Internet Marketing Tools
No one likes to be sold to.
But everyone likes/needs to buy.
I am with you on this one all the way.
I am not here to sell you anything.
Truly.
But I do hope that you’d consider buying some of these internet marketing tools through my affiliate links.
You know why?
1. Because you HAVE TO have some of these tools to run your online business.
Since you are going to buy some of these internet marketing tools anyway, why not buy them from someone who provides heaps of free actionable advice you can use to increase your traffic and conversions?
2. Because you NEED some of these internet marketing tools to reach your goals.
Depending on your niche and goals, you’ll need even more tools to succeed – for instance, if you’d like to take advantage of search engine traffic.
Why not buy them from someone you trust?
3. Because you might CHOOSE to get some of these internet marketing tools…
…to save time doing tedious tasks, make your life easier, to get to your business goals a lot sooner, and finally achieve the kind of lifestyle you are after.
So why not buy them from me?
My Internet Marketing Tools
Yes, you can start a blog for free.
However, it’s NOT a viable long-term business solution.
Trust me on this one: start it right from the beginning and you won’t have to go through the pains of redoing things later, like I had to do.
The fact is you only need a few foundational internet marketing tools to get going.
1. WordPress.org Blogging Platform (free)
Don’t settle for anything else even though it might sound easier in the beginning – self-hosted WordPress is the ONLY way to go.
2. Hosting Account (about $10 per month to start).
There’s no such thing as a perfect problem-free hosting company, but Hostgator.com comes fairly close – that’s where Traffic Generation Cafe and my other sites are hosted.
3. Domain Name (about $10 per year).
I use GoDaddy.com for all my domain names.
When choosing a good domain name, go for short, easy to spell and remember .com domain.
4. Blog Theme & Design ($87 – $399).
I understand that there are plenty of free WP themes out there. However, if you want to be taken seriously, take your blog seriously first.
You don’t have to spend an arm and a leg, but a clean-coded, easy to customize, SEO-ready theme like Thesis will do great.
You can choose to customize it yourself (I did it with my first blog while knowing nothing about coding) or outsource this part.
Let me know if you need a recommendation for someone to customize your theme; I’ll gladly share the one who does everything for TGC.
5. Email autoresponder (about $19 per month to start).
Don’t make a mistake of not starting to build a list right away. Having a responsive list is how most bloggers truly make their money.
Go with Aweber.com; they are the best at what they do and offer tremendous value for your money.
6. Shopping Cart (optional $97 – $299 per month).
If you are planning on selling products, you need a shopping cart – I always recommend E-Junkie for this.
As you can see, starting a business blog isn’t free, but it’s not bad either – you can set up a fully-customized blog ready to accept and convert traffic into paying customers for as low as $150!
More Internet Marketing Tools
Blogging
- Thesis Theme – this is what Traffic Generation Cafe is running on. The best SEO-ready theme there is.
Take a look at my review of Thesis theme and its SEO features.
- Thesis Awesome Skins – to make your Thesis customization a breeze, take a look at these custom skins, designed by Hesham Zebida of FamousBloggers.net.
- Thesis Smart Skin – yet another great choice for Thesis skins; designed by FourBlogger.com.
Build Your List
Here are some internet marketing tools that I use to accelerate my list building:
- Aweber Autoresponder – one of the best autoresponders on the market: incredible deliverability, unlimited lists, unlimited messages, customization, etc.
Read my full Aweber autoresponder review.
- WPSubscribers Plugin – how do I keep track of so many forms throughout my blog, have a checkbox to subscribe to my list in comments, autofill the opt-in forms? This is how.
Keyword Research
You can’t get targeted search engine traffic to your blog until you learn how to do your keyword research right. Period.
- Market Samurai – the BEST KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOL I’ve ever used, bar none.
Goes way beyond simple keyword research with competition research, rank tracking, domain research, and more.
- Google Keyword Tool – you can research your keywords by topic or your competitor’s website. It’s mostly helpful when deciding on what keywords to use for your AdWords Campaign, but can be used for regular keyword research as well.
- SEOBook Keyword Suggestion Tool – great resource to compare stats on any given keyword. Create a free account to use.
