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I wish these following tools were available when I got started my internet marketing journey.  These tools are useful for your daily activities.  Even though some of them are free trial, but they are there for you to use until you have money to buy some sophisticated or advanced tools.  Anyway,  I’m going to list each one along with a brief description of what they are supposed to do to help you get your work done faster.

I know you use some of them, but probably you use other useful tools.  Take a look and promise they are very great for your business.

Internet Marketing tools: Useful Tools

Here they are:

7 Zip: http://7-zip.org  ( Free download) An open source, free alternative to WinZip.

Adobe Reader: http://get.adobe.com/reader ( Free download) Used to view and print PDF files.

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net ( Free download) An open source software used for recording & editing audio files.

AVG: http://free.avg.com ( free download) Anti-virus and anti-spyware protection.

BrowserShots: http://browsershots.org  online tool) Use this site to view how your website look in various browsers.

CamStudio: http://camstudio.org  ( Free download) Lets you record all screen & audio activity on your computer and create video files.

CCleaner: http://ccleaner.com  (Free online tool)

Removes unused files from your pc allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up space.

Color Cop: http://colorcop.net (Free online tool)

A multi-purpose color picker – great for web designers and programmers.

Down For Everyone: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com  (Free online tool) Is your site down? Use this tool to see if your website is down for other people.

DupeFree: http://dupefreepro.com  (Free online tool) Quickly check for duplicate content & LSI keywords.

Evernote: http://evernote.com  (Free online tool) Scan your notes, receipts, etc … it will OCR the content, save it, and make it searchable)

Easy HTML Generator – Need to create some anchor text but don’t know how. Or some basic html and don’t want to learn html. Here is an awesome tool for you then.

FileZilla: http://filezilla-project.org (Free online tool) Open source FTP program for uploading files to your host.

Firefox: http//mozilla.com/firefox  (Free online tool) Alternate web browser.

GIMP: http://gimp.org  (Free online tool) An open source program used to create & edit – free alternative to Photoshop.

Give Away Of The Day: http://giveawayoftheday.com (free download) Unique site that offers you a free license digital product daily.

Create Charts and Graphs for FREE – If you are serious about business then you have a plan.

Google Gmail & Analytics: http://mail.google.com  (Free online tool)

Jing ( Free download)  Screen capture and short video

Kompozer: http://kompozer.net (Free online tool) An easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editor.

Launchy: http://launchy.net  (Free online tool) Opens your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes .

NicheBot Classic: http://nichebotclassic.com  (Free online tool) Online keyword research tool helps you target the correct keywords.

Open Office: http://openoffice.org  (Free online tool)

Open source office suite software – word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentations …

OSWD: http://oswd.org/   (Free online tool)

Open Source Web Design offers free web design templates.

PDF995: http://pdf995.com  (Free online tool) Use this tool to easily convert files to PSD format.

PDF to Word Converter: http://pdftoword.com (Free online tool) Easily create editable Word Doc files from PDF content – for legit purposes only! .

Pixie: http://nattyware.com/pixie.php ( Free download)

Great for web designers – just point to a color and it will tell you the code value for that color.

PingDevice – Need to ping a massive amount of backlinks to get them indexed. No problem use this free tool. Just copy, paste, submit and your are done.

Private Label Rights Forum: http://resell-rights-weekly.com/forum (Free online tool) Very helpful forum with lots of good info on internet marketing. Friendly members too.

Resell Rights Weekly: http://resell-rights-weekly.com/ ( Free download) Free membership where you can download over 150 PLR/RR products for free.

Roboform: http://roboform.com (Free online tool) Easily & safely manage your passwords.

ScreenHunter: http://wisdom-soft.com/sh/sh_free.htm ( Free download) Software that allows you to “capture” any part of your desktop, a window or full screen.

ShortKeys: http://shortkeys.com ( Free download) Allows you to set up replacement text or paragraphs for any user defined keystrokes.

Skype: http://skype.com ( Free download) Make free calls over the internet to other people on Skype.

