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Adwords
- Google Adwords
Sign up for Google Adwords and begin advertising either your own website and products or advertise affiliate products.
- Yahoo Sponsored Search
This is Yahoo's paid advertising. (Yahoo's version of Adwords)
Affiliate Providers
Articles, where to submit them
Computer Performance
- The Computer Doc
For those who are computer flunkies like me, check out the tips area to clean-up and ultimately speed up your machine.
Directories
- Best Web Directories
This is the place to go to find the best web directories to be listed in, both paid and free. (There are several directories you want to be listed in, but a word of caution, a little goes a long way. Don't submit to too many, it's just a waste of time.)
Find a Trend or Niche
- Ask.com Searches
Tells you what the 'hot' search topics for Ask.com the previous week.
- Blogs, Groups and Forums
Where to find the best groups, blogs, forums and lists on the internet.
- Google Zeitgeist
Tells you what the 'hot' search topics on Google for the previous week.
- Lycos 50
This is a really cool site that not only tells you what the top 50 search topics on Lycos were for the previous week but also has archives and shows trends. Very benefitial.
- Yahoo Search
Information on the leading searches performed on Yahoo.
Keyword Resources
- Golexa
Great keyword tool! Put your keyword phrase in and Golexa will give you the top 10 contenders for this phrase and analyze their success.
- Google's Keyword Suggestion Tool
This is Google's tool to help you find the right keyword.
- Keyphrase Generator
Generates keyphrases for whatever keyword you enter.
- Nichebot
Helps you discover what words and phrases people use to find your niche.
- SEO Digger
This tool will tell you what keywords your competitor's site is optimizing. Just put in your competitor's URL and you'll find out what keywords they rank on. Great Tool!
- TextAlyser
TextAlyser will give you word count, frequency of words (for checking keywords) but will also give you a grade on your writing's 'readability'.
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Keyword Resources (cont.)
- Market Research
On the left of your screen will gives you an educated approximation of the number of searches for your keyword or phrase in the past month and on the right the number of pages listed on Google for that keyword.
- Keyword Discovery
Gives you an educated approximation of the number of searches for your keyword or phrase in the past month and the cost of ads for that same word or phrase. Both are good, choose your favorite.
- Visual Thesaurus
A tool to let you see different words for your keyword. Sort of cool - not sure of it's value.
- Wordtracker
This tool gives you an educated approximation of the number of searches for your keyword or phrase in the past month but then measures that information against the sites available.
Pinging Tool
- Pingomatic.com
Go to Pingomatic after you've updated your Blog and ping the search engines to let them know you've made a new post.
RSS Feed Tool
- Feed Validator
Feed Validator checks your code on any RSS or ATOM feed.
Search Engines
URL & Affiliate Link Masking
Webpage Help
- Google Sitemaps
Google allows you to notify them when you have uploaded a new sitemap. Here's where you would do this.
- HTML Validator
This tool will look at the HTML code on a site and list any errors in the coding. For those of us who do it ourselves; this is wonderful.
- Keyword Density Checker
This tool checks to see if you've hit the mark on keyword density. Very important to have just enough; not too many | not too few.
- Net Mechanic
This tool checks to see if you've hit the mark on keyword density. Very important to have just enough; not too many | not too few.
- Search Position Checker
This tool checks your sites search engine postion for your keywords.
- Sitemap Generator
Need a Sitemap? This website will generate the map for you and then e-mail it to your inbox. You just save it and upload to your host service.
- Webpage Link Checker
This service checks for deadlinks on your URL. Great Service.
- ABAKUS Topword Keyword Tool
This tool will analyse a complete web page and count keyword occurrences as well as keyword phrases.
- Page Rank Checker
is a free tool to check Google™ page ranking of any web site pages easily and to display your site's PageRank™ value on your web pages.
 Having a favicon (the little picture you see next to the site address in the browser address bar) is a great branding tool for your website and really polishes off your site's image.
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