downloads folder, and delete temporary files on your PC.

While Windows 11 has Storage Sense directly under “Storage Management,” this feature can be accessed from “Turn on Storage Sense” in System Settings in Windows 10. Again, it’s faster to find either of these terms from the search menu. On some systems, you may see this option as “configure Storage Sense or run it now.”

Click “Configure Storage Sense or run it now,” then in the new window, click the slider under Storage Sense so that it’s “On.” You can then use the drop-down menu below to choose whether you want it to run when you’re low on space, daily, weekly or monthly.

In Storage Sense, you’ll also see that you can automatically delete files that have been in the Recycle Bin for a certain amount of time. This applies to your Downloads folder as well (which, from my experience, is definitely a place where unused files tend to outstay their welcome).

There’s also an option called “free up space now” which takes just a few minutes to erase many of these unnecessary files. This allows you to immediate recover several gigabytes of storage space.

3. Scan for Large Files on Your Hard Drive

Using Windows Explorer, you can scan for files based on size throughout your entire hard drive. The amount of times I’ve found hefty redundant files sitting around for years is unbelievable.

To do this search, open a Windows Explorer window, select your “C” drive, then click the “Search (C:)” search box at the top right of the window.

Type “size:” to get a bunch of autofill options showing varying sizes of files to filter for. You can use one of these presets or, if you want to get more specific about the size of file you’re looking for, type “size:>1gb” to look for files over 1GB in size and so on.

You can delete files directly from the results or right-click, then select “Sort by -> Size” to order them by size and quickly see which ones need deleting.

Just by testing this, I’ve discovered an old Android 7.1 VM that I really don’t need anymore. Just don’t delete anything that looks important. (For example, stuff from the “C:Windows folder” or game files that tend to be quite large.)

4. Uninstall Windows Shovelware and Space-Hungry Apps

In the “Apps & Features” window (you’ll find it by right-clicking the Start button), you can sort the list by “Size” to see which applications are the most HDD-hungry. You may be surprised by the results and may wish to remove apps as appropriate. Think about whether you really need all those space-hungry apps and delete as appropriate.

Another thing that may surprise you is that you’re the proud owner of games like Bubble Witch 3 Saga and Minecraft, which you never wanted in the first place! Simply uninstalling them from the “Apps & Features” list won’t suffice, however, and you will need to remove them using the Powershell. To do this, read our guide on how to uninstall pre-installed Windows apps.

Also read:How to Remove Bloatware from Windows 10

5. Clean Up Disk Space

You’re probably aware of Windows’s built-in Disk Clean-Up utility but have not been using it. This is the first place to look to free up some space.

To start using it, launch Windows Explorer, right-click on the C drive and select “Properties” from the list.

Once the Properties window is open, click “Disk Cleanup” to open the utility. Here, in the “files to delete” box, select all the checkboxes like System memory error dump files, Recycle Bin, set up log files, etc.

Once you have selected all the checkboxes you want, click on “OK” to free up the disk space occupied by the above files. How much space you free up depends on how badly you’ve neglected your “C” drive. You can also clean up the system files to get back additional lost space.

6. Disable Hibernation in Windows 10/11

Hibernation is a handy feature you can use in Windows to easily turn off your computer while saving the current state so that you can resume your work when you power it on. That said, it can take a huge amount of disk space, as it reserves the amount of space on your hard drive equal to how much content is saved in your RAM. (So potentially, the more RAM you have, the more disk space it uses.)

To disable hibernation in Windows 10, do a search for “Power and Sleep Settings” and go to “Additional Power Settings.” It can also be accessed from “Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound.” With Windows 11, you can directly navigate to the option from “System -> Power & Battery.”

Click on the “choose what the power buttons do” link in the pane on the left. This action will take you to the system settings window.

Click “Change settings that are currently unavailable.” This action will enable all the disabled options.

Scroll down and uncheck the “Hibernate” checkbox to disable hibernation. If it’s already unchecked, you don’t need to do anything else.

7. Delete Browser Cache and Cookies

Temporary Internet files like the browser cache and cookies take up a little bit of your C drive space, so clearing those temporary files will grant you additional free space.

In Chrome, go to “Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy and security,” then “Clear browsing data.”

In Firefox, go to “Options -> Privacy & Security,” then under “History,” select “Clear your recent history.”

In Microsoft Edge, go to “Settings -> Clear browsing data -> Choose what to clear,” and make sure to select the “Cached data” and “Cookies” options.

