$500 to spend on tools

[Evil Villain]

Suppose you have $500 (Not hypothetical btw) to spend on tools and you already have:

Hummingbird V2
IBP Business Edition
The Best Spinner
Reseller account, so virtual unlimited free hosting

What would you buy?

(Little background on my activities: I build websites in Wordpress on niche topics)

[Tinus]

I would go for xrumer

[dzinga1]

yeah me too...xrumer is the way to go

[ContemptX]

I have to agree, save $40 more and buy xrumer ;)

[jaymoney]

Tools alone wont make you money son, for starters the first two tools mean like you are starting up n looking for ideas. The last time I heard of IBP as a tool for SEO was some several years ago, the next tweeter auto follower thing have sort of been overtaken by events. Humming bird in its heydays that's early last year was god sent, not any more. Word of advice should be you look for offers first, this should be from CPA networks or affiliate networks that pay.From that point you look for Market Samurai which is the best Keyword research tool IMO (get it from ya fav BH site DL section). From that point your worry is traffic, use all the ideas available here. Let me put it this way I should buy some 20+ articles after the steps i mentioned above and buy scrape box then hire some one with BMD to do the Magic. With a modest amount of $200 you need a few weeks to see if there is any conversions and step up with PPC. Finally let me say that its better to pay for rummer blast than own it if you are not making several new sites on very regular basis.

[cocaco]

Think about what do you want to do. I mean plan a campain and look what tools or service is missing.

[silent_thunder]

if you are building niche sites the best tool that would enhance your business would be market samurai or micro niche finder.

[rico]

buy article buzz and other buzz software available on the market.

[Enforce-]

On your listed items above. I would only recommend you to buy reseller accounts and forget the rest.

IBP- actually worked really good years ago.

Hummingbird V2 - twitter traffic is crap. I really wouldn't attempt using twitter for anything besides CTR

The Best Spinner - duplicate content isnt a big problem. use wprobot to get content.

I suggest. scrapbox, senuke, xrummer, MNF. as some basic tools.

[Evil Villain]

Thanks for the ideas and advice: Content is no problem at all, neither are visitors or affiliateprograms, the $500 I wanted to spend is not for "I want to make money within 3 weeks and do nothing"-purpose. I just want to get my hands on some useful tools helping me with my everyday SEO for my already well visited pages.

The general idea was (And I should have mentioned that in my OP..., my bad) to find a few not too bad pieces of software for me to fool around with and when I am completely aware of what I want, I'll set up a complete plan and buy what I think I need to get the job done.

For the moment I just bought Bookmarking Demon, which is OK-ish (If you like captchas) IBP I use mainly to check the basic setting on new projects I take on (It has all the tools built in rank check, submission tool and general SEO check + rather nice reporting tool which saves time.)