Amby's Internet Tools: Website Development and Promotion

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WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

FREE Webspace Providers
Website Tools
Site Promotion & Search Engine Accessibility
Add-Ons & Utilities for Webpages
Counters & Trackers

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FREE Webspace Providers

Free Web Hosting with Domain Name Registration

Register or transfer your domain name for $24.95 per year and get free advanced web hosting without banner ads! Features include 20MB of space, CGI, PHP/MySQL, ASP/Access->MySQL, SSL, SSH support... as well as Free web-based email service also without market ads. All this at no cost when you transfer an existing domain name or register a new one using Maxipoint's domain registrar. Domain registration is a very reasonable $24.95 per year. In order to sign up, you must provide an Affiliate ID number; mine is 0027. You cannot register without one.

Maxipoint, Ltd.

http://www.maxipointservers.net

FREE Website Hosting

Free website with 20Mb space, CGI support and email. In addition to the free services offered by RedRival Internet Services, upgrade packages are also available which provide additional space or domain name service. No banner ads required with paid hosting....

RedRival Internet Services

http://www.redrival.com/

Free Webspace Guide

A very useful listing -- use the step-by-step guide to narrow down the choices by answering questions regarding the type of site you'll have, preferred language, whether or not you need an online editor, and whether you want to use your browser or FTP to upload files. Results include info about the site size, special features, and type of advertising, if any.

FreeIndex

http://www.freeindex.com/webspace/

FWPR - Free Webspace Providers

Information about free webspace providers (FWPs), including availability of online editors, Frontpage Extensions, file uploads by browser, email or FTP. View personal FWPs (subcategorized by country, language and disk space allotments) or browse by special interest area (a dozen different categories, including: business, ethnicity, gaming, non-profit, politics).

Max Lee / Free Webpage Provider Review

http://fwpreview.ngworld.net/fwp/

Free General Web Site Hosting

Very nice annotated listing of free website providers; This quick-loading site features a variety of wonderful freebies for both webmasters and Internet surfers.

#1 Free Stuff

http://www.1freestuff.com/webmaster/hosting.shtml

Free Web Pages

Annotated listing of free web space providers, as well as other resources for webmasters, including counters, animated gifs, software, etc.

Webtime Internet Tools

http://www.webtimetools.com/Home_to_Web_Pages/home_to_web_pages.shtml

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Do you have a website? Check out these Website Tools

Robin's Links for Webmasters

You'll need to scroll down the page a bit to get to the useful Website Helpers section, but it's well worth it!! Annotated links to many useful and interesting resources.

Robin Kelly

http://britpart.hypermart.net/splink.html

WebGrammar's Design Tips & Tutorials for Beginners

New to Web design? You came to the right place! WebGrammar's Place provides numerous categorized links to sites providing resources useful to anyone designing webpages.

WebGrammar

http://www.ossweb.com/m9.html

WEBHELP Web Resource Center for HTML, Frames and more!

Jonny's Tutorials for HTML, Frames and Tables, as well as info on ways to get your site spidered by the search engines.

Jonny Gerow

http://www.webhelp.org/

An AOL Guide for Webmasters

If you're a webmaster, this info will help ensure that your site works with AOL's browser and caching system so that AOL members will experience your site as intended.

America Online, Inc.

http://webmaster.info.aol.com/

Beej's Guide to Network Programming

This is a beginner's guide to socket programming with Internet sockets. It is meant to be a springboard that will launch you into the exciting world of TCP/IP programming.

Brian "Beej" Hall

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/

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Web Site Promotion

Also see: Site Add-Ons and Utilities

Webmaster Daily
Webmasters Info is the Net's most popular webmaster daily ezine, chock full of revenue and traffic building tips, site design, software review, and all kinds of information geared towards making your website more successful!
EMAIL:
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Full-Color POSTCARDS of Your Website

Better than a business card: Send (or hand out) full-color postcards of your Web pages. Request a brochure or sample cards. Once you have your Web Cards, you can send Digital Postcards of Your Web Card for FREE!!!

