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

Web 2.0s: 7th Amigo

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.