Top 101 Internet Marketing Websites
This web page features top sites for putting together your Internet marketing program, including key search engines, submission services, exchange services, Internet PR services, information services, and many more!
Please note that this is a very personal list, based on the sole judgment of John Kremer. If you'd like to nominate a referral program, associate sales program, pay-per-click programs, or other website paying programs, please email John Kremer. I know that I have missed some companies I truly would like to add to this list. Your company might be one of those. Thanks for your support. John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books
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Publicity and PR / Internet Marketing
Creating Books & Products / Writing & Selling Manuscripts
Useful Sites for Internet Promotion
Alert Site For as little as $5.00 per month, this site will alert you to any broken links on your website as well as any slow performance.
AlertBot Website monitoring service that tests website availability, performance, and alerts webmaster of downtime. Also provides ftp, http, pop3, snmp, https, smtp, ip, and dns server monitoring. Free 15 Day Trial.
Award Sites Rates and links to 2,000 sites that offer awards.
ClickZ One of the best resource sites for all things having to do with developing and marketing websites.
Direct Online Marketing; 800-979-3177 Features a beginning definition list of Internet marketing terms. Also offers online lead generation and Internet marketing help.
Good Free Stuff Web Review This newsletter lists free stuff on the Internet, including newsletters. Again, be sure your free offers and free email newsletters are listed here.
Internet Infomercial Toolkit If you want to learn how to create videos (both as infomercials for your website but as well as for YouTube and other video-sharing websites), you need this toolkit created by Michael Koenigs and Rocket Helstrom. It shows you how to shoot, edit, and launch your Internet videos. Also shows you how to put the resulting video on your website as well so people can see and hear you. Cost: $997.
Internet Marketing Explained This incredible series of audio, video, and more teaches you everything that Armand Morin knows about Internet marketing, and he knows a heck of a lot. More than 98% of other Internet marketers. The best Internet information marketing resource out there right now. Includes 34 CDs of content, a live seminar (which, if you cannot attend, you'll be able to listen to via the web), 8 weeks of training videos, 4 Generator Software products, resale rights to all videos on the IME blog, and a teleseminar describing how Armand generated $4 million last year from just talking. Cost: $1,997.
NetMechanic This site allows you minimize gifs, check links, and do other website maintenance for free (on web sites less than 400 pages).
NetPost Eric Ward's site promotion website. Eric has launched everyone from Amazon.com to Rodney Dangerfield's Rodney.com.
Pay Per Click Search Engines Features the search engines that give you top position on specific searches, for payment.
SEOChat The best website for maximizing your search engine natural searches. Features lots of tools and resources for getting the most website visitors from search engines.
Ten Non-Techie Ways to Market your Book Online This ebook by Judy Cullins shows how to get thousands to your site daily and sell all the books you want. Discover how to augment your traditional marketing with easy, cheap, and doable online marketing. No buying ad words, just doing what you do best: writing and submitting articles. Cost: $44.95.
VideoTrafficGuys.com If you want to get more traffic to your website and/or get top ten rankings in Google searches for your keywords, this program not only shows you how to do it, but they also make it very easy to do. These guys make it so easy to use video to post to your blog, drive traffic, and build awareness of what you do. A fantastic resource. Plus, the cost of joining includes some wonderful resources for creating and posting videos. Very well explained and easy to use. It got my juices flowing really fast. Cost: From $47 to $147 per month.
Virante SEO Tools A wonderful collection of tools for search engine optimization.
Web Digest for Marketers An incredible resource site for all things about web marketing.
Website Garage This site provides inexpensive tools for optimizing your site and analyzing your site traffic. For instance, they offer the Hitometer, which for $4.99 per month provides a detailed report that identifies those links, directories, keywords, and search engines that are most effective in getting people to visit your site.
Website Grader Helps you see how your website is doing as a marketing vehicle.
WilsonWeb Subscribe to their Web Marketing Today newsletter and get some free ebooks. Also check out their Web Marketing Research Room.
Blogging, Etc.
Blog to Book Project: How to Use a Blog to Create a Book in 90 Days or Less This self-paced self-study program was created by The Blog Squad to help you get a book written fast and start marketing it as you write it. Provides all the ins and outs about blogging, including key tips to publishing an effective blog. Also includes promotion of your blog to The Blog Squad network. Cost: $297. You can, of course, also sign up for their ProBlogger program that includes their help in setting up a blog and making it work. That costs a lot more, but if you need hand holding to get it done, they can help.
