Webmasters
They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person’s life. In other words, it’s evolving fast and faster.
Vinton Cerf
Webmaster, Website & Blogging
Some very useful tools below that will help increase your success online. However, you’re not going to need to use all of them. Only choose the ones you need. Remember, time stops for no man or woman. So, use your time well.
If you know of some helpful tools you think has the same quality as the list below, please, feel free to tell me. After I check them, and that they up hold the same value as this page demands, I will add them. Thanks 
Webmaster
SEO Toolbars
- SEO For FireFox - Great online marketing research tool. Free
- SEOQuake – A toolber that offers a quick overview of a website’s ranking, backlink, etc. Free
- Alexa Toolbar – For Firefox. You can get this tool for windows internet explorer too. Helps to view ranking of a given website and web traffic detials. Free
- SEOBook Toolbar – An excellent toolbar. Free
Blogging Networks
- From Me – Here are some articles that you will find useful on blogging.
Blogging Software For Business
- Wordpress.org – Free
- b2evolution – Free
- nucleuscms – Free
- TpyePad – Free to try 14 days
CSS & HTML
- W3Schools Online Web Tutorials : (Note this link does work, even if my broken link plugin doesn’t like it)… If you need to know about CSS, HTML, XHTML, etc, etc, If is the place to be. You will find any and everything that is need to know about your website coding and more.
- W3s CSS Validation : Here is something you do need to get done. Why? Well, If you plan to submit your URL to a good Web Directory, they would want to make sure you have your CSS Validation first, before, checking anything else. Its easy to do, and if you do come to any problems, just go to the W3s School (the link is above) and you’ll find all the info you need.
- W3s Markup Validation : Do you need to fix your markup, hmm. Some say yes, others no. I have to admit when it comes to the new style of markup I lost. However, if I had the time I could find all the information I need from the about sites.
- Smahing Magazine – A free blog with great tips on CSS, HTML, and Web design.
HTML Color Code
Hosting Sites
- W3C Hosting Tutorioal – Free information on self hosting and other help advice.
- HostMonster – Unlimited Space, one free domain, host unlimited domains, 30-Day Money Back, 99.9% Uptime, Icann Accredited, free Whois Privacy — Price: $6.95.
- JustHost – One of the best loved host companies out there. In 2008 this site was voted number 1 of the year. Unlimited Space, one free domain, can host unlimited domains, 30-Day Money Back, 99.9% Uptime, BBBOnline Accredited, Paypal Payment. — Price: $4.95
- Bluehost – This has been voted the best service for wordpress.org. WordPress Auto-Install. Unlimited disk storage, Unlimited data transfer, unlimited domains on 1 account, 1 free domain name for as long as you host with BlueHost, 2500 POP / WebMail addresses, 50 MySQL databases, free control panel, free Fantastico, free SimpleScripts, 24/7 network monitoring, 99% uptime guarantee, mirrored storage backups, no hidden fees. Great support. — Price $6.95
- Godaddy – I’m sure you’ve heard of this one before. It became big when godaddy placed an ad with a very hot woman in a godaddy t-shirt. Anyway, it is pretty good hosting service. Unlimited Space, no free domain name, can host unlimited domains, 30-Day Money Back, 99.9% Uptime, BBBOnline Accredited, Secure Certified:TrustWave, Icann Accredited, Paypal Payment — $3.16
- Hostgator – Excellent for business users. Linux Web hosting. Windows is coming soon. Unlimited Space, no free domain, can host unlimited domains, 45-Day Money Back, 99.9% Uptime, BBBOnline Accredited, Paypal Payment — $7.95
Keyword Tools
- SEOBook Keyword Tool – A very useful keyword research tool. Free to try
- PPC Web Spy - If you want your PPC ad to jump to the top of the listings, then this is the keyword tool to use.
- Wordtracker – Also a great keyword tool. You’ll need to pay for this one, but it worth every $£. But, I world use SEOBook tool.
- FreeWebSubmission – A simple keyword tool. Not the best by a very long way. Nevertheless, it’s free
- Google Aword Keyword Tool – Very good for awards PPC. I found the bonus for using Google’s Keyword tool is the feather “website content” where if you have written an article, you can paste it into their content scanner and get ideas on what keywords to use. It’s free
- What’s The Buzz – Is a keyword research tool with one simple aim: to find out who’s talking about a certain keyword. To do that, it does five things: 1. It displays the Technorati Blog Popularity Chart, showing how popular the keyword has been blogged about in the past 90 days. 2. It displays the Google Trends chart for the keyword. 3. It finds blog posts tagged with the keyword. 4. It finds blog posts containing the keyword (a straight-forward search). 5. It finds social bookmarks tagged with the keywords.
SEO Sites & Information FAQ
- From Me – Here are some articles that you may find helpful.
- SEOBook – News, tools, how to, and more. This site is one of my favorites.
- SEOmoz.org – A lot like SEO Book, maybe a little more colorful
- Sitepronews – Another one that I like to use. It’s don’t focus on SEO alone, but it is a site for webmasters. Excellent information.
Useful Tool
- Web CEO – A SEO software suite that has 12 SEO tools buildt in.
- Rank Checker – You can check domain and keywords with this free plugin
- Google website optimizer is a free A/B and multivariate testing application that helps online marketers and webmasters increase visitor conversion
- Backlink checker - Marketleap’s free backlink checker
- Backlink Builder - If you’re starting a backlink campaign this is the tool to use. It’s free. However, read this article before using it.
- W3C Link Checker - This is a tool to get a deep information about links in a webpage, about errors and link inexistence. Broken link checker.
- Bad Neighborhood – A link integrity tool. CheckS to see if you are linking to questionable sites.
- Backlink Watch – With this tool you can check and see where all your backlinks are coming from.
- Google Webmaster Central – A one-stop shop for webmaster resources
Word Proccessor, Document, sorce code editor, and WYSIWYG
- Notepad++ 5.2 – Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, WYSIWYG, User Defined Syntax Highlighting, Auto-completion, Multi-Document Multi-View, Regular Expression Search/Replace supported, Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported, Dynamic position of Views, File Status Auto-detection, Zoom in and zoom out, Multi-Language environment supported, Bookmark, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, Macro recording and playback — FREE
- Openoffice – A multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, free to download
- Thefreecountry – A massive list of editors for free.
FTP .
- Filezilla – The free FTP Solution. One of the most used. Open source Software
- Core FTP – Free FTP client software for Windows. Secure file transfer software.
- CoffeeCup FTP – In the words of coffeecup “Free FTP Software makes Uploads and Downloads a Snap!”
- Wikipedia – Here is some more sites and information on FTP
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