I am looking for tools or resources that could help someone new to SEO. I am currently doing VERY minimal SEO for our company but I want to get some keyword density tools, link popularity tools and such. I have a little bit of a personal budget I can use, but free stuff is always COOL TOO!!

THANKS!!!!!

Tony
tonyadam@gmail.com

A point I would make a point of suggesting is that you do some strong reading around SEO - tools are worth little if you don't properly understand the actual information they are providing.

As for resources - here's a very narrow selection that will hopefully help you out:

http://www.platinax.co.uk/seo/ - articles, tools, resources, and a couple of books reviewed

http://www.seochat.com - articles, resources, forums - very rich resource

http://www.searchenginewatch.com - articles, resources, forums - industry standard resource

http://www.highrankings.com/articles.htm - articles, forums - good introductory resources

Hopefully that will help get you started. :)