56 Free Internet Marketing Tools

[Colin Parker]

I can't take credit for this excellent free list of tools as I received it by email from a colleague - however I thought I'd share it with members.

Colin Parker

Free Desktop Software

1. Adobe Reader – PDF reader; a must-have tool to read most of the e-books out there
2. CamStudio – Screencasting; create video demos of your product
3. FileZilla – FTP client; to upload files to your hosting server
4. Firefox – Web browser
5. FreeMind – Mind-mapping software; great for brainstorming
6. GIMP – Photo and image editor; analogous to Adobe Photoshop
7. Inkscape – Vector graphics editor; analogous to Adobe Illustrator
8. Jing – Screen capture and screen casting
9. Kompozer – HTML editor; analogous to Microsoft Frontpage
10. Mozy – Automatic online backups
11. OpenOffice – Productivity suite; analogous to Microsoft Office
12. Open Workbench – Project management; set deadlines for your project milestones
13. Paint.NET – Photo and image editor; analogous to Adobe Photoshop
14. Pdf995 (free version) – PDF printer; print to PDF from any application
15. SpeechPlayer Free Edition – Text-to-speech tool – for listening to all those e-books (a shameless plug!)
16. TweetDeck – Desktop Twitter application
17. Windows Live Movie Maker – Video editor; latest version allows you to upload directly to YouTube
18. Windows Live Writer – Blogging application; supports posting to a WordPress website

Free Online Services

1. 3D Package – 3D cover creator
2. Are My Sites Up – Website monitoring
3. Backlink Watch – Backlinks checker tool
4. Blogger.com – Blog service which supports AdSense ads
5. BrowserShots – Cross platform browser test
6. ClickTale – Visitor movement tracker; improve your conversions by analyzing visitor mouse movements
7. Cool Text – Logo and graphics generator
8. Copyscape – Search for copies of your page on the web
9. Feng-GUI – Visual attention heatmap
10. Free Tell A Friend – Tell-a-friend service
11. Google Alerts – Email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic
12. Google Analytics – Traffic monitoring and analytics
13. Google Insights for Search – Provides insights into the search terms people have been entering into the Google search engine
14. Google Keyword Tool – Keyword research
15. Google Trends – Compare trends for different search terms in Google
16. Google Webmaster Tool – Provides detailed reports on crawling and indexing of your websites
17. Google Website Optimizer – Website testing and optimization tool
18. OnlyWire – Automated content and bookmark distribution tool
19. Ping.fm – Update all your social networks at once
20. Ping-O-Matic – Blog ping service; ping multiple search engines at once
21. PRChecker.info – Google PageRank checker
22. Quantcast – Media measurement service
23. StatCounter – Traffic monitoring with real-time analytics
24. stock.xchng – Free stock photos
25. SurveyMonkey.com – Create and publish custom surveys
26. TubeMogul – Video distribution service; upload to multiple video streaming service
27. Twitter – Micro-blogging service
28. Scribd – Social publishing
29. SlideShare – Social publishing
30. Quarkbase – Get comprehensive website information
31. Web 2.0 Badges – Web 2.0 badge generator
32. You Get Signal – Domain tools
33. YouTube – Video streaming service

Free Self-hosted Software

1. Infinite Responder – Autoresponder
2. Joomla! – Content management system; great for portals
3. OSTicket – Help desk software
4. phpBB – Forum package
5. WordPress – Blogging engine / CMS of sorts

 

[evilonion]

great set of links there
only one broken... google keyword checker links to the mind map software site
cheers for posting this up!

 

[Spock]

Some good links in there but how do you class Adobe Reader and Firefox as marketing tools :|

 

[David Morson]

Some of these links are really great, Check them out.

 

[wayney]

Yes, some are very useful, choose what works best for you.