SpyBot: http://safer-networking.org  (Free online tool) Effectively detects and removes spyware from your PC.

Textpad: http://textpad.com  (Free online tool) A powerful text editor. You can use it to edit HTML code.

TimeLeft: http://nestersoft.com/timeleft  ( Free download) A countdown, reminder, clock, alarm clock, stopwatch, timer, & web countdown tool.

Tweet Deck: http://tweetdeck.com    ( Free download) Great for staying in touch with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and more.

VLC Media Player: http://videolan.org/vlc   ( Free download) Media player capable of reading most audio and video formatset.

Any other internet marketing tools you can think of?

Let me know if you find other tools that are great to have for internet marketing business.

http://lsikeywords.com/  VS LSI Digger software

What is Latent Semantic Index?

Latent Semantic Indexing is a way to explain a complicated term in a very simple manner. The main idea behind Latent Semantic Indexing is to discover phrases or words and phrases that are related in any document or group of documents. In the internet marketing world,  people that use Search engines, do  Internet Marketing in their profession, and design Website  often use LSI in their day-to-day activities.   That is why it is important to use it for your arsenal.

On top of that, latent Semantic Indexing is the discovery process for finding related phrases and terms. LSI is like a folder that contains the related semantic related terms.  This folder  relies heavily on the context in which any given word is used. For example, If you use  the term “flat tire” in a document, some semantically related terms would be: car, vehicle, repair, tire pressure, wheel,  and lug nut wrench. You now see  the words  that are related to the term “flat tire”.

Why is that import?

For the internet marketers, they use it for SEO purposes and the goal is to have a good page range in Google.  It is boiled down just to please the big G.

How to use it?

Especially for the article marketing (bump marketing), you use the LSI in your article after you limit the keyword density between 2 to 5%.  It is kind of like the work around to convey your message across when sometimes you need to emphasize your keywords many times and you don’t want to have more keywords than 5%.

Comparison between the site, LSI keywords and the LSI Digger

After spending a little time playing around the LSI Digger and LSI keywords website.  The site generates only 2 and 3 keyword groups.  It is not like the LSI digger where you can control the length of keywords you want.  It is flexible that you can have up to 5-keyword lengths.  However, the site shows where you can find those keywords.  The LSI digger tool is not designed to do that.  I also noticed that you can adjust “Preferences” to no more than 50%.  Otherwise, you will get no result at all. May be it is a flaw.

Note: I’m not the affiliate to this LSI Digger tool.

Watch Youtube video about LSI Digger

LSI Digger Demo Youtube video

I love to hear your thought about this.  Please leave it down below if you have any.

There are many good tools that can save you time and money.  Among of thousand of tools there are just a handful of them that prove they are so useful that you can not live without in terms of your inter marketing business.    Here is a list of the tools that are good for me, but you many not find them useful and maybe there are tools that you think they are useful. 

List of important FREE tools:

1- LSI Keywords

There‟s a great site called “LSI Keywords”: http://lsikeywords.com/.  Google used to have a tool called “Link Wheel”, but recently they pulled this feature out of Google search.  It is no long available.  If you’re writing articles, this tool is very important.  You can them in your article and show Google the related keywords.

For example, our keyword is “healthy cooking” and I have found the LSI keyword phrase “low fat recipes”. So, when I write my content, I will write something like this: “The key to healthy cooking is low fat recipes. Nutritious and natural meals are better for your body than fat dishes for a number of reasons.”LSI keywords must flow in the sentences naturally, they shouldn’t ‟t be obvious to your visitors.

2- Compete.com
spyfu.com: and Compete.com:You use these tools to find out how much your competitors are spending, what keywords, and landing page they have.  They are also a good tool to do keyword research before getting into the niche.

3- yousendit

Do you want to send a large file instantly?  No problem.  Check this iste out.

You can send a large file.  They have 50mb files for Free member.  If you need more, you can sign up for 2G max file size, it is $10 per month.

