I keep adding new free tools for marketers here, so make sure to check back every now and then. If you have a nice IM product that you give away for free from your website or blog, feel free to send me a message and I’d be happy to add it here. This means free traffic to your product and happy IM newbies who gets new cool toys to play with!
Most recent addition:
Feb. 02, 2010: Yola, free/affordable HTML website/blog builder. Easy to use, efficient and lets you download your website as Zip, build a blog and much more.
Easy Article Rewriter
Easy Article Rewriter is an online tool created that helps you cut down on the time spent re-writing articles. Feed Easy Article Rewriter with your article and it will automatically put in empty fields where you can re-write the sentences above. You can easily choose where to put in text breaks.
On the left side of the screen is a line count down, which makes it easy to see how much you have left. When you are done, click the button at the bottom and Easy Article Rewriter will compile your new article. Easy Article Rewriter comes with video instructions.
Contextual Partnership
Ever heard about link exchange programs? This is the next step. Download and install Contextual Partnership‘s free plug-in in your WordPress blog or website, and use it to get back-links from other high quality WP installations. The plug-in will let advertisers pick certain keywords in your blog, that they want to use for their links. Your blog must be accepted into the system first, something can take a day or a few. Blogs are accepted or denied by other users, so your blog must have content worth reading, and not just spam.
Update, Jan 27, 2010: I am no longer using Contextual Partnership with Easy Money Central due to lack of results. I received a handful back-links in return for providing hundreds of links to their network. Maybe that what I write about is not optimal for their system, and I still encourage you to try it yourself, to see if it works for you.
Free Traffic System
Free Traffic System offers two memberships: Free and Paid. Even the free membership offers great value, something that you will understand when you start using it. Free Traffic System is perfect if you want fresh content for your blog, in addition to tons of free back-links. I utilize the free content from this system to add more unique content to Easy Money Central, and even though I’ve had to remove a few duplicates, bit it was clearly a glitch in the submission tool, and it works pretty well on average. Having FTS‘s content posted in your blog is voluntary; You will receive 7% additional back-links for each article that you submit to FTS, if you allow them to post in your blog. Register a free account at Free Traffic System, start posting unique articles (no duplicates) and let the system build free back-links for you. What’s not to like about it?
Live Keyword Analysis
Live Keyword Analysis is a free online tool that you can use to check the keyword density in your articles. It’s very easy to use: Copy and paste your article text content into the analysis window, type in up to three keywords that you are using for the article, and it will immediately update the % ratios for your text. Works flawlessly with Mozilla FireFox, though not as well with Opera. Nevertheless, Live Keyword Analysis should prove a useful addition in your IM toolbox.
Brupt
Brupt is a free and pretty clever online Google search addition. Developed to aid your efforts to find whatever information you are looking for, Brupt offers an easy way to sort out which file types it should filter out and show on the search results page. There are four main file types you can select to have returned by Brupt with each search enquiry, and they are: Word (.doc), Power Point (.ppf), Excel (.xls) and PDF (.pdf). Brupt is an excellent tool and can save you a lot of time when looking for anything in particular on the Internet. Well worth a try.
Yola
Not everybody are familiar with how HTML, CSS, PHP e.t.c. works, and they just want something that simplifies the process of putting together their own website as soon as possible, so that they can spend more time promoting and earning money. Yola is an efficient and easy to use website builder which offers a free membership and an upgraded Premium membership.
The free version is definitely worth trying out, and it offers everything you need to build your own website, or even a blog (or you can combine both of them, if you want). Yola requires a link to their website to stay on your pages, but removing it will cost less than ten dollars for a year, so if it bothers you it is easy to get rid of and you won’t have to upgrade to Premium for it. Yola comes with a slew of great features.