- SEOBook Rank Checker – easily and automatically track your rankings on all major search engines. A Firefox extension.More SEO Tools
- SEMRush.com – I love, love, love this internet marketing tool.
You know how different rank checkers ask you for the keywords you’d LIKE to rank for and then tell you where you are ranking for them?
Well, SEMRush checks the first 20 spots across Google to tell YOU what you are currently ranking for. This is priceless.
You can learn about different keywords you didn’t even know you were ranking for.
It also tells you which keywords bring the most traffic to your blog, so you can quickly tell which ones you need to push up in the rankings to bring even more search engine traffic.
Take a look at my SEMRush Review to learn more about the tool.
- SEO Power Suite – de facto for the world-wide standard for search engine optimization; this toolkit is THE best deal you can get if you need effective and proven SEO software.
You can download and use most of the software for FREE.
Make Money Blogging
- Google AdSense – a viable option to convert your traffic into some cash. Make money by placing relevant ads from Google AdWords advertiser anywhere on your site.
- Luminate.com – allows you to add AdSense ads to your images.
- Thirsty Affiliates Plugin – converts any keywords on your blog into money-making affiliate links, creates professional redirects, adds NoFollow (NEVER forget to do it!), opens links in new windows, AND you can easily insert banners already linked to the product site with your aff link with a simple click.
Also check out my post about the best Affiliate Marketing Programs and how to find/choose them.
Get Paid to Write Resources
These resources won’t make you rich, but might help to put some cash in your pockets, especially when you are just starting.
- InfoBarrel - This is a great article submission site that allows you to share the revenue on the ads displayed around your articles. Great way to draw some passive income.
- PayPerPost.com – write sponsored blog posts on your blog.
- LinkFromBlog.com – earn with your blog: write legitimate reviews, surveys or opinions for advertisers of products and services.
Shopping Carts
Whether you have your own product or offer services through your blog, you need a way to accept payments and here are some internet marketing tools to help you do just that.
- E-Junkie – The most affordable without sacrificing quality shopping cart around.
It’s compatible with Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, TrialPay, Clickbank & 2CheckOut. Comes with a nice affiliate program for your products.
- Clickbank.com – a great resource for products to sell. If you want to distribute your own product via affiliates, it offers a great affiliate program for that.
- 1ShoppingCart.com – this one is for the serious bloggers with serious products. Includes an email autoresponder among other features.
- Paypal.com – Paypal is notorious for problems with payouts.
It’s an OK solution if you are just starting out, but do consider switching to the resources above as soon as you start making more money.
Social Media Traffic
Managing social media is all about efficiency.
It’s all about maximizing your results with as little effort as possible.
Right now I spend about half an hour per day on social media – that’s it. Yet I generate literally THOUSANDS of visitors per month through it.
And these are the internet marketing tools to help me to get the job done:
- TweetAdder – this is the very tool that allows me to follow thousands of targeted users on autopilot per day, thus making Twitter my largest referral traffic source.
Here is my TweetAdder review.
- Buffer.com – will do all the tweet scheduling for you; just add your tweets and Buffer will do the rest.
Traffic Conversion
- Visual Website Optimizer – the best and easiest A/B, split and multivariate testing software on the market.
- Google Website Optimizer – a simple A/B testing software from Google.
- 43 Split Tests – this is perfect for non-techies like I am who don’t have the time and desire to learn the skill of split testing.
This product will give you the 43 best split tests that someone else tested and proven to work. I use most of them here, at Traffic Generation Cafe.
Internet Marketing Courses
All these courses offer a wealth of internet marketing knowledge that helped me to build up Traffic Generation Cafe to what it is now.
- Income Blogging Guide by Andrew Rondeau and Joel Williams.
This course will teach you everything you need to know about setting up a blog from scratch, driving traffic to it, creating awesome content that will keep your readers coming back for more, making realistic income with your blog, and even creating your own products using your blog content.
Read my review of the Income Blogging Guide here.
- Cloud Blogging by Glen Allsopp – Glen will show you exactly how he build a blog with $17K+ subscribers in a short period of time.
- Blog Post Promotion: the Ultimate Guide by Kristi Hines – this is an ebook that is packed with actionable advice on how to promote your blog.
