Tools and Resources

These are the tools I use every day in my business to make my life easier whether that’s SEO Tools, Video Creation Tools, Website Building Tools, Outsourcing Resources and other goodies.

Web Hosting

• HostGator: I use HostGator for the majority of my websites. I find they’re reliable, easy to use and their customer service is top notch. I wrote a quick blog post about web hosting and how if you need help installing your website, I’ll do it for you, more details here: Web Hosting.

Blogging

• CodeCanyon: This is the place I go for advanced WordPress plugins and themes. These guys, along with ThemeForest are great for higher quality plugins and themes. I even recently purchased the ‘Six Figure Boss‘ squeeze page from CodeCanyon. All I did was modify it’s content and it was good to go. This is where you’ll find higher quality paid plugins and WordPress themes.

Product Distribution & Shopping Carts

• E-Junkie: I have been using this simple cart for both products and services for the last 5-years. They’re cheap, easy to use and extremely versatile. They’re compatible with Paypal Standard, Paypal Pro, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, TrialPay, Clickbank & 2CheckOut. I set the cart up with product keys and when a customer pays me they get immediate access to the product or service they purchased, making my life easy.
• Clickbank: Clickbank is the largest digital marketplace in the world. I use these guys with ‘Six Figure Boss’ and a few other products of mine for product distribution and affiliate management. As a vendor I couldn’t be happier.

Landing Pages

• LeadPages: The best tool, hands down, for easily creating high-quality landing and squeeze pages. Works with WordPress and non-wordpress sites.
• OptimizePress: Another cool tool for building squeeze pages or sales page. I like this a little more then LeadPages because it’s cheaper and gives you more freedom when building your pages. It’s not as easy as LeadPages but with that you’re able create the exact pages you need for your business.

SEO Link Building Tools (Tier 1 Satellite Pages)

• Ultimate Demon: ($50 Discount Code: 4CAEFAD42A) – Ultimate Demon is a great tool for tier 1 link building. It supports a huge range of platforms. You can even add your own websites, schedule tasks and setup campaigns in minutes. It does a lot! If I were to choose between SeNuke and Ultimate Demon, I would choose Ultimate Demon hands down.
• SeNuke: (Free Trial) SeNuke is a great tool to automate the creation of satellite pages on the more popular Web 2.0 and Article Directory websites. It also helps to promote these pages through bookmarking, profile links and other methods that change from time to change. My personal usage of SeNuke has been met with great success. The power of satellite pages is amazing when created correctly. I have been able to take entire pages in Google for my targeted search terms with just SeNuke. I highly recommend the software because it has everything you need to create quality satellite pages fast!

Tools to promote your Satellite Pages

Once you have your satellite pages established, you’ll want to use the different tools below to generate their backlinks. These tools are ONLY for your satellite pages and NEVER your money pages. Since your money pages are brand new they cannot take this sort of abuse without consequences.

• GSA Search Engine Ranker: (Free trial available) GSA Search Engine Ranker is the Swiss army knife of link building. It supports over 100 platforms, scrapes targets, posts content, verifies emails and checks the links are live all in one tool. It is literally a set and forget it link builder! It’s great for those lower tier links! Again this software is NOT meant for your money pages, only your tier 2-3 web 2.0 websites which point to your Tier-1 satellite pages. GSA Search Engine Ranker is automated. It supports multiple platforms including forum profiles, web directories, videos, blogs and more. I highly recommend giving the free trial a chance.
• No Hands SEO: (Free Trial) NO Hands SEO is fully automated. It posts to blogs, trackbacks, whois postings and more. All the work is done for you, the link quality is very low but still worth it for those throw away 3rd tier satellite pages. It has a free trial so give that a go and see how you like it.
• Article Marketing Robot: Article Marketing Robot works with article directories. It’s an old program with limited support but still works. AMR is great because you can use your own list of scraped article directories that have not been heavily abused. Out of the box AMR’s success rate is very low. You need to use auto approved article directory list to have any success and you can find these lists on various marketing forums. You’ll want to use AMR primarily for your satellite pages, never your money pages.

Tip: The easiest way to build fresh list is to go Fiverr and order few AMR gigs, when your get the live link report, take those sites and add them to your list. AMR is an extremely powerful tool if used correctly.

