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28 Free Marketing Tools I Couldn’t Live Without - Part IV
By Lee McIntyre | January 19, 2008
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It’s been a mamouth couple of blog posts, but the 28 best free marketing tools series is almost at an end. In part I, part II and part III, I outlined some of my favourite free tools, but don’t worry because the fun hasn’t ended yet!
Today I have more tools for you, each of which I’ve used to grow my business, and they are of course 100% free. Enjoy the resource list and make sure you help me out with number 28 in comments below too….
I change my mind almost daily about my favourite free keyword research tool, but the one I currently use is the SEO Book Keyword tool.
It gets its results from Wordtracker, and what I especially like about this tool is that it provides nice links to other relevant resouces right next to the search results.
I’ll probably be using a different tool by next week, but right now this is one gets my vote!
As regular readers will know, I don’t usually play the SEO game with many of my blogs, and I instead prefer to get the bulk of my traffic from viral ebooks and direct links from other sites.
Having said that, I do have some niche blogs that I build with the intention of ranking in the SERPS, although I never find this business model as much fun.
If I’m being honest I find the whole idea of following various processes in order to get pages ranked well in the search engines to be a bit on the tedious side. Does anyone else feel the same?
Anway, when I am looking to get on the front page of Google then I usually end up visiting SEO chat quite a bit. They have loads of useful SEO tools, and you can see a sample in the screenshot to the left.
If SEO is your game, then you’re going to want to check out this site often!
If you want to start making money online, but don’t have a lot of money to invest, then you’re going to want to check out Blogger.com
For those who don’t know, Blogger.com allows you to create a free blog in seconds, meaing that you have a new page live online in minutes.
It’s worth remembering though that you won’t own the blog, and that Blogger could suddenly pull the plug one day (it happens!), but this is still a great way to get up and running fast without any upfront costs.
Blogger is a great place to start with your first blog, and is expecially useful for those who don’t yet feel comfortable enough to give Wordpress a bash.
Have you ever spent ages looking for forums in your niche so that you could do some research or maybe some subtle marketing? Yeah me too!
Well one cool free tool that I now use to speed up this process is Big Board which is a free directory showing the busiest forums out there.
You can search for forums in your niche, and you can even filter the results according to data such as post count, traffic, or number of members.
This is a really useful free tool that has saved me a bundle of time.
Yep, another Google offering has made it to the list of the top 28 free marketing tools. People can say what they want about potential Google world domination, but boy they know how to make good free tools!
Google Trends is an absolutely brilliant tool that allows you to see graphs of search volume over a period of time. In the picture below I’ve typed in eBay and then a graph is instantly populated showing me a comparison of how many people are searching for this now, as compared to in the past.
This is a great niche research tool, and it can be used to get a real feel for whether future search terms on a particular topic are likely to go up or down.
When it comes to building my webpages I usually use Dreamweaver, but I still also sometimes use the 100% free NVU as well. Dreamweaver is expensive, and if you can’t afford such a high upfront investment then NVU is a pretty solid alternative.
In fact, I only use Dreamweaver as that’s what I was trained to use as a teacher, but if I was starting from scratch today I’d probably just stick with the free NVU software.
If you’re looking for a free HTML editor then give NVU a try today.
28. You Decide…
Okay, during this series I’ve outlined 27 free marketing tools that you can start using today to grow your business without it costing a cent.
Well now I’m throwing open the door and asking you to share your favourite tools for the benefits of our readers. Is there a free tool that you use that you think we should know about? Are you stunned that I’ve missed off a particular resource? Gobsmacked that I haven’t included one of the best free tools out there?
Well then let me know in the comments below and share your experience with the readers of this blog. I can’t wait to hear what you come up with….
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January 19th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Thanks for the useful tips, since most of ‘em I already know - I agree they’re good.
I’d replace NVu with Dreamweaver, though.
Marian
January 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Keep a copy of your content posted on free Blogger blogs in case they pull the plug. Then Its v easy to restart the blog with a slightly different name.
george
Ps this is with a brummy acent
January 20th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Doing the SEO line dance does have it’s tedious moments, but it is satisfying to see traffic flowing in as a result of well place search results.
January 20th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Hey Lee,
I’ve been using many of those tools for my business for a while, however, there were a few “diamonds in the rough”.
Thanks for sharing!
All the best,
Brian Jinks
January 20th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Hi Marian
Yeah I prefer Dreamweaver too, but I do like NVU as a nice free back up when I don’t want to buy an extra license.
Hi George
That’s a nice tip. It’s also worth noting that you can also export to a self hosted Wordpress blog too, if the need ever arose.
Hi Brendan
You’re spot on of course. A couple of my niche sites get plenty of daily searcg traffic and I haven’t touched them for months, and it really does feel good.
Hi Brian
Thanks for the comment and I’m glad to have pointed you in the direction of a couple of new ones.
Thanks everyone for the great comments so far!
Lee McIntyre
February 10th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Hi Lee,
Thanks for those tools, some I haven’t come across before. I reckon your 28th should be PDF995Suite. Has three tools which not only allow you to convert any document, picture or what-have-you into a pdf but the edit program allows conversion back from pdf to word doc (text only) or html. It also allows you to password protect pdfs, combine pdfs and split pdfs.
Only downside is free version has ads and is a bit slow. So good I bought a licence for the ad-free version.
Can be got at www.pdf995.com.
Enjoy!
Chris
August 8th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Honestly, I think one of the best “tools” is Open Office. It’s free, converts any documents created in it to pdf, with a variety of options, and can import MS Office seamlessly. Great for creating eBooks.