Kristi Hines of Kikolani.com is certainly the best expert in the field and she doesn’t hold anything back as she shares how she promotes her blog, contest entries, etc.
Traffic Generation Cafe Plugins
I get asked a lot what kind of plugins I use on my blog, thus I decided to add them to my list of internet marketing tools.
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT PLUGINS
- CommentLuv Premium – Adds CommentLuv links to comments, protects you from spam, encourages twitter followers, adds keywords to names and increases traffic and community.
- Comment Redirect by Yoast – Redirect commenters who just made their first comment to a page of your choice. On this page, you could ask them to subscribe, like you on Facebook and lots more.
- Contact Form 7 – simple, but flexible contact form plugin.
- ReplyMe – sends an email to the comment author automatically when someone replies to their comment.
- Sharebar – Adds a dynamic bar with sharing icons (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) that changes based on browser size and page location.
- Top Commenters Gravatars – Display the gravatars of top commenters for your blog. The gravatars are displayed as widget that can be placed anywhere within your blog.
- Tweet Old Posts – randomly picks your older posts based on the interval specified by you. The primary function of this plugin is to promote older blog posts by tweeting about them and getting more traffic.
- Twitter @ Anywhere Plus – This plugin allows you to easily add Twitter @Anywhere to your blog, like I have after each post.
Note: I no longer use this one as it was causing too many errors on my blog.
- WPSubscribers – Insert and manage optin form in your blog as well as build your subscribers list rapidly.
Internet Marketing Tools Takeaway
Once again, I only list internet marketing tools that I personally used and loved.
Also, please remember that most of these are affiliate links and I will make money should you choose to buy any of these products.
And you know what?
I greatly appreciate you going through my links to buy these internet marketing tools and making it possible for me to make income from this blog.
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Hi Ana and all you folks,
I use some of what you are mentioning here for tools. I really like some of the digi line of software that a lot of folks use. It does seem to help with backlink building and gaining exposure. I tried thesis theme, but have to admit I really don’t care for it at all. I use Catalyst instead. I did not have the time it took to learn all the hooks it used. This is a good list here, the main thing some folks do when starting out or should be doing, is to go and study blogs and see what they are using that is visible and hope somebody like you will actually tell them what is on the backside of the blog. That is one of the stumbling blocks for new bloggers, knowing where to start and what to use in their blogs for extra exposure and power.
Jim
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I actually took a look at Digi Traffic Accelerator today, Jim – wasn’t impressed, quite honestly.
A monthly fee to get a bunch of social bookmarking links? Not for a blog like mine. lol
Plus, I can pay someone $5 on Fiverr to do the same.
I do know what you mean about Thesis. I think it works better for a long-term blog as a main business vs more of a niche blog. I love it though!
Ana I agree with you completely about picking the right blogging platform. There is no doubt that Thesis rocks! I would add that the Genesis platform is also well coded for SEO and does very well in the SERPS.
I don’t have a first-hand experience with Genesis, Bill, but I know it’s a solid theme.
Thanks for coming by!
True. I use Thesis on some of my sites and Genesis on a few others. They are both great – both for customization and. of course, SEO.
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Ana,
Forgive me if you have discussed this elsewhere, but have you looked into Build My Rank? I have started using it (of course as a link building tool) and have seen many praise it. I’d be interested in hearing what you have to say about it; there are so many link building options out there!
Thanks,
John
Like you, I’ve heard a lot of good things about it, John, but haven’t personally used it; mainly because it’s a bit time-consuming to write unique articles for each submission and gets expensive pretty quickly if you outsource it.
Ana, this single post has been a bit of a reference for me as I’m setting up my business online. I love the fact that you’re so honest and no BS, with just the right amount of “if I can do it you can” kick butt.
Here’s my question about starting up. Of all of the tools you list, if you only had $100 or less, what would you invest in first, second, etc.
I’m already up on WP, I’m using Thesis (glad I’m over that learning hump for now) and I’ve got aweber. Most of the freebies you talk about I’ve installed too. So what should I invest in next for the biz? Or what would give me the best ROI next?
Keep it coming, Ana, your my virtual mentor!
Susan
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It’s always my pleasure to help, Susan.
My next step would be to learn more about SEO. It’s a great long-term traffic generator and of course free, so it’s definitely worth the time investment.
