Welcome to the Ultimate SEO Toolbox! This is a collection of what we think are the best SEO tools on the internet. We hope you find something new and useful!
Every good marketer, SEO and webmaster has a set of tools they can’t live without and if you’re like us, you’re always on the hunt for a better tool for just about everything.
We’ll try to keep this toolbox fresh as we find new services, software and other tips to help you get the most from your work.
* If there’s a tool that you don’t see listed but you think it should be, please shoot us an inquiry here and let us know so we can check it out. Also, if you have a tool or service of your own and would like to see if featured here, contact us and we’ll see what we can do!
Amazon Affiliate Program– This is where most affiliate marketers start out as you can sell just about anything you can think of and consumers trust Amazon as a brand. Not only will you get a commission on what you sell but you will get a commission on everything in their shopping cart too.
Shareasale – Some of the big names you’ll find here. Everything from hosting to physical products. Pets, clothing and weight loss they have it all. These are much more niche products and you will want to spend some time finding a program that makes sense for you. Good program that tells you a lot about their vendors and their account status so you’re more likely to get paid.
JVZoo – Small network of high converting items usually all digital and some really out there products. Good for smaller creators to get selling fast and earning high commissions. Can be a little hard to navigate. Focuses a lot on email marketing.
PayDotCom.com – Mostly digital products for email list marketing and blog marketing. Lots of ebooks, courses etc.
Clickbank – Very possibly one of the most popular platform for digital products. Ebooks, courses, membership sites and more available here to promote to your list or to promote your own products through their large network.
CJ Affiliate – This is probably the largest (or one of the largest) affiliate marketing platforms. There are a lot of programs to choose from. However, if you don’t make money for a while, they will threaten to deactivate your account simply because you suck! The big names have little direct contact with vendors which is annoying. We’d recommend you start elsewhere first, but if you’re on top of all the others, this can be a good place to earn revenue.
Fiverr Gigs
Logo Design
williamrosario – This guy does awesome $5 logos! Great for money sites or PBNs.
Video
The Ad Twins – We did this gig for a bunch of our videos, then just changed up the keywords.
Link Building & Social Signals
CRork Service SEO Gigs – These guys are widely used in the SEO community and provide link building, social signals, article spinning, social bookmarking, web 2.0s, link wheels and more.
Infographics
Siconsultants – These guys did an awesome infographic for us. We paid the rush free to get it delivered in under 24 hours which they did with no problem without sacrificing quality.
jo7654320 – We ordered an infographic from this user and it was pretty good, we would use the service again, but liked the infographic by Siconsultants better.
Off-Page SEO – Backlink Checking, Metrics, Competitor Analysis
Majestic – Where Majestic really stands out in the crowd is by providing trust flow and citation flow. Other sites will show you how many backlinks a page has but not the trust of those backlinks. If you have a domain you want to buy and it has thousands of backlinks, it the trust flow of those is ZERO, it’s probably not a good domain to buy. Or, if you aren’t ranking well, if your trust flow is low, now you see that you have opportunity to get some high-trust links to bring it up a bit.
Ahrefs – Ahrefs is consistently the best at finding new backlinks.
Moz Pro – Moz is a great indicator of domain authority. It also has some nifty keyword competitiveness tools where it will give you a percentage based on how hard a keyword is to rank for. While Moz Pro is great, if we could only have one tool of this set, it would not be Moz.
SERPWoo – SERPWoo is the greatest tool yet to help decode the serps over time. The problem with a rank tracker is it only shows your current ranking at a given moment in time. You could refresh it every 15 minutes to try to get an idea whats happening, but that’s silly really. SERPWoo allows you to see what sites are above you (assuming you’re still reaching for #1 spot) and those below you and track all this over time. It’s a great research tool to help you decide if you even want to get involved in a niche. You can also see up and coming competitors. This tool is a must have for anyone serious about SEO. We use it all day long for hundreds of keywords.
Rank Tracking tools
SERPBook – After trying out many rank trackers this is what we’ve settled on. It has an excellent dashboard, iseasy to read, updates multiple times a day, is reliable, and it can also track local and YouTube videos. It also integrates with Google Analytics so that you can see your website traffic over the past 30 days and compares it to the previous period.
