Here I’ve listed a number of products, plugins and websites I use that may be of interest to you…

Site Builders

See this post for mini-reviews of the squeeze/ landing page & site builders below…

  • Systeme (includes my bonus package) – a complete all-in-one marketing system especially suited for beginners and those with small budgets. You can start out with a Free-Forever account which lets you build up to 3 sales funnels, one blog, one community, one course, one email list, collect up to 2,000 subscribers and send out an unlimited number of emails. There are 3 paid plans ranging from $27/mth to $97/mth depending on what you need. Save 30% on all paid plans if you pay annually.
  • LeadsLeap (includes my bonus package) – another all-in-one marketing plaform that’s been around since 2008. It’s extremely popular with affiliate marketers due to its low cost and range of tools. Build pages, funnels, email lists, track your links and so on, starting with a free account. Upgrade to a Pro account whenever you need to use the features it offers. It’s a flat $27/mth no matter how many pages, funnels, email lists you create or email subscribers you collect. If you upgrade within the first 24 hours, you’ll save 15% per month and only pay $23/mth.
  • UpViral (save 50% with this link) – a complete, dynamic web-based solution and referral formula that handles every aspect of viral marketing. It makes it cheap and easy to build highly profitable marketing campaigns that leverage your visitors so your traffic compounds over time! There’s a free webclass here showcasing UpViral.
  • Solo Build It! [$365/yr or $39.99/mo] – This is an online website builder. It’s point-and-click approach makes it easy to build sites, especially if you’re a complete newbie. However, Solo Build It! is much more than just a site builder; it includes a number of research and other tools, including a way to mail newsletters, track statistics, build backlinks and it will promote your site for you (something they’re very successful at). However, it does cost $365 (or $39.99/mo) per year per site. It sounds expensive, but sites should make much more than the annual fees each year. Read my Site Build It! Review here.
  • LeadPages – this is a top-tier service that lets you collect leads from landing pages, pop-up forms, social media, text messaging, and email. There’s a lot more to it as well. This is a tool that’s best left until you’re familiar with list building and want to scale up your efforts.
  • OptimizePress – another WordPress plugin for creating squeeze pages but it also creates Webinar Registration pages, Event Pages, Free Training Pages, Microsites & Minisites, Funnel Pages, Small Business Websites, WordPress blogs (comes with its own theme) and Membership sites.
  • Landing Page Monkey (includes my bonus package) – this is the easiest landing page builder to use and it’s also the least expensive. Your pages are hosted for you so you don’t need your own website. You have full control over how your pages look. Adding animated backgrounds (videos) is very easy. Comes with my bonus package. My review is here.
  • Genius Lander (includes my bonus package) – from the same developers as Landing Page Monkey, this landing page builder allows you to build more sophisticated landing pages that are geared to use psychological techniques to get better open rates. Comes with my bonus package.
  • Ninja Popups – a WordPress plugin for building popup forms on your blog. Forms can be optin forms, coupon codes, etc. You can use the plugin to collect subscribers for your email lists or to drive traffic to special offers.
  • Conversion Gorilla (includes my bonus package) – similar to Ninja Popups in concept, it adds an attention bar to your website. This fully configurable bar can be used to collect email addresses and subscribers or to direct traffic to your offers. The Pro version of the plugin allows you to place an attention bar over any webpage, not just ones you own. Read my review here
  • ProfitBuilder [Defunct] – a WordPress plugin that allows a blog to create squeeze and landing pages that are hosted on your blog’s domain. It comes with a huge number of pre-built templates for a variety of different types of landing page. [no longer supported]

Keyword Research Tools

  • Jaaxy [$49/mth] – This fast keyword research tool grades keywords as easy (green), medium (yellow) or difficult (red) to rank for, based on a number of criteria. You can see at a glance which keywords you should be targeting to rank easily for and to bring easy traffic to your sites. Free trial allows you to perform 30 free searches. Read my Jaaxy review here.
  • Keyword Atlas – Keyword Atlas can pump out thousands of top-ranked long-tail keywords from 21 different online sources in just minutes. The “Suggests Keywords” tool extracts auto-suggest keywords from over 20 popular websites to get you the best possible keywords for your marketing projects. Plus, you can select between Search Engine sources, Ecommerce sources as well as video sources. You can even extract keyword ideas from Google’s play store and Wikipedia. A 45% discount is available from the link above.
  • Google Keyword Tool [Defunct]: [Free] – Google’s keyword tool is still a great research tool and the data from it is at the heart of some of the other commercial keyword tools. Any searches you run should be for Exact Match phrases as this will give you more realistic results. The “Competition” column in the results provides an indication of how many advertisers are bidding on Adwords for a keyword; it is NOT an indication of how strong or weak the competition is for a keyword in the search engines!
  • Market Samurai [Defunct]: [$149] – somewhat expensive but the best keyword analysis tool I’ve used to date. While it uses only keywords provided by Google, it provides a number of tools that allow to you assess the quality of those keywords in terms of site or article building. You can check the relevancy of the keywords to your niche, see how much competition there is for those keywords, determine how strong that competition is and get an idea of how profitable that keyword could be to you. You can also see how competing sites are linked to (number of links and from where), the PageRank of the sites linking to them and assess how easy or difficult it would be to get onto the first page of Google for your keywords. Using Market Samurai as a research tool allows you to discover if a niche is worth going into before you even plan to build a site, so it can save you wasted time and energy. The software can also find affiliate programs for your keywords, saving you time looking for suitable products and affiliate programs on the main ad networks and beyond. Very powerful stuff. Free videos on how to use Market Samurai.
  • Micro Niche Finder [Defunct]: [$97] – This is a another tool I’ve used for keyword research. Among its many functions, it allows you to see how much people are bidding for keywords in Adwords (Google typically pays about 60%+ of these fees for Adsense clicks), so it’s a great way of seeing if a particular niche is worth going into. It also allows you to check if a particular keyword is available as a domain name. You can also do keyword brainstorming and have it suggest niches to you. Since buying Market Samurai, this is a tool I no longer use. Read my review here.