Web Cards

http://www.printing.com/

Zeus Internet Marketing Robot

Do you want to DRAMATICALLY increase your site's traffic?? Download this easy-to-use, intelligent, internet robot that builds a link directory and creates reciprocal links for your web site:

Automatic Reciprocal Link Generator.
Creates your own vertical Link Directory
ThemeSite Email and Contact Coordinator.

CyberRobotics.com

http://www.cyber-robotics.com/cgi-bin/creditgo.cgi?zeus@amby.com

EngineStarter
NetMechanic offers free search engine registration with 12 leading search engines; the input fields provided in this clear step-by-step process allow you to immediately test the length of content descriptions.

EngineStarter Enter URL:

Search Engine Optimization

This page clearly explains URL Ranking Methodology and suggests ways that YOU can optimize your search engine keywords, relative to existing leaders, and improve your placement in the search engine results.

Bruce Clay

http://www.bruceclay.com/web_rank.htm

Web Sites Lost in Cyberspace: How to Ensure your Web Site is Found

This paper by Brenda J. Gerth details design techniques and strategies to ensure that your web site can be found by people using free online search engines.

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

http://web.uvic.ca/~bgerth/papers/findingwebpages.html

Matilda Multi-Simple Submit Form

Submit your site to over a dozen Great International Search Engines for Free! Type in your URL and email address, select the appropriate category, include the name of your site, check off the search engines you want to notify, then click on the button to Submit Your Site!

Matilda Multi-Simple Submit

http://matilda.aaa.com.au/submit/

Spider Miester

Do you want people to be able to find your site easily when they do a search? Use Matthew Saul's Spider Miester to submit your site to the major search engines quickly, easily, and at NO COST!

http://www.jwp.bc.ca/saulm/html/addurl.htm

The EngineLink Directory

A well-organized, well-maintained database of over 1,100 Internet search engines, directories and indices in which you can list or promote your Web site for FREE. Each search engine is categorized, described and rated for your convenience.

EngineLink

http://www.enginelink.com/

Search Engine Tips

Submit It! provides these tips for announcing your web site to search engines and directories. Pay-for-service as well as Submit It! FREE

Submit It!

http://submitit.linkexchange.com/subopt.htm

Want to submit to a SPECIFIC Search Engine?

You know it's out there, but finding the correct page can sometimes be daunting... don't fret, here are the submit pages for the main search engines (if you cover THESE you have at least 95% of the searchers covered...).

AltaVista
Ask Jeeves [Send the URL with a brief description of your site via email]
Excite
GO Network [Single Page submissions; maximum 50 URLs per day]
HotBot
InfoSeek [Single Page submissions; maximum 50 URLs per day]
Lycos [Use Site Finder to see if your webpage(s) is registered already]
Northern Light
Starting Point
WebCrawler
Yahoo! [How to Suggest Your Site]

PositionAgent

PositionAgent monitors where your web site is ranked on leading search engines for selected keywords and reports all listings and positions to help you get more hits. Scroll down the page to try out the free trial version.

PositionAgent

http://www.positionagent.com/free.htm

Using Meta Tags

Quickly learn more about META tags. This clear, concise info will help you understand how to construct and use Meta Tags on your web pages. Also see: How To Get Your Web Site onto the Search Engines (with links to search engine sites), and Getting found by search engines, which includes what to do (and NOT do), as well as info about SPAMMING the search engines.

Pete Gray

http://www.houseof3d.com/pete/docs/search/engines.html

Meta Tags

Find out what they are, what they'll do, and how to use them effectively.

Developer Zone

http://www.projectcool.com/developer/basics/meta/toc-metatags.html

A Webmaster's Guide To Search Engines

Explains how search engines find and rank web pages and what webmasters can do to make their pages easier to locate.

Danny Sullivan

http://searchenginewatch.internet.com/webmasters/

Getting that page SPIDERED!!!

Jonny's Tutorials for HTML includes these ways to get your site spidered by the search engines.

