| Service: | Search Marketing Tool |
| Website: | http://addictomatic.com |
| Freesource Notes: | Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images of anything you want! After you search, you can personalize the dashboard, then bookmark the page, so you can keep going back to see the latest buzz. Addict-o-matic is completely free!  |
Addict-O-Matic
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
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| Service: | Live Traffic Feed Service |
| Website: | http://feedjit.com |
| Freesource Notes: | Feedjit is the world’s largest provider of real-time traffic widgets. The Feedjit Live Traffic Feed lets you watch your visitors in real-time, see who they are and contact them. You can add this widget to any blog that supports Javascript. This is a really great analytical tool to give you insight on where your visitors are coming from within minutes! |
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...Business.gov’s Financing Search
| Service: | Loans & Grants Search Tool |
| Website: | http://search.business.gov/startLoans.html |
| Freesource Notes: | Business.gov helps locate government services from federal, state and local agencies. The search tool allows you to find the best loan in your area. You just need to answer 13 questions and it will list all the loans in your state. You can follow business.gov on twitter @BusinessDotGov |
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Survey Pirate
| Service: | Survey Tool |
| Website: | http://www.surveypirate.com |
| Freesource Notes: | SurveyPirate is the world’s most user friendly tool. And it is totally free! Their mission is to change the market research industry by giving everyone the tools and accessibility to do their own research. SurveyPirate will be the first company ever to offer private consumers and companies a cost effective access to the general public through your own pc, in a number of countries. The time has come for everyone to be able to conduct professional research at a reasonable price. No more middle hands and hefty fees. Just research. |
(7 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5) Loading ...SEOmoz’s SEO Toolbox
| Service: | Directory of free SEO Tools |
| Website: | http://www.seomoz.org/toolbox |
| Freesource Notes: | This is sort of like the freesourcing.org of SEO! As if SEOmoz hadn’t already done enough by providing their own killer SEO tools for free, they’ve also created a SEO Toolbox of some great (SEOmoz) filtered FREE SEO tools. One day soon we’ll go in and add all of these to the freesourcing.org directory, but for now – we owe all the cred to SEOmoz. |
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...Open Site Explorer
| Service: | Compare a Site’s Backlinks, Top Pages and More! |
| Website: | http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ |
| Freesource Notes: | This is a straight SEO Tool. Basically, Open Site Explorer gives you free link data, Link data is valuable for a variety of applications, but most popular uses for the data includes: Researching the links that point to your site to identify content that discusses you or your organization, discovering errors or omissions in the links that point to your site(s) for correction/improvement, investigating the link data of a competitor to determine where they’re earning press/attention so you can reverse engineer their marketing efforts, and comparing link metrics between multiple sites to determine the level of competition / difficulty /importance of your own site in comparison. With Open Site Explorer you can get data on up to 1,000 links and unlimited use for Free. |
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...Google Finance
| Service: | Financial Research & Management Tool |
| Website: | http://www.google.com/finance |
| Freesource Notes: | Google Finance offers an easy way to search for stocks, mutual funds, and public and private companies. By combining content licensed from financial data providers with content from the Web, Google Finance lets you easily find and manage your financial information online. This product features company search, interactive charts, news (from Google News), insights into Company Managers, Discussion Group Forums (spam free), and the ability to create, manage, and track your portfolio online. And like most things Google, it’s entirely free. |
(3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Compete
| Service: | Web Site Traffic Insights into the Market Place |
| Website: | http://www.compete.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Compete.com allows users to input the URLs of up to 5 sites and compare their traffic metrics. If you register, you can compare the compete rank, total visits and unique visitor metrics going back one year for up to 5 sites at a time. Once your registered you’ll also get a monthly newsletter with Compete insights that can help you navigate their tool and this sector as a whole. I’d also recommend spending some time on their blog for in-depth insights on using Compete effectively. If you’re a Tweeter, you can follow them @compete on Twitter. |
(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5) Loading ...HowSociable?