4- RoboForm

If you want to save time and forget all about writing down the usernames and passwords, then you really need to download Roboform today. Out of all of the different marketing
tools that I’ve used, this one saves me the most time by far.  It comes with password protection and you can save a backup with a couple clicks of a mouse.  It saves all of your login details inside a toolbar that is on top of your browser.  You can even visit any site by selecting it from the drop down menu, then the RF takes you to the relevant page and logs you in.

Sign up for a free trial to see if you like it.

5. Stumbleupon Toolbar
If you want more traffic then you need to download the Stumbleupon Toolbar today. As you surf the net you simply hit a little “thumbs up” icon on the toolbar, and this then
gets added to your profile as a site that you like.   Each stumble brings a nice little burst of traffic to any site, but the real beauty happens when you build a network of friends and
others start stumbling your sites on a regular basis.  You won’t see the result right away.  It takes time.  Like all the social networking sites, the traffic isn’t of a brilliant
quality, but if you’re going to use one social networking site to drive traffic then make it Stumbleupon.

5. Zamzar

Without the need to download bulky software, Zamzar is a fantastic free online tool that allows you to convert files
from one format to another.  And it supports a huge variety of different formats, and its perfect for those times when you need to convert something to a PDF fast, or
when you need to turn a gif into a jpeg.  They have upgrade options available but I’ve always been more
than happy with their free service.

6. Google Alerts
Google Alerts is another fantastic timesaver that is completely free, and which really helps you save lots of time during the day. You simply tell Google what keyword you’d like to monitor, and then when that keyword appears in Google, you get a nice little email telling you all about it.

7. Onlywire Bookmarklet
Using bookmarking sites such as Onlywire is a brilliant way to drive a ton of traffic to your site for free.  Start today and enjoy the traffic that it sends you.  One of the problems with bookmarking is that the whole process of submitting your site across multiple different services is time consuming and tedious, but it is worth your time in the long run if you’re doing the SEO yourself.  Not to mention, you can get some backlinks from it, too.  Until you make some money, you can outsource this bookmarking task to someone else.

8- Picresize

Whenever I make an ebook I always end up having to resize the pictures on the inside. Usually I’ll use Fireworks or Snagit, but if I’m
out and about and don’t have access to those programs then I go running to Picresize.

It’s a free web based image resizer, and you simply upload your image and then select how big you want it to be, and that’s it. Your picture will be resized as quick as a flash, and then you’re good to
go!

9- Google Analytics

This is a FREE fantastic tracking and stats tool.  If you’re marketing online, you need to be tracking your visitor numbers, and you really should be testing bounce rate and other stuff.

10. Gigasize
This is another alternative to “yousendit” when you need to upload to your server without FTP access.  It’s a cool tool that allows you to upload and share big files super
fast. Try it and you’ll love this little tool that does a fantastic job.

11- Big boards
Are you looking for a forum of your niche to place a comment?  Big boards can help you locate the forum in a minute.  It is a free directory showing the busiest forums out there. 

12- Google Trends

Google Trends is an absolutely brilliant tool that allows you to see graphs of search volume over a period of time. The graph is instantly populated showing you a comparison of how many people are searching for this now, as compared to in the past.  This is good tool for keyword research.  You want to look at the trend that ramp upward.

13. ebay Pulse
This is another free tool that you can use to see what people are searching for on ebay? It shows which items are hot at the moment.  That is powerful information to have at your finger tips.  The majority of eBay searches will be from qualified buyers looking to spend money, so
this is certainly an extremely powerful free marketing tool than the normal keyword research tools because they might show you what people
are searching for,not what they are buying.  You should dip into this site when doing market research.

I hope you find these tools useful as I do. 

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Jing has been released for a while now.  Anyway,let me talk about what the application of Jing screen capture by TechSmith does for you; then I talk about why it is important, where you can grab a piece of light weight, but powerful software, and lastly I talk about how to install it and how to fix the problem if you run into errors during installation.