Rank Trakr – excellent visuals, can track local rankings
Rank Ranger – beautiful dashboard, white label reports, social signals, conversion tracking, link manager
ProRankTracker – has freemium option, can track YouTube and local, good email report with useful information all in a compact email
Rank Watch – free trial, keyword tools, local tracking, while label reports, email alerts, Google Analytics integration
Rank Tracker – limited free version avail. Desktop software that is great for agencies, can do white label reports, uses a lot of system resources, can run reports automatically on a schedule, email reports automatically
MicroSiteMasters – has freemium option, email reports aren’t that helpful
Group Buys
Susan – Susan provides great group buys, but she doesn’t just let anyone in the group. Click the link, send us a message with what tools you need, where you heard about her and your contact info. We’ll forward it on to her and she’ll respond if she has any openings.
SeoAccounts – Group buy for the major tools, Moz, Majestic, Ahrefs, Spyfu and Keyword Canine
Press Release Services
BlackHatWorld forum service – $79 – provides a solid PR service with upwards of 200 links. Can create content. Has excellent form to complete and does the rest.
On-Page SEO
On Page Optimzation Tools
Bruce Clay SEO Toolset – This isn’t a tool we do not hear others talk about the SEO community. While on-page optimization isn’t everything, this tool will compare 5-10 pages in the top 10 for any given keyword and let you know what to do on-page to be “normal”. It will tell you how long to make your titles, metas and body copy as well as what a good keyword density would be. This is great because sometimes it suggests you only need 300 words of body copy to be competitive and other times, 3000 words.
Keyword Research Tools
Keyword Canine – For those of you who have a team of people and you just prefer to use web based tools instead of desktop software, then Keyword Canine is a great solution. It’s another brain child of Jonathan Ledger who has built many tools we all know and use like The Best Spinner and Article Builder.
LongTail Pro Software – A fast and easy tool that helps you discover new keywords. If you’re like us we need help finding the golden nuggets to target. It helps to also have a competitive analysis of a word before you invest your heart and soul into chasing it. Long Tail Pro is all that in a box. Excellent tool developed by the legend Spencer Haws.
Market Samurai – Great software that helps you find and deep research new keyword ideas, competitiveness and look for opportunity. Free trial is a nice feature. Try before you commit.
SERPWoo – SERPWoo is the greatest tool yet to help decode the serps over time. SERPWoo allows you no not only do keywor research but see who is currently ranking, measure the volatility of a SERP and get better insights into who you’re up against. It’s a great tool to see if big fish are already dominating the top 10 and whether its even worth the effort to chase. You can also track them over time so you can set up keywords you’re thinking about and let the software do the work. It’s a great research tool to help you decide if you even want to get involved in a niche. You can also see up and coming competitors. This tool is a must have for anyone serious about SEO. We use it all day long for hundreds of keywords.
Video SEO
Youtube Video Optimization and Streaming Software
TubeRankJeet Software – Steal all the best tags, description length and video title from the best ranking videos FAST with this optimization software.
Content Samurai – For those that want a simple template solution for making sales videos that look great and convert great this is a simple done for you solution. Just enter the text and tweak with backgrounds or images which are included with the service and you’re done. It’s not the only way to make great sales videos, but its definitely easy!
Wirecast Streaming Software – If you want videos ranked fast, this is how to do it. Combine with the magic of TubeRankJeet to dial in your optimization and then stream your video live to Youtube for nearly instant top rankings. Excellent if you’re working in lead gen, pay per lead or doing affiliate with videos!
Local SEO
Citations
Loganix – Citation building + will bulk up those citations by building links to them.
Whitespark – Whitespark takes a few weeks to deliver citations but they are widely used in the SEO community.
Brightlocal – Another widely used service in the SEO industry. They will show you a report of your citations and whether they are live, pending or not yet submitted. They also show the verification required on your part to make the citation live which is great.
Localcitationservices – These guys will deliver a handful of citations for as low as $5 and while we were skeptical at first, the citations were delivered promptly (within a few days) with no problems.
PBN Butler – These guys also deliver prompt citations as well as offer a service to build links to your citations to boost them up.
