Free Tools for Internet Marketing

Here's a list of useful sites with free tools. What's better than free?

SEO Tools

Bear Canyon SEO has a good list of tools for checking your site's PR, backlinks and number of pages indexed.

Link Popularity Tools

Link Popularity Check - learn more about your site popularity at Uptimebot.com. You can check for indexed pages and backlinks.

Adwords Tools

Adwords Sandbox - the official Google Adwords tool

Adwords Wrapper - takes your keywords list and generates keywords in " " and [ ] for your Adwords campaigns

Keyword Research Tools

Googspy (added 7/2/05) - Use this tool to spy on what others are bidding for on Google Adwords.

NicheBot (added 4/27/04) - check this one out if you need help finding niche markets. Instead of manually typing in search phrases in Overture and comparing the number of results at Google, this neat little tool does it automatically for you and shows you the ratio of the number of sites listed to the number of searches i.e. supply to demand ratio. 

Lexical Freenet - sometimes we all need a little brainstorming help when we can't think of enough good keywords. You'll have to try this one out.

Wordtracker - a free trial available for this keyword researching tool. You type in a keyword and it returns a list of relevant keywords along with the number of searches performed. You can also get a list of top 500 keywords emailed to you weekly. 

Lycos 50 - weekly top 50 keywords from Lycos.com

Google Zeitgeist - top 10 weekly and monthly queries on Google.com

Yahoo Buzz - the top 20 weekly searches on Yahoo!

Search Tool with PageRank Display

Prog - shows you search results from Google with each page's PR listed as well. 

PDF Converter

PDF Machine - Easily convert your Word or Open Office documents to PDF

Color Palette Tools

Pick a color and view its hex value - useful tool for when you need to pick colors for your site.
 

AdWords Helpers

The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords is a must for those of you who have been struggling with Adwords for a while but have not had much success.  Read the full review here.

Adword Analyzer  is a great piece of software that  allows you to type in a search term and generate a list of related search terms together with the total number of searches and the number of Adwords and Overture campaigns for comparison. You can do this manually, but automation will save you a whole lot of time. Read the full review here. 

Adsense

Adsense Gold
Adsense Gold is the tracking script that you'll need to test and track all your Adsense campaigns. This tool is simply indispensible! Also check out the bonuses that come with this product.

Traffic Generation

Traffic Secrets
A comprehensive course on traffic generation strategies for your websites. Consists of a workbook, written transcripts and a DVD set. Customers also gain access to the Traffic Secrets forum. This course is expensive but definitely worth the investment. I highly recommend it.