Top Software and Services

These are the software products and online services (many are free) that I actually use on a daily basis to quickly research/create websites and then effectively drive traffic to these new sites!

Note: A couple of the linked websites use a bit of hard-sell marketing on their sales pages but if you can get past this marketing style, you can be assured that the actual product or service they offer is truly top notch and something that I actually use! Most of these companies provide videos of their products in action which is helpful in determining their value for your needs. Take some time, check the products out, watch their demo videos, and you will see as I have, that they will be valuable tools for you to use in your online business development.

1) Keyword and Niche Research

Keyword Country  Discover the keywords with which your target audience is searching and make a huge keyword list. Sort and filter your keyword list by search volume, competition, clicks or more to narrow your list down to most profitable keywords. Finds the latest in-trend keywords with world's first web crawler based keyword research tool. This service has so many powerful features and tools that you may find that you don't use every component, but you should at least check them all out. I use Keyword Country every day!

Niche Horde  Niche Horde is an automated tool that does the work of finding profitable niche markets for you. It continually builds its database of niche markets from the user base 24/7! This is the perfect tool to use in brainstorming for that perfect niche website idea. I then perfect and polish this idea with Keyword Country to get the exact keywords to target and develop a domain name.

Google Keyword Tool Use the FREE Google Keyword Tool to get additional keyword ideas.

Good Keywords The Keyword Database tool in this FREE software download is able to get more out of Google Keyword research! A big plus is that the software does not abuse Google's resources in anyway!
 

2) Domain Registration and Hosting

NameCheap  This is my preferred domain registration site without question. They are so good that I register about 90% of my domains with them. (Use with HostGator.)

HostGator  This is my preferred website hosting service. I have never had any downtime and their customer service is amazing! They host all of my Wordpress sites.

1 & 1  If I want to quickly and easily register and host a domain with a single service and do not plan to use Wordpress, 1 & 1 is the perfect service solution for my website needs. Other than the NameCheap + HostGator combination this is the only other service that I use on a regular basis (although I have tried many other companies).

3) Article Creation 

Instant Article Factory Write quality articles in 5 minutes or less on virtually any subject. Includes 17 built-in templates make it easy to write a variety of articles for any subject. The templates are regularly rewritten from scratch to ensure unique content continues despite a large user base. If you visit the site there is a  11 minute video that shows exactly how Instant Article Factory works by using a real example (not just hype)! It is kind of a "fill in the blank" concept with some of the content prewritten, but it is much more powerful than that. I usually write my own articles (or pay to have them written for me) but if you want something that can help you to create well written articles easily and very quickly, then this tool works just as promised!

Answer Analyst Research topics by asking questions, then create content faster than you dreamed possible with this powerful software tool. There is a 10 minute video that shows exactly how Answer Analyst works with a real example! Remember that Answer Analyst is a research tool, so be sure not to quote the material directly.  Include the targeted facts and research in your own words just as any author or journalist would (do not plagiarize).

My Article Express My Article Express (MAX) is a high quality reasonably priced outsourced article writing service. The resulting  well written articles can be used in a variety of ways including being automatically sent to Unique Article Wizard which will Turbo charge your article marketing and article submission by submitting a different unique article to hundreds of article directories and niche blogs.

Exclusive Article This outsource service will provide you with high quality, custom written articles based on the specific topics you enter. They employ a very large staff of qualified writers (well over 100). These writers monitor the article topics as they come in, and then write articles day in and day out so they are very skilled at what they do. The turn around is less than 14 days.

Instant Article Wizard Create top-quality articles on any subject in 15 minutes or less (even if you know  little or nothing about the topic)! Instant Article Wizard will take a set of keywords that you provide and help you identify subtopics around which to create a top-quality article. Next, Instant Article Wizard will do research for you! You are taken step-by-step through the selection of research ideas for your introduction paragraphs, each of the subtopic paragraphs, and your concluding paragraphs. Remember to take the concepts developed from the material and make them your own (do not plagiarize)!

4) Article Spinning (Creating multiple highly unique versions of articles you have already written or for which you have PLR rights.)

Rapid Rewriter (Windows and Mac) This amazing product combines two powerful article spinning techniques (sentence replacement and synonym substitution) into one seamless smooth piece of software. Watch the video on their site (after a promo section you will see the software in action). This is the spinner that I use to create unique versions of all of my articles. It will submit article versions to five top article directories and also can format output into the special styles used by Article Marketing Automation, SEO Linkvine and Unique Article Wizard (if you belong to any or all of these excellent services). Submitting through all 3 of these services at the same time will gradually (no red flags) result in your article appearing (in acceptably unique versions) on literally thousands of websites with valuable one-way links back to your site! Google and the other search engines will not punish you for posting duplicate content because they will not see as duplicates. This is the perfect product !!! Bundled with some bonus products also.

