All these tools are FREE to use and they are extremely USEFUL!
1. Host and IP addresses Backlink Checker
Purpose: Check how many backlinks you have to your website and who links to you..
2. Google Adwords Preview Tool
Purpose: Check how many competitors advertise the same keyword as yours in Google. Can customize by country and Google domain (google.com.my, google.co.uk)
3. Convert Any Document to PDF
Purpose: Convert any document to PDF and vice-versa.
4. Let Them Eat Spam
Purpose: Give it out. Use it in webforms. Post it on forums. Use it any time you need an email address but don’t want to be spammed for eternity.
5. Unicode Converter – SUPER USEFUL!
Purpose: Convert any wording to unicode.
For example:
Extended Roman: ê ü TO “& # 2 3 4 ; & # 2 5 2 ;”
Chinese: 京 仅 TO “& # 2 0 1 4 0 ; & # 2 0 1 6 5 ;”
Esperanto: Ĉ ĉ Ĝ ĝ Ĥ ĥ Ĵ ĵ Ŝ ŝ Ŭ ŭ
Russian: Я говорю
Greek: Αυτου οι θανατον μητσομαι
6. Maxmind Geolite City
Purpose: Implement to your website so you can differentiate visitors from different location and provide them different content. Good for geographical advertisement.
7. Social Maker
Purpose: Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. This free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.
8. Google Keyword Research Tool
Purpose: Research keyword using Google huge database. (You can go details to every single country)
Tips 1 – A good backlink and bad backlink.
GOOD = Original post from Useful Tools
BAD = Find Original post from Here
To Google, the good backlink is the link with meaningful tag.
See the GOOD backlink, the tag is “Useful Tools”. (Yes, your keyword here, people might search “useful tools” in search engine)
See the BAD backlink, the tag is “Here”. (Nobody going to search “here” in search engine.)
Tips 2 – Keyword Research
Combine tool#8 and tool#2 give you a very efficient keyword research.
Example – Use tool#8 to grab your keyword. Use tool#2 to see how many competitor on the google search result (left bar). Remember to set your country preference, this affect a lot on the result.
Some keyword search a lot by US doens’t mean search a lot in Malaysia wink.gif
Tips 3 – Chinese characters in html?
When you create an html or whatever file in the internet, you don use the “REAL” word you see. I mean when you able to see “? ?” it doesn’t OTHERS will be able to see it because there are many types of characters encoding.
Using tool#5, you convert the character into unicode and I’m SURE that words on most systems.
This tools is extremely useful when you try to post some characters that you totally has no idea what it says, like hindi, russian, etc. You don even know after you save your post the characters still spell out correctly not.