What is Jing?

It is a powerful software by TechSmith.  It allows you to capture a screen shot, image out of your computer screen, and video screen shot of what you are doing and share it with the world.  Plus it has an additional feature that you can NOT compare with other software out there.  You can edit the image screen shot after you click and drag your mouse across the screen to where you want to capture your screen image.  You can add text, box, and arrow to target the point where you are talking about.  This is a great tool to express your thought clearly.  You do not have to spend more time to think what your correspondent is talking about and where it is.

Why is it important?

You can share your screen capture or video with your friends.  And most importantly, you can attach it to your email or upload it to YouTube.  If you are an internet marketer, you can use it to instruct your people overseas how to perform their tasks.  Remember that the video capture feature is designed for 5 minutes long only.

Where you can get your hand on Jing?

Go to http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/ and click download link according to your computer, Window or Mac.  It would look for the Microsoft Net Framework version 3.5.  Then it would ask you to install it if your system does not have it.  In my experience, my computer did not have Net Framework 3.5 installed, but 2.0 version.  It did not complete the installation.  It popped up an error message.  If you do have the problem with the Net Framework, try the following suggestion on how to fix it.

How to fix Net Framework 3.5 error

In that case, you have to install Net Frame clean up tool. Click it and download and install it.  After that, install the Net Framework 3.5.  By then, you should have no problem with the Jin installation.  Do not install the latest version 4.0 because it is not what the Jing needs.

YouTube video on how to fix Net Framework 3.5 error

Jing Tutorial

Watch YouTube videos below for more info how to capture frame and video.

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts about the Jing. Please leave your comment or suggestion below.

You might know that the expert/guru interview would boost the traffic to your site if you have done it correctly (Read my post,

Traffic: Will the Expert Interview Increase Traffic to Your Blog or Site? for more information)

. A small part to that contributes to the effective interview is the equipment that you choose to use to conduct the live interview. If you are looking for something small and lightweight but can handle a mic for interview recording equipment. Here are my suggestions:

- MicroTrack which looks useful.

- Talk Shoe to record it online for free

TalkShoe Community Call Voice Chat Group Calling Teleconference Calling

- Online service with a mic plugged into a cell phone and a hand held digital voice recorder with and without a mic. Google “Olympus DM” and check out their line of digital voice recorders.

- Condenser microphone like the “Samson CO1U USB Condenser Microphone” at Amazon for around 90 bucks. Gets you a clear recording

- SONY ICD-PX720. Here what it does. It is Dragon Naturally Speaking compatible. It can create a TEXT file and with a simple push of a button, and you can get a pdf file, too. It also creates MP3s. Easy to upload and edit. Stereo Mic and Stereo headphone plugs. Hi-Lo sensitivity.

- Canon ZR 960 Digital Video Camera. Make sure to get a stereo microphone.

Of course, there are many more devices out there that are not listed here.

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If you find any of them useful, please make a comment about the pros and cons here.

Since the WordPress (WP) is getting so popular recently due to many people are using WP to blog.  Not only one but many blogs, there are going to have a lot of manual work involved Plugins installation.  There is going to be a demand for this kind of plugin if there are more than one person owns more than one blog.

What is a plugin?

It is simple a short simple program what is designed to do what is supposed to do.

A way to install a number of plugins to a blog

Until you find a good software that can manage many plugins in one time, there is an old way to do it.  If you store the unzipped plugin folders (unzip them then open the file again to get to the main plugin folder) you can upload them all quickly by ftp to your wp-content/plugins folder. Then just activate them in your WP dashboard.  It doesn’t take more than 10 minutes.

On Market

There is a product on the market.  It is called WordPress Clone at Mass Automation Tools.  It copies your blog setting, 

plugins, and post to another blog.

