If you are a novice in web search engine optimization, you have to learn the basics first. After that, discover new techniques to make your website achieve top search engine rankings.

If you still feel like you're groping in the dark and have no idea whether there's light at the end of the SEO tunnel, better equip yourself with more knowledge, it will boost your courage and staying power.

One of the things that you can do is to get a dose of valuable SEO crash course. You can take a crash course by reading Brian Gilley's post on SEO Position. It's a great primer!

SEO Position has shared its top 15 free SEO tools. Here they are:

1. Ranking Checker by SEOmoz.com
2. MultiRank Checker by iWebtool.com
3. Fiddler Web Debugging Tool by Fiddlertool.com
4. SEO Analyzer by Sitening.com
5. Strongest Subpages Tool by WeBuildPages.com
6. Backlink Checker by WeBuildPages.com
7. Firefox with the Web Developer Extension by Chris Pederick
8. SEO for Firefox by SEOBook.com
9. Google Analytics / Google Webmaster Console by Google.com
10. Keyword Selector Tool by Overture.com
11. XENU's Link Sleuth by Tilman Hausherr
12. Xinu BETA by Miguel Camps Orteza
13. Keyword Density & Prominence Tool by Ranks.nl
14. Visual PageRank by iWebTool.com
15. GeoTargeting Detection Tool by SEOmoz.com

Learn these SEO tools and you'll go a long way in the SEO realm...