There are some tools that you’ll need for that, like Market Samurai, and maybe SEMRush, but that should be about it.
Thanks Ana for the tip…. I’ve been reading a lot lately about SEO for exactly the reasons you say and now I’ll look in to those tools too.
Have a great holiday!
Susan
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Huge collection to test out.
The information from SEMrush and SEOMoz is fantastic.
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Thanks, Robin, and welcome to TGC.
Good suggestions, for blogging platform i really love wordpress, using wordpress for my 10 blogs, hostgator is also a good choice.
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I am surprised that so many bloggers don’t go for WP, Sadia – makes no sense.
Hey Ana,
Lots of tools, familiar with some, not others. I see offers for tools every day. Knowing reputable ones is good, but can you I.D. any you have used but they just don’t have value or just plain don’t work?
Thx
will
BTW, I love your engaged readres. They offer a lot as well.
I surely do, Will; take a look at this: http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/lousy-internet-marketing-products/
I am putting together a new “not recommended” product list for this year; if you have anything to add, let me know.
Hi Ana,
I’ve been on the fence about TweetAdder. Just worried about losing my account. I want to build a targeted following, but not at a snails pace. Now that someone I trust is recommending it, I guess I can go ahead.
Thanks,
Bob
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I’ve used TweetAdder for a while now, Bob.
The best way to use it is by staying away from their automation and go slow.
Thanks for the pointers on the tools you use Ana. I wondered if any of the plugins can potentially slow down website speed? I am also interested in knowing if anything has changed in a major way since you wrote this post, we should be aware of? Are the internet marketing courses valuable for people who have already had a couple of good courses? Thanks again Ana.
Plugins: certainly too many can slow down your blog. However, the functionality they add far outweighs 1-2 seconds of decreased speed.
I always keep this list updated, so all the info is current.
I went through Income Blogging Guide after I started TGC and still learned a good deal from it. Do you have to have it if you already have a good amount of knowledge in IM? Probably not.
Hi Ana
I have been searching for weeks now on how to improve my internet biz. It came to me recently that I was doing things all wrong…making very little progress. I knew I had to change.
Your site was recommended to me by another honest and very helpful blogger. I am extremely happy to be here. I will be using several of the tools on this list and many of your SEO tactics going forward. Thanks to you I have found some solid ideas that I can believe in.
You can certainly count on finding a lot of honest and helpful advice around here, Scott.
Welcome!
You know, Ana, I don’t remember anymore how I found your site, but I’m very glad I did. What a great list of tools! I have to tell you that I’m very excited about integrating these tools on my sites.
I was just reading yesterday about how to garner success moving forward, and the recommended method was to surround yourself with successful entrepreneurs. I love that your articles are down to earth and genuine. Of course, it helps that your articles are always value packed, and that I learn something new with each article.
To your continued success, Ana
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Thanks so much, Steve; glad you landing on my site as well.
Great list Ana. Guess my weekend is not enough to browse all of these. You also mentioned tribe commenting on one of your posts, is there a tool for that (I think you don’t it because of your huge traffic). I also want to know what tool you use to display related posts under each articles that displays a banner at the bottom. Thanks and more power to TGC!
Weekends are never enough… LOL
I just started my own tribe, Cleo; no tools. Here’s how I did it: http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/drive-traffic-commenting-tribe/
For related posts, I use YARRP plugin and the box they are in is custom-made.
Yes, weekends were never enough
in addition to many sleepless nights.
I did find your site very useful for my education in the industry of SEO and Marketing for months now and I think I already found my passion – and decided to take a similar path like you did.
Thanks for the plugin info and commenting tribe tip. Wax on wax off, wax on …
It’s a great feeling to combine your passion with something that actually makes money indeed, Cleo.
Great list of tools Ana. You have given me a few new ones to try out, thanks!
Thanks, Brad.
Thanks Ana for a really great list of tools, very useful information
Wendy
You are very welcome, Wendy.
Thanks Ana For sharing the tools you use. My Personal Favorite is Market Samurai. Its a Kind of all in One Tool For Bloggers.