• ArticleKevo: (Free Trial) Similar to Article Marketing Robot but it can submit to a larger variety of web 2.0 platforms. It’s updated regularly so you know it’s supported. As of right now it does not support a ton of Web 2.0 websites but they’re working it. I have not personally used this software but from recent reviews and feedback of the software it’s worth checking out the trial offer.
• ScrapeBox: ScrapeBox has a huge range of useful functions but when it comes to “comment blasts” it really is head and shoulders above the rest. Scrape a list of related WordPress blogs, and then click grab comments from harvested list. Paste into The Best Spinner, replace everyone’s favorites and voila! You now have a huge list of relevant comments to go ‘spam’ with. If you’re going to have any tool, it should be ScrapeBox.
• XRumer: The fastest and most efficient link building program out there. It has a very steep learning curve but once mastered you can post to nearly any platform you want at blistering rates. Need to create a million backlinks in a matter of hours? XRumer is king. Warning: XRumer is primarily a forum spamming tool. It’s more black hat then SeNuke and very powerful. Google does not like this method of building backlinks so be careful how you use it. In general you want to outsource this work to a 3^rd party with experience. Again this is ONLY for satellite pages, NOT your money pages. I recommend limited usage of XRumer due to its power. I have had great success with it in the past and miserable failures at the same time. It’s hit-and-miss when blasting with these types of links.
• Link Wheel Bandit: (Free trial available) – Still effective but lack of recent updates by the developer has lessened it’s effectiveness. Link Wheel Bandit automates Web 2.0 property building which can be used for your 3rd tier satellite pages. That said look to Ultimate Demon instead as it’s a simpler tool and much more effective at the moment.

Tools to Track your Site Backlinks & Rankings

• SEO PowerSuite: (Limited free version available) – This has a huge range of uses and includes several pieces of software. You get Rank Tracker (the best rank tracking software in my opinion), Website Auditor (great for checking onsite issues), SEO Spyglass (download competitor backlinks) and LinkAssistant (finding link opportunities, I use it in a radical way to get guest posts though). Each tool is an industry leader in its own right and I have relied on this suite of tools for years. It is an essential suite of SEO tools that everyone should have in their arsenal.
• Ahrefs (Limited free account available) – Updated more often than SEOMoz and shows much more detailed stats. You can also use it to see if people are 301’ing aged domains to sites which you don’t see in SEOMoz, very handy! Personally I love Ahrefs; it works greats, has reports and beats most other services any day. It’s good for PPC results, spying on the competition and more. I highly recommend!
• Traffic Travis (Free Download) Find Niches, Hot Keywords, Gauge the Competition, use the free version, better gauges competition then other tools, Any keyword tool that still uses the xxx,xxx result from Google search results as a competition metric, is NOT giving you the SEO competition analysis you’re looking for, Traffic Travis uses a color-coding system to tell you what keywords to target. The software has issues from time to time but support is great. It also focuses on PPC Spying, Site Analysis and more. Overall it’s a good tool to use, give the free Trial a try.
• Majestic SEO: (Backlink Checker, Site Explorer) A great tool with a lot of support, it can be expensive but there is a free trial available. There are better tools out there to be frank without a monthly plan. I recommend SEO PowerSuite or Ahrefs instead.
• SEOMoz (Full 30 Day Trial) – SEOMoz is one of the best SEO tools to monitor your site and link building campaigns. It does it all from rank tracking to on page recommendations and you can even use it to download all of your competitors backlinks! The paid version is great but it comes at a high price. Generally I feel SEOMoz is an excellent service if you have SEO clients as the reports it generates are high quality but other than that I feel it’s too expensive.
• Inspyder Backlink Monitor Inspyder is a great tool to keep track of and monitor your back links. It also supports tiered structures and will sort out the hierarchy for you automatically, along with index checking, page rank checks, anchor text checks, reports, scheduling and more! It is a link checking tool. So if you are building links and want to make every single one of your links count, then you should be using this tool.

About Donald

I'm Donald, I have a passion for making money online and teaching others how to make money online. If you haven't read Six Figure Boss already, check it out. It's a complete step-by-step guide to to creating your own online business.