Internet Marketing Brain

RECOMMENDED PAID SERVICES & TOOLS:

• Web Site Hosting: BlueHost.com
  Very reliable web site hosting and terrific customer service.

• Email Auto-Responder: Aweber.com
  You MUST be able to capture website visitor emails so you can market to them later via “drip marketing” – typically in exchange for a free report or download with high perceived value on the part of your visitor. 

• Cheap Domain Names: SmartDomainShopper.com
  Do not ever pay more than ten bucks to reserve a domain name.

Disclosure: use of the above services may generate an affiliate commission.

RECOMMENDED FREE SERVICES & TOOLS:

• www.Google.com/keywords
  - Google-provided Keyword and KeyPhrase research tool. Best if you login to your AdWords account first.
• www.LinkPopularity.com
  - Spy on your competition by finding out who links to them.
• www.Google.com/webmasters
  - Getting less and less “geeky” with a ton of terrific free tools.
• www.xml-sitemaps.com
  - Upload to your sites root folder and tell Google Webmaster it’s there.
• www.Google.com/analytics
  - World-class tracking and statistics, all for free.
• www.TubeMogul.com
  - Upload videos to multiple video hosting services like YouTube.
• www.SocialMarker.com
  - Social bookmarking made easy.
• www.EzineArticles.com
  - Post KeyPhrase-specific articles linking back to your web site.
• www.Google.com/alerts
  - Set up alerts for your target KeyPhrases so news comes to you.
• Answers.Yahoo.com
  - Post answers to questions for exposure and backlinks.
• www.BlogaRama.com
  - Search blogs, make good comments, get backlinks.
• www.Weebly.com
  - Create a Weebly site and link back to your main site.
• www.HubPages.com
  - Create a hub page and point back to your site.
• www.Squidoo.com
  - Create s Squidoo Lens and link back to your site.
• www.Twitter.com
  - Establish your expertise and post links
• www.Google.com/local/add
  - Add your web site to Google’s local listings