Generating Internet Income? Utilise These Great Free Webmaster
Tools by Cynthia Minnaar
There are so many free webmaster tools available on the internet to assist
those of us using the internet to generate web income, here are but a few of
the ones I could not do without.
When looking for free webmaster tools, my advice to you is to be sure that you
are using tools from a reputable site or, more importantly, if you are
downloading software be very careful that the download does not contain adware
and spyware or viruses for that matter!
On that note let's start off with the free software that you can use to protect
your computer, because if that is not running well you will not be able to run
you online business successfully. Windows Defender from Microsoft is great at
scanning your computer for unwanted software. The free version of AVG
Anti-Virus as well as Ad-Aware SE and Spybot are great at keeping your computer
free of viruses and other undesirables! The free version of ZoneAlarm has many
great attributes. Just a word of warning if you are running AVG anti-virus,
ZoneAlarm will not detect that you have anti-virus protection, so do not be
alarmed, it is just that ZoneAlarm has not been programmed to look for AVG. The
one program I did purchase was ProcessGuard, which amongst other things
protects my computer from keyboard loggers, protects the physical memory,
blocks global hooks, blocks rootkit/driver/service installation and registry
DLL injection. These programs all run harmoniously on my computer and so far I
have managed to keep out all the dangerous and unwanted intruders.
Now on to the more exciting free webmaster tools, that will greatly assist you
in the running of your online business.
Google Alerts can really add excitement to your day. If you set up a Google
alert for the name of your affiliate program/s, Google will advise you by email
when a new page appears on Google with these search terms and you can view the
page and see if it is an opportunity to recruit an affiliate. Sometimes the new
page can be a forum post asking for opinions on the affiliate program. This
gives you the opportunity to add your opinion with your affiliate link of
course in the signature file.
You can also set up a Google alert for your own name. This throws up some
really exciting results as you can see when someone has clicked on your profile
in an Article Directory or clicked on your articles as well as where people
have clicked to find out what other articles you have written. This is
definitely worth trying as I am sure you will be both surprised and amazed at
what comes up!
Google Webmaster Tools, previously known as Google Sitemaps is so useful in
that you are able to let Google know when you have updated your site. The
sitemap enables Google to crawl your site better and ensures that the most
current pages of your site are indexed quickly. You can just create a sitemap
upload it to the same directory as your .index files and in the Google
Webmaster Tools under Add a Sitemap you just type in or paste the url of your
new sitemap. Google also give you reports on their latest crawl of your site
and notifies you of errors, as well as give you details and positioning of your
keywords. There is also other really useful information available.
Google Analytics is an amazing free service where you can see exactly where
your visitors came from both geographically and through which entry page, what
keywords they used, where they exited your site, etc. You will have to give
this one a try for yourself as there is just so much useful information for the
webmaster which enables you to fine tune your marketing and promotion
strategies.
StatCounter offers a free version which I use on my site and I keep it
invisible, as I believe it to be more professional, but this free service also
provides incredibly detailed information about your visitors, which is
extremely useful. It also records your page loads, unique visitors, first time
visitors and returning visitors. It is easy to install and with this powerful
little tool you can check to see that visitors to your site are increasing
daily.
Online Link Popularity Tools and Back Link checkers are easily available online
and enable you to monitor your link popularity and back links on a regular
basis. Writing and publishing articles regularly is a great way to see your
back links increase on a daily basis.
These are only a handful of the free tools that I do use to assist me with my
online home business. There are many more really useful tools provided by
Google as well as other reputable sites, it is just a matter of finding what
suits you and your business.
As traffic is the key to generating income from the web, these tools that I have
mentioned assist me in closely monitoring where my traffic is coming from and
what keywords are being used.
About the Author
Cynthia Minnaar works from home online and invites you to visit
http://www.cyns-home-biz.com for ways to generate income online. Visit
http://www.cyns-home-biz.com/pips.html to start your own web income
generating website complete with 400 day pre-written email autoresponder
campaign.
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