I’m regularly asked to recommend services by clients. For those of you who cannot afford to hire me as a consultant for advice, here are a few of my favourite tools and services.
Private proxies: Squid Proxies
Backlink research: Ahrefs, SEMRush
Shared web hosting: BuyShared
Linux VPS hosting: Digital Ocean
Visitor stats: Piwik, StatCounter, Google Analytics
Speed testing: Pingdom, GTMetrix
Private blog networks: Revealed here.