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Keywords ➡️ Intent

The new playbook for discovery.

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Conversion.ai

Don’t worry copywriters, this isn’t going to replace you. It’s just going to help crank out hot and fresh copy faster than ever, like an air-fryer of AI content. Conversion.ai can help break through writer’s block, generate eye-catching headlines, or adjust your copy’s tone almost instantly. Jarvis, the affectionate name of this copy robot, can help spark your writing creativity any time. Another amazing feature? Translate your content to 11+ languages accurately without losing your voice and intent.

Paste

There are a LOT of visual tools out there that can bring your ideas to life. What about a tool to put those tools together? Figma links, PPT presentations, videos, images, GIFs, you name it. Paste by WeTransfer can put your files and scribbles into modular, designed slides. This makes for presentation perfection in no time. Your mood boards, pitch decks, and visual presentations can all be formatted to different devices so your work can be displayed without any awkward zooming, squeezing, or tilting. Test it out to see how you can smash your ideas together.

Animalz Revive

Animalz offers this free tool to run a content decay analysis on your old shtuff to see what needs a refresh. Yeah, you’ll have to give them Google Analytics access, but once they analyze GA data, they provide a list of your posts that are due for a refresh. While you definitely want to be updating content as well as adding new stuff, this helps to prioritize the content refresh efforts.

HARO (Help a Reporter)

HARO connects journalists and bloggers with relevant expert sources to keep up with deadlines and enable brands to tell their stories. But here’s a little SEO hack we’ve mentioned before: If you are used as a source on Help a Reporter, you’ll have a great opportunity for an inbound link from a high authority domain. Increasing domain authority is an amazing way to build up that on-page SEO potential.

WeTransfer

You down with FTP, Yeah you know me! WeTransfer provides quick and simple file-sharing, and loves staying at the forefront of security and privacy for your sharing. But what sets them apart is the visuals they’ve implemented. When you’re done sharing, the most satisfying gif loops will celebrate with you!

Best of all, though, their platform supports some of the most entertaining interactive ads around. They’re basically irresistible. Go check out this tool just to nerd out on the sliding, scrolling, swiveling ads they’ll present you.

Exploding Topics

A new topic usually has less competition if you are an early adopter of the terms. Exploding Topics helps identify new topics that are rapidly surging in popularity so you have an opportunity to rank and drive traffic.

Strike the iron’s hot and claim that sweet SERP real estate ahead of competitors.

Snazzy Maps

Sometimes you just want a map prettier than a Google preset. Snazzy Maps has amazing style editing with over 4,000 preset styles if you don’t want to build your own.

Aimed towards web designers and developers, all styles are licensed under creative commons and completely free to use. While the pin dropping is manual (there is not currently a bulk data feature), it’s still a great way to display locations as stylishly as possible. Go get snazzy with it.

Snap Camera

Maybe you want to add more than a beach background filter to your calls. Maybe you want to add AR flair. Maybe you want to make an entirely new filter altogether. Snap Camera by Snap, Inc. brings the magic of filters to your video calls, live streams, and videos. It easily integrates into existing apps and the Lens Studio is powerful stuff! It’s free to use so test it out on your next Zoom call.

JSFiddle

Test your JavaScript, CSS, HTML or scripts all in one online platform with JSFiddle code editor. JSFiddle is your free “code playground” to test all of your code tinkering needs. It’s easy peasy to save different versions of code and run tests with all your languages on one screen.

Perfect for the novice, even easier for the advanced developer. You can use it for doc demos, bug reporting (test-case) for Github issues, presenting code answers on stack overflow, live code collaboration, or even code snippet hosting.