Each and every year we see that “free line” is sliding more and more and it has been described many times by others, including the great series of post by my friend and marketing guru Doug Champigny “The POWER OF FREE In Affiliate Marketing – Part One“.

FREE is an incredibly powerful word that draws people and while sometimes it represents nothing but regurgitated crap, some of the recent product launches, such as Send Button Profits by Jeff Dedrick shows us true power of over-delivering. And as a launch partner I know that he will surprise even more people by what is coming.

But seeing all the freebies – question comes to mind – Is FREE Overdone?

One thing I love about the internet is that for those who search – there are tons of resources available for FREE to even further develop their business online or greatly enhance it in one form or another.

In this post I want to share a few resources I have found during this week that I consider to be GREATLY beneficial if used right. While they are covering different aspects – it is all good, as it is FREE:

• Bloghology.org Social Network – brand new social network that resembles in some aspects Facebook but based on proprietary application and created By Bloggers and For Bloggers! This network is super quickly growing and has a potential to become the De Facto Social Network for real bloggers because it has a lot backing behind it. Developed on early success of Bloghology magazine it is backed by a European publishing giant – Interactive Media and expect some big things from it. For me, as blogger it means MORE EXPOSURE, MORE CUSTOMERS, MORE SUCCESS! Join Me, It’s FREE
• SpiderMate SEO Service – free SEO analysis tool that gives you more info about your blog than most peoople even know exists! Limited to 25 pages fro unregistered users it still provides wealth of info and perhaps an insight you need to help you grab the top of SERP’s.
• RapidSeer – free service that will allow you to monitor uptime of your blog or site and get notifications when its down. Now you have the option to argue with your host and PROOF when you site is not accessible. But that is just one of the benefits – perhaps more important one – you can know right away if you product selling site is down and fix it ASAP to avoid loosing sales. While free version is limited it gives you the taste on what to expect and upgrades are lot lower priced than comparable services I have seen.

Enjoy your weekend and Please Share This Post if you like it!

Special guest post by Mike Paetzold

One of the best and easiest ways to get traffic to your blog is by taking advantage of the various free resources available on line.

Caveat: Your main or as I call it money blog needs to be on YOUR server and on a domain YOU own. You should be using a WordPress blog there.

Now that we have gotten rid of the caveat, lets look at some of the free tools that are available.

• Squidoo – my absolute favorite
• Hub Pages
• Blogger
• WordPress.com
• MSN Live

For the purposes of illustration we will pick a topic and use a bad word in my vocabulary ass/u/me that you have done the research and found to have profit potential about Bumble Bees. (Hey I am old and bald bare with me here.)