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Hi Anna, thanks for sharing this very useful blog. I have made a list of all the resources and will systematically begin implementing them. I notice some comments about being overwhelmed, that is why I have posted here. Once income comes in as a result of this, then people can upgrade to the pay for tools. Great post. I look forward to improving my page rank and Alexa ranking.
Hey Ana,
this is an awesome “Tool kit”! Thank you very much for putting it together!
I am online now for 3,5 years (as a marketer
) and I find it funny that – although there is alway THE new tool 
– it always comes down to the same services.
I use e-junkie since the beginning – and 90% of all my sales go through them. I started with a 19,90 aweber subscription (which is now “a little bit”
higher. And I recommend these tools to everybody I talk to too. Here in Germany we got an awesome service which is called “Split Test Club” (obvious what it does 
) which I also use very often.
Thanks again for that awesome “resources page”.
Greetings,
André
I very much agree, Andre – new tools come and go, but in the end our businesses are built on the same trusted tools that have been around forever.
Hi Ana,
Next time you need a domain, check out DomainCheapsters.com, GoDaddy is their parent company so all the features are the same, they are usually a few bucks cheaper though – every penny counts right?
Ana, You’ve got some great resources listed here. Bookmarking your site now, so I can come back and start playing with some of these tools.
I’m especially intrigued with WPSubscribers. Seems like a handy plug in. Are you still recommending that one as a Email Capture?
-Jeff
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Thanks, Jeff.
Yes, I still recommend WPSubscribers for placing opt-in forms all over your site and Aweber as the primary autoresponder system.
I’m currently on Mail Chimp. I’m going to wait to use up my remaining credits, but it seems like most of the good blogs I visit use aweber, so I’ll switch soon.
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Can I bribe you to use my aff link when you do that, Jeff? LOL
Hey Anna:
Awesome blog! Seldom do I find myself so attracted to a site the first time I find it; I have been to your site several times in the past week. I have enjoyed your resources page and using some now. Thanks for being a great blog mentor and I look forward to many returns to your site.
Jeramy
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And I look forward to seeing you around, Jeramy – thanks for the comment.
Awesome blog. and there’s some amazing tools there.
I use quite a few of them and I have to say they work.
Please stop by my blog some time once I have launched
it. Leave a comment.
~G
Hello Ana, I came to this page when i downloaded 7 Steps To Complete Search Engine Domination… I was unaware of many tools you mentioned here for internet income.. Nice list of tools you listed. But i think it takes a good amount of time to understand and use them…..
Thanks
One step at a time; right, Ranga?
That is an extensive list of tools and resources Ana. I already use quite a few of them. There are a few good suggestions, that I will need to check out and see if they suite my business.
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As always Ana….great tips and tricks for those of us wanting to live our dream!
You do such a great job!!
Scott
Hi Ana,
Wow, I think I have found a gold mine of resources!!!!
I use about half of them already and will be adding the others very shortly.
I have a question about a plug-in you recommended in anther post, but I haven’t noticed it
on the last few comments I have left.
It was the plug-in that would drop down social buttons when scrolling to the bottom of the page.
What was the name of it and are you still using it?
Thanks a ton for all the resources, you rock,
Jeff
Hey, Jeff – coming up with this list and, most importantly, narrowing it down to the essentials did take some time. LOL
The plugin you are talking about is called ActiveShare by Orange Soda.
I don’t use it any longer on my blog. The main reason was that it used to drop down right as my readers hit my after-post optin form – I had a feeling it affected my optin rates.
Plus, I personally found it annoying after a while. LOL
Hi Ana,
Excellent roundup. What I really like about it is how you’ve made it known that it takes some investment in your online activities if you want to reap some financial reward for your efforts. One area you covered caught my attention – get paid to write. I’m moving more in this direction to diversity my activities and because you trust these sources, they bear looking into.
Cheers!
Yes, you have to invest in your business, both online and offline. Glad my post was helpful.
Hmm! Mrs. Ana, I’m just so glad I found this page.
I’m a Nigerian and really most of us think we can go with free themes and free stuffs to make money online but truth is that money is used to chase more money.
Talking about the 16 million page rank dropping to about 30k in 4 months, that’s like wow! I dropped from about 6 million to about 2 million in a month. (Do you see a bright future for my blog if I remain consistent and put in more efforts?)