8. Remove Old Windows Update Files, Previous Installations

Windows has a tendency to hold onto old (and mostly redundant) system files. For the most part, you can delete these files, particularly if you installed your current version of Windows over a previous version. To do this:

1. Open Windows Explorer, right-click the C drive and select “Properties.”

2. Click “Disk CleanUp,” then in the new window, click “Clean up system files” to open the advanced disk cleanup window.

3. Select the “Windows upgrade log files” checkbox and, if you have anything there, the “Previous Windows installation(s)” checkbox.

Unbeknownst to me, my laptop still had plenty of space related to Windows Update Cleanup and Windows upgrade log files, using up nearly 3.5GB of hard drive space.

Cleaning up the unnecessary files consumes a few minutes but is worth the extra space gained on C drive.

There are other checkboxes here, but for the most part, they don’t use up a ton of space and can be left alone. When you’re ready, click “OK” to clean up your hard drive.

Also read:How to Remove Old and Useless Drivers in Windows 10

9. Reduce the Size of the WinSxS Folder

The WinSxS folder is located in the C drive of your PC at the Windows folder location – for example, “C:\Windows\WinSxS.” It stores the necessary files to recover your system. You can easily reduce the size of this folder, but this comes with the below warning.

Warning: do not delete any files directly from the WinSxS folder or the folder itself. This would greatly damage your system and make it impossible to restart or recover.

1. It’s very important to tread cautiously and handle these files directly from Task Scheduler.

2. Once it opens, search for “Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Servicing -> StartComponentCleanup” and right-click to select “run.”

3. Wait a few minutes for the operation to finish.

10. Make OneDrive and File Explorer Files Online Only

OneDrive and FileExplorer files can be made online-only. This would greatly save the amount of space you use on C drive. If you have reliable, fast Internet, you should benefit from this amazing space-saving tip.

For OneDrive, select the OneDrive app from a Start menu search in Windows 11 and searchbox of Windows 10. Sign in using your Microsoft account used in the local PC. Go to the OneDrive folder by clicking “Next.”

Right-click on any OneDrive subfolder, and if they take up a lot of space, make them “online only” instead of putting them on the device to always be available.

The same methods above can be repeated for any files or folders in the File Explorer window. By making them online only, you can access them whenever you want. Of course, if you have some important data you always need access to, you will want to make it available on your device.

1. Create Strong Password

Chances are, you already have your password created for Facebook however it is advisable for you to make sure your Facebook password is one of a kind and different from your other online accounts e.g. email, blog, hosting etc.

To change your password, go to Account Settings > General > Password.

The best passwords would have the combination of small and capital letters, numbers and symbols.

2. Confirm your mobile number

Confirming your mobile number is one of many ways to enhance your account security on Facebook. This way, even when you lose or forget your password, Facebook will be able to send you a new one via SMS.

To add your mobile number, go to Account Settings > Mobile and click on Add a Phone.

Select your country and set the mobile carrier before clicking Next.

Now you will be given an instruction to send an SMS to the given number. Follow the instructions to get a code via SMS, and then enter the code into the column. You also have the option to Share your number with friends on Facebook and Allow friends to text me from Facebook. Select your preferences and click Next.

Now your mobile phone is registered with Facebook, and when the need arises, this connection will be useful to reactivate your Facebook account.

3. Activate Secure browsing, Now

Among other things, to make sure your browsing activity within Facebook is safe, you can turn on the Secure browsing option. By doing this, you automatically limit all external applications that are integrated with Facebook from doing any harm or taking your personal information without your knowledge or approval.

To start securing your account, click on the drop down menu from the top right corner of your Facebook account and go to Account Settings.

Select Security from the left menu.

At the Secure Browsing section, click on the Edit link at the right.

The option panel will appear, ‘check’ the box Browse Facebook on a secure connection then click on the Save Changes button.

4. Activate ‘Login Approvals’

Login approvals is an extended security feature offered by Facebook, and it will require you to enter a security code each time you try to access your Facebook account from unrecognized devices. To activate Login Approvals, go to Account Settings > Security, look for Login Approvals and click on the Edit button.

An option to activate Login Approvals will appear, tick the check box to activate.

A popup window will appear with descriptions of login approvals, click on the Set Up Now button to continue.

If you already register your mobile number, Facebook will automatically send you a code via SMS. Enter this code in the given box and click Submit Code.

Now you have completed with Login Approvals request, click Next to continue.

Next, Facebook will offer you to setup a Code Generator from your mobile phone; this is useful in case you are unable to receive SMS. Click Continue.

Code Generator for Android phones

Since I am using an Android phone, I’ll use the Android activation as an example.

Download the Facebook Mobile App from Google Play if you don’t already have it. After downloading it to your mobile, click Next.

Once downloaded, Facebook will provide instructions to install the Code Generator. To install, launch your Facebook App, tap on menu > Account > Code Generator > Add App. Then click on Finish Setup below.