New application for plugin installation

At the Warrior forum, there is a survey on an application that allowed you to create a customised version of WordPress that you can use for future installs, with certain items preconfigured.  Here is a sample that you can download it.

http://hotfile.com/dl/38650956/0e0a0d7/DemoWPInstall.zip.html

Here what it does: 

• Customises the blog title and tagline
• Customises the first post, first page, first comment
• Customises the links
• Customises the link and blog categories
• Adds and autoactivates a custom theme
• Autoactivates a common plugin

Note: It is in the testing mode.  It may not fully function yet.  Use it at your own risk!

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts. Please leave your comment below!

There are many tools that were developed and they are helpful for bloggers in the process of selecting a blog niche.  The following tools are the ones you can use in the research phase:

AdWords Keyword Tools: This is a Google keyword tool that allows you to type in a keyword or phrase and will give an indication of how many people searched for that word in the past month as well as what keywords that a competitive website is using.  This gives you an indication both of the popularity of the niche as well as whether there is potential income in it.  Also this tool will also give you other keywords that relate to the ones you enter.  You have to tick the “Use synonym” and enter the “captcha” if you enter the keyword to search a niche.  It is a way to make sure you are human, not robot.

Google trends: It is useful for looking at search volume on Google for different search terms.  Even thought it won’t give you specific search numbers and doesn’t produce results for every term, it is useful for working out whether a niche is growing or shrinking and it allows you to compare two different search terms.

Technorati: It is a blog search engine that gives you the ability to see what others are writing about on your chosen niche topic, what they are talking about the top 100 blogs, and the hot blogshere items, plus most popular videos.

Google Blog search: This blog search will help you get a picture of who else is blogging on a give topic.

Wordtracker: it is a popular keyword research tool with a free trial that helps you to ascertain how many people are searching for different words and how many other sites are competing in those niches.

Yahoo! Buzz: It is a summary of information on what people are searching for at the Yahoo! search engine.

A concept of blog niches gives you a consideration of what you need to take into account before selection your blog topic.  The subject of your blog, the audience you aim to attract, and the market you plan to get into could be the factor you decide  before whether your blog succeeds or fails.

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts.  So please leave your comment below.

I know that you do not want to end up with a bad domain after paying good money on it.  You want to avoid paying your hard-earned money for domains that take to deceptive and evil tactics such as forging high Page Ranks take  because they often carry no SEO benefits or can even have a negative SEO impact.  They can hurt your opportunities of ranking well in the search engines!

There is no question about it that it’s critical to know how to analyze Domains or aged domains before you buy so that you always know you are getting what you pay for.

So that’s why analyzing domains and doing your due diligence on any domain you consider buying help you to avoid making a costly mistake.

Here is a 10-point-domain-name checklist :

1. Keywords: You need to do the market research for your niche before you get a domain name.  To do that, you can use free keyword research tools such as Google keyword tool and Wordtracker.  The main point is to find out if you can make money with your domain after finding out how many people are searching the keyword in your niche.
2. Domain Usage: It is about how you are going to attract your niche.  You go about it by using your keyword in your domain name.  Some cases, you can not use the exact keyword in your domain name.  You may need to add prefixes and suffixes to your domain name.
3. Age: You wan to find out how old your domain name would be because the old the domain the popularity and the page rank should go hand in hand with the price.  If the domain name is fairly new, you many have to investigate how it can have a higher page ranking.  Go to www.domaintools.com>> whois tap and type your domain name in “Who’s lookup” box.
4. History: Go to www.archive.org>>  and type the domain name in the box above “Take me back”.  If there are a lot of activities, then that is the good sign.
5. Popularity: Go to www.alexa.com or www.compete.com to check your domain.
6. PageRank: Go and get Firefox SEO extension and type your domain when you go to Google by typing “info:www.yourdomain.com” when you want to make your there is no page ranking manipulation.
7. Backlinks: To check the links to a particular domain, go to Google and type, “link:www.yourdomain.com”.  You should see the list of links to that domain.  Or you can go to Yahoo and type, “linkdomain:yourdomain.com-site:youdomain.com” to check backlinks. You can see the page rank and backlinks, but you need Firefox SEO addons.
8. Indexed Pages: To check indexed pages, go to Google and type, “site:www.yourdomain.com”.
9. DMOZ / Yahoo! Directory Listings: To check it, go to www.dmoz.org / www.search.yahoo.com/dir.
10. Trademark Terms: You want to make sure the domain you are going to put a bid on is not listed under trademark.  For the U.S, here is the website to check it, http.tess2.uspto.gov.  For local search Google, go to Google and type “Search Trademark”.