Getting Traffic

Building backlinks through various methods (see Article Marketing below) is still the best way to drive traffic to your sites. These are the current best tools (following the various recent Google algorithm changes):

  • Link Building Service [$60-$350] – This is a link building service that creates a tiered link structure. Only a few sites it posts to will link to your site, but it build links to those tier-1 sites, strengthening them and they, in turn, strengthen your site. The Hoth is a good option if you don’t want to use software like SENukeXCr to build your own link campaigns.
  • SocialADR [Free – $14.95/$44.95/$109.95 per month options] – This is a credit based system for buying and posting large numbers of social bookmarks to various services to boost your website’s profile online. With the Free service, you have to do all the work; with the paid options, all the work is done for you.
  • SENuke TNG [Defunct]: [$67/month for Lite version; $147/month for regular version] – an expensive tool to be sure but allows you to create as many tiered link building campaigns as you want, in a variety of ways (including ways you set up yourself). It posts to article directories, Web 2.0 properties, Social Networks, Social Bookmarks, RSS Aggregators and Press Release sites. But you have to post add the content to post. The software is integrated with Jon Leger’s Article Builder so quality articles can be downloaded from it automatically and sent out to your selected sites and resources (those listed above). There’s even now a 30-second setup wizard to make setting up backlinking campaigns as easy as possible. I talk more about a previous version of SENuke here.

Article Marketing

Using AI tools is where it’s at these days and, while some older article writing services are still available, AI produces better results a lot of the time. Articles still need editing and tidying up but using AI saves you huge amounts of time.

  • SEO Writing [Free / $19/mo / $79/mo] – This is an AI writing tool for 1-click SEO-optimized articles, blog posts & affiliate content. Available in 48 languages, auto-posted to WordPress with AI Images. Generate original, high-quality long-form content. Create detailed product listings 10X faster. Optimize content for SEO to rank in search results. Build content at lightning speed with the help of AI. Use 20+ pre-trained models for affiliate content. Create up to 5 articles for Free. Save 25% on fees if you pay annually.
  • MagAI [$19/$29/$49 per month options] – No need to subscribe to all the different AI companies individually. Magai gives you ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Leonardo, Dall-E, Meta AI, Mistral, Stable Diffusion, and more all in one place. While ChatGPT might be unable to read a website in real time, Magai can! Just paste a link in your message and Magai will relay the contents of the URL to ChatGPT. Magai gives you access to the worlds most advanced AI tools—not just one! You also get powerful features to add even more fuel to your AI-powered arsenal.
  • OneAI [$14.95 one time payment and no API keys required] – Create world-class AI content, marketing materials, or anything you desire in just 60 seconds using the world’s leading AI app collection. Start profiting by selling these high-in-demand marketing materials & content to your clients or on freelancing platforms while filling up your pockets. Access 20 text and image generating platforms for one small payment, saving $2,480 in fees you’d otherwise pay each year for these platforms.
  • Unique Article Wizard [Defunct]: [$67/month] – This backlinking service goes the article marketing route. You submit a quality article that can be spun (UAW provides a couple of ways to achieve this), and Unique Article Wizard will post the article (a unique version of it) to hundreds of article directories. Each time an article is posted, it will contain a backlink to your site. Members can also submit their blogs so that content from UAW is published on them, so that’s another way of getting more backlinks. Unique Article Wizard has survived the Google algorithm updates and does nothing that would aggravate Google. It’s a tries and tested system unlike others which have fallen by the wayside, especially in the last year. Read my review here.
  • The Secret To Making Money With Article Marketing [Defunct]: [$77] – A system in a box that will provide you with unique articles, along with an article submitter that you can use to submit articles to article directories. All you have to do is insert your Clickbank ID into the affiliate links.

