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9 Of The Best Free Website Monitoring Services Online

Jay — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:27:31 +0000

Ever had the unfortunate experience of a site outage? Chances are your loyal readers, potential followers and, trusted customers went elsewhere during that time – and perhaps never came back. When this happens your business is as good as dead in the minds of your visitor and you sales will surely follow. This is why it is of extreme importance to take advantage of a service that will monitor your sites status and immediately alert you when your site is down. By using one of the 9 best FREE website monitoring services found online, you’ll be able to quickly jump on whatever problem is affecting your site and keep from losing your valued customers.

Montastic – Montastic calls themselves “the free website monitoring service that doesn’t suck”. With this service you’ll have the ability to monitor in intervals of as low as 30 minutes with the free service. Email notifications are available as this is a standard amongst the website monitoring services. One additional benefit of the service that you’ll be able to download and use their Mac & PC widgets to stay on-top of your status.

Free Site Status- Free Site Status also offers free web monitoring and will monitor every 60 minutes for free accounts. This service does provide historical performance statistics reporting for up to 60 days. One of the downsides of this particular free services is that there is no RSS alerts and only one email contact allowed.

Site 24×7 – With this services free account you are allowed up to 2 monitoring setups. Checks are run every 60 minutes and you’ll have access to their web page content check. You’ll be able to setup you account for email notification life many of the other services in this industry. Compared to some of the other services listed, this service is a bit bare when it comes to free features offered.

InternetSeer – The free service option will allow up to 24 checks which of course boils down to 60 minute intervals between checks. This company has been around since 2000 and is currently monitoring over 1.3 million websites. You’ll never be charged for the number of contacts as this is an unlimited feature of the service. Choose up to 3 alerts types which include text, email, and pager alerting.

Service Uptime – Service Uptime is one of the more meatier programs in terms of free features offered. You’ll get 30 minute interval checking and lifetime statistics. They offer the ability to receive email or SMS alerts which are alerts via your mobile phone. The company has been doing business since 2004. They have 10 different monitoring locations.

Site Uptime – Choose from either 30/60 minute interval checking. You can select when to be alerted of your sites failure. Many time your site will only be down for just a short period of time and there would be no need to be alerted if you site were back up and running moments later. Adjust these setting to your liking. Site Uptime has 4 monitoring locations.

Pingdom – Pingdom offers a bunch of additional items that provide tremendous free value. Where many free services do not offer error analysis, this service will allow you to see error reports that will help in determine what the problem is. You’ll be allowed 20 SMS alerts. They offer a free iPhone download app that will allow you to monitor your account using your mobile phone. In addition to this they also offer a desktop notifier that will discreetly monitor you website and give alerts right on your screen. Become a member of the world-wide GIGRIB network and submit up to 10 different sites for free public monitoring.

Monitis – Monitis is another free service that will allow website monitoring. This service goes a bit further and has capability to monitor traffic statistics as well such as unique visitor information. The service allows for email, SMS, RSS, and IM message alerts. They offer different widgets for different systems including Mac users.

Watch Mouse – This service has been around since 2002. They offer free website monitoring with 20 minute intervals for the free account. This is one of the lowest interval times of all of the free services listed. One of the drawbacks is that the service only allows 2 SMS alerts per month.

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Traffic Travis Offers Free Seo Software Tools

Jay — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:59:46 +0000

Traffic Travis – If you’ve been around a bit in the internet marketing realm you may have heard of a tool by the name of Traffic Travis. If you’ve never heard of Traffic Travis then you should definitely give it a thorough look. Traffic Travis is a FREE Seo software tool that is as powerful as many of the high-priced options you may come across out there. This is a tool that was developed by Mark Ling and the Affilorama team to help online businesses increase traffic.

This tool is all about spotting opportunities that others miss by giving you tools to do in-depth analysis and precise market research. The tools available include a keyword finder, page analysis tool, backlinks checker and more. To be honest, my description of this product does not do it any justice. Checkout the video below where you’ll see first hand what this tool can do for you.

Given the fact that this tool is updated frequently, I believe it’s safe to assume that the Affilorama team is dedicated to keeping the tool running efficiently for its thousands of users. If your interested in getting your free fully-functional download of Traffic Travis, head over to Traffic Travis now and start playing around with it.

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Increase Website Traffic With Comment Sniper

Jay — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:19:20 +0000

Comment Sniper – Duncan Carver is the creator of a free tool called Comment Sniper that will aid you in being one of the first commenters on a popular blog. It is so called “Comment Sniper” as it will allow you to ~snipe~ the best comment positioning on the high-profile and trafficked blogs in your particular industry. I came across this toll by way of a tip from a well known internet marketer by the name of Russell Brunson. The idea behind the tool is that you will be quickly alerted when a top blogger posts a comment on their high-traffic blog. By knowing exactly when a high-profile blogger makes a posts, you can then use this to your advantage by immediately heading over to take a look at the post.