All about blogging from John Kremer
Knowledge-sharing websites, wikis, widgets, and more
Social networks and social networking
Blogging Equalizer This PC software from Jeff Alderson and Rod Beckwith helps you to put your blog or website on steroids, at least in terms of getting the attention of the major search engines. They call it the blog and ping method of building search engine recognition. Cost: $97.
Banner Ad Networks
These networks sell banner ad space on your websites to other companies and sites).
Other Internet advertising possibilities
Online Sales and Affiliate Networks
Clickbank A place to set up shop until you have a shopping cart. A great place to sell ebooks and audio files for download even after you have a shopping cart. Includes an affiliate program to get other websites involved in marketing your ebooks, software, mp3 audios, and other downloadable content. Free to set up products for sale or become an affiliate.
Free IQ A video sharing site where people vote for the best informational videos. But it is also a information product showcase where the FreeIQ takes a percentage of any products you sell. They encourage you to showcase your knowledge and expertise via videos and then close the sale there. They'll host entire presentations that last hours or short clips. You can add new content to Free IQ here: http://www.freeiq.com/123add.
If you are an expert on just about any topic, Free IQ is the perfect solution to display your ideas and showcase your knowledge. We will host and stream all your content for free, whether its video, audio, articles or ebooks. While we reserve the right to eventually set limits, currently there is no limit to how much content you can upload. And if anyone buys an electronically deliverable (downloadable) product from you, well deliver it for free as well.
For content providers, there is no monthly fee to use the Free IQ shopping engine to sell your information products. We host and stream (and digitally deliver) an unlimited of audio and video for free. For any sales you make, we charge just 5% of the sales price (plus credit card processing fees.)
For Free IQ content providers, not only can you sell your own information products, like ebooks, audio and video seminars and courses, teleseminars and webinars, live seminar registrations, subscription newsletters, training and coaching programs, or telephone or in-person consulting . . . but you can also get paid every time one of your customers buys something from anyone else on the entire web site for a whole year!
PayDotCom Another place like Clickbank where you can set up shop, sell ebooks and other downloadable products (audios, videos, software, databases, etc.). Also includes an affiliate program. Free to set up a products for sale or become an affiliate.
PayLoadz A website that allows anyone to sell downloadable items such as software, ebooks, music, movies, digital art, manuals, certificates, forms, files, and more. You can also sell via their store, their eBay store, and more all with an affiliate tracking and payment system. The basic free level allows you to sell $100 or less products with a file storage of 1 gigabyte. You can upgrade to sell higher-priced products or get more storage.
Clubs and Communities
These services offer free home pages where you can establish a community or club.
Deja Communities Start up a Deja News discussion area.
321 Website Designed as a community hub you can link to from your website.
Yahoo Clubs Create clubs where people can join in on discussion groups at Yahoo.
Content Sources
Sources for additional content for your site or other projects. Also places where you can submit articles for other sites to feature. Click here.
Top 5 Search Engines (featuring URL submission pages)
AOL Search: http://search.aol.com/add.adp 10 to 15% of the market. 8% of searches in February 2006; 4.4% in July 2007 (comScore Networks).
Ask Networks: http://www.ask.com 5.5% of the market (2005). 6% of searches in February 2006; 4.7% in July 2007 (comScore Networks); 4.16% of online searches in the U.S. in February 2008 (HitWise).
Google: http://www.google.com The largest web site search engine. 33% of the market (2005). 45.1% of searches in September, 2005. 42% of searches in February 2006; 55.2% in July 2007 (comScore Networks); 66.4% of online searches in the U.S. in February 2008 (HitWise).
Microsoft Network (MSN): http://www.msn.com 15% of the market (2005). 11.7% of searches in September 2005. 14% of searches in February 2006; 12.3% in July 2007 (comScore Networks); 6.95% of online searches in the U.S. in February 2008 (HitWise).
Yahoo!: http://www.yahoo.com/info/suggest 31% of the market (2005). 23.3% of searches in September 2005. 28% of searches in February 2006; 23.5% in July 2007 (comScore Networks); 20.6% of online searches in the U.S. in February 2008 (HitWise).
Website Rankings
Alexa.com: http://www.alexa.com Provides a relative ranking for website popularity.
Ranking.com: http://www.ranking.com Calculates the online popularity of the most visited websites.
CGI Script Resources to Energize Your Website
CGI Archives.com: http://www.cgiarchives.com
CGI City: http://www.icthus.net/CGI-City
CGI Java: http://www.cgi-java.com
CGI Resource Index: http://www.cgi-resources.com
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