Free Affiliate Marketing Tools for SEO Marketers
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
When you’re doing affiliate marketing, tools can make the job significantly easier. For SEO affiliates, the best tools are those that let you quickly and easily spy on competitors and locate potential link partners. To help out, we’ve put together a brief list of some of the most useful SEO tools for affiliate marketers.
- Yahoo! Site Explorer - To use it, simply go to Yahoo! and type in “link:www.sitename.com” where “sitename” is equal to the actual domain you want to explore. Here, you can view inbound links to specific pages on the site, or to the domain as a whole. It’s far more comprehensive than the same command on Google.
- SearchStatus Toolbar – This free toolbar consolidates Pagerank, Alexa Ranking, Compete Data, and whois functions into a single toolbar that sits in the lower right-hand corner of your browser.
- Google External Keyword Tool – This free tool lets you research potential keywords and get volume estimates from the largest English-language search engine.
- Aaron Wall’s Rank Checker – This free plugin lets you easily check your current rankings with the most popular search engines.
- Keyword Spy – Although the angle with this site is to get users to pay for the premium version, even the free data can be very telling.
As you can see, it’s actually very possible to accomplish a lot without spending money on expensive tools. What other free SEO tools have you had success with?