Comment Sniper Preview

You would then attempt to be the first to comment on this particular article/post and you would expect that a portion of the blogger’s traffic would trickle over to your site. The result of your comments being in-front of a high volume of traffic could mean a fair amount of traffic to your site. I personally have not tried this particular traffic technique, but I do realize the potential if performed ethically.

For those that can’t remain strapped to their computers throughout the entire day, an interesting feature of this tool is that it will allow you to receive your alerts via mobile phone. It does this by alerting you through your Skype account via text message. This additional feature will require that you maintain a positive Skype credit.

Some additional feature are:

24/7 Monitoring
Immediate Desktop Notifications
Quick Double-Click Access To The Blog
Stored Event Log In Case You Miss An Alert
Adjust Time Intervals For Alerts

It does appear that Duncan Carver is not actively providing support for the tool but does direct users onto the user forum. At the time we clicked through to the forum it did not exist and directed us to the homepage for another one of Duncan’s websites. All things considered, the tool works the way it is suppose to and does give immediate alerts at the timed intervals that we had setup for the tool. Lastly, we were sent a couple emails from Duncan which did provide additional value in the form of tips and things to keep in mind while using the software.

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Airline Travel Discounts with Ding

Jay — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:14:20 +0000

Ding – Whether you fly only a couple times per year or you fly frequently for business purposes, we all could use a trusted source for airline travel discounts. It appears that Southwest airlines has created a tool that will allow you to receive exclusive promotions and discounts for airline travel. It does this by downloading a small program to your computer that pulls promotional data from their system. Ding is completely free and will cost you nothing. It rests in your system tray or on your desktop if specified.

You are able to load up to 10 airport destinations. Once this is done you will be alerted by an audible DING that will chime everytime there is an exclusive promotion, discount, or special that is being offered. The program works on Windows and Mac computers.

This program may work best for the traveler that knows in advance where he/she will be traveling to. Just setup Ding to search for and alert you to specific promotions for your specified airport. If a deal comes across that you just can’t pass up, tickets may be purchased within specific dates listed for each promotion. The important thing here is that you will not be informed of these special offers through your travel agent or through a personal search. These offers are exclusive to the Ding system. If interested, give Ding a try.

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2 Free Privacy Policy Generators To Consider

Jay — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:50:14 +0000

Upon building this blog I knew that if this site was to be taken seriously it would need some essential pages that many other blog and website owners are just not willing to add. One of those pages is the all so critical privacy policy page. Having one of these policies on your site will build an element of trust as it will tell your visitors up front that you truly respect their privacy and will do what it takes to see that it is protected.

There were two free privacy policy generators that I considered when implementing my privacy policy into the site. These two services listed below are two 100% free privacy policy services that will aid you in generating a policy that is tailored to your business.

Free Privacy Policy – FreePrivacyPolicy.com is a free service that walks you through a 3-step process of generating a privacy policy by directing you to fill out a form. This form allows you to simply fill in the blanks and check off boxes to the answer that pertains to your situation. After filling in the information you will be directed to a page where you can download your policy in either html or text version. You will be asked to complete a one-click customer survey before your results are displayed.

FreePrivacyPolicy Homepage

Direct Marketing Association – The free privacy policy generator at this website is along the same lines as the process for Free Privacy Policy. You will be directed to answer questions or fill in blanks which will guide you along to creating a tailored policy for your site. This particular service will email the results to your email address or create an html page for quick copy and pasting.

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Free Web Tools for SEO from SEO Book

Jay — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:04:28 +0000

SEO Book is a site created by Aaron Wall that is dedicated to teaching the right techniques and strategies to becoming an effective search engine marketer. Aaron Wall specializes in anything and everything SEO (Search Engine Optimization), whether it be organic optimization techniques or the best ways to pick keywords for paid search engine advertising. I found out about SEO Book early on in my online business career and have heard his services mentioned and referred to hundreds of times since then.

Aaron provides a couple cool and powerful tools for webmasters who are looking to take advantage of his knowledge and expertise. These web tools for SEO are completely 100% free! All that is required is your name and email address and the time to download the tools. This amounts to what Aaron has claimed as $300+ worth of SEO tools. The tools include:

Rank Checker – Ever wondered where your specific pages are ranked in the various search engines? Ever wondered under which keywords your website is showing? Aaron has created a tool that will scrape the search engines of Google, Yahoo! Search and Microsoft Bing. You’ll be able to track your ranking changes either automatically or manually. You’ll also be able to export your data for better managing of the data.

SEO Toolbar – You’ll have a power keyword and data analysis tool at your fingertips as you search the web. You will be able to compare different sites against each other. Check rankings, age, owner stats and much more.

SEO for Firefox – This tool will put competitive research information and data directly in the search results as you are browsing. You’ll determine how strong competitive sites are, how strong the inbound links are going to your competitors sites, and how competitive a market is.