Video Marketing

Again, as with content marketing, AI is beginning to rule the roost where video marketing is concerned. While recording your own videos is still very popular, some marketers prefer to create faceless or AI videos for a variety of reasons.

  • Pictory (includes my bonus package) – create your videos using AI by converting text to video. Add backing music an voiceovers. Create up to 200 minutes of videos each month. Test drive the tool free for 14 days. Paid plans start at $25/mo and give you access to 2 million royalty-free videos from Storyblocks and Unlimited standard voices in 7 languages. This is the tool I use.
  • InVideo AI (includes my bonus package) – let AI create your videos for you either from a couple of keywords or from a script (limited to up to 50 minutes per month). The tool has a huge library of videos and images it can use to create your videos. It can also add high-quality AI voiceovers, subtitles and captions. You have full control over the final edit. Use coupon code invideoAIOffer50 to get 50 additional minutes to create videos in your first month. Excellent if a more expensive tool but is really cripples by the 50 minutes of video you can create each month. Here’s a post about how I created a video with InVideo AI.
  • InVideo Studio – this online video creator makes it easy to create dynamic videos that grab a viewer’s attention. Simplifies video creation with 5,000+ ready-made templates that you can quickly customize even if you’ve never done it before. Save 50% if you pay yearly. Use coupon code AIVIDEOS30 to save an additional 30% on annual plans or coupon code AIVIDEOS25 to save 25% on monthly plans.
  • CapCut – create and edit videos for posting on social media. All video formats are supported. The tool can post directly to some platforms such as Instagram.
  • Camtasia – this is THE tool for creating over-the-shoulder style videos where you’re showing your audience what’s on your monitor. These types of video are typically used for making video tutorials demonstrating how a software tool is used for example. It is a full video editor, so videos recorded on cameras can be imported and edited too.
  • SnagIt – you can think of this as Camtasia’s little brother. It’s also a screen recording application but it doesn’t include the video editor that’s part of Camtasia.
  • YouTube Buddy – a free Chrome browser extension that integrates directly into YouTube to help run your channel there with ease. Paid accounts that provide access to additional functions and tools start at $9/mth.
  • VidIQ – this tool is designed to boost your YouTube views by providing free insights and guidance to keep your channel growing. It puts a panel on YouTube pages that provides information about the video that is otherwise hidden or hard to get. There are 4 plans – one free and three paid.
  • Content Samurai [Defunct]: [regularly $97/mth but only $47/mth through this special link] – A cloud based video creation service that allows you to create an unlimited number of videos of any length. Paste in a script or article and it will create the video based on that. It adds background images based on keywords in your sentences. Royalty-free music tracks are also provided. All fully editable should you want to make any changes. This is a video I created with Content Samurai:
  • Instant Video Wizard [Defunct]: [$997/year] – Very like Content Samurai in how it creates videos, it also includes text-to-speech technology which provides 47 male and female voices, speaking a variety of languages. The software contains a translation feature that allows you to create different language versions of your videos, translating both text and speech. You can also add Adobe After Effects videos with your branding, for example. The software also includes over 100,000 articles you can use as the basis for your videos if you’re ever stuck for content for a video. Here’s a video I created with Instant Video Wizard:

Pay Per Click

Cheaper, Better Alternative to Adwords – Bidding for keywords on Adwords is now an expensive business. The days of $0.05 bids are gone. But Adwords isn’t the only game in town and low bids are still possible at other Pay Per Click sites.

Tracking & Statistics

  • LeadsLeap (includes my bonus package) – an all-in-one marketing tools that offers a range of tools for free including a link tracker and a link rorator. No need to have a WordPress blog to use it.
  • Pretty Link Lite Free WordPress plugin – Mask your affiliate links, track and get statistics on them – the best way to find where paying customers are coming from so you can build on those successes.
  • Pretty Link Pro (not free) – Does everything the Lite version does plus a lot more, including being able to associate keywords in your content with your masked affiliate links.
  • ClickMagick – a professional online solution for click tracking and conversion attribution. Track everything from the click to the back-end sale or sign up and see exactly where your traffic is coming from and which of it converts the best.

Monetizing Your Site

Socrates Premium WordPress Theme – A customizable WordPress theme designed for affiliate marketers. Very popular in the internet marketing community.

phpBay Pro [Defunct] – The best WordPress plugin for adding eBay auction listings to your posts. However, you do need to be a member of the eBay Partner Network though in order to display products from eBay.

Auction2Post [Defunct] – The best WordPress plugin for creating posts based around an eBay listing (i.e. each post is about one item on eBay).

phpZon [Defunct] – The best WordPress plugin for adding Amazon products to your posts. Obviously, you have to have an Amazon affiliate account.

WP Zon Builder [Defunct] – The best WordPress plugin for adding Amazon products as posts to your blog. Various post parameters can be changed (product description, customer reviews, etc).