Now that your Code Generator is active, Facebook will guide you with the correct steps to use the code generator. Next time when you want to generate a new code, simply launch your app, tap on Account > Code Generator and the code will appear. For now, click Close as you have completed the steps to activate your Login Approvals.

5. Disconnect Previous Active Sessions

The good thing about Facebook is that it lets you know about your previous active sessions, where you login from, and what devices you used to access your Facebook account. Now to make sure your account is safe, from the Account Settings > Security page, look for ‘Active Sessions‘ and click on Edit.

Now all previous sessions will be listed, together with the current active session at the top of the list. Click on the link ‘End Activity‘ to kill the activities from other devices.

6. Activate Private Browsing

Another way to prevent another person from accessing your account is by activating the ‘Private Browsing’ option from your browsers. All browsers have this private browsing option, and by activating this option, your activity will not be logged into the browsing history.

Safari

If you are using the Safari Browser on Mac, activate Private Browsing from the menu with Safari > Private Browing.

Firefox

For Firefox, go to Tools > Start Private Browsing.

Chrome

If you are using Chrome, there’s an option to browse using the Incognito window, it’s a version of Chrome window where all browsing activity will not be logged in. To open this window, go to File > New Incognito Window.

7. Don’t ‘Keep Me Logged In’

The moment you want to login to your Facebook account, at the Log In page, there’s a small checkbox that says Keep me logged in. Make sure this box is unchecked. Then, log in as usual. With this on, you will be asked for your email and password every time you launch Facebook.

8. Avoid Spam Links

Facebook is serious about spam and is always enhancing its features to make sure you are safe from being a victim to scams. The types of attacks include money scams through direct or indirect requests via Facebook messages, chat etc, phishing links that will redirect you to fake websites, malicious links that could retrieve your personal information or even harm your computer. There are also chances you may receive emails from ‘Facebook’ but it is actually from a phishing website, this modus operandi is part of a scam.

There are a number of reasons why you might want to block a website:

• Protect your kids from harmful or inappropriate content
• Stop yourself from visiting a site that distracts you from other tasks
• Block websites that are reducing your employees’ productivity and chewing data or slowing the internet speed collectively

Whatever your reason, it’s something that can be done quite simply. In this guide, we’ll show you how to block a website on:

1. Chrome
2. Chrome mobile for Android devices
3. Firefox

How to block a website on Chrome

To block a website on Chrome, you first need to go to Google add-ons to add an extension:

1. In your Chrome browser, type in ‘block site extension’.
2. Choose the link that says ‘Block Site – Website Blocker for Chrome™’.
3. Click the blue box ‘Add to Chrome’.
4. You’ll see a pop-window and you should click ‘Add extension’.
5. It will then give you a number of options in the following screens, which you can decide whether to accept or skip. Top tip: You don’t need to upgrade or pay to use it and can click ‘skip’ this step when the screen appears.
6. The following page will then appear and you can enter the website/s you wish to block.

How to block a website on Chrome mobile for Android

To block a website on Chrome mobile using an Android device, follow these steps:

1. Open the ‘Google Play Store’ on your phone.
2. Search for ‘Blocksite Chrome’. The logo will look like a little red shield. Click ‘INSTALL’.
3. Once the app has finished installing, click ‘open’.
4. You’ll then need to accept the Ts & Cs by clicking ‘Accept’.
5. Next, you’ll have to click ‘Permit Access’. This will open up the accessibility screen for apps on your phone. Click on ‘BlockSite’ and swipe the button right. You’ll receive a new pop-up notice and you should click ‘Accept’.
6. The app will then ask if you want to continue with a number of different login options i.e. your email. You can choose one or ignore this step by closing the window and the app will still work.
7. On the next screen, it will ask if you want to upgrade. You don’t need to do this, or pay, unless you want to and think you need it. Remember, you can always upgrade later. Close this screen and you’ll be able to block websites.
8. Click the green circle with a plus symbol and away you go!

How to block a website on Firefox

To block a website on Firefox, follow these steps:

1. 1. 1. Open your Firefox browser
      2. Click on the three lines in the top-right corner
      3. Select ‘Add-ons’, which will bring up a new page
      4. In the search bar, type ‘block site’
      5. This will bring up a number of site blocking add-ons you can choose from
      6. We will choose the first one, ‘Block Site’, for this example, because it has the highest star rating from users
      7. Whichever you want to add, simply click on the name and then click ‘Add to Firefox’
      8. It will give you a pop-up box about permissions and you need to click ‘Add’ to continue
      9. You will notice a new shortcut icon has been added in the top-right corner and you can start blocking websites or come back to it anytime you’re ready