The Best Free Internet Marketing Resources

Many people spend a lot of time and countless hours in front of their computer screen when working on their affiliate marketing campaigns.

Despite what some people will say, they do need assistance to ensure that their time spent is as productive as possible. A quick Google search for Internet Marketing Tools will reveal numerous results and so many of the sales pitches look promising.

It is important that you don’t spend your money on products that won’t assist you, instead of wasting your money, why not look at the Internet Marketing Tools that are freely available to you?

The first example of a superb free Affiliate Marketing resource is Google Analytics. Some of you may know this, you newcomers probably won’t but this used to go by the name of “Urchin” and came complete with a hefty price tag! These days though it is packaged as Google Analytics and is completely free!

The tool is full of useful statistics relating to your website (or websites for those of you with their fingers in many pies!) such as the number of visitors that arrive at your website. As well as this, information such as the keywords used to find your website are recorded and the pages that people leave the site at. This is especially useful for affiliate marketing.

Google also offers you another superb resource known as the “Website Optimizer”. It is designed to tweak your website throughout and your sales pitch by “Split testing”. This tool can certainly help you stand a good chance of being as successful as possible.

If you’re opting to use a Pay Per Click campaign to drive targeted traffic to your website, then you need to carefully select which Keywords you wish to target. If you have searched for a keyword suggestion tool, then your likely to have visited the Nichebot research system. This is a great resource for finding keywords, however it costs money. There is a free alternative, that being Google’s very own Keyword Tool, which is probably the most accurate at giving you competition examples and the cost per click rates.

If for any reason your against using the tools provided by Google, there are some good alternatives available from the other “big two” search engines.

Microsoft’s AdLab is bursting with research tools and Internet Marketing Resources and are some of the best available. Yahoo! Has many different tools in their webmaster section, including the Yahoo Site Explorer, which shows a more accurate reflection of the amount of links pointing to your websites and your competitors.

If you use eBay, don’t be tricked into buying an e-book or tool that claims to be crammed with the most popular search terms. Instead use eBay’s free “Pulse” results which will save you time and money!

Those are just a few Internet Marketing resources for your affiliate program campaign. Make sure you try them out first before deciding to spend your cash on a product that is more than likely inferior to what is freely available to you.