The Best Spinner  This article spinner subscription service is synonym based. You can turn your article into just one or thousands of new unique article. There are currently over one million synonyms in the database.  Allows unlimited nested spinning -- so you can go as many levels deep as you want. Different color coding is used for up to four levels of nesting. You can also quickly produce a single article rewrite with the built in "word replacement" feature. Visit the site for a 15 minutes video that shows all of the features in action!

Jetspinner  A limited function but free article spinner that might be all you need.

5) Article Creation plus Submission

Unique Article Wizard This is NOT the "latest and greatest" fad. It will not be "worn out" in the next month or two. My friend Noel Swanson has developed a way to greatly enhance and simplify the already well-established process of article writing and submission. This basic technique is being quietly used by all the smartest marketers - but that has now been brought to a whole new level of simplicity and power. By working with one basic article you will be able to modify it to create hundreds of different article and submit them to both broad based and narrowly focused article directories and niche blogs all at the same time! Unique Article Wizard also will supply you with unique, targeted articles to use on your blog or website at no additional charge!

Article Marketing Automation This service allows you to create hundreds of unique and very high quality articles from any article that you have written (or had written for you). AMA will then gradually and automatically send out these new unique versions that it creates, to targeted blogs and websites across the internet where they will appear and link back to you desired website!

6) Article Submission

SEOLinkVine This service allows you to submit articles and get up to thousands of high quality, one-way links pointing to your website. All links will be "in-content" links on high quality, related websites of your choice. All done on auto-pilot! This is unlike any other article marketing service online. Their system will take your article and distribute it throughout a network of thousands of sites, publish it, and start building you one-way backlinks (and traffic)! The sites in the article network are real sites owned by real people just like you and me. These sites want to be able to post your articles because they don't want to take the time to write it. Everyone benefits from the process!
 

EzineArticles The most respected and highest indexed free ezine article submission site that exists. If you were to send your articles to only one free ezine site this would be the place! I own sites that have received thousands of visitors directly from ezinearticles.com and also from sites that have subsequently published my articles (via backlinks). Your articles are managed by proprietary management software designed to give you maximum exposure to hundreds of thousands of daily visitors and an email newsletter publisher audience who EACH have thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of email list members of their own, at no cost to you. That means your original articles and expertise can be exposed for free to hundreds of thousands or even millions of people rather than waiting passively for someone to syndicate it on yet another website with no traffic. Google loves ezinearticles.com and I have had dozens of article get indexed and placed on the first page of Google in just a day or two after submission!

               Other excellent free article submission sites:     ArticleDashboard.com     ArticleCity.com      GoArticles.com    SearchWarp.com

7) Video Article Conversion and Submission

Instant Video Articles Convert any text article into a slick video in just a few click. Remember that Google and the other search engines quickly index most video content!

Video Submit Wizard The Video Submit Wizard software will submit your videos automatically to 30+ video sharing websites, saving you hours of precious time. I use this product in conjunction with Instant Video Articles!

8) Special Services

Auto Traffic Avalanche The amazing thing is this takes JUST 13 clicks to set up and JUST 12 minutes a day to run. The profit can be quicker than with many other methods. This may be something for you to use after you get your feet wet with more basic concepts, but I am starting to see some real profit growth from this truly fresh technique!

Auto Blog Samurai Suite This is a brand new product that I have only been using for a short time but with significant results. It only takes about 10 minutes per blog to set up! Auto Blog Samurai Software 'automatically' creates content and updates your blog every day - once your blog is setup, you're done! Start Earning Monthly Residual Income On Autopilot - Software seamlessly integrates with and generates profits from most popular affiliate networks such as Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, eBay Partner Network & ClickBank. Get FREE Search Engine Traffic Automatically - Auto Blog Samurai SEO and keyword optimizes your blogs to receive organic traffic from all major search engines such as Google!

9) Other Products That I Could Not Live Without (Plus a few more!)

Mozy Remote Backup Not a site development tool or service, but just as important. Mozy provides the critical service of "off site" backups for your computer. Mozy uses military-grade encryption—the same security online banks use during data transfer. Simply put, I can sleep better at night knowing this is happening. They offer 2GB of free storage to get you started!

RoboForm As your internet marketing business develops you will end up with dozens of passwords and logins to keep track of. RoboForm makes it simple and totally secure with strong encryption. This product is free if you have 10 or less passwords (logins) so give it a try!

Socrates Premium Wordpress Theme If you use Wordpress (and you should be) this theme was created to help you make money! It was developed by best selling author and social media expert Joel Comm. Socrates is everything you could hope for in a theme and allows you to create 1000's of uniquely designed sites that look great and make you money. The best part is that they can be up and running in a matter of minutes. New features and content such as graphics are being added daily. There is no reason to use any other theme free or purchased!