Additional Free Items From SEO Book

In addition to these three free tools you’ll also receive:

a 7-Part email course on SEO success titled “7 Days To SEO Success”
Private beta testing of the newest tools that Aaron releases
SEO Book interviews where Aaron Wall interviews over 25 of the most influential seo professional in the industry. These interviews are provided in an easy to read .pdf format.
There is much more free information that would take hours to list…see for yourself.

Click on the following link to visit Aaron Wall over at SEO Book to get these 100% free tools.

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Free Visual Bookmark Manager by Only2Clicks

Jay — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:47:27 +0000

Here is a free tool and service that will allow you to quickly bookmark your most visited sites on the web. It does this by creating a thumbnail image of the homepage of your most frequented places on the web. According to PC Magazine, Only2Clicks makes their top 100 undiscovered websites. This is great for those that are more visually inclined as oppose to those that prefer an organized list.

You maintain full control over the pages displayed and the category tabs. I was able to quickly get all of my most visited sites organized in a very short period of time. The registration process is simple which requires you to only enter in your name, email, password, and where your from. After that, your up and running and without even having to confirm your e-mail address.

Only2Clicks Homepage

Sample Only2Clicks Screenshot

You also may want to tryout this function that is available within the new Google Chrome browser.

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4 Free Online Teleprompters You’ve Got To Try

Jay — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:50:03 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered how it is that many television professionals can get through an entire show without making a mistake, well chances are they may be using a teleprompter. A teleprompter is a tool that will display text on a background and scroll that text so that you can read it at a pace that is much like your natural talking speed. This can be a very valuable tool to have in your business for staying organized and providing high-quality error free videos. These 4 tools are completely free and all will have you up and running in just minutes. 3 of the following tools you do not need to download and can run directly from your browser.

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1. Free Prompter

Free prompter is a simple yet useful tool for free online teleprompter use. There aren’t many options available for customization but the tool does what it is designed to do which is display scrolling text that you designate. I particularly like the ease of use with this tool as it was a no-brainer getting up and running.

Freeprompter.com

2. Cue Prompter

Cue Prompter was just as fast to setup as the other tools used. It immediately opened in full screen mode which made it easy to get going as well. Once the teleprompter loads you’ll quickly see how to maneuver your way through the options available as everything is pretty self explanatory.

Cueprompter.com

3. Easy Prompter

Easy Prompter was probably the best tool that we used as it was super quick in getting going with the tool. The flexibility of being able to change the text and speed while on the fly makes this tool very powerful. The display buttons made it a bit more appealing user interface than the others.

Easyprompter.com

4. Free Teleprompter Software

Free Teleprompter Software is the tool that you download to your system. The only drawback was having to take the time to initially download the tool. After the downloading process the tool worked like a charm and was as fast as all others in getting up and moving with the tool. Of the tools tested, this tool did provide the most options from which to tailor your teleprompter.

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Make An Online Survey For Free With Survey Monkey

Jay — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:35:56 +0000

Survey Monkey is an online provider that has created a simple way for you to get the answers you need. The service offers a free platform to make an online survey that I found to be very useful. The service allows you to ask questions in multiple formats, collect answers, and analyze the results that are given. In their service they offer the ability to customize the survey template and also allow for adding of your logo.

What I really like about the service is how easy it was to setup my first survey with two questions being asked. Click the link below to be taken to the quick 10 minute survey that I setup with this tool.

Freebie BizWorld Quick Survey

The nice thing about the tool is that for every question, you’ve got different options available to present that question. If you’ve been wondering about what’s going on in your readers and customers minds then head over to Survey Monkey.

4-Part Tutorial That I Used In Setting Up My 1st Survey

Part 1 – Making a SurveyMonkey Account

Part 2 – Creating surveys in SurveyMonkey

Part 3 – Collecting results in SurveyMonkey

Part 4 – SurveyMonkey Analysis

Click Here To Go Directly To Survey Monkey

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Free Video Editing Software With Windows Movie Maker

Jay — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:34:09 +0000

Windows Movie Maker is a free tool that has been around for a while but continues to be one of the standard and staple business tools for many online business professionals. Windows Movie Maker allows any business professional to do basic and advanced editing functions.

I have used Movie Maker to do some very basic editing of a couple videos. The ease of use of the movie maker system made it possible to think that high quality professional videos are indeed attainable with this free tool.

Windows Movie Maker Video Editor

The tool allows for separation of video and audio tracks. Import audio and video in multiple formats. I particularly like the easy implementation of the transitions and effects options. To be honest, I’d literally be here for days just going over everything this powerful software can do. So what I did was searched out some very useful and bite-size video tutorials that I think will be helpful in learning how to do the basics of professional video editing with this tool.

Check out the guys over at Atomic Learning where they’ve compiled various video tutorials that will quickly get you up and running.

http://www.atomiclearning.com/moviemaker2

Windows Movie Maker

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