I’m now exhausted reading your list and it was worth the while.
I spent some money rebranding my blog from the ALO EasyMail Plugin that frustrated the hell out of me to Aweber.
My next aim is the thesis theme (but can I see the theme before I buy it? On the homepage of thesis theme, you have to pay before you see it. Why is this? I’m seriously looking for a particular color and design that’s why I want to know).
Then, after that, I aim for Maxblog Press and the rest of them because I really want to make it here, although as a student, I do have financial constraints oftentimes.
Thanks for sharing though.
Btw, have you heard of the List Eruption plugin by Tom A? Do check out if you’ve not heard and perhaps, affiliate for them, so that I can buy from you, my tutor.
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Hey, Chukwuka – looks like you are doing quite well with your blog; definitely keep going with it!
Out of the box, Thesis theme is a blank sheet – literally. All white background, simple layout and font.
The real magic begins when you start customizing it to your liking. Any color, layout, insert headers, etc – that’s how you get a blog like mine.
List Eruption is a plugin by Mark Thompson. I tested it when it was still in beta version and found it that it didn’t work with the existing themes at all – that and some other glitches, like the fact that it’s pretty complicated to set up, made me not recommend it to my readers at this point.
I’ll let you know if my opinion ever changes on this one.
Ana
Oh! Mark Thompson rather.
Thanks for the explanation about the thesis theme structure and for throwing more light on the List Eruption plugin.
I just finished reading your post on what products not to buy. Thanks for the recommendations on products to try out. Where would you rank YouTube for traffic generation compared to Facebook and Twitter. I always hear that Google likes YouTube for traffic. Thanks again and look forward to more blog posts. I think an honest IM goes so much farther than the quick hit, one-click product, one-size fits all approach. Get tired of those push-button software gimmicks.
It’s always nice to see both sides of the coin, Chris.
As far as YouTube is concerned, it CAN be potentially a good traffic generator with some effort. If you take a look at this post http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/website-traffic-source-search-engine-referral/, you’ll see that it sends me a healthy amount of traffic although I don’t really do much on it – just post videos every once in a while.
Thanks Ana! These are great tips as I am just about to launch my personal website and I am always looking for the best way to leverage time.
You are doing a great job!
Have a great day!
Eric
That’s great, Eric! Best wishes for your site.
One question I have is….what is the best way to add a digital signature on your site or email like you have done?
Thanks,
Eric
I hope you go my email on this, Eric, but I will answer the question for the sake of other readers who might be wondering about the same thing.
I used mylivesignature.com to create my signature, then I uploaded the image to my blog so that I can have easy access to it whenever I need to.
I also use Firefox extension WiseStamp to add the signature and other info to my emails.
Hi Ana,
Trying the MarketMeSuite, it’s only 34.99 for the year subscription. Thanks again : )
Glad to hear that, Karla – hope you’ll like it as much as I do.
Lots of good stuff here! Thanks Ana, I will make sure to come back to your blog!
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I have to agree on Tweet Adder. Although I have considerably less than 100k followers, I literally check it once every couple of days to make sure my “to follow” list still has people in it.
Hi Ana,
I love your site… pure gold, no hype. Thanks for that.
I have tried SEO Scribe on my blog and found it was useful. I have recently heard of another similar plugin called SEOPressor.
Have you tried this one? Any thoughts?
Thanks!!
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Hi Ana
If I someday want to go all-in on my blog I will properly look at these tools to push me all the way. You have proved that you have the skills to get to the top (Alexa rating below 15.000). If you want to top in this world you will sometime have to invest to get there I guess.
Thank you for sharing the tools you use with us. I think the tricky part is to figure out which tools a great and which is a total waste of money. There are so many tools out there and there is so much spam and trash out there. For my little hobby blog, I guess that I will have to do it the hard work by myself, but that is also kind of funny for a geek like me
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You’re welcome and thanks for compliment, Thomas.
Truthfully, you’ll never know if a tool is right for you until you try it. However, these are the ones that worked for me.
Good luck on your blog!
Ana
Hello Ana, I confirm that these are all great tools! Market Samurai is an invaluable tool for keyword research, rank tracking and more. This and Subscriber Magnet are two of my favorites. I hadn’t heard about Scribe SEO as I use SEO Surpressor which also does the trick.
