Here is a listing of generally FREE services to help you with your website and a few other things.
www.Alexa.com - Site traffic information. Ranks sites based on traffic. Number one(currently Yahoo) being the best. They also provide many good site widgets like the one below free. |
Pingoat - A FREE service that notifies a number of services that keep track of blogs. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they recrawl and reindex your site, publishing your blog contents, thus hopefully increasing your blog's popularity and maybe how much money you make off said blog. |
geek.name Project - Lists recently found domains that have been allowed to expire and are currently unregistered and ready for you to grab! pool.com - Domain service dedicated to finding domains that will be deleted soon. |
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Submitting your new site to search sites: |
MoreWords - Developed as a help tool for games like scrabble, MoreWords can be greatly helpful when your are not so creative or can't think of something. For example, when looking for a great new domain name it can tell you all the words that end in us, like del.icio.us. |
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Snap Shots - A great little feature to add to any site. Puts a tiny image next to links that, when you put your mouse over it, will show your users where they are going before they click! These previews do not show up on dynamic links like google adsense. |
PixelButton - Ever wonder where people make thoes nifty little link buttons like the one at the bottom of the page? Well, if your smart you woun't take the time to learn it yourself. Just go to pixel button and have their program make it for you instantlyand free! |
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Favicon Generator - That little image next to the url at the top of your page, that's a favicon or favorites icon. It also gets saved to peoples computers when they ad your page to their favorites, making a greater visual impact and making them revisit your site more often, at least in theory. |
Affiliate Marketing Programs: See which is best for you...
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Kontera - Links contextually relevant keywords in your content to their advertisers sites, giving you just one more source of potential income for your site. It even gives your readers a little preview image similar to the one Snap Shots does. |
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Lix.in - Hides Actual Url so if someone wants to click on a link they cant take out your affiliate id #! Important stuff if you are posting in forums and trying to get poeple to sign up for something under you. There are other services like this, like tinyurl, but Lix.in is soooo simple, no ads, no frills, just free service! Just how I like it! |
Domain Parking Services: See which is best for you...
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csChecker - Need to know your credit score? csChecker provides many pages of info on reparing credit, where to check your score, and financial advice. |
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DOT TK - Totally FREE Domain Names. A marketing ploy by the Government of Tokelau, a country in the South Pacific to get more people to buy .tk domain names and there by make have an actual commodity that the country can sell and bring them out of poverty. What's the catch? They will put an ad on your page unless you pay the $6.95 registration fee, if you don't mind the ad it is FREE. |
Prosper.com - Have or Need some extra cash? Loans up to $25,000 for anything you could possibly want! Prosper is a service that acts as the middle man between individuals that want to either loan or borrow money. They take an upfront fee from people borrowing money and that's it. The people loaning the money make some extra cash off the intrest rate charged to the borrower and everything is compleatly automated! |
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