MapTrustPBNs – Verified GMB listing for around $99.
Link Building
Web 2.0s
FCS Networker – This is great for creating a large number of Web 2.0s, managing them all, posting to them, creating link wheels, creating link pyramids, and a lot more. At this point we are only experienced using it for creating a large network of 2.0s. There is a learning curve to this software, but we will soon write a post on how to create a large network fast with minimal errors!
RankWYZ – RankWYZ is similar to FCS Networker but runs quite a bit cheaper. We grew frustrated with the software as it was not intuitive to us but we will spend some more time with it in the future.
Scrapebox – Great for harvesting large amounts of data and is also quick at automated commenting.
Niche Blog Comments
Adss30 – They’re beasts at providing drip fed, fast and accurate niche blog comments. Affordable and great communication.
Wikipedia Links
Adss30 – You can either learn to get your own Wikipedia links or let these guys do it. Fast turn around and very good stick rate. In fact if the link doesn’t stick. They’ll make it right.
Guest Posting
The $200,000 Outreach Strategy – Create thousands of Google-safe, relevant, authority backlinks with this easy method. Worth every penny! Gives you a great list of footprints to use to find the best guest blogging opportunities!
PBN Fox – Top notch PBN builds from Nemanja and Crew! This team is a beast at taking over projects and delivering a ready-to-use product. They can find domains, build them out and even offer hosting management. They were part of our Done-For-You PBN Case Study and all sites they built are still indexed to this day over 1 year later.
SERP FOCUS – Reputable service for PBN builds from Michael Milas including a very exhaustive list of features some other services overlook such as fake WhoIs data and security plugins. Visit site for current pricing.
PBN Butler – PBN Butler offers full PBN setup at $50/site. We’re not sure what all that entails but we’ve been happy with their other services so we have no reason to think this would be a poor experience.
Authority Website Income – Jon Haver has his own done-for-you PBN service at $109.99/site + $9.99/site monthly cost. We’ve not used this service but it’s another option. This includes finding niche-relevant expired domains, 5 unique articles to start, host and manage the sites, and also create one new article each month.
VPS and SEO VPS Servers
PowerUpHosting – (starting at$15/mo for a 1 GB mem box with unlimited bandwidth Windows Server 12)
OffShoreVPS – (starting at $18/mo for a 3GB mem box with unlimited bandwidth w Windows 8)
WP SlimStat – It’s a good idea not to install Google Analytics on all of your sites as this could leave a huge footprint. WP SlimStat is great for WordPress sites to install as a plugin. Nothing is as robust as Google Analytics but it can still give you an overview of what is going on with your site.
Content creation and Articles
Spinning
Spin ReWriter – Web based spinning software that can generate everything from very high uniqueness to insane quantities of spun articles. Just load up your seed and push a button. You can preview sample articles before spinning and you can output in several different formats.
WordAI – WordAi is the first spinner that understands and replicates complex thoughts. When most spinners just change our words, WordAi understands the context. This is very good for spinning Tier 1 content with a very high uniqueness score.
The Best Spinner – If you want flat out control over spinning The Best Spinner is the way to go. We’ve used it for over a year to hand spin very high quality articles into the 300 article range with 90% originality. We’ve used it with GSA and filters to get ranked for 14k/mo search terms and have survived all algo updates no problem as the quality is so high and unique. This is a desktop software. Great for VA’s to use too.
Creation
iWriter.com – We’ve ordered numerous articles from these guys and they’ve always delivered great articles for our PBNs and even money sites. They have some great package options.
99centarticles.com – We’ve ordered numerous articles from these guys and they’ve always delivered great articles for our PBNs and even money sites. They have some great package options.
PBN Butler – We haven’t used these guys for articles but did for citations and verified GMB listings which were both great experiences. Their prices start at $4.25 for a 500 word article.
Proxies
Mexela – (Amazing price 100 semi dedicated = $75/mo 50% off first 3 months)
PBN Butler – These guys have a lot of social signal package options starting at $5. They can be drip fed from 10-30 days to ensure a natural looking addition to your link profile.
