Recommended Tools and Resources for Do-it-Yourself

Keyword Research and SEO

Market Samurai

We can’t say enough about this software. Some of our favorite features:

1. Extensive keyword research at the click of a button
2. Comprehensive keyword research including competitive analysis (ie spy on your competitors)
   
3. Create backlinks for your website
4. Find Affiliate products in your Niche
   
5. Track the ranking of your websites for your keyword phrases accross multiple search engines
6. Find and write content

Market Samurai is not a monthly service. You buy the software and, at least for now you will get the updates for free.

You can also begin searching for keywords for free at Google: Google Keyword Suggestion Tool

Website Hosting

GVO has unlimited space and allows an unlimited number of websites and bandwidth. This gets really important when you start hosting video on your site. One of the features about GVO is that each account comes with Easy Video Producer and video storage function. Whoot!

GVO has a built in autoresponder so you could skip the extra monthly expense of an autoresponder account.

Your GVO account also includes a 10-person web conference room so you can have online meetings, show your desktop or share a browser.

GVO has an excellence affiliate program that is a potential income stream for business owners. A great opportunity to “monetize your business expense.”

Global Vitual Opportunities, Inc (GVO)

Install a WordPress Website Instantly

If you’ve read any of our material, you know that we recommend that your website be built with WordPress, a blogging software – for many, many reasons. It’s really quite user friendly if you know where to find the right tools. One tool you don’t want to pass up is WordPressDirect.

This program takes the WordPress blogging software, special plugins to boost traffic and added marketing functionality and installs it directly on YOUR HOST.

Do NOT confuse this with WordPress.com where you can get a website for free. WordPressDirect.com configures your site on YOUR host. You own it and can easily use it, even if you should discontinue WordPressDirect. A great start to your well optimized website. Just add content!

Turn Your Blog into an Opt-in Page

AWeber is undeniably the biggest and possibly the best autoresponder service available because of their innovative features, email deliverability and the ease of use. We’ve used 1Shoppingcart.com autoresponder and several knockoffs and AWeber out performs. AWeber doesn’t have a shopping cart attached like 1Shoppingcart.com but it has made itself integratable with most 3rd party shopping carts through the use off API keys etc.