Internet Marketing Tools (FREE) – The Top 12 (Part 1)
I’d like to share with you the top 12 Free Internet marketing tools that I use in my Internet business. Simply put, I can’t afford NOT to have them. Without them, my business will be in a mess!
Below is a list of the top 6 Free Internet business tools in no particular order. The remaining 6 will covered in part 2 of this series.
Lastpass is an excellent free program where you can store all your online passwords into one neat little place on the Internet (so that you can access it anytime and from anywhere). In my Internet business I have so many different usernames and passwords that I couldn’t simply remember off the top of my head.
Yes I could create an excel spreadsheet to record all the different usernames and passwords (and I’ve done that), but having a safe online place to store them would be a lot better as this would save me a lot of time and effort when trying to access my private area from a remote location.
Previously, if I didn’t bring my laptop with me (which contains the master password excel file), then I can’t login to my private area. But with Last Pass, all the problems are eliminated.
Yes, there may be dangers in storing your usernames and passwords in a single location, but so far my data has always been kept intact and safe. It saves me A LOT of time and effort, so why not use it?
This is a Firefox plugin that actually tells you some very valuable and useful data. No more manually trying to figure out a particular web page’s Alexa rank, Google PageRank, how many pages are indexed in the search engines, how many backlinks it has, when the domain was first registered, etc.
You can get all these data without almost doing anything as they are automatically shown to you when the web page loads.
Valuable and useful data retrieval is just eyeballs away.
This tool is actually meant for Adwords advertisers to gauge how popular a keyword phrase is and to expand on keywords that are related to the base keywords advertisers are bidding on.
However, even though this tool is intended for Adwords advertisers, you can also utilize it to:
1. Guest estimate the demand for a particular keyword phrase (in other words, how many times the keyword phrase is searched for every month)
2. Find related keyword phrases. For example, if you type in “tennis shoes” into the tool, it will return related keyword phrases such as “red tennis shoes”, “professional tennis shoes”, and so on.
With this Firefox plugin you can download every online video that you encounter to your hard drive. Not only that, you can also convert the default .flv file type to .wmv or other popular video extensions.
Can’t download YouTube videos? Not anymore with this plugin!
Also, allow me to reveal one neat trick. This is especially useful if you spend a lot of time watching training videos.
Who has the time to watch 6 or 12-hours video courses? In this day and age, everyone wants instant results!
With Download Helper, your 6-hours video course can be easily consumed in 3 hours. Simply convert the default .flv file to .wmv file.
Then open Windows Media Player >> click “Now Playing” >> click “Enhancements” >> click “Play Speed Settings”.
A speed bar will appear and you can watch your video at a speed that’s comfortable for you (for me, it’s usually 1.5 to 2x speed depending on how fast the person in the video is speaking).
A major time saver!
This is a handy tool by Google that notifies you by email on topics that you want to monitor on. Everytime Google finds an entry (web page, news) related to your query (determined by the keywords you enter into Google Alerts), you’ll be notified by email.
You might be thinking “That’s all fine and dandy Welly, but how am I going to utilize this tool”?
Let’s take this post for example. This post is about the top Free Internet business tools. Now I can go ahead and go to Google Alerts and enter “free Internet business tools” as the keyword phrase I want to monitor.
Whenever Google finds anything related to this phrase, I’ll automatically be notified by email. I can then go to the original web page/blog that talks about “free Internet business tools” and leave my comment there, saying that they can get a comprehensive list of the top 14 Free Internet business tools. Of course, I’d be leaving valuable comments so as not to appear spammy.
This is also a Free program provided by Google that tracks how your website is doing in terms of the number of visitors, how they came to know about your site (from Google, article directories, some other sites, etc), how long they stay on your site, what’s your conversion rate, and so on.
You need to know these metrics if you want to truly maximize your visitor value. I’ve talked about this in this post some time ago.
All my sites are tracked by Google Analytics and you should give it a try as well if you haven’t yet.
We’ll take a look at the next 6 Free Internet marketing tools in my next post. Stay tuned as I’m very sure you’ll benefit a lot from these tools.
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33 Responses to “Internet Marketing Tools (FREE) – The Top 12 (Part 1)”
Ted@seo big Island on September 7, 2011
I use some of these tools like last pass but don’t use others like Google Analytics.
Janelle Bailey on September 5, 2011
This is a great list! I use some of these tools including SEO Quake, Google Adwords Keyword Tool, and Google Analytics. Well, the best things in life are free.
gabriel thrace on June 21, 2011
@Greg- I have used both and I think you’ll find Last Pass WAY easier to use and WAY more functional than Roboform. Give it a try!
Rev. David B. Smith on June 5, 2011
I’m looking forward to the next installment, and I’m hoping that you’re going to add the ‘Google Wonder Wheel’ as the perfect companion to the ‘Adwords Keyword Tool’.
Declan on June 5, 2011
Hey Welly,
Great list- thanks. I’m a LastPass user and it is a God send. I feel like it saves me hours a week and the fact I don’t have to keep track of all these passwords is huge!
SEO Quake is another beauty.