Social-Llama – easy social signals checker, social signals service
DomainBeast – I finally convinced Matt Chalk to teach me everything he knows about finding high TF relevant domains from his laptop. After paying him $1000 cash he agreed to let me share it with others. The outcome was this 6 video course where he’s tells all of his secrets. “It’s worth every penny” – Zacc Wair
Expired Domain Crawlers
Domain Miner – High capacity crawler software that can power through millions of URLs in a day and is best suited for crawling large suites like Wikipedia, Huffington Post and other large sites. Can also do large seeds lists of smaller sites like forums, directories etc. Does A LOT of the processing for you all on auto pilot as it runs an availability check and then runs moz metrics on available domains so you spend time doing minimal cleanup. – $200 / month rental. Best run on a VPS.
Domain Reanimator – Cloud based SaaS crawler that can run one instance or a handful. Can do seed lists, keyword scrapes, geo targeted scrapes, reverse crawls and more. Once you find domains you can quickly “reanimate” them via archive.org screenshots and upload them to a live site in seconds. Includes Majestic Metrics, Moz Metrics with subscription. Monthly subscription required. Includes a FB group for users
Domain Prospector Eureka – Cloud based solution that can do keywoard scrapes, seed lists crawls and can crawl massive sites / lists. Outputs available domains into files based on metrics for easy review. Majestic metrics available.
Domain Metric Tool – Cloud based solution. Input a seed list and scraper will harvest urls with invalid http responses. Use Domain Metrics tools access to clean urls down to domains, check for availability and finally grab metrics. Output domains in a clean list for use.
DomRipper – High capacity java based software that can run lots of threads and crawl large sites. Checking for availability, Moz and Majestic metrics provided.
Lazarus Domain Scraper RENT $97/mo – The only domain scraper which allows you to find available web 2.0 blogs and includes majestic metrics in the output. Checks for available, provides Moz metrics and handle alot of the back breaking work for you! (also available to own for $397 one time. A pretty good deal as we’re paying $200/mo rent on Domain Miner)
Screaming Frog – Simplest SEO crawler I’ve seen so far. Software based crawler used to spider websites and their outbound links looking for domains which are expired.
Xenu Link Sleuth – Probably one of the oldest free SEO crawlers, but not nearly as simple to operate, nor as reliable as Screaming Frog. Still works well for those on a tiny budget, this software is free and can crawl very well! – FREE!
Scrape Cleaning Tools
URL to Domain – Super fast duplicate remover, url trimmer and cleaner all in one to bring crawled urls down to the root domain to be processed for availability. – FREE!
Namechex – Software that can do massive domain availability checks. Runs on a few different free API’s such as Dynadot and Namecheap. Is the best solution for doing huge availability checks as most tools are limited to 500, 1000 or less. Cost about $50. Use the DynaDot FREE API. It works great, it’s free and is very quick. Can bulk check 10k domains in 15 min. Just sign up for a free account and click on Domains > API to get your access code.
NameCheap – Simple and easy bulk availability checker. Just click ” Bulk Options” on the home page
Dynadot – Web based bulk availability checker. Does up to 500 at a time. – FREE!
AHREFS – More for checking backlink profiles as they have one of the best link indexes on the market. Great for doing deeper research looking for branches to explore for more places to crawl. Not too helpful for trust flow obviously.
Majestic – For checking Trust Flow, anchors, referring domains and more. Master this tool to do “Trust Flow seeking” by following the high Trust Flow links and crawling those urls.
Spam Checking Tools
Black Hat Community – A group of 500 professional SEO’s with a robust community + toolbox for bulk checking majestic stats, moz stats, domain availablity, downloading wayback archives, yellow pages scraper, PBN manager and training videos. Cost $60/month subscription / cancel any time
Domain Metric Tool – Amazing single page design domain scraping cleanup, availability check and stats checker tool that does it all on auto pilot. Just dump in a bunch of grubby URLs and let it work, it’ll output the availables + stats for Moz and Majestic. Doesn’t get easier than this!
Archive.org – The most robust repository of websites archived on the web from the early days. Use this tool to review websites and their history looking for evidence of spamming like pbn use, gobs of exact match anchors or other grubby spam like porn, payday loans etc. – FREE!
