Internet Marketer’s Cheat-Sheet by Khalid Farhan
About This Guide
In this guide, I will be giving you links to the tools & resources I use in my every-day internet-preneur life.
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Some of these tools are free, some will cost money – but all of them will help you to shape your IM career.
Disclaimer: As an internet marketer who has been running websites for the last 7+ years, I came across many decent and some terrible tools. I can assure you that I won’t be giving you links to anything that I haven’t personally used myself.
Internet Marketer’s Cheat-Sheet is not any holy grail system.
Just list of the tools & resources.
Table of Content
1. Domain & Hosting
2. Logo& Design
3. WP Themes
4. WP Plugins
5. Payment Gateways
6. Tracking Tools
7. Keyword Research
8. SEO Tools
9. Email& Messenger Marketing
10. Webinar Marketing
Chapter 1: Domain & Hosting
Domain
When it comes to Domain, I always prefer Namecheap. Namecheap had my back since the beginning & I am a big fan of their live chat support. Domain costs around $10/year and the renewal will cost you the same.
Warning: I know a lot of internet marketers go for companies like GoDaddy. While they look stealers with $1/first year offers and stuff, they will cost you more money in the long run with high renewal fees & domain transfer restrictions. Be aware of them.
Hosting
When I initially started my career, I was all for Namecheap. However, since they increased their price and Siteground offers better service anyways, I didn’t find any reason to stick to them. So, I moved to Siteground& they will be my recommendation if you need hosting.
A quick tip: Always start with the smallest plan available & then move forward once your site starts receiving more traffic. There’s no reason for you to start with a bigger plan.
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CMS System
Everyone loves WordPress & I am no different. Unless you have a very specific reason for not using WordPress, I will always recommend them.
Chapter 2: Logo & Design
If you know anything about me, you know that I am a terrible designer. That’s why I like to outsource most of my design stuff.
Unless you have a dedicated designer, who works for you, my recommendation would be Fiverr.
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Fiverr can actually help you with your site design & other stuff too. It is cheap and I have found really good freelancers there.
Be careful though. You should never hire SEO people on Fiverr. They will permanently damage your website.
Chapter 3: WP Themes
All right, so everyone knows that the biggest library of WordPress themes would be Themeforest& I don’t hate them.
However, as most freelancers publish themes there & most themes are heavy, I kind of moved away from them in recent years.
I now solely depend on StudioPress for WordPress themes.
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StudioPress has a few interesting free themes too that you can easily use on your affiliate websites. If you check my own websites, you will see that I only use StudioPress across all my sites.
I also use Thrive’s Landing Page Creator a lot of different pages. You can check that out too.
Chapter 4: WP Plugins
All right, sit tight as I have a long list of plugins that I use. Let’s create the list. I am not linking them as you will find all of these plugins in your plugin directory. All of these are free plugins.
1. Yoast SEO (For SEO Purposes)
2. Really Simple SSL (To enable SSL Certificate & move Http to Https versions)
3. TablePress (to create comparison tables on affiliate sites)
4. Accelerated Mobile Pages (To enable AMP on my sites)
5. WPForms Lite (to create contact forms)
6. Ad Inserter (To insert Adsense ads in between blog posts)
7. Pixel Cat Lite (To collect FB Pixel Data)
8. Smush (to optimize images)
9. W3 Total Cache (to browser cache & increase load speed)
10. 404 to Homepage (to redirect all error pages to Homepage)
11. Head, Footer & Post Injection (to add custom codes on site)
12. Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (to insert analytics codes)
Chapter 5: Payment Gateway
SPP
For order management & to have a custom dashboard within Passive Journal, we use Service Provider Pro (AKA SPP). If you have ever ordered anything with Passive Journal, you know how SPP works.
I like their support & the ability to enable rank tracking and some other features within their dashboard for clients.
Chapter 6: Tracking Tools
If you are into Internet Marketing, you definitely need tracking tools. Other than the basic Google Webmaster & Google Analytics, I use Serpbook a lot.
According to me, the best part about SERPBook is that you can track rankings daily and it is not limited to Google.com only. They have separate rank trackers for desktop, mobile & even for YouTube and Google Maps.
Very cost-effective & the free plan is good too.
Chapter 7: Keyword Research
When it comes to Keyword Research, I don’t really like using tools anymore. However, just to keep things organized, I use Keyword Revealer.
Keyword Revealer will give you a structured data set on your top 10 competition which is great when you are starting. I have used them for multiple years and have always liked the experience.
They have a free plan which you can checkout.
Chapter 8: SEO Tools
I don’t use any particular SEO tools to monitor everything.
I use a bunch of options for different reasons and I will try to list them all here.
1. LSIGRAPH (To find long-tail keywords)
2. Ahrefs (To check competitors)
3. Google Webmaster
4. Google Analytics
5. Google Trends
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Internet Marketer’s Cheat-Sheet will help a lot
I just realized I don’t really use a lot of SEO tools. I don’t know why, though.
Chapter 9: Email& Messenger Marketing
Aweber
Not the cheapest but certainly, the best one is Aweber. Your emails will always land on the main inbox & they integrate with pretty much everything.
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Messenger Marketing
I use a company called Botletter for my FB messenger marketing campaigns. I now send message to 50,000 + people all my businesses combined. Botletter is easy to set up and they will make sure that your FB messenger marketing is stronger than ever before.
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Chapter 10: Webinar Marketing
I use Webinar Jam for my webinars.
Checkout WebinarJam Here
It is not the cheapest, especially when you combine this with Ever Webinar but it is the best one that I could find out there.
Special Mentions
As an Internet Marketer, I use hundreds of other products daily. These are some of my favorites:
AppSumo
AppSumo will give you special software deals every week. You don’t have to buy them if you don’t like them though. I found lots of gems on AppSumo from time to time.
I bought at least $1k+ worth of software last year with AppSumo.
Try AppSumo Free Here
Buffer
Buffer is great for social media management. They have a free plan where you can combine up to three channels. I like their paid option too.
Check Buffer Here
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