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I have enclosed a list of services that I currently use or have used in the past that have helped me along my journey. I would not recommend any service that I was not happy with myself. Some of these link are affiliate links which mean that i make a profit from the purchase but they do not cost you any more than if you would have purchased them on your own not going through my links.

If you decide in the future to use any of the services below, it would be greatly appreciated to come back through my links. It will help me to keep offering the best possible information on a regular basis free of charge. Please see my earnings disclaimer at the bottom to see how affiliate links work.

Enjoy the info and please feel free to let me know if there are any other services out there that you believe to be better than ones I have listed. I am always open to suggestions.

Hosting

HostGator- One of the best if not the best customer service I have worked with. They have great prices and the use of online chat 24/7 is a great help. They have a great website for information as well to back up the good support
www.GoDaddy.com- The only reason I list Godaddy is for the domain name info. I am not impressed with the hosting but very hard to match the domain name service. They have a great website to maintain and purchase domain names from, as well as tools to find domain names that other can not match.

WordPress & Design

WooThemes- (Click on one of the banners to the right for the link) They have a great package of themes and stay on top of the support which is important. They have a large variety to choose from. I use them on several websites that I have developed for prior clients and for my owen websites. Low prices as well.
Theme forest- This is a great place to shop for a specific theme. While you do have to be cautious and make sure you read the comments about the author as well as how often the adjust the themes based on new WordPress releases. i have found some great themes that are very easy to work from this website. They also handle premium plugins and other various photos and stock images.
SEO Prosser- I have been using this plugin for a few months and have been very impressed with it. It does come at a price but it is well worth the costs. It will guide you through what simple steps are needed per page to try and create a better SEO page. A lot of helpful reminders that we all tend to forget about.
www.99designs.com - Design services at a very inexpensive price. If you are not a designer as most of us are not then you can get some assistance from these guys. Logo design and so on.
Aweber – Is one of the best e-mail capture and marketing systems out there. Check out the website for more information.

Niche Reasearch

Market Samurai
Longtail Keywords

Misc. Services

HootSuite – Social Media Tools for Business. – Can be used as a great tool to setup all of your facebook and twitter updates and post them on the day and times that you request. An easy tool to complete this with very little effort. You come up with the content and it does the rest.
Google analytics - This is the only true way to understand what your SEO is really doing and where you are getting your traffic from
The Best Spinner - This product is great for taking an original article that you have written and creates several different articles from it. It is a little more involved than just pressing a button but it is better than writing all of the articles yourself.