Screenshots.com – A back alternative to Archive.org and can be slightly faster, but doesn’t have nearly the repository that Archive.org does. Use this as a backup if you have concerns you’re missing something or if you can’t find any histroy on Archive.org – FREE!
Where to Buy Quality Expired Domains
PBNHQ – Run by Stephen Rendell and Doug Stewart. Both reputable in the SEO community for many years. Join the PBNHQ Facebook group to ask questions!
Matt Chalk on FB – Matt sold us the domain this blog is built on
Jedediah Hunt on FB – Always has fresh inventory, great domains and excellent prices.
George Do on FB – Great seller! Great buying experience and good reputation.
VPS Rentals
Offshore VPS Rental – Fantastic service and very affordable VPS rental. Use remote desktop to access and great hardware that will run more software than just a domain scraper. Nice to have for longer scrapes so you can be anywhere doing anything while it’s running! We run 2 of them for different scrapers. Great service and support also. $15/mo for a basic VPS.
Design
WordPress Plugins
EazyAzon – Get credit for many more Amazon sales, not just for the country you live in! If you like in the US and 50% of your traffic is too, what about the other 50%? You’re missing out on those sales! This plugin will ensure you get credit for many more countries by “localizing” the links. Also, let viewers add products straight to their shopping cart, and if they put an item in their shopping cart, you get credit if they buy within 89 days.
Simple Page Sidebars – This page is great for creating a custom sidebar for every different page if you wish. We use this to create strong silo structures and a highly-organized site.
Pretty Link Lite – Cloak and no-follow your affiliate links (or any link) with Pretty Link Lite. This is what we use on our blog. You can see how many times each link was clicked on your blog and also implement goal tracking on these links. We will write a post on exactly how to do this in the near future since we wasted a lot of time trying to figure it out.
Universal Star Rating – What’s more convincing than a 5-star rating? Not much! Add a star-rating to things on your blog or products you are trying to sell. This is guaranteed to increase your conversion rates.
TablePress – Easily create beautiful tables on your blog that can also be sorted by the viewer. Simply upload a CSV file and you’re good to go. Also easy to customize with CSS.
Magic Liquidizer – Don’t have a table on your blog that isn’t mobile-responsive! Just use this plugin and your tables will look great on mobile devices.
SumoMe – Easily collect email subscribers and grow your list with this plugin. We talk about this more under email marketing further down on this page.
WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates – Have a beautiful store right on your site with Amazon products. They do everything on your site (including picking sizes, colors, etc.) right up until checkout. This plugin can pull in multiple products straight from Amazon and even spin the content, although we don’t recommend spun content on your money site.
WordPress SEO by Yoast – This is a must-have for your blog. Easily keep track of what keywords you are targeting on each page and aim for a green light on every post for SEO. You can easily change titles, metas, plus this plugin will create a sitemap for you.
Mouseflow – This plugin will record visitors on your site so you can see how they interact with your page. You can also see a heatmap and clickmap of traffic.
Sticky Widget – Increase your conversion rates with Sticky Widget. Whatever you want people to do, ensure it stays in their view by having it be sticky in the sidebar.
Wordle – Kinda random but you can create awesome word clouds for free with this tool which can be great for featured images or whatever you want.
WordPress Themes
Free WordPress Themes – Depending on what your website is and what you want to do with it, free WordPress themes should work just fine. We mostly only use these for PBNs and rarely for money sites as they can be very limiting.
Divi by ElegantThemes – This is our favorite WordPress theme at the moment. We use it on multiple sites (money sites and client sites). It’s ridiculously easy to work with, you can easily create landing pages, there are a plethora of sexy icons to choose from, and it’s overall downright sexy. It has a page builder feature which is nice but it also marries you to the theme which is a downside.
StudioPress – This is also a reputable theme provider we have used in the past. If we weren’t using a free theme or Divi, we would jump over to StudioPress to see what they have available.
BeTheme – This is another theme that uses a page builder (Muffin Builder or Visual Composer). There are many pre-made sites that people like for lead gen. There are lots of sexy elements to use but if you want just a simple site it can be over the top.