Thanks for the great resource of quality tools that really work.
Thanks for the thumbs up, Scott!
I couldn’t agree more about Thesis and Market Samurai.
For keyword research and a few other things, I also use the free version of Traffic Travis, which is pretty useful. Still, having double checked a few results manually, I found Market Samurai to produce by far the most accurate results. And it has Commercial Intent integrated in its keyword evaluation table.
Thanks for your magnificent blog.
Max
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We always get what you paid for with free stuff, don’t we, Max?
Max BlogPress Ninja Affiliate claims to able to make Target URLs that will not be visible even after the visitor arrives at the affiliate offer page? It also claims be able to nofollows these links. Have you found this to be true. Does Google penalize your site for doing this?
Yes, all their claims are correct and none of this breaks any Google rules.
Hi! So glad to see you included MarketMeSuite! Let me know if you have any questions. Version 3 comes out today and we’re running a special on our yearly price!
Tammy invites you to read: Pre-Launch Special! Yearly for under 30!
I love MMS, Tammy – quite a tool. And it’s actually the best seller on my site.
Question for you: now that Twitter is moving to a new platform and it doesn’t show links under tweets, it seems like branding on Twitter will phase out. Is that correct?
Is MMS working on replacing this feature in some way?
Thanks, Tammy!
Ana
Hi Ana,
It still works – go to the marketmesuite homepage underneath the video you can see a screenshot. It’s in the tweet details but watch that space Twitter has lots of goodies in store – it will become highly used
Tammy invites you to read: Version 3 is LIVE!
Excellent Ana
I think you missed to reveal how this Check this Box below website option is placed.
Could u pls let me know which plugin u are using for this
Thanks’
ATUL
Atul invites you to read: Activate Multi-Touch gestures on iPad iOS 43 beta
You need to specify which check box you are referring to, Atul. If it’s the one by the comments, then that’s Subscriber’s Magnet mentioned in the post.
Ana
Hey Ana!
Checked out your list of tools. I really love the fact that you’re so good with what tools to use based on your experience and knowledge and that you’re sharing it with the world! Makes it a heck lot easier for us. I’m really impressed on how you boosted your traffic from nothing to a very impressive Alexa rank of 17,999 (as of Jan 13, 2011)
Great work! I’m so proud to know you
Sean invites you to read: Effective Link building strategies
Thank you, Sean, and good to see you back.
My problem is – I can’t lie.
The good news is I don’t have to. I think that’s the reason my Alexa rank keeps coming down.
I wish more bloggers realized that simple fact and stopped shoving their affiliate links down our throats.
Ana
Hi Ana –
Yaro’s ‘free’ course got me starting blogging nearly two years ago. After, there has been a lot of trial and error to get to where I am now.
I upgraded to the Thesis theme a few months ago and love it & I started Scribe a bit ago and really find it useful…
I am really impressed with your blog and am not surprised by its success. You are very clear and current. I am glad to have found you!
Thanks for sharing-
Lori
Hello Lori,
Glad to also have you in my blog. I’m glad the tools you are using are working really well for you.
Thanks for dropping by,
Ana
Those are some great recommendations Ana.. I recently bought Market Samurai and it’s a beauty
Hello Tristan,
I’m glad you decided to try Market Samurai. Absolutely fantastic.
Thanks for coming,
Ana
Aloha Ana, enjoy your information and your display with such passion within your words and great tools you offer. thanks for sharing! Mahalo! Lanikee.com
Thanks for dropping by Lani. I hope to see more of you.
Take Care,
Ana
Hey Ana,
Great recommendations a couple I haven’t used in there so I’ll look into them
Absolutely agree the point of this technology is to leverage your time, either so you can spend it with family, relaxing etc… or on other parts of your business!
There’s no two ways about it. A little investment in the good tools makes A LOT of sense over the long term (and sometimes short term too). How handy that you’ve laid some of the best ones on a plate for us here!
Cheers,
Jym
Yes Jym, you can try it out. They are really amazing. Using them will make our lives so much easier. We can have more time for other personal stuff and most importantly, a time to spend with our family and loved ones.
All the best,
Ana