whats your best free tool ?

[satrap]

what's the best free tool you use for anything from automation softwares to analyzers and etc? any tool that helps you do what you do. whether its affiliate marketing, blogging, cpa, selling your own product,...

[Sumit Menon]

I would say Wordpress. It forms the core of everything I do!

[PaulJD]

Wordpress is good but the free themes are abit naff. Also Google Docs is another great one :-)

[satrap]

thanks for the answers so far, please keep them coming if you use a free tool.

[Amanda Russell]

The free version of Andy Black's Easy Article Rewriter is a winner with me!
Amanda.

[jayguy]

Google reader and Google docs are great - I also love the simplicity of the Blogger platform. Sounds like I work for them or something!

[bertuseng]

Here is a great one
Tubemogul - video submitting

it lets you submit your video to all the different video sites with one click

[JBorhez]

Here's a decent site that analyzes your website for SEO.

Website SEO Tool | Website Grader

[maksym]

WordPress + Google services + TubeMogul = less pain in your head. :-)

[Always-A-Warrior]

For me its Googles Keyword and Traffic Est. Tools. Doing keyword research is a must in every business online. And of course, Forums comes in handy too.

[barbling]

Check out

Free Webmaster Tools and Resources
SearchBliss Web Tools - Free Web Tools for Webmasters
Webmaster Tools and SEO Software Resources :: Webmaster Toolkit

And that's just the tip.

[CashBomb]

I would put in a vote for GMIP. (GNU Image Manipulation Program) Open source and free...I use it for all my graphics and logo design. Powerful and easy to use...Plus has tons of special effects tutorials on the web for newbies.

[Rob Maggs]

Here's a list of some of the applications I just couldn't live without:

Wordpress wordpress.org/download/ with WPOMatic Plugin,for creating autoblogs
Yahoo Pipes for Feed Mashups, pipes.yahoo.com
Dapper for creating feeds from static websites Dapper: The Data Mapper
Google Docs for creating PDF's http://docs.google.com/
Wink for making Camtasia style videos Wink [Download]
NVU for Wysiwyg web design net2.com/nvu//download.html
The Gimp for Image Manipulation GIMP - Downloads
Imacros for creating web browser based macros https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863
Autohotkey for creating my own software AutoHotkey - Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText
Autoit- Also for making software AutoIt v3 - Automate and Script Windows Tasks - For Free!
Hootsuite Welcome to HootSuite - The Professional Twitter Client for Multiple Twitter Account Management
Twitterfeeder twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter for autoposting RSS feeds to Twitter
Twaitter Home - Where you tweet when Twitter Means Business - twAitter.com - Twitter Client and Scheduler for scheduling tweets
Tweetlater Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity SocialOomph.com For autofollowing/unfollowing people on Twitter
Multitwit Multi-Tweet For Broadcasting tweets to multiple accounts
Revtwt Welcome to Buzzom | Social Profile Management for Twitter follower mangement
Google Analytics Google Analytics | Official Website for web traffic analysis
Google Adwords Tool Externalhttps://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal for keyword analysis

I think that will do for now, hope you find this list useful

[Debbie_L]

I love Jeff Johnsons 'traffic getting SEO' plugin for wordpress. You have to opt in, but I love it.

-Debbie

[Gary Smith]

One of my favourites is CSS Tab Designer. It is a windows application that makes some really nice looking menus.

OverZone Software - CSS Tab Designer

[checkback]

Wordpress + Adobe Reader.

[satrap]

wow, you guys mentioned a lot of useful free tools. i use some of them already, but i will have to check out the rest. thank you all, and keepem coming if you have more. i think this will be useful for many warriors, newbee or old timer

[3vmarketing]

Like satrap I've been using few of the free tools mentioned by other warrior. And I will also have to check the other sites. I strongly agree with satrap that it will be very useful.

[satrap]

Originally Posted by JBorhez

Here's a decent site that analyzes your website for SEO.

Website SEO Tool | Website Grader

i just used this one, what a great tool. thanks man.

[jrmnlitt]

Wordpress for blog
NVU or Komposer for squeeze pages or website building
Articlejockey for article creation
Microsoft adlabs and google keyword tool for market research
Filezilla for uploading

[LoraGi]

Google's Search-based Keyword tool - google.com/sktool
Joomla and Wordpress
Tubemogul -for uploading videos

[St Croix]

Picked this one up on the side of the road along with a broken TV and early 70's washing machine.

Great for really drilling down into those longtail KW's

[yousefgreat]

I love Google Monitor by CleverStat... It helps me track SERPs for 100's of keywords on all my domains. It gives a good idea on which keywords rise or loose places in SERPS. Does it all in one click.

[WinsonYeung]

I'm using wordpress.com for site creation
and backlinks checker (my signature) to check for my website search engine ranking.

I also use SpyFu to check for the potential cost per click that I can earn up to.

