subject: Top Free Internet Marketing Tools for Your Online Marketing Needs [print this page] Top Free Internet Marketing Tools for Your Online Marketing Needs
Adding a website to the internet is about as easy as it can be these days. However, getting traffic to that site can be a very daunting task. Internet marketing is a must if you want to drive traffic to your site to sell a product or even if you just want to have your content read in order to express your views.This is why internet marketing is so important. It will help elevate the awareness for your product on the internet. Internet marketing is not as difficult as many would think, but it does entail a number of areas and factorsfrom search engine optimization to keywords to directory submissions, among a host of others. Here are some amazing free internet marketing tools that can help make the task of online marketing so much easier:- Google Alerts: A number of Google tools are essential for your internet marketing efforts. Google Alerts is a tool that informs you about a certain keyword you're monitoring. For instance, you're monitoring the keyword "Stephanie Meyer Breaking Dawn," a topic you thoroughly tackle on your blog. Any website or blog that has the keyword phrase in it will be brought to your attention. This is important for back-linking purposes, among others.- Google Analytics is a great tool for getting statistics about your web traffic. This tool will give you statistical proof on whether your marketing techniques worked or not and where they worked and didn't work, among others.- Google Blog Search: Another Google tool, blogsearch.google.com is a search engine for blogs. You can search for specific topics and only get blog results. You can use the results in many ways. It is a great tool for your back-linking efforts and can be used to check out what is going on with whatever topic you are working with. This will save you a lot of time by no longer having to rummage around search results for blogs.- Copyscape: This online service is free and allows you to see if the content you have used or wish to use has been duplicated on the web elsewhere. Copyscape will look at the content of an article and compare it to content posted on the web. You will be able to see what parts of the content are duplicated, and to what extent they are duplicated. This tool is probably one of the most used free internet marketing tools today.- Yahoo Buzz: One of the marketing tools that allow you to find out the top searches for the day. For instance, during the August 7-8 weekend period, the keyword "Batman: Arkham City" is one of the breakout search keywords for Yahoo! Many other websites offer the similar service.- eBay Pulse: One of the many tools that can give an idea of what is currently being bought online. This site shows you the most popular searches on eBay. It goes without saying, this is a very important tools for eCommerce sites.While these aforementioned tools can be of great help to your marketing endeavors, there are several more free internet marketing tools available online. Explore them to see which ones fit your niches and your special needs.