Jonny Gerow

http://www.webhelp.org/spider.html

Web Site Popularity Checker

You've developed a great site and figure other people have pointers to it... perhaps you've just established a Virtual Domain and want to contact everyone whose currently pointing to your OLD address, or maybe you're just curious... in any case, now you can find those links!! Other Riffnet Scripts are available, including:

Meta Tag Generator a no pain, no strain, easy-to-use form
AllSubmit submit to eleven top search engines and directories at once

Matt Riffle

http://scripts.riffnet.com/utils/popular/

The Missing Link -- Reciprocal Links Database

Find like-minded sites and exchange links FREE! Browse the listing of sites interested in exchanging links; add your own listing to the database.

Edwin Hayward

http://www.igoldrush.com/missing/

Censorware Search

Has your site been banned? Check several common censor-software programs and see if YOUR site is blacklisted. See some of the Sites Censored by Censorship Software to see just how pervasive this problem can be. Explore other resources, as well, including an essay on The Size of the Web.

Censorware

http://censorware.org/search/

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Site Add-Ons and Utilities

THUNDERSTONE Free Search Engine Service

This application will create a custom site index for your website so that it can have a "search this site" without the need to install any software. Or download The Webinator: the only product that understands HTML 3.0, tables, and framed documents. It's available for most popular web platforms and has a reasonable starting price: Free.

Thunderstone

http://index.thunderstone.com/texis/indexsite/

FreeFind

Add a search engine to your web site today, for free, in less than 10 minutes! (Really!!)

FreeFind

http://www.freefind.com/

d'Work Zone

Interested in developing a business online? Digital Work provides this archive of useful articles based on a combination of public information and interviews with business professionals and consultants.

Digital Work

http://www.d-workzone.com/ezine/archives.asp

Create Your OWN Email List

WebPromote enables you to create and maintain your own mailing list, for FREE. Read the List Owner FAQs to find out more about this service. Here's one way you can reach visitors again and again.

WebPromote® Engage

http://engage.webpromote.com/

Mail2Friend

Free webpage recommendation and promotion tool. Visitors "send" an email with your page's URL to a friend (with a personal message, if desired). No one "harvests" the address; an advertising banner appears on the Mail2Friend form and an advertising URL is included at the bottom of the email message.

Chennai Scripts

http://www.jokhoo.com/mail2friend/

NetMind's URL-Minder: Mind-it

So you have a great website... now you can let visitors when new info is added! Mind-it is a free automatic update service which allows visitors to register (for free); then, whenever your page changes, they'll be sent an email notice. A great way to increase repeat visits with very little work and no monetary investment!!

NetMind

http://www.netmind.com/html/webmasters.html

Free GuestBook

Get a free guestbook for your webpage and customize it with options such as background wallpaper, back link, midi music, text colors, email notification and language filter. Easy to install and set up including free support.

Virtual Ave.

http://freeguestbook.virtualave.net/

AllAdvantage.com

Check out all the background info on the "Tell Me More" page and see how this service could pay for your Internet connect time by letting you earn up to $20 a month for surfing the 'net (a monthly maximum of 40 hours at $.50 per hour). You can earn even more by telling your friends or referring visitors from your website!! My own thoughts About AllAdvantage.com.

AllAdvantage.com

http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=CGD-860

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Counters & Trackers: Keeping track of visitors

WebTracker

This tool is easy to install and lets you immediately start counting visitors to your page. You'll gain informative data on what browser they are using, the operating system they are running, whether they are return visitors, as well as obtaining totals for various time periods, etc. Click on mine below to see the current stats for this page.

FXWeb Technologies

http://www.fxweb.com/tracker/

AMPS FREE COUNTERS & TRACKERS

An excellent annotated collection of counters from a variety of sources. Includes free, pay for service, @#$% scams and counter codes. Java counters are also provided. Entries include counter example. sample stats and useful information.

AMP

http://home.earthlink.net/~amp74/index.html

WebCounter^TM

Free non-commercial counters.

Net Digits ^TM

http://www.digits.com/create.html

TheCounter

Outstandingly clear and easy to set-up and use. Your choice of several styles (including plain digits, graphic, or "invisible"). No advertising required!! Set up a counter on as many different pages on your site as you wish.

TheCounter.com

http://www.TheCounter.com/

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