Internet Marketers’ Survival Kit: 50 Sites Internet Marketers Can’t Live Without

Popular Forums & Discussions
1. http://warriorforum.com
Description: This is the most important forum for Internet marketers. You can join discussions, post or purchase warrior special offers, look for work, find JVs, outsource and network with many people online. There are many discussion forums that you can participate in – the copywriter’s forum, self-improvement forum, Search Engine forum, Internet marketing product review and many more.
Personal Opinion: In my opinion, this forum has one of the largest gatherings of brilliant Internet marketers around. If only I know of this forum when I first started, it would have saved me lots of setback.
2. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
Description: Digital Point forums are designed for search engine marketers generally. They have discussions about keyword tools, market research, domain name research and many more. It is also a popular forum for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and copywriting for search engines keywords as well.
Personal Opinion: Unlike the Warrior forum where it is catered for all sorts of marketers (AdSense, JVs, Blogging and many others), this forum focuses exclusively on monetizing and driving traffic from search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, MSN search and many others. They provide very useful discussions on how to build backlinks, pay-per-click advertising and many other tools related to search engine marketing.
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3. http://searchenginewatch.com/
Description: Search Engine Watch is a popular site for search engine enthusiasts that provide tips and information about web search, search engine analytics and it assists site owners as they improve their search engines skills. They also provide links to popular search engine newsletters.
Personal Opinion: This is one site that you can have access to expert opinions, popular search engine forums, search statistics and many more. You can even look for work here as a search engine service provider or look for people who provides this service! One word, this site is super targeted to Search Engines.
4. http://www.techguy.org/
Description: This site contains free solutions to all your technical problems! It is run by volunteers and is supported through donations and sponsors. All you need to do is post a question or search for solutions (to technical questions that are already answered).
Personal Opinion: If you’ve ever been stumped by a technical issue, this is the place you go to. No technical question is too simple or too difficult to ask.
5. http://www.howtocorphelp.com/forum/
Description: This forum is also one of the biggest internet marketing forums in the world that contains 60,000+ posts from online marketers. This is one of the main 'How To' sites for Internet Marketing Forum discussion and it is split into thousands of topics and different sub-niches.
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Personal Opinion: This is also one of my favorite forums to hang out simply because I like the openness of the forum and Michael, the forum owner is a very helpful and friendly guy.
6. http://www.wickedfire.com/
Description: Just like the Warrior forum and the How To Corp Help forum, you will be able to participate in discussions on how to make money online. This site is specially targeted towards affiliate marketing and Webmaster SEO discussions.
Personal Opinion: This is one forum which is sort of a No Holds Barred kind of feel where the language used might offend some of you. Nevertheless, don’t let that fact distract you from this gem of a forum.
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Keyword & Domain Research Tools
7. http://www.kwmap.net/
Description: KwMap.net is a special tool for us Internet marketers. It functions as a complex keyword refining tool that helps us discover new keywords. For example, if you key in the keyword – Internet marketing, you will find related keywords such as e-commerce, web design, web marketing, Internet marketing tips, Internet marketing services and a lot more related keywords.
Personal Opinion: One of the drawbacks of search engines is that it can only help you to find something if you know the right keywords. If you don’t know what keywords to find, it is like having the best dictionary in the world but you haven’t a clue how to search for it. A keyword research tool such as this provides you with related keywords to something you are looking for, hence giving you less headache to find the stuff you need.
8. http://www.freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
Description: Word Tracker provides a free keyword research tool at this website where you can type in a search engine keyword and discover how many people searches for this term every single day.