Email Marketing
Software & Apps
ConvertKit – One thing bloggers and inbound marketers find out quickly is the quality of their email service. Convertkit understands workflow. They know emails must make sense, have systemization and create outcomes. If you have a list over 3,000 it’s priced competitively and the workflow automation is flawless. Pat Flynn just switched SmartPassiveIncome.com to ConvertKit. We’re moving that way too!
MailChimp – If you want to get an email campaign up and running quick with zero cost, MailChimp is for you! We use this on dozens of accounts and it gets the job done every time. You can quickly create templates, lists, schedule campaigns, and it integrates with many plugins. It integrates well with SumoMe so that someone can seamlessly sign up for your newsletter without you needing to lift a finger.
SUMO ME – This is a free AWESOME plugin for WordPress! It allows viewers to easily sign up for your email newsletter among other things. You can create a sticky bar at the top of your website (featured on this blog), you can have a pop-up in the corner of your website (also featured on this blog), and you can also have a full-screen pop-up that asks viewers to sign up for your newsletter or engage in a different type of call to action.
Email Before Download Plugin – Another great way to list build is to offer a digital product in exchange for an email. By having a plugin such as this, you can do exactly that!
Membership Management / Restrict Content
Stand Alone
MemberMouse – Membermouse is an amazing software. Integrates with WordPress to give you full content control. It’s best feature is the sales funnel integration and save the sale. It doesn’t just help to control access, but helps you keep customers as well as offer upsells, downsells and cross sells. We’ve built a couple membership sites with MemberMouse and we’ll keep using it in the future!
Social Media Marketing
Pinterest
PinGroupie – Find tons of group Pinterest boards to pin your content to. That way, you have an audience when you pin. You will need to ask the board creators to invite you.
Hosting
Money Site Hosting
Siteground Reseller Hosting This hosting is a little tricky, but VERY good quality for your most valuable PBNs and money sites. If you sites are below 10k/mo traffic you’re better off going with reseller hosting. You’ll pay about $4/mo for a site. Support is awesome. They bill by the year only and you’ll have to buy 5 sites. So expect to pay about $225 for 5 sites for the year. 10gb of disk space per site, unlimited data. Cpanel, WordPress and 1 click installs. Hosting on 3 continents for diversity and speed. If you have just a couple sites or you have a lot of traffic 25k+/mo then go with their monthly plan like GrowBig or GoGeek for all the same features billed monthly. High quality hosting for high quality sites.
Traffic Planet Hosting – This is who we currently host our most-important sites with. Fast SSD WordPress hosting with fast and reliable support via chat and support ticket. Email addresses included. Be sure to set your email storage high to prevent service interruption.
HostNine Reseller Hosting – (100 accts = $18.95/mo) be sure to find their reseller hosting page. That’s where the good deal is.
ResellerClub Hosting – Very affordable. $3.29/mo. Unlimted hosting, unlimited bandwidth. Don’t buy their reseller hosting. They don’t guarantee IP diversity. Stick with their personal accounts and don’t use too many of them as they don’t ensure they will end up on different IP addresses. Support is via email which is slow so we’d recommend this as a last addition to your network. Don’t put critical sites on this host.
Bluehost Reseller Hosting – $13.95/mo gets you unlimited sites, bandwidth, and email accounts. CDN network included. Bluehost recommends Reseller club for reseller hosting so you can simply use Bluehosts shared hosting for PBNs, but if you have a lot of domains you’ll want to maybe set up a couple different accounts to keep them separate.
Namecheap Reseller Hosting – Reseller 2 plan starts at $26.99/mo and includes unlimited accounts, 75gb of disk and 2000gb of data. WHM, Cpanel and 1 click installs are included.
Green Geek Reseller Hosting – Sprout account starts at $24.95/mo and includes unlimited domains, CPanel, WHMCS, 1 click install of popluar CMS systems
Hostgator Reseller Hosting – Aluminim plans starting at $19.96/mo includes unlimited websites, 50gb disk space and 500 gb of data. WHM/Cpanel and 1 click installs included.(Beware they try to sell you WordPress setup stuff and premium themes in their 1 click installer program. It’s pretty clever but easy to get around!)
