Keyword & Competition Research
A software I co-founded that combines WordPress Management with SEO elements. An excellent way to find keywords & competition metrics when optimizing a website.
Another software I co-founded built exclusively for deep keyword & competition research. There is literally no amazing keyword that cannot be found using this tool.
Money Site & Private Blog Network Hosting
After using multiple PBN hosting companies, I finally migrated everything to BulkBuyHosting. The absolute best PBN hosting service with too many required features to list.
With hosting, the most important thing to me other than an amazing hosting platform, is customer support. NameCheap is absolutely unbeatable here at a price that cannot be beat.
Website & Backlink Analysis
I primarily use Moz when I want to see what a websites backlink profile looks like, including my own websites. You can sign up to use it for free, but it has daily limits to how much info you can grab. Highly useful.
Another great source for backlink data. Very similar to Moz & Majestic.
Another great source for backlink data. Very similar to Moz & aHrefs.
When I want to view the historical information of a domain, this is the tool I use. I can find out what the domain used to be, how it looked, if it transferred ownership and more highly useful data.
WordPress Theme & Design Builder
Do you like the way this website looks? It's because I designed with ThriveThemes. An easy to learn drag and drop website builder. I won't build another site another way now.
Email Marketing
Email marketing software with a ton of incredible integrations and features. I've once again used many in my career and have been extremely fond of Mailerlite and they continue to get better.
Content Creation
I hate writing my own content. So for less than a burger and fries, you can have any article you wish written for you. Reject it as many times as you like if it's not right and it costs the same. You can also have ebooks written! Awesome service for content creation.
Traffic & Stats
I love this stat tracking service. I personally prefer these guys to Google Analytics for a few reasons. They have a more user-friendly interface, and they don't steal/spy on you like Google does! Free for as many sites as you like, or upgrade for more stats!
Private Browsing
Want to surf the internet or search Google without them knowing it's you? Want to appear as if you are surfing from Russia, Japan or Australia? This is the tool to do it with. Great for when you are using Magic Submitter or trying to hide what you are really doing from Google. And it's fairly cheap!
Couldn’t agree more on SECockpit 🙂
I had to give mine up because I could just have spent all day, everyday playing with it, and I’ve already got more great keywords than one person can use in a lifetime!
Excellent Resource page Herc! I’m just starting out and totally appreciate you sharing what tools have helped you.
Thanks!
Hey Megan,
Thank you very much! I actually have a few more resources coming to this page that I use and enjoy very much! I’m glad you like it.
Herc
Excellent list of resources and I really enjoyed reading your blog and posts on the Bring The Fresh forum – mighty inspiring! Quick question if I may regards the above on Hostgator, what do you mean ‘I open a new account to host on a different Class C IP’? I get you want to keep your sites to look like they are not all from you so are you saying you register again when using Hide My Ass so the WhoIs will be different?
Thanks for everything thus far, you are helping many like me to at least get excited about succeeding!
Thanks for deleting my previous post. An answer would have been nice but never mind, I get it now.
Hey Ian,
No I just get a new account at HostGator and request that it’s placed on a different Class C IP than my prior account!
If you don’t know much about Class C, here’s a great article that explains it nicely!
Herc
Oops! Just cause a comment isn’t approved yet, doesn’t mean it’s deleted 😉
Hey Herc,
Do you use different email address etc for additional hostgator accounts or keep them all under the same billing/setup
Thanks,
Darren
Hi Herc,
What tool do you use to create Ranking reports for your customers? Rank Checker? For example if I have a customer I want to be able to provide him with Bi-weekly ranking reports for his keywords 1-10, to be able to show the progress of my SEO work that is being done. What would I use?
Thanks,
Angelo
Pro Rank Tracker dude!
I have the same billing account email, but I get different HG accounts within that.
Anyone have a list of cheap domain registrars they use? Should you use separate registrars even for money sites that won’t be linked to each other? Or is that mainly if you’re building a PBN? Is it okay to use a single registrar for money sites?
Herc ….as of 10/3/16 that page is on a suspended site!
As always Herc, providing a wealth of knowledge and great advice. I am going to check some of these products out.
CR
Nice post. I learn something totally new and challenging on websites