Resources

I thought it would be helpful to create a resource page that you can always come to for all of your internet marketing needs. I’ll add to it as I learn more, but you’ll notice that in the future I will reference this page quite often. I recommend bookmarking it for your reference and convenience. Enjoy!

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). These are all things that I have experience with that I am recommending because they are helpful and are companies that I trust, not because of the commissions that I may earn from you using these products. Please do not spend money unless you feel it’s for something you really need and will help you reach your goals.

Hosting:

  • HostGator: 99% of my website are hosted  on HostGator. Their know for their customer support. Easy to use, 1-click automatic WordPress installation. I Highly recommended getting the “Baby Plan” your first site.
  • SEOHosting: For building a network of sites on multiple c-class ip’s. I started with a 5 C-Class package in the beginning and had 1o domains per c-class. They are also owned by HostGator and have great customer service.

Keyword Research

  • Market Samurai: The number one tool for keyword research available, hands down.
  • Keyword Fighter: My favorit keyword tool right now..Best keyword scraper and sorter very few people know about.
  • WordTracker Free Keyword Tool: Spits out a number for the popularity of a keyword of your choice. Search volume numbers can be compared to find the perfect niche, or to choose keywords for your blog posts.
  • Google Adwords Tool: A tool to help you decide what keywords to use for your Adwords campaigns. You can also check to see the popularity of certain keywords and the competition for ads for those keywords as well.

Must Have WordPress Themes

  • OptimizePress: The wordpress theme that ever major Internet Marketer uses.. It’s cheeper then getting a professional Kajabi account which I also use.
  • WooThemes: My main resource for finding themes for my websites. My favorite is the Canvas theme.

Must Have WordPress Plugins

  • Backup Buddy: Plugin allows me to get a fully configured wordpress installed in under 2 minutes! It also makes a full backup of your blog and upload it to your amazon S3 account or DropBox account.
  • WhishList Member: I use this plugin to turn my wordpress sites into paid membership sites. Works great with OptimizePress theme.
  • Max Ping Optimizer: This plugin keeps you from over pinging the search engines when making updates on your blog. **(Highly Recommend)**
  • OptinBar: Allows you to easily PopUp Domination style opt-in forms to your wordpress site but cheeper.

Email Subscription Service

  • Aweber: The internet’s most powerful email opt-in service and email marketing/broadcasting tool. This is what I use to build my email list and newsletter.

Shopping Carts & Product Distribution:

  • ClickBank: Is the shopping chart I use to sell my products. The leading digital products retailer. Decently priced, but comes with an amazing affiliate program for your products
  • E-Junkie: It’s compatible with Paypal Standard, Paypal Pro, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, TrialPay, Clickbank & 2CheckOut. Works like a charm, very low price to use. Comes with a decent affiliate program for your products.
  • Paypal: Paypal rocks if you are not tech savvy at all. It takes only 2 mintunes to create a “Buy Now” button that you can paste right into a wordpress blog. Only down side is.. they don’t have a network of affiliates.

Testing Results

  • SEOmoz: My favorite place to analyze data and track results. HUGH community of seo’s and marketers where you will learn a ton.
  • Clicky: Clicky is just like Google Analytics, except it’s easier to use, and you can view how many people are on your site (and what they are doing) in real time! Your first site is free.
  • Google Analytics: Google’s free website tracking and analytical tool. A must have for anyone with any type of website.

Outsourcing Work

  • Elance: Hired service for just about anything you can think of.
  • Odesk: Another outsource website for freelancers, IT companies, programmers and web designers from abroad.
  • 99Designs: This is a unique website that you can use if you need a logo design. It’s in a contest format. You submit the description of what you want, and designers will compete against each other to win money.
  • SpeechPad: This is the service I use to get transcripts done for my podcasts and videos.
  • Fiverr.com: Find people to do thing for you for $5.. I use it all the time.

Computer Freedom

  • DropBox: Throw your USB’s way. You don’t need them anymore when you have a DropBox account. Dropbox allows you to share folds on your computer with any computer. I backup all my work, tools, videos and business information to my dropbox. I’ve got it on my iphone, ipad, pc and mac. Just drag and drop the file and it’s now on all computers.
  • Join.me: Fast, FREE screen sharing.

Kick Ass Solutions

  •  BuildMyRank: The new weapon in my backlinking arsenal! This piece of software creates high quality (high PR) backlinks directly to your niche site. Everyone I know who does niche sites for a living now uses BMR, which is why I decided to give it a shot. This replaces my previous recommendation of a similar service called Blog Blueprint because: One, the results are that much better, and two, the links are actually on real high PR websites, which you can see and check yourself (plus they give you a nice report). Highly recommended. (update 4/19/2012 BMR got deindexed and is no longer for in business)
  • HomePageLinks.com: The new weapon in my backlinking arsenal! Allows you to get links on high pr websites and the links don’t roll off the home page.
  • The Best Spinner: The #1 Article spinning software that saves a ton of time by allowing you to easily reword articles that you’ve already written so you can submit them to multiple directories online without worrying about duplicate content
  • Unique Article Wizard: The tool that I use (along with The Best Spinner, above) that generates hundreds of thousands of backlinks.
  • SEnuke X: Very powerful software that I have running on a dedicated machine. Read my senuke x review
  • HideMyAss: A great simple way to change your ip address.. I use this all the time when I need to HIDE MY ASS :)
  • Your Private Proxy: The place where I buy my dedicated private proxies. I use this with SEnuke and other tools.