Siteground Reseller Hosting This hosting is a little tricky, but VERY good quality for your most valuable PBNs and money sites. You’ll pay about $4/mo for a site, but de-index rates are extremely rare. Support is awesome. They bill by the year only and you’ll have to buy 5 sites. So expect to pay about $225 for 5 sites for the year. 10gb of disk space per site, unlimited data, but limited to 10k/visits/site/month. Cpanel, WordPress and 1 click installs. Hosting on 3 continents for diversity and speed. High quality hosting for high quality sites.
Godaddy Hosting Godaddy is by far the largest hosting provider in the world. That means hiding in plain sight. However it’s a little confusing. They don’t offer reseller hosting. Instead their standard hosting is “unlimited”. That’s not a full fact. They throttle your bandwidth if you use too much. Cpanel is included, easy interface, 1 click installs are all standard. $4.49/mo if you buy it yearly. Makes your cost per site below $.50/mo. Can be a little glitchy as they overload servers sometimes or if a server gets a traffic spike, so we don’t recommend it for money sites. Go with one of our money site hosts above. Stay away from their reseller program. It’s like a highly confusing affiliate program and isn’t what you might think of as reseller hosting.
CDN (Content Delivery Network) services
CLoudflare – Free account with unlimited sites. Works as a security service and as content delivery to reduce bandwidth usage. Easy to setup. Premium plans available for money and client sites too. Good support.
Incapsula – Not as easy to setup as Cloudflare, but a good alternate to provide some diversity in PBN sites. Decent support.
Domain Registrars
Internet.bs – (free privacy for life can reg co.uk)
Blackhat Community – A strong and rapidly growing group of SEO’s that offers strong leadership, a motivated private forum based community and an SEO tool suite such as bulk Majestic checker, bulk domain availability checker, Yellow Page scraper and MANY more! Membership based with a free user acct available!
Blackhat Daddy – An up and coming SEO forum that would be good to keep an eye on. Forum topis you can find include black hat methods, white hat, pink hat, blue hat & more! Don’t know what those are? Find out on the forum.
Simple Sites Mastmind Group – We have our own SEO and internet marketing mastermind group on Facebook. It’s a closed group but just request an invite and we’ll get you in.
Black Hat Daddy SEO/PBN Marketplace – This is mostly a marketplace where people sell domains, expired domains, PBNs, link building services, social signals and more.
Local Client Takeover – One of the best local SEO Facebook groups. This group is very active and members are constantly sharing great content.
PBN, SEO & IM Marketplace – Another great SEO marketplace where people offervarious services and products including domain scrapers, courses, domains, expired domains, PBNs, instant GMB verification services and much, much more.
Matt Diggity – Diggity Marketing. One of the most actionable blogs you’ll come across for down to earth, real research. Makes sense tips. Demystifying why your SEO isn’t working and how to fix it today!
Charles Floate – aka God of SEO. A young mind full of experience and knowledge. Grew up on the internet and understands the inner workings very well. Actionable tips from blackhat techniques to building a blog.
Jon Haver – Jon Haver publishes some great SEO case studies, says “I’ll show you everything but my password”, and publishes his monthly income reports.
Toggl.com – With any business, tracking your time is importance to ensure that you are being as efficient as possible. It can be even more important if you do affiliate marketing or SEO on the side as you may have a full-time job and a family, so how you are spending those couple of “free” hours a day is very critical. We have been using Toggl for a year and love it.
Project Management
Bubbl.us – (FREE + premium) When building out PBNs, things can get complicated very quick. Whether your are a visual person or not, mapping out your PBNs, Web 2.0s and backlinks can help you stay organize.
Asana – (FREE) Whether you are a team of one or a team of twenty, a project management software is a good thing to have in your toolkit. You can create tasks that need to be done, schedule due dates, and even delegate to other team members. As we hire more and more VAs, this will be a very critical tool in our toolbox.
Trello – (FREE) Board based project management good for complex sites, tracking customers and orders or working with VA’s and developrs
Instagantt – This is a gantt chart add-on for Asana. It’s not only helpful to see the tasks you need to do but the timeline of them as well.
CRMs
Zoho.com – If you have customers and want to be as efficient as possible, a good CRM (customer relationship management) is a must-have. We use Zoho as our CRM for multiple businesses so that we can keep track of customers, sales funnels, communication, business opportunities and more.
