Having a professional, money-making online affiliate marketing website doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. There are tons of excellent tools, ebooks, and software out there that are fee-based, which can really run into some serious money, but if you’re just starting out, many of the free ones are great and you can find free tools to accomplish almost anything you need to do to build a successful business online.
These are some tools that I have found particularly helpful, but there are tons more out there that are absolutely free. This list includes, but is not limited to, HTML editors, graphics programs, keyword search tools, competition analysis, as well as tons of great training.
Keyword Tools:
SEOBook keyword Research Tool
Offers many great researching features.
Wordtracker Keyword Tool
You can enter a starting keyword into this keyword search tool to generate up to 100 related keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume. Search as many keywords/phrases as you like, for free.
Keyword Playground
This tool provides you keyword suggestions and reports on their monthly search estimates, and has been built using the WordTracker Database.
Google AdWords Keyword Tool
Use the Google Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. Enter a few descriptive words or phrases – or type in your website’s URL.
Keyword Density Tool
I’ve read conflicting reports on this subject, but many SEO’s agree that it is important for your content’s main keywords to have the correct keyword density to rank well in Search Engines. This tool will crawl the given URL, extract text as a search engine would, remove common stop words and Analyze the density of the keywords.
Micro Niche Finder
5 videos that show you 5 different ways anyone can profit from little known Under-the-Radar niche markets.
SEO, Webmaster, and Backlink Building Tools:
Blog Finder
The easiest and fastest way to locate related Do-Follow comment links blogs in any niche, where you can leave comments and build backlinks instantly!
StatCounter
Check your websites’ visitors, stats, and traffic in real time. Traffic is limited, then you have to pay or the counter will just drop visitors off before adding more.
Google Analytics
Another great tool to check your stats, visitors, and traffic, and so much more – absolute free!
Backlink Builder
A must have tool for building quality, relevant backlinks to your websites! Specify a keyword or phrase and the tool finds related sites that are likely to add your link to their website.
WYSIWYG Web Editors and Website Building:
KompoZer – Easy Web Authoring
KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end programs.
Nvu – Complete Web Authoring System
NVU (pronounced N-view) – A complete Web Authoring System that rivals programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Now anyone can create a web page ( or many web pages) and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
Free WordPress Themes
100′s of great looking free themes in every imaginable design.
Free WordPress Plugins
Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. 1000′s to choose from.
5 Different Tools From FreeSerifSoftware.com:
PhotoPlus picture editor.
PagePlus for desktop publishing.
WebPlus for website design.
DrawPlus to create logos.
3DPlus for 3-D website graphics.
Nattyware-Pixie
Website design color picker. Just run it, point to a color, and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that color.
Contact Form Killer
Add this little tool to your website to easily generate contact forms. Super easy!
eBooks and eCourses:
Make Your Content PreSell!
Add quality to the Web by writing well – about what you know and love. Over-deliver great content to please visitors and make the Search Engines love you at the same time.
Free WordPress eBook
Caroline Middlebrook’s free WordPress ebook “How To Develop Money-Making Niche Sites With WordPress”. Learn how to install WordPress and set up your own website or blog from start to finish.
Make Your Net Auction Sell!
Now you can use the Net to turn your dream into a reality – build your own Net auction business. With Make Your Net Auction Sell, you will be the master of your own destiny.) Move from “just browsing” to actually “selling” on eBay!
Affiliate Masters Course
The perfect affiliate system! This complete, FREE 10-day course focuses 100% on helping you, the affiliate to succeed. In the Affiliate Masters Course, Ken explains exactly how to become successful in affiliate marketing. Leads you step by step – day by day through a flawless process
Make Your Site Sell!
No matter what you want your Web site to sell, Make Your Site SELL! (MYSS) shows you how, like no other book or program ever has. When you use the proven strategies in this digital book, you will attract motivated, targeted customers to your Web site – then you will sell them.
Make Your Words Sell!
If you want to sell more…use the right words, because words – not graphics – is what sells online.
Turn Words Into Traffic -2 Part Traffic Report
Part 1: Print Article:
“Increase Sales By Flying Under Your Prospects’ Radar Defenses”
Part 2: Video:
How To Get 72,000 Qualified Visitors To Your Website – Without Spending A Dime On Advertising”
Free Blog Programs:
WordPress
A state-of-the-art publishing platform, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, rather than fight it.
Blogger.com
Another great, easy to use starter blogging software owned by Google. Start your own blog in just minutes!
Miscellaneous Website Tools:
Paint.net
Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
OpenOffice.org – Office Software Suite
Leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.
pdf995
The pdf995 suite of products – Pdf995, PdfEdit995, and Signature995 – is a complete solution for your document publishing needs.
Tiny URL
Great link cloaker that turns your long links into to much shorter ones. Cloaks your affiliate ID’s.
Advanced JPEG Compressor for Windows
Convert images to JPEG format using the most powerful JPEG compression engine, shrink the large file size of your graphic files, optimize pictures for quickly loading from the Web, e-mail smaller image files faster, and resize images and make thumbnails.
SnapaShot
Free screen capture tool with a resizable frame that you just drag over the area to be captured. Copy snapshot to the clipboard or save it as an image file.
FileZilla
FTP client (file transfer protocol) for transferring data from one computer to another.
Take advantage of all the free affiliate marketing training and other tools and resources that are available to you. Starting your own business can be a tremendous cash drain if you try to keep up with all the latest tools and books that are showing up everyday, but it doesn’t have to be. These free tools work just fine, and many of them are very comparable to their pricier counterparts.