| Service: | Brand Visibility Metrics |
| Website: | http://howsociable.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | HowSociable provides a simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web. The people behind HowSociable are the engineers at Inuda Innovations – they’re experts in strengthening relationships though the web. HowSociable is a quick, effective, and free way to check out your brands presence across the web. |
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...Business.gov’s “Permit Me” Tool
| Service: | Free Permit & License Research Tool |
| Website: | http://business.gov/register/licenses-and-permits/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Every business needs one or more federal, state or local licenses or permits to operate. Licenses can range from a basic operating license to very specific permits. Business.gov’s “Permit Me” tool allows you to get a listing of federal, state and local permits, licenses, and registrations you’ll need to run a business. Business.gov’s resource caters to US businesses and is entirely free to use. You can also follow them on twitter @BusinessDotGov |
(4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Google Alerts
| Service: | Automated Research & Custom Email Updates |
| Website: | http://www.google.com/alerts |
| Freesource Notes: | Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: monitoring a developing news story, keeping current on a competitor or industry, getting the latest on a celebrity or event, keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams. You can customize what, when, and how you want to receive your alerts. Google Alerts are entirely free. |
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Zotero
| Service: | Research Tool – Firefox Add-on |
| Website: | http://www.zotero.org/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Zotero is an easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and then share the results of your research. The Firefox extension has a ton of features including import/export, store and access from anywhere, advanced search, 30+ languages and more. Zotero is completely free to download and use. |
(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5) Loading ...Pipl
| Service: | People Search |
| Website: | http://www.pipl.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Pipl provides the most comprehensive people search on the web. Results include social media profiles, pictures, phone numbers, addresses, etc. and unlike a typical search-engine, Pipl is designed to retrieve information from the deep, also known as “invisible web”. The term “deep web” refers to a vast repository of underlying content, such as documents in online databases that general-purpose web crawlers cannot reach. The deep web content is estimated at 500 times that of the surface web – the results on Pipl can be scary and exciting, but are always thorough. |
(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5) Loading ...SmartBrief
| Service: | B2B Industry Newsletters for Trade Associations |
| Website: | http://www.smartbrief.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | If you’re someone who is always on the go you may not have time to sit and read about the news stories that interest you. SmartBrief can help you stay connected! The editors at SmartBrief research the most relevant and up-to-date news stories in 25 key industries for you and link them into a one-stop e-newsletter. For all of you Tweeters out there, SmartBrief has a couple useful handles to follow: @smartbrief for updates, and @SBoSM for updates focuses on keeping you ahead in the Social Media Marketing space. |
(6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...HARO – Help a Reporter Out
| Service: | Free Leads for Publicists and PR Professionals |
| Website: | http://www.helpareporter.com |
| Freesource Notes: | A great resource for both journalists and PR professionals. HARO sends out tri-daily emails that give publicists free leads and enable reporters to connect with brands, experts, stories, etc. through a massive community of participants. |
(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5) Loading ...Google Trends
| Service: | Google Search Trending Reports |
| Website: | http://www.google.com/trends |
| Freesource Notes: | With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest/searches on any topic. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends will also show how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most. |
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...ClickTale
| Service: | In-Page Web Analytics |
| Website: | http://www.clicktale.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | ClickTale delivers In-Page Web Analytics that shows what visitors actually do inside website pages, allowing you to analyze and optimize website performance and usability. ClickTale provides movies of your visitors’ actual browsing sessions, heatmaps of aggregate behavior inside the web page, and advanced behavioral analytics. The freemium version lets you track one domain and record 400 page views per month. |
(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...Clicky Web Analytics
| Service: | Real Time Web Analytics |
| Website: | http://getclicky.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Clickly provides data to help monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site’s traffic in real time. Depending on who you’re currently using, Clicky may have them covered. Scroll down on the homepage to view a matrix comparing Clicky’s Analytics to other popular sites. |
(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Smarta
| Service: | A Business Advice and Support Network |
| Website: | http://www.smarta.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Smarta is a support and advice network for business owners and entrepreneurs. From their Business Tools section, you’ll also find the Smarta Wiki – a member generated resource for a variety of online business tools. |
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...99Polls
| Service: | Free Online Polls Creator |
| Website: | http://www.99polls.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | 99Polls offers a simple approach to making Polls, which you can post nearly anywhere on the Web. These polls can be posted on blogs, Web sites, and social-networking profiles such as: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, and more. |
(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...JigSaw
| Service: | Directory of Business Contacts and Company Information |
| Website: | http://www.jigsaw.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Jigsaw is an online directory of free, downloadable company information and business contacts. Each Jigsaw business contact is complete with phone numbers and email addresses. Each company listing provides company size, location, and industry. |
(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5) Loading ...WebsiteGrader
| Service: | Website Marketing SEO Tool |
| Website: | http://website.grader.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Website Grader is a free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective. |
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Manta
| Service: | Company Profiles & Company Information |
| Website: | http://www.manta.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Manta.com offers free company information on firms around the world, with an emphasis on small- and medium-size businesses. Manta users can view company details such as company name, address, number of employees, estimated annual sales and more. |
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Pageboss
| Service: | Website Analyzer Tool |
| Website: | http://en.pageboss.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | This is a quick way to grab a set of your sites statistics. Pageboss.com is a service to analyze websites for website and blog owners. With pageboss.com, websites and blogs are able to access to a variety of their statistical data. |
(7 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5) Loading ...Zoomerang
| Service: | Online Survey Software |
| Website: | http://www.zoomerang.com |
| Freesource Notes: | Zoomerang allows you to create online surveys while providing powerful reporting and advanced survey logic. The free version allows up to 30 questions and 100 responses per survey. |
(4 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5) Loading ...Techrigy
| Service: | Social Media Monitoring and Analysis |
| Website: | http://www.techrigy.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | Techrigy provides a “SM2″ software solution designed specifically for PR and Marketing Agencies to monitor and measure social media. The free accounts include up to 5 Search Words/Phrases, and can store up to 1000 results. |
(4 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5) Loading ...Survey Monkey
| Service: | |
| Website: | http://www.surveymonkey.com/ |
| Freesource Notes: | No more Monkey business, just Monkey research. Survey Monkey allows you to create and publish custom surveys then view results graphically and in real time. The free version allows for 10 questions and up to 100 responses. |
(6 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...| Service: | Professional Networking and Online Business tool |
| Website: | http://www.linkedin.com |
| Freesource Notes: | Secure your online presence, professional brand, and organize your network or contacts. LinkedIn is an interconnected network of experienced professionals from around the world. With the free version, you can find, be introduced to, and collaborate with professionals to accomplish your goals. For the latest from LinkedIn, they can be followed on twitter @LinkedIn |
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