 

AdSense and ClickBank monetized - start making money quickly!  Affiliate Program Integration Search engine optimized 728x90 Banner Custom HTML Rotator Sales Page Templates Check out the 10 minute video of the many other great features

Copyscape Premium The most advanced plagiarism search on the web. Check the originality of content before publishing it online. Perform unlimited scans for copies of your pages. At only 5c per search it is a real value. An alternative free online tool that can help you make sure your content is unique is DupliChecker.

SEOSERP This FREE web tool allows you to see where (and how many times) in the first 1000 Google search results your website appears as the result of a specific search term. The site is a bit cluttered but it works well. Look down the page a little and you will see a box that lists the various Google search centers by region (Google.com for USA will probably be highlighted at the top already) just below this is where you enter the search term of interest and just below that is where you enter your site name. For example if you are in the U.S. make sure google.com is highlighted in the list and enter "widget" in the keyword field and "mysite.com" in the your domain field and you will see where in the Google search result you site comes up for this keyword search. Track these results every week or so to see how your efforts are paying off. The site also offers a number of other great free tools!

AWeber  Create profitable customer relationships for your business! AWeber's email marketing tools make it easy for you to create professional signup form for your website, build your email list and stay in touch with prospects. Use email like the pros do with AWeber!

Consumer Wealth System The Consumer Wealth System is a multimedia course that shows people how they can earn money with just 58 minutes of work. From a simple 3-step formula made for everyone, you can get your first sale in as little as 2 weeks. This course has been created by my Internet Marketing Heroes Daniel Turner & Marc Lindsay. Watch the video on the sales page to see the setup of 2 super simple sites (these are real live sites that you are welcome to go checkout by the way), that make them passive autopilot income and only took an hour or so to setup.

Instant Eyedropper  Want to know what color something is so you can match this color on you website? Instant Eyedropper is a FREE software tool  that will identify and automatically paste to the clipboard the HTML color code of any pixel on the screen with just a single mouse click. Works to identify colors from backgrounds, graphics and even images (actually any pixel on your screen)!

Rapid Automated Income  Rapid Automated Income is THE industry leading plug-in & profit online money getting platform that is 100% user friendly. No previous experience is required! What you need to do is target products in small niche markets the average Joe off the street wants to buy. To make money online you simply need to do one thing... Market 'Real' Products To 'Real' People! Products that they will be interested in parting with their hard earned cash for such as a hobby they're interested in, a sport they play etc.

SEO Tools  Free SEO tools allow you to create meta tags, perform keyword research, and spy on competitors with competitive research tools and link analysis tools. They offer neatly categorized links to best of breed professional level tools.

Backlink Analyzer  Backlink Analyzer is free software similar to Link Harvester, with the exception that it is downloadable, and also does anchor text analysis. You can grab backlink data from Google, Yahoo!, or MSN. It analyzes / grabs anchor text, IP addresses, Alexa data, page title, number of links on page, and number of outbound links on a page.

GIMP This is an amazing FREE Image Manipulation Program. It is excellent for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Camstudio A FREE software product that you can use to make videos for your website. It is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer so you can easily create AVI video files. Using its built-in SWF Producer you can then turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos. It can even be used to create video-based informational products you can sell on your websites!

Picresize  Easily change the size (and load speed) of images for your websites. This FREE online tool has resized more than 15,285,575 images since 2005. You can change the actual image size and even the image file size if you need to make it more compact. The Picresize website is one of the most popular online image editing tools on the Internet. They currently process and resize more than 30,000 pictures every day!

Banner Generator Pro This easy to use software allows you to make professional looking banners for your own websites and products with just a few mouse clicks! Some similar products seem only to be able to create poor quality "amateurish" banners, but Banner Generator Pro allows you to easily make very professional polished looking banners!

Stock.xchng Need FREE photos for your site? Need an image for your blog? Just looking for inspiration? You can browse through the categories of their huge gallery containing over 350,000 stock photos!  (Some images come with certain usage restrictions from the photographer so be sure to check the image info area.)

Kompozer  This is a FREE complete web authoring system that combines web file management and WYSIWYG web page editing and functions similar to Dreamweaver (about $400.00). KompoZer is designed to be easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
 

Various FREE Google Tools- Google provides a great selection of powerful FREE tools that you can use in many ways to develop and track your websites.

• Google Alerts Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google search results for a particular search phrase (keyword etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. You simply enter the phrase (keyword) you want to monitor and click preview to see the type of results you'll receive. Then you will get daily emails to keep you updated on the detailed search activity and results for this phrase!

• Google Analytics This tool will give you detailed insight into your website visitors and marketing results. Easy-to-use features let you see your traffic data in an entirely new way.

• Google Trends Google Trends allows you to see worldwide search patterns for a particular search term. You can enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories.