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

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

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

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

Here is a great one
Tubemogul - video submitting

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

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

Website SEO Tool | Website Grader

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

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.

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.

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

-Debbie

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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

great tips, thanks to all

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.

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.

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

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.

Wordpress
Wordpress plugins
Google Keyword Tool
WordFlood

Open Office without a doubt.

1) Google Adwords Keyword Tool
2) Google Analytics

cool, great resources people!

Wordpress, Warriorforum, Google and my brain.






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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.

Wordpress,
Google - Search, Trends, Analytical, wonder wheel etc
Tube Moghul,
Blogger....

Julie

I using All kind of Google tools for any kind of site analysis. and my brain

There are plenty of great tools out there that have already been mentioned, so I wanted to put something new. Don't think anyone has mentioned Alexa.com (apologies if they have I missed it).
Until recently I only used it to look at specific sites traffic, but you can actually use it to search the top sites in an actual niche.

So when doing your research etc on google for good keywords and the amount they are entered you can go to alexa.com and enter the niche you are looking for.

Alexa will tell you the numbers of visitors these sites are getting.

If there are a decent number in the top 100,000 you know this is a popular niche to get into.

If any of the sites are forums get yourself on there with your "offer" in your signature.

Also could consider contacting the sites to see if they would like JV.

Your other best tool is you and your work ethic.

Hope this helps.

Good luck

PS Thanks to those who have already contributed, loads here I knew nothing about.