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Affiliate Marketing Tools

 

There are way too many tools out there for Affiliate Marketers to keep up with, but some of them actually do serve a great purpose in saving time, energy or money for us. In order to lighten the load and make things a little easier for you, simply bookmark and organize whatever tools on this page that catch your eye:

 

AffCalc iPhone App - My friend and I made this app just for affiliates to make 4 very common calculations on their iPhone iPod Touch.

W3 Schools - Need help with HTML, PHP or CSS code? Find all the answers to your code questions here!

Website Grader - Get a grade from 0-100 for your website (or to compare merchants' sites), with a breakdown of how to improve it!

CB List Automator - Get email notifcations for ClickBank sales, automatically deliver bonuses to referred customers and build lists of buyers!

 

 

Market Analysis & Keyword Research

 

Market Samurai - My favorite affiliate marketing tool, this thing does everything short of brewing your coffee.

Google Keyword Tool - Get the numbers, according to the "Big G", on keyword searches to pick the right terms to dominate.

Keyword Elite - Powerful PC keyword software that generates 1,000's of keywords, analyzes them, and allows you to track performance over time

Micro Niche Finder - Perfect keyword software for "Bum" marketers or anyone using pre-sell pages on websites (find the best terms quickly)

Product Power Calculator - I made this Excel program to compare ClickBank products (Pop in the numbers, see which has more "power"...)

 

 

Statistics

 

Get Clicky - Analyze your traffic: time on site, referring terms & sites, and tons more! Best analytics service out there, in my opinion...

ClickTale - Watch videos of your visitors and see in-depth heatmaps & click analytics to improve your website's conversion rates!

Conversion Prophet - The coolest web-based split-testing & optimization software tool (for under $10,000) there is.

 

 

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Tools

 

OnlyWire - Social bookmark your pages to dozens of the top sites very quickly!

SEO Elite - Analyze Search Engine Optimization for your sites (I only recommend this for larger, more involved websites)

Comment Kahuna - PC program for getting backlinks with blog comments (Searches for relevant posts, and you can post comments from within the program)

Directory Submitter - Save your site's info once, then crank through 100's of high-quality web directories (Submit to each one within 10 seconds)

TubeMogul - Submit one video to YouTube, Metacafe, Veoh, Google video, Yahoo! video and more, then track all the stats in one place...for free!

DupeCop - Check to make sure any articles you rewrite are unique enough to submit to article directories

Article Submitter - Submit to article directories really fast instead of doing it manually (I'm talking 100's of sites in mere minutes)!

 

 

Graphics & Domain Names

 

Graphics Generator - Create incredibly cool "Web 2.0" graphics with or without text for your page online in seconds.

Pixlr - Need to do some serious image editing? Anything more than cropping should be done with Pixlr, Gimp or Photoshop. Period.

StockXpert - Buy stock images for sprucing up your affiliate pages for only $1 each. Pictures are worth 10,000 words in Affiliate Marketing...seriously!

Fotolia - Another amazing stock image site (they tend to have more pictures in specific areas, which is very useful for affiliates)!

NameCheap - The best domain name registrar by far. You can either get them through Host Gator, or point them to your hosting through Name Cheap

Domainsbot - Need help picking the right domain name? Check this out...

DNscoop - Want to learn more about your domain name or someone else's? Get the scoop.

DNcoupons - Why pay full price for a domain name? Get coupons here.

 

 

Best general affiliate tool: W3Schools. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for affiliate marketers in the beginning is HTML code. It's funny, because after going to W3 Schools a few dozen times, you realize that you can memorize the whopping 5 or 6 pieces of code you need as an affiliate. It's really not that tough after you get used to it, and W3 Schools helps you memorize everything you need. Another tool I feel is essential for ClickBank affiliates is called CB List Automator. It allows you to get email notifications for all your sales (yep, no more logging in 12 times/day!), and it's real purpose is to automatically send people you referred to a product an email, from you, to deliver a bonus you setup for them, meaning you can even build a list of buyers...and save tons of time!

 

Best Market Analysis tool: Market Samurai. This was a close one because of the power of Google's keyword tool, but Market Samurai is just incredible. It provides more insight into the competition and strength of existing players in a market, and does so very quickly.

 

Best Statistics tool: ClickTale. This was an easy choice. Once you have the ability to watch your visitors using your website and view the percentage of visitors that click on each link of each page, you'll have the power to make changes that will help your visitors find what they're looking for (and make way more money)! Also, be sure to send them an email to ask them about setting up a custom plan for less than their standard price! They'll work with you...For regular website analytics, I recommend GetClicky. They have an excellent comparison of their service next to Google Analytics and other popular options that explains why.

 

Best SEO Tool: SEO Elite. To be honest, this is not a necessary investment. In my opinion, Market Samurai and the knowledge and services you'll find at SEOmoz are plenty in this area. That said, SEO Elite is a cool software program that can provide useful insight to improve your rankings.

 

Best Graphics tool (other than Photoshop): QuickWeb Creations Graphics Generator. This is a simple online tool for affiliates to quickly create incredibly-cool little graphics, that I usually use for attractive text for getting my visitors to click through y affiliate link on my pages. It has boosted the click rates of my affiliate links tremendously, and it makes your pages look a lot less plain. It's cheap at only $27, and it's cool that you can store any of your designs for later. NOTE: If you want to find a great image editing tool, check out Pixlr.com (no Photoshop needed with Pixlr, and it's all online)!