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When you are just starting out as an affiliate marketer you should definitely make use of free affiliate marketing tools that are available. It’s easy to get intimidated by the big players in the market since these companies have huge budgets to work with. What you may consider a significant investment when it comes to affiliate marketing may just be pennies for them. This should not worry you because with the proliferation of free affiliate marketing tools in the market, you should be able to find something that works for you – at no cost at all!
Most companies offer free services or at the very least, a free trial period to test out their services. These tools offer the same functionality as most of their competitors but are completely free. So, before unleashing the big bucks to spend on marketing tools, check out these products first.
HootSuite
This is one of the most comprehensive free affiliate marketing tools for managing multiple social media accounts. Using HootSuite, you can bring all your social media channels to one dashboard. Be it Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Linked In, you can ensure that your audience is listening to one voice when they log onto any of your channels. You can easily read and track content, view statistics, schedule content and best of all, it enables you to implement long-term content strategies.
BuzzSumo
Are you wondering what content is most popular on your competitor’s site? Well, BuzzSumo is a free affiliate marketing tool that allows any user to find out what content is popular by topic on any website. This is important for an affiliate marketer because you need to provide content that people want to know and interact with. Instead of taking hours scouring the internet for hot topics, Buzzsumo allows you to easily input certain search criteria, analyze content and figure out what is already working. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Canva
As a beginner affiliate marketer, you may tend to spend a lot of your time trying to create the perfect visual content for your readers.
Canva easily lets you create visual content, from pre-sized social media images, marketing materials such as business cards, presentations, ads, invitations… you’ll find almost everything you need.
Its easy-to-use interface includes a drag-and-drop feature, tons of free images and fonts and collaboration all of which you can even do on a phone application.
WordPress
WordPress must definitely be one of the most widely used free affiliate marketing tools in the market. It is actually the most famous website, blog, and app publisher. As a beginner affiliate marketer, you may not have the funds or the time to create your own custom website.
WordPress offers extremely versatile, well-designed, easy to navigate, highly functional websites, all for free. All you have to do is grab a free template and tailor it to suit your needs. When you eventually want to invest, you can easily upgrade your free version.
Content Idea Generator
Honestly speaking, one of the most challenging aspects of affiliate marketing is being able to produce good content on the go. Writer’s block definitely applies to affiliate marketers as well. Content Idea Generator is a free affiliate marketing tool that provides you with hundreds of ideas for your website, blog posts and tweets just by answering 18 questions about your content.
Bitly
Have you ever felt overwhelmed just by looking at a link and how long it is? Bitly is a free affiliate marketing tool that allows you to shorten your links and track them. This is a great tool to have because you can easily tell where your links are clicked from and tailor your marketing strategy to milk the most you can out of such an opportunity.
Grammarly
As an affiliate marker, you want to be able to avoid plagiarism like the plague. Grammarly is yet another free affiliate marketing tool that allows you to check your content for plagiarism.
You can also easily proofread your content for any errors before you publish. Even if you are not a native speaker of the language you use, you can pass as one by using the tools provided by Grammarly.
AdComparator
For your ads to be effective and give you good returns, you have to take a lot into consideration. Adcomparator is a free marketing affiliate tool based on the famous statistical analysis method called the Taguchi method. It allows for simultaneous multi-variable testing of up to 15 aspects helping you compare and optimize your advertising strategy.
This is much more advanced than traditional split-level testing. You can evaluate the efficacy of your email marketing campaigns, website content, PPC strategies and even your direct marketing. All is can help you significantly increase your conversion rate.
Buffer
Very much like Hootsuite, Buffer also helps you to effectively manage your time by allowing you to simultaneously send out blasts to all your social media accounts. You can also schedule posts for a later date such that even if you are on vacation, your customers still regularly receive new posts on your social media sites. You have to be very strategic about how you schedule your posts such that your subscribers are not bombarded with too much information all at once.
Co-Schedules Headline Analyzer tool
The thing that draws your attention to your post after an image is a headline associated with it. Sometimes, you may have all your content worked out but you just can’t seem to come up with a catchy headline. Co-schedule headline analayzer tool free allows you to rate your potential headline based on its structure, grammar, and readability.
It will also tell you whether the words of your headline are common, uncommon, emotional or powerful. It rates your headline’s word count, length, keywords, and sentiment. You can easily evaluate whether the headline you choose has the intended impact.
All these are just some of the free affiliate marketing tools available online. You do not have to spend an arm and a leg on marketing to get your content out there.
I hope you enjoyed this post and if you have any questions about free affiliate marketing tools or you just want to leave your own personal experience, leave a comment below. I would love to hear from you!
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Those are great tools. A few of them I already use. Some are new to me. I will dig deeper into those. Thnx for sharing.
Hi Dennis.. thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
I am happy you found some value in the article.
Wish you much success!
Moni
Hey, Moni!
Awesome content! As towards many of these, I had no idea such tools existed.
Some seem extremely powerful. I’m very curious about how the Hootsuite and Canva works. Will definitely check those out.
Nonetheless, this also makes me wonder, how powerful the paid versions of similar tools are. And what there else is that could make one’s life easier.
Cheers! And thank you, Moni! I do appreciate the article a lot!
Matiss
Hi Matiss..thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
I am happy you found the article helpful and I appreciate your kind words.
There are so many useful tools on the internet that can make our life as marketers a lot easier, if only we knew about them! I am continuously searching for anything that can save me time and provide value to my readers.
Matiss be sure to check out HootSuite and Canva, I am sure you will find them very useful tools.
Wish you much success!
You have highlighted some great utilities here that all online marketers may want to eventually use. I personally use the Canva as i do not always find the images and graphics that i need always available. Word press i am familiar with as it is the main website builder that i use.
Hi Andrew.. thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
I also like Canva and I have another program XHeader that I use for creating graphics.
WordPress as a site builder platform in my opinion is the best as you can add so much functionality to the site easily by using plugins. All my sites are build using WordPress.
Thank you again for sharing your experience.
Hi Moni,
Thank you for all this valuable information. I didn’t know about a lot of these tools. It is amazing that there are so many options open. Will have to look into it further.
Hi Jill.. thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
I am happy to hear you found the article useful.
Wish you much success!