TOOLS

Below are the tools that we have tried and tested and use every day when running our online businesses.

Getting the tools right can serve as a great foundation for everything that you do online allowing you to really maximize your business’s potential.

We’ve tested a lot of tools and these are the ones we can wholeheartedly recommend.

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DOMAINS AND HOSTING

Cloudways

I love cloudways. It’s a joy to use. I love the risk-free way you can clone a website, install all the plugins, upgrade wordpress and sync it back to the live site once you’ve tested it in a safe environment. So easy even without technical skills.

They also offer a free CDN, unlimited applications on one server, automated backups and managed hosting for wordpress. Sounds expensive right? Wrong. Cloudways offers their premium hosting service for just $10 per month!

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Siteground

Siteground is another great cloud based hosting platform offer managed wordpress that I use with some of my sites. Siteground has excellent chat support that is very responsive.

There service also includes as standard SSL certificates, daily backups and staging environments to safely update plugins. All starting at the very low price of £2.95 per month for 1 website.Special Price

Namecheap

Offering domains at great prices, a great user interface with excellent support and unlike most registrars offering domain privacy for free. For me, namecheap is the easy choice.

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ADVERTISING

Ezoic

Join the tens of thousands of sites eliminating third-party ad managers, ad networks, SEO “gurus,” and website performance tech using Ezoic.

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AMAZON AFFILIATE PLUGINS

AAWP

In my opinion, the best Amazon Associates plugin there is. It’s fully featured and looks great too when so many affiliate plugins look terrible. This is important to me because affiliate sites should look great (many don’t). A great looking website means visitors are much more likely to trust your reviews.

It features a number of differing linking options including text links, bestsellers lists, product boxes, new release lists and more.

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SEO TOOLS

Ahrefs

ahrefs is a full suite SEO tool who’s features include competative analysis, keywords research, backlink research, content research, ranking tracking, site auditing and web monitoring. They are the second largest indexer of the web after Google and have a huge backlink index!

ahrefs should be in everyones toolbox and you can trial the product for just $7.

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Semrush

Another great full suite SEO tool offering keyword research, competitor analysis, great visualisations, reporting, position tracking, site audit and more.

We use both ahrefs and semrush regularly but if you are on a tight budget you can choose whichever tool you like best. We would recommended both happily.

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Link Whisper

Internal link building is one of the most underused strategies in SEO and Link Whisper takes the hard work out of it by making intelligent suggestions that are easy to manage.

Links Whisper is smart. Powered by artificial intelligence, Link Whisper starts suggesting relevant internal links when you start writing your article right within the WordPress editor.

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PAGE BUILDERS AND THEMES

Thrive Architect

Thrive Architect is a fantastic visual page builder for WordPress. With no technical skills you can mock up web pages that look great fast. It has a drag and drop interface so you can easily create the layouts you want with buttons and other more advanced user interface elements.

Thrive themes as a company are heavily focused on conversions throughout their product range.

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GeneratePress

GeneratePress is a lightweight WordPress theme that focuses on speed, stability, and accessibility. Start your website off in the right direction whether you’re a hobbyist, freelancer, or agency.

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Astra

Astra is my favourite premium theme for wordpress and it works great with Thrive Architect. It’s lightweight, highly customisable and has many great features, controls, layout integrations and widgets out of the box.

If you are planning on running an eCommerce site, it also works great with WooCommerce too!

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Carbonate

Created by Matt Giovanisci, the Carbonate theme has been 12+ years in the making. Designed and optimized with site speed in mind, the Carbonate theme offers a fantastic option for a choice in theme.

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Popcorn

A superfast WordPress theme for affiliate and content marketeers. Create high speed, high converting money making websites quickly and easily.

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TRAINING

Authority Hacker

In my opinion, Authority Hacker are the benchmark when it comes to online training for building authority sites. They have a great track record in building their own sites and the training they offer is very slick, well thought out and complete.

Taking an Authority Hacker course will give you all the knowledge and tools you need to be successful building your own sites.

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HARO Link Building

Created by Doug Cunnington, this training course offers instruction on how to build a route to free white hat backlinks to your website, without the the need to cold email

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Passive Income Geek

Created by Morten Storgaard, this training course offers instruction on finding lucreative niches, picking killer domain names, content research advice, and much more!

The course is a mix of text, tools, and easy-to-follow videos to help you along the way.

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Site Growth Plan

Created by Doug Cunnington, this training course offers instruction on proven ways to boost website rankings, gain more traffic, and earn more each month.

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OUTREACH AND PROSPECTING

Hunter

Hunter is a great email finding and verification tool which helps you find the contact details on your prospct list faster than ever before. Hunter is a big reason why we are able to automate our link building process and find the contact details for thousands of prosepcts in only a few minutes

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Mailshake

Mailshake is an awesome outreach automation too that allows you set and forget the inital step in the outreach process. It features automated follow ups, templates and the ability to easily track those that have replied so that you can track your leads and respond appropriately. The interface is great. We love mailshake!

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LEAD GENERATION

Optin Monster

It feels like optin monster has been around forever. But it’s still the best tool for creating optin forms on your website with a huge number of options, trigger points and a simple drag and drop interface which allows you to create great designs really quickly.

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