If I may- I recommend SEO Spyglass and Rank Tracker as well if you’re doing any kind of SEO marketing. Both free and both amazingly powerful.
Thanks again for the great info Welly!
Tom on May 2, 2011
Great, thank you for sharing! I got this link from a friend inviting me to check it out, normally I don’t follow up that kind of instructions but now I’m happy I did. I will be certainly trying some out, since I have been very pleased with these tools in the past already. Keep up the good work!
Anna on April 21, 2011
Thanks for the tips! I am already using 4 out of the 6 services (I’d be lost without Lastpass!) but I’ll have to check out download helper and seo quake. Appreciate you sharing your information.
Tom on April 20, 2011
Those are all great tools to use, I guess. I will be trying some of these myself, for they can be quit usefull. Thanks for sharing!
Mouh on April 10, 2011
I am new here and I like this list. I always love to try new tool. I wonder where I can find PART 2…
Thanks for this great list!
Take care,
Mouh
Welly on April 14, 2011
Hey Mouh
Part 2 is here:
http://welly-mulia.com/internet-marketing-tools-free-the-top-12-part-2/
Consulenza di web marketing / Billy on December 21, 2010
Good list. But there is another tool I use nearly every day: InFormEnter. With this tool you can compile web forms very quickly, and it is free…
DM - PLR Articles on December 8, 2010
I use SeoBook’s SEO for FF plugin as it’s better than SeoQuake. And I regularly use Google Alert for all my website names and company brand. It’s a fantastic service.
Jandy Alumpit on September 20, 2010
The entire marketing tool is commonly used at the present time by the majority of the users because they had benefited from it.
VoIP and MPLS on March 31, 2010
Wow, I had no idea Google had a service that would alert you every time something new in a particular topic area was posted! The Internet never ceases to amaze me. Thanks for this awesome, concise list.
Jared Detroit on March 23, 2010
SEO Quake is a good toolbar but I really like the SEO Book toolbar. As for the other tools, I couldn’t agree more with them. I find Google Analytics to be one of the best tools to implement for a client and definitely the first. How do you know what’s working or what’s not working if you can’t track it. Thanks for the post.
Blog Comment Demon on March 6, 2010
I’m using Lastpass and SEOquake for my internet business. What you said regarding the two are simply true. Thanks for sharing some other tools that will really help alot of bloggers and internet marketers.
Victor on February 15, 2010
I also find SEO Quake a very useful tool, it has almost everything to determine the online presence of a site I want to study or link to.
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It’s a good list you’ve put down here. Do you not use a text editor? I thought you might have wanted to include one of those, too…
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Dan Foley on December 9, 2009
I just came across this good post about web tools. I also like SEO for Firefox which I’ve found very useful.
Thanks for the information.
Andrew Gerber on November 10, 2009
Very interesting topic for discussion, indeed. Being a professional internet marketer myself I prefer to have the following tools in my possession:
- Website position checking tool;
- Keyword analysis tool;
- Competitor analysis tool;
- Broken link checking tool;
- Meta Tag analysis tool;
- Meta keyword generator;
- Link popularity checker;
- HTML code validity checker;
- Keyword spider;
- Server uptime statistics;
- Web page loading time checker;
- Browser compatibility tool;
- Sitemap generator;
What are your ideas about this list?
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geekversity on October 13, 2009
Nice post, Welly, and those are great tools (I think I’ve used every one of those, apart from Last Pass) — they really do form the backbone of any successful online business.
Travis on October 11, 2009
Wow, I’d never heard of Google alerts before… that’s pretty cool! I use analytics (as does everyone in this day and age) but Google alerts seems just as helpful, albeit being on a different level.
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Denise on September 10, 2009
Thanks Welly!!
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Take Care
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Manie Esterhuizen on September 9, 2009
Welly, thanks for the feedback, it is appreciated. Unfortunately I am on a Linux system and I see Jing only works for Windows and Mac, but still I will be able to do it on a other pc when needed.
Welly on September 6, 2009
@Manie: You can try out Jing Project. And yeah it’s free
@Kingsley: Many thanks for the compliments. You can see this post (for newbies): http://welly-mulia.com/the-most-straightforward-way-to-make-money-online/
kingsley audu on September 5, 2009
Thanks for the valuable post. Would you happen to happen earlier posts for newbies? By the way, your report on making your first 100 dollarsis inspirational. keep it up
Greg Dunsmore on May 3, 2011
I hadn’t heard of last pass. I use roboform but this could be a very good back up.
This is a very useful list.
Annuity on September 4, 2009
Great list. I’m using everything on here except for Google Alert and the Video Converter – which is exactly what I need. I’ve always wanted to download Flash movies as WMVs but couldn’t find a good free-ware tool to do it.
Your Google Alerts example is great. I think I can leverage it nicely for my marketing efforts.
Angeline @ marcus evans scam on September 4, 2009
Google Analytics is a very good tool that i have ever tested the performance of websites. All the traffic constraints are tracked clearly using Google Analytics.
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Manie Esterhuizen on September 4, 2009
Hi, I’m looking for something that can download/safe a Camtasia video. That would be a great tool….