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts.  So leave your comments below.

I would like to talk about a WP plugin today.  The one I am going to talk about is the, “All in One SEO Pack” plugin. This is one of the plugin that you must have if you have a blog.

Here is the reason I like to talk about it.  It can affect how it displays on your browser when you type your domain.  As I remembered when I set up my blog, I went to back-in of my blog and went to the “General” and entered the title, description, and tags of my new blog, etc…  After a couple months, I wonder why the name of my blog shown on my browser is different from what I set up in the first place.  I did not realize that I set the title under the “General” tab is different from what I set under “All in One SEO Pack” plugin.

Until recently, I found that I entered, “Internet Marketing Online”, instead of “Internet Marketing the Simple Way”on my All in One SEO pack plugin setup and that was the culprit to appear on the browser.  So if you have this kind of problem, you have to look at two places, either under the “All in One SEO Pack” plugin setup or under the general tab of your blog.

Here is how to install “All in One SEO Pack” plugin and how to configure  it.

Installing the All in One SEO Pack Plugin

• Click on ‘Plugins’ and ‘Add New’
• Type ‘All in One SEO Pack’ into the search bar and click ‘Search Plugins.’
• Next to the plugin name in the search results, click ‘Install’ and then ‘Install Now.’
• Click ‘Activate Plugin.’
• Go to the plugin admin page.
• Put in a ‘Home Title’ of your choice.
• ‘Home Description’ is completely optional.
• Leave ‘Home Keywords’ blank.
• Uncheck ‘Canonical URLs.’
• Uncheck ‘Use Tags for Meta Keywords.’
• Uncheck ‘Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts Page.’
• Uncheck ‘Use Noindex for Categories.’
• Uncheck ‘Use Noindex for Archives.’
• Click ‘Update Options.’

what do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts.  Please leave your comment below.

Probably you heard about the WP Auto content generator plugin—WP Robot.  If not, let me explain what it is.It is a tool that you can use to grab content from 11 sources.  It claims that there a bunch of benefits that I will explain all about them in a minute.  It is not new, and it has been around for awhile now.  It was released in 2008.  The main concern I have is, “ Is it going to be O.K. with Google?”  The reason is we are trying to please Google and we don’t want to get slapped by Google either.

Let’s talk about the benefits of WP Robot?

Traffic:  With auto blogging, it can improve the traffic to your blog with the relevant keyword search and the search engine optimization.  It can attract more visitors.

More Money:  The content that WP Robot adds to your blog can be monetized by using the affiliate programs.

Ranking: It cloaks all affiliate links automatically and places all tags for all related keywords for each post it creates.

Time:  Since you do not write articles manually, you save a lot of time to do important things such as marketing your product.

Here are the other content generator plugins:

WPmixer and  WP Robot plugin Scrap content from several sources:

- Amazon products
- eBay auctions
- Clickbank ads
- Youtube videos
- Yahoo Answers Q&A’s
- Articlebase articles
- Flickr images
- Yahoo News
- RSS feeds

Caffeinated content and Unique Article Wizard plugin scrape content from Articles directories.
Wp-O-Matic plugin and Yet Another Autoblogger (YAAB) For WordPress Scrape content via RSS Feeds from various sources.

My opinion: I would think twice before I go ahead and use any of auto content generator plugin that claims it would pull unique content or make the content unique to the search engine.  You can decide to use it and make money for a while until the Google finds a way to beat it.  So use it at your own risk!

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts.  Please leave your comment below!