Most people have no idea the vast amounts of free tools/websites out there to help you and your business. Here are some of our personal favorites:
- Visit www.Download.com for free software and virus protection. The rating system is quite helpful.
- FREE Cleanup, Malware Removal, Disk Defrag and Spyware Removal: www.CCleaner.com , www.MalwareBytes.org , www.Auslogics.com and www.SuperAntiSpyware.com These four tools are my ‘go-to’ tools when it comes to PC maintenance.
- Check out www.SocialMediaExaminer.com for the latest in social media trends and tips as well as www.SearchEngineWatch.com for SEO help – they’re simple and to the point. Also recommended: www.SearchEngineLand.com and www.SearchEngineJournal.com
- Want to edit a PDF without the expensive software? Visit www.PDFEscape.com , an awesome tool to edit and adjust any PDF for free!
- Another great PDF tool – have two or more PDFs and need to merge them? Visit www.PDFMerge.com
- Rotate your PDF , Resize your PDF and Compress your PDF
- Have you seen a font and want to identify it? Here’s how: www.MyFonts.com/WhatTheFont/
- Check out www.GetPaint.net and www.Gimp.org for some great image editing tools.
- Want a free phone number? Visit www.Google.com/Voice
- Visit your town’s local news hub at www.Patch.com
- Have a slew of social media platforms? Send out a single message to all of them at www.HootSuite.com
- Among the many we prefer www.MailChimp.com as an email blasting service.
- Send large files via www.SendSpace.com and www.WeTransfer.com that cannot be sent via email – also, try www.DropBox.com to share files, anywhere among a network.
- Need some icons for your site? Check out www.IconArchive.com and www.SoftIcons.com for an extensive list of icons as well as www.FindIcons.com , www.IconFinder.com , www.OpenClipart.org and www.ClipArtsFree.net
- Get the exact dimensions for all Facebook Image sizes at www.LunaMetrics.com
- Understand where your web traffic is coming from: Google WebMaster Tools & Google Analytics
- Free faxes from your computer! www.FaxZero.com
- Create a free, 3D, digital, magazine or brochure at www.Yudu.com
- Some no nonsense royalty free clipart at www.Clker.com
- If your current web browser is too slow for your machine, consider Google Chrome: www.Google.com/chrome
- Need a mobile website? www.DudaMobile.com
- Check out Google’s Keyword Tool to help determine keywords for your ad campaign or SEO work.
- Need a new font? Check out Font Zone : www.FontZone.net
- Excellent free online file conversion tools: www.Zamzar.com and www.Online-Convert.com
- Site speed not only affects those using mobile devices (and older machines) but also plays a role in SEO … check your site’s speed using Google PageSpeed Tools and tools.Pingdom.com
- Does your Photo meet Facebook Policy Guidelines for your Promoted Posts? Make sure it does by visiting www.Techwyse.com
- Check out how your Website looks on all the latest devices: ami.ResponsiveDesign.is and www.Deviceponsive.com
- Web Design Freebies! www.WebDesignHabits.com and www.ByThePeople.com
- How’s your SEO? Use this tool to check out how your page stacks up! www.MetaDas.com
- Looking for some cool PSD graphics? Visit www.PSDGraphics.com and www.PSDSharing.com
- Create and embed a FREE video for your business: www.Animoto.com and www.StupeFlix.com
- Some helpful, free SEO tools: www.SmallSEOTools.com , www.SEOToolsForYou.com , tools.SEOBook.com & www.Moz.com/tools
- Generate a favicon easily at www.Favicon.cc
- If you study and practice SEO then you’re probably familiar with Matt Cutts, head of the Webspam Team at Google. Check out his blog at www.MattCutts.com/blog/ to help you better understand Google search and enhance your site for SEO. He has put together a great number of videos and Click Consult has conveniently organized a database of them at www.TheShortCutts.com
- Download files from many popular sites (including YouTube videos): en.SaveFrom.net
- A great WordPress security plugin: Better WP Security and Secure WordPress
- Looking for a tile-able, seamless background pattern for your website? Visit www.SubtlePatterns.com
- Interesting bit of information: Who uses WordPress? Notable WordPress Users
- Ensure you don’t have duplicate content by visitng www.Copyscape.com
- Need help with your HTML? Check out this tool: www.TextFixer.com/tools
- Need some ‘filler text’ during your web build: www.LipSum.com
- Conver Word Documents to Clean HTML: Word2CleanHTML.com
- Vectorize an image at www.VectorMagic.com
- Use www.OnlineOCR.com to convert scanned documents to word!
- An awesome HTML Cheat Sheet from www.WebMonkey.com
- Shrink your PNG images while preserving quality AND transparency with TinyPNG.org
- A slew of SEO & Webmaster Tools here: www.WebToolHub.com
- Schedule a reminder text to be sent to your phone! www.OhDontForget.com
- BuzzStream offers a number of free Tools. This one in particular allows you to easily extract, from multiple URLs the Title, Description and Keywords tag: tools.BuzzStream.com
- A CRAZY amount of Free SEO Tools – 273 to be exact: www.SearchEngineFuture.com
- Scrape Images AND ALT Tags: www.Dimbal.com and www.prowebguru.com
- Edit SVG Files, for free, online: editor.method.ac
- Interested in the amount shares, likes, pluses etc. on your site? Visit www.sharedcount.com
- HTML to Plain Text via Mailchimp
- Convert Text to HTML via 4HTML
