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Instagramer Profile Analyzer

Coming up with an Instagram strategy is easier when you can reference other proven strategies. Instagramer Profile Analyzer gives you a simple profile breakdown for any public account so you can learn from others.

Enter in the Instagram handle for an account and get a thorough breakdown of post activity. This includes most used hashtags, top captioned words, user interests, and even most frequent posting times.

Keyword Research Template

Keyword research is a crucial step for both SEO & SEM. Putting in the time will help ensure fruitful results. But when you have so many other tasks at hand, putting in the time is increasingly difficult. Matthew Woodward’s Keyword Research Template automates the most time-consuming parts of the keyword research process.

Just set up a new sheet and enter in competitor URLs. The tool will automatically generate a keyword strategy with high volume, low competition keywords. Plus, it determines intent behind keywords as well as keywords where you can win featured snippets.

Free Call-To-Action Button Generator

How many people are actively clicking your CTA buttons and links? If the number isn’t where you’d like it, there are a few possible explanations. Check out Call-to-Action Button Generator and don’t let your CTA button be the weak link (pun absolutely intended.)

Test out different button designs with this dedicated button maker. Customize fonts, colors, gradients, icons, and more in this simple web-based design tool. When you’re finished, export to PNG or get the CSS code.

Forekast

In our world of changing online trends, it’s helpful to punctuate content calendars with the latest happenings. Anticipating the ebbs and flows of what the world is talking about is not always an easy feat. Luckily, Forekast makes it a cinch.

Forekast gives you all the big upcoming events and holidays you ought to know about. Incorporate some of them into your content calendar, and you’ll have a never-ending stream of ideas and inspiration.

WP Optin Wheel

Wheel of Fortune is so thrilling, and the slowing click, click, click as the pointer homes in on its selection keeps us on the edge of our seats. WP Optin Wheel gives your site visitors the same feeling with the prospect of winning various rewards.

This tool works easily with WordPress and WooCommerce and offers an interactive way for consumers to win unique discounts. Just optimize your wheel for a variety of discount percentages, free shipping, or bundled offers and let your visitors spin to win.

Milled

When you’re creating your own ads, it’s helpful knowing what the best ads look like. Having a reference makes your own goals more attainable. Milled is the perfect reference for creating your own ad and promo copy.

Compiling thousands of email newsletters from various brands and retailers, you can easily see what copy others are using to prompt conversions. These are tried and true methods you can incorporate into your own copy and design.

Check My Links

Links are a huge part of SEO. From backlinks helping establish your domain authority to internal links keeping visitors on your site. Among other things, Google scours links and determines your worthiness for the top of the SERPs. Check My Links Chrome Extension makes sure all your links are working.

Install the simple plugin and reveal working and non-working links on pages you visit. Use it to determine what needs fixing on your site. Or, use it to find opportunities where you can link back to yourself (i.e. Wikipedia) or offer one of your own links to content creators showing a broken link.

Growth Tools

Coming up with marketing ideas is a nonstop task. Before you know it, you’ve extinguished all the ideas you’ve come up with. Hopefully, some of them are keepers, but it’s always necessary to revisit the drawing board. Growth Tools has your one-click drawing board.

Growth Tools has a few tools for marketers, but the front page of the site offers simple and achievable marketing ideas complete with the steps you need. This easy tool is sure to deliver some quick wins when you need new ideas.

Instagram Fonts Generator

Having a unified brand across channels is crucial. You want your customers, prospects, and followers to always recognize your content when they see it. Limited font options on Instagram can make brand expression tricky. Luckily, you can expand your options with Instagram Fonts Generator.

Just type your text into the website and see the font choices generated below. There is an array of fonts to choose from. Some cleaner, and some a bit more experimental. Choose whichever speaks most to your brand.