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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.

TextingBase

Reservations, funnel automation, retail, and mass communications are all using text messages to get it done. If you are looking for new SMS marketing software (or even trying it out for the first time), TextingBase makes it easy as pie. Big or small, they have a message plan that can fit any audience. Try it free for a trial period or check them out for a demo.

A Happy Little Ipsum

Put some joy into your designs with this Bob Ross Lorem Ipsum Generator. Using the ever-quotable painter’s phrases, this generator takes your place holding text from boring lorem ipsum nonsense to inspiring real text.