[GavinStephenson]

For keyword research and finding a different niche markets I use

GOOGLE WONDER WHEEL.

1. Search a broad keyword like "internet marketing"
2. Then hit show options
3. Google Wonder Wheel
4. Copy keywords into a doc file
5. Do further anaylisis competition / monthly traffic

ENJOY

[TommyBussey]

I absolutely love the Google free tools. Gmail, GoogleDocs, Shared Calendar, Notifier, and the list goes on. These tools really increase efficiency!

Also, I want to add that I really enjoy using FileZilla for my FTP client. I've never had an issue with it and it's totally free to download. Here's the link to download FileZilla if you feel so inclined

[SEOGuruboy]

Originally Posted by GavinStephenson

GOOGLE WONDER WHEEL.

+1

This and Webmaster Tools

[Mr Money Maker]

The best free tool...the power of your mind

[LincolnKK]

Clicktale

You can have access to a free service. You put a javascript code at the beginning of a webpage and one snippet at the end.

They record every scroll, mouse click and mouse movements of a user on your webpage.

They show you the result of the browsing of the user on video. You have access to heat map, scroll map etc. Cool Stuff!

Pretty useful on a sales letter

[drwhogoesthere]

What a great thread.

My favourite tool is Irfan View IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide Great few quick viewing pictures and changing their formats. Had this one for years, and always updated.

Paint.net is great for pictures also http://www.paint.net/.

VideoLan is great for viewing all video formats, great when downloading videos to watch VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player

And then there is Winamp. Winamp Media Player - MP3, Video, and Music Player - Winamp No matter where I am music goes with me. Simple and easy to use.

[Istvan Horvath]

PSPad - the best free html editor (not wysiwyg!) - works with other languages, too!

[birddog200]

Hey man,

Thanks for starting this thread. I have never heard of one

of them. And was about to pay out the wazooo for one like it.

[AceHazel]

I agree with Google tools and Wordpress. Helps a lot.

[tommen]

Besides my blog, my best tool is called keywordindex, a free keyword research tool. Here is the link: KeywordIndex: the keyword suggestion tool for keyword discovery, research and analysis

[niftystats]

great tips, thanks to all

[woolabee]

My favorite free tool has to be Open Office.

I use it to edit and re-write private label rights
source files. You can easily turn these source
files into your own e-books.

It's an awesome tool if you buy and sell plr
e-books.

[CliveG]

This thread has introduced me to quite a few tools that I have never heard of before. Some of the others I use from time to time and love but one tool that I use on every web page that I produce is the w3.org HTML Validator - I also use its sister tool the CSS Validator.

[siteflip]

Google Webmaster tools hands down for me.
Some in particular.

[uncle randy 71]

Yahoo! email. No limit on amount of messages that you can store.

Microsoft Office Live, to keep and share all kinds of documents

Foxmarks, to keep all of my bookmarks in one place, regardless of which computer I may be using, I can get to all of my stuff from one location. It also has a spot for notes so you can jot down user names and passwords for each site.

[DrewG]

Wordpress
Wordpress plugins
Google Keyword Tool
WordFlood

[DAS_Matt]

Open Office without a doubt.

[Amelia O]

• SeoBook Tool Bar
• Open Office

[rosetrees]

Pixie by nattyware. Colour matching tool - I use it all the time when I'm designing sites

[Kazooli]

1) Google Adwords Keyword Tool
2) Google Analytics

[satrap]

Originally Posted by birddog200

Hey man,

Thanks for starting this thread. I have never heard of one

of them. And was about to pay out the wazooo for one like it.

You are welcome, and I am glad you didn't waste your money. As you can see there are many free tools out there, and I think most of them are a lot better than the ones you have to pay for.
And thank to all of you who took the time to let all of us know what free tool(s) you use. As many other warrior have said, there are also many tools that I have never even heard of, so its very helpful for all of us, since each of us use a different tool and not all of us know about the free tools that others use. Thank you all.

[tyson4]

cool, great resources people!

[Terro]

Wordpress, Warriorforum, Google and my brain.






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[steveblum]

I would have to say ...... I can't pick just one! But for anything Internet Marketing related I'd have to say:

GIMP: A program like Photoshop but free.

Filezilla: Free FTP

Blinkweb and NVU: Build a website free with WYSIWYG.

...these of course are only starters because there are so many great, FREE tools online these days. Best of luck with your continued search

[FreshMedia]

Some tools I can't live without are Firefox add-ons. SearchStatus, great tool to quickly check backlinks, keyword density, etc.. Firebug to inspect CSS code of any template you are using. Fireshot to quickly take snapshots of sites I want to sell. Visual Studio 2008 Express to create simple html pages. And of course my favorite of them all, Drupal.

[Tony Sanford]

SpyFu is a great tool you can use.
NVU is a great HTML editor.
Filezilla is a good FTP
all of these you can use for free