Burak Bakay

Website Builders » Squarespace – website plans (beyond a cover page) from $8 / month. » more Form Builders » Formstack – cross-platform online form builder with optimization features. » more Content Management Systems » WordPress – the most-used CMS, by a large margin. » more Website Templates » Theme Forest – 20,340 website templates as of October 2015. » more WordPress Themes…

Design-Contest Sites » 99designs – many, many types of design contests. » more Stock Photo Marketplaces » Shutterstock – one of the largest selections of stock photos. » more Logo Design Services » Logoworks – specify the # of concepts, designers and revisions. » more DIY Graphic Design Tools » Canva – amazingly popular online graphic design editor. » more Infographic Creation…

Content Curation » BuzzSumo – see what content does best for any topic or competitor. » more Content Creation » Scripted – original content on demand. Prices published on the website. » more Copywriting Tools » Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer – scores 0% to 100%. » more Plagiarism Checkers » Grammarly – grammar helper and plagiarism checker. » more Forums » /r/content_marketing/…

Website Analytics » Google Analytics – free – the most popular free web analytics service. » more Mobile Analytics » Flurry Analytics – now part of the Yahoo Mobile Developer Suite. » more Real-Time Analytics » Clicky – “Everything in Clicky is up-to-the-minute real time.” » more Heatmap Analytics » Lucky Orange –…

Email Marketing Software » AWeber – popular with many digital marketing bloggers. » more Transactional Email » Mandrill – developed by MailChimp (and integrates with them). » more Email Lead Capture » OptinMonster – cross-platform tool to build a variety of opt-in forms. » more Spam Filter Checking » mxtoolbox.com – check DNS MX, IP or domain vs. blacklists, more. »…

Online Store Hosting » BigCommerce – good worldwide usage. Many apps and add-ons. » more Ecommerce Software » Magento – very popular, large market share on all surveys. » more Ecommerce Templates » TemplateMonster – templates for many ecommerce platforms » more Payment Processing » PayPal – 2.9% + $0.30 per U.S. transaction with no monthly fees. » more Ecommerce Optimization »…

A/B & Multivariate Testing » Optimizely – testing, personalization, targeting, analytics. » more Landing Pages » Instapage – generator with many templates and integrations. » more Heatmap Analytics » Lucky Orange – all-in-one conversion optimization suite. » more Email Opt-In Conversion » OptinMonster – easily create and A/B test lead capture forms. » more YouTube » ConversionXL – mix of basics, how-to,…

PPC Search Ads » Google AdWords – huge reach on Google.com and publisher partners. » more PPC Social Ads » Facebook Ads – huge audience, large percentage of them are daily users. » more Forums » #PPCchat – Twitter chat about PPC, every Tuesday at 12 PM EST. » more Podcasts » The Art of Paid Traffic –…

Social Media Management » Hootsuite – social media management for many platforms. » more Social Media Monitoring » Mention – claims to search billions of sources in real time. » more Social Media Analytics » Social Analytics – free Chrome extension shows social stats. » more Influencer Marketing » Klout – features a number from 1-100 that represents your influence. » more Social…

SEO Tool Suites » Moz – link research, analytics, rank tracker, crawl test, more. » more SEO Rank Checkers » Authority Labs – 30 day free trial, no credit card required » more Keyword Research » SpyFu – spy on the keywords competitors are using for SEO and PPC. » more Link Building » Ahrefs – crawls 5 million web pages,…