"Free and Low Cost Internet Marketing Software and Tools"

If you want to effectively market online, you need the right tools to do it. The tools and software below will help you cut your marketing time in half, automate some of the marketing tasks you may have, and increase your traffic and sales to your site.

You''ll also get a lot of the tools free.

Article and Ezine Marketing

Article Marketer - Writing article is one of the most effective ways to promote your site online. It allows you to build credibility, as well as reputation, and you will also build value into your products and services. You can also use this method to build an effective content management strategy for your site.

Article Marketer will help you quickly and easily distribute your articles. You can submit your articles to 1,000 publishers for free. With the upgrade, you can submit your articles to 1000s more publishers. This will significantly increase the amount of traffic to your site. The control panel is a simple one click submit interface. It takes about 30 seconds to submit your article.

Thisi is the most inexpensive, and effective, method I have found for increasing traffic to my site and marketing my articles.

Classifed Advertising

Classified Connection - Software you can use to post your ads to 50,000 of the premier free classified ad sites. Windows. Free demo.

My Free Classifieds - Submit your site to 1,300 free classified sites worldwide. Free demo download.

Press Mania - High traffic free classifieds ad site that allows you to post ads by geographical location throughout the United States and in 60 other countries.

Directories

Directory Dominator - One of the best strategies for increasing your rankings in the search engines is linking. The more links you have pointing back to your site, the higher your ranking will be. This software allows you to submit your site to a lot of directories very quickly, and these site are by topic. They also don''t require a link back. Free Demo.

List Building

List for Life - If you want to make more money from your business, you need to build a list. This site not only allows you to build a list for free, but you also get thousands of dollars in free ebooks and software on various topics that you can sell or give away. Free.

ListDotCom - Free list building site. If you want to build a list, but you don''t want to hassle with an ezine, this is a great site for building your list. Free tools and software to help you recruit, and it''s very easy to build members to your list.

Safelists

Your Ad Blaster - Offers both an online version, as well as a software version that allows you to send your safelist ads to 75 million users. Very easy to use, and very effective. $47.

Search Engine Optimization and Submission

Web CEO - Complete suite of search engine optimization and submission tools that allows you to optimize your site for the search engines, as well as search for the right keywords to optimize your site for, as well as a tool to help you find link partners, and submit your site to the top 250 search engines and directories. Free. Windows and MAC. (Make sure you read the help file, as well as download the 50 page guide that goes with it. It will really help you with optimizing and submitting your site so that you get high rankings).

Traffic Exchanges

Traffic Hoopla - Singloe start page for your browser allows you to surf, and generate traffic from, the top 30 traffic exchanges online. Also includes the top 20 safelists you can join, and market on, for free. This is the best free traffic exchange surf page on the internet because all of these sites are tested to find the most effective traffic exchanges and safelists.