3 Free Tools For Your Internet Business Success

June 26th, 2009 by Dale

I have talked about the three must have tools that you will have to pay for in order to build a successful long term Internet business in a previous post. In this post I want to talk about three tools that are available for you to use that will not cost you a dime but that are vital to your business.

Keyword tools;
If you are going to build an online business you will be dealing with keywords and phrases all the time. It is important to have access to keyword tools that can help you find the phrases and keywords that people use when searching the Internet for topics related to your niche. There are many good paid programs out there that you might look into later on when your business is making money but at first, you can easily find free keyword research tools that will do an excellent job for you. Here are a couple that I use all the time…

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool;
This is a very powerful tool that will give you access to all kinds of information that will help you find the keywords to target for your Internet business. With SEO Book you get daily traffic estimates along with direct links to valuable
resources like Google Trends, related blog posts and directories, the DMOZ directory and other places that you use to get more ideas and related keywords and content ideas.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool;
This is another free tool that you should bookmark right now so you can refer back to it at any time. This tool not only gives you keyword suggestions and monthly traffic estimates but it will also tell you the average cost per click that people would have to pay to be in the top three results with an adwords ad. This is important because it indicates how competitive the keyword is and also what it will cost you to run an adwords campaign on the keyword. This also gives you an idea of how much you might make if you place adsense ads on your web pages adding income on auto pilot for your Internet business..

Two More Powerful Tools

HTML Editors;
Again, you can buy a high dollar program like Dreamweaver or FrontPage to build your web pages or you can use one of the many free editors that can be found online. If you are advanced and feel that you need one of the bigger programs, go for it. However, I still use a free little editor to create my pages that is simple and easy to use and yet has many of the features found in the bigger editors That HTML Editor is NVU and it is an open source editor that has served me well over the last few years. This is a nice little software for designing squeeze pages, sales letter pages and mini sites.

WordPress Blog;
If you are planning to build an authority web site for your business I recommend using a hosted wordpress blog as your main web site. The reason for this is that you can set up a wordpress blog with your own domain and hosting very easily and have it up and running in a few simple steps. The nature of a blog is to have constantly updated content added to it on a regular basis and the search engines love them for this reason. To get a fully search engine optimized wordress blog set up in three simple steps I recommend Expert WordPress.

So there you have it! These are the free tools that I use everyday in my business for keyword research, HTML Editors and wordpress blogs. If you have any additional free resources that are a fit for the new Internet business entrepreneur, please share it with us by leaving a comment to this post.

To your Internet success,
Dale