Today I’m revealing the 2nd part of my list of free internet marketing resources. Here’s the next eight in the list and I’ll reveal the final nine resources very soon. So stay tuned.
All these resources are free to use though some offer paid upgrades or require an opt-in.
1. - Wordpress.TV
Launched only this week, Wordpress.tv is a brand new wordpress training site with an extensive array of video tutorials and other resources including videos from the latest Wordcamp seminars. I wish I’d had access to this when I first started using Wordpress…it would have made the learning curve so much quicker. No doubt it will get even better over the coming months too. Well worth bookmarking.
2. - TypeTester.org
Type Tester is a handy little site which allows you to view and compare different fonts and font sizes. Perfect if you design your own sites or salespages. You can compare up to 3 different fonts side-by-side and even change the leading (the line-height css property), tracking (letter spacing) and word spacing.
3. - Comment Kahuna
The first of two blog commenting tools in this list (see 4 below), Comment Kahuna is a free desktop app that allows you to find relevant blogs in your chosen niche and semi-automate the posting of comments on them. It even finds Do-Follow blogs for you (ie blogs that don’t use the nofollow anchor text attribute in hyperlinks) which is a great way to build backlinks to your site and improve your search engine rankings.
4. - Comment Sniper
Another desktop app, this time from SEO expert Duncan Carver. It sits in your PC’s system tray and pops up a little message box notifying you as soon as one of your favourite blogs posts new content. You just enter each of your chosen blogs rss feed into the software and it automatically notifies you of updates. You can even get SMS alerts to your mobile phone if you’re out and about.
By being the first to comment you have a much higher chance of generating traffic back to your own blog or website. The only downside is that the message boxes can be a tad irritating so I’d recommend only monitoring a handful of blogs at a time.
Ofcourse you can use Comment Kahuna to find high traffic, high page rank, Do-Follow blogs in your niche and then use Comment Sniper to be first to comment on them. A nice little one-two punch!
5. - Browsershots.org
Another webmaster tool. Browser Shots allows you to check your website design for cross browser compatability across all the major browsers including IE6 and 7, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera and many more.
6. - Google Analytics
Very fast and easy to set up, GA will give you incredible insight into your website’s traffic. Discover which referring sites are sending you the most traffic, which keywords visitors are searching for to find you, ppc tracking, average visitor times, most popular pages and a ton more. All beautifully laid out too.
7. - Good Keyords
Good Keywords has expanded beyond it’s original desktop app and now encompasses a suite of freeware applications for keyword research, and ppc management. Amongst other things, it allows you to expand keyword lists quickly, modify existing lists, and even track how other sites are using your keywords.
8. - SocialMarker.com
Social Marker is a social bookmarking service that allows you to submit content to up to 49 social bookmarking sites much more quickly than if you submitted to each of them individually. It includes most of the major bookmarking sites like Delicous, Stumbleupon, Sphinn etc aswell as Twitter.
Ok, so that’s it for part 2. Do leave a comment below to share your experiences of these tools (or others you’ve come across) and any tips you have for getting the best out of them.
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Hiya Graham, I have been to most of those sites you mentioned but I can’t pretend that it makes much sense to me though. I’m a buy or collect products sort of person at this time to tell you the truth as you’ve probably been at some time or other. The problem for me, is I don’t have the finances to start up a product sales promotion even though I have credit and am in good standing. I know from my subscription to the cash-on demand-system that I have been recieving from Andrew Reynolds for the past eleven months that even the basic mail out costs £500 with no guarantee of success.So I find it scary as i’ve lost a house already through borrowing for business. it all sounds so good until you tot up how much your first send out is going to cost. I bought the licence to sell all of Jim Sheridans CMS products including The 5 Secrets four years ago now and it cost me £1,370, but I still haven’t found enough cash to start up. And of course I have ebooks and software with master resale rights to them. ( no use if I don’t have the start up cash though). Any good suggestions though Graham?********Ron.