Important Links to Great Sites for your On-line Business

BLOG SITES:
Create your own blog site for free with the following blogging platforms.
http://www.wordpress.com/
http://www.blogspot.com/
http://www.cooljournals.com/
http://www.freeonlineblogs.com/
http://www.blogger.com/
http://www.blogharbor.com/
http://www.blogdrive.com/
http://www.joomla.org/
http://www.livejournal.com/
http://www.typepad.com/
http://www.dasblog.info/
Content management platform tools
http://www.drupal.org/

BLOG SITE DIRECTORY:
List your blog to these blog directories to increase traffic to your site.
One of the largest free blog directories on the internet
http://www.blogorama.com/
Lets you create your own widget to display your recent readers
http://www.mybloglog.com/
Contains high quality, content-rich blogs around the world
http://blogcatalog.com/
Directory of blogs based on content and subject
http://www.bloguniverse.com/
As the name suggests, this is the top list of blogs
http://www.blogtoplist.com/
Search engine dedicated to blogs and blog tools
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
A combination of blog directory, tools, hosting company and forums
http://www.bloggernity.com/
Lets your blog be found on other blogs with similar content
http://www.bloghop.com/
Have great templates and blog tools to use for your blogs
http://www.blog-watch.com/
Offers a variety of tools including a button maker, advance tracking and more.
http://dir.blogflux.com/
Ping your blog: Send your updated posts to blog directories
http://www.pingomatic.com/

Site World Wide Promoter: submit your blog or site to other sites with
http://www.worldwidepromoter.com/
To Flip your Blog:
Fold your blog and sell it
http://www.sitepoint.com/
http://www.digitalpoint.com/

Top Search Engines to submit your Web Site/ Blog Site
Google
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Yahoo! Search
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
Live Search
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSDD2
Ask.com
http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#18

Classified Ads Directory:
A directory or list of thousands of classified ads that you can post for free/ some for a fee
http://ecki.com/links/
http://www.iwr.com/free/classads1.htm
http://www.becanada.com/
http://everydaybusinessonline.com/adsites.htm
http://www.thmg.com/free/classifieds.html

Free Classified Ads
http://ecki.com/links/
http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/
http://www.ezinedepot.net/classpro/viewads.html
http://www.usfreeads.com/
Other classified ads
http://www.freeads2000.com/
http://www.1second.com/freead.htm
http://www.1second.com/1america.htm
http://www.americanet.com/Classified/
http://www.bestmall.com/class/submit.html
http://go.citynews.com/dir.html/
http://www.classifieds1000.com/
http://www.comcorner.com/
http://www.smallbusinesshowto.com/emarketing.html
http://www.freeclassifieds.com/FreeAds/FreeClassifieds.htm
http://www.free-classifieds.com/
http://freebizadsweb.com/
http://www.inetexchange.com/
http://www.inetgiant.com/
http://www.netclassifieds.com/
http://www.recycler.com/
http://www.sodamail.com/ezine/home.shtml
http://www.websitings.com/
http://www.5starads.com/
http://www.adlandpro.com/
http://ads4ever.net/join

SOCIAL NETWORKING sites:
To increase traffic to your Web site or blog site. This is also a great way to meet other people online and market your products and or services. This requires you to sign up free and set-up your own profile:
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.furl.net/
http://del.icio.us/
http://friendfeed.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://www.blogmarks.net/
http://www.blinklist.com/
http://www.bookmarksync.com/
http://www.digg.com/
http://www.feedmarker.com/
http://feedmelinks.com/portal/
http://www.linkroll.com/
http://www.jumptags.com/
http://www.squidoo.com/
http://www.hubpages.com/
http://www.ryze.com/
http://www.ecademy.com/
http://www.businessnetworkcafe.com/
http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/small-businessnetworking.htm
http://www.alwayson-network.com/
http://www.eliyon.com/PublicSite/public/default.asp
https://www.itsnotwhatyouknow.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
http://www.spoke.com/

Bookmarking Sites:
http://www.digg.com
http://www.stumbleupon.com
http://www.reddit.com

ARTICLE SITES: submit your articles promoting your blog thru author’s profile.
http://www.articlebase.com/
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://www.amazines.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.articlerich.com/
http://www.articlecircle.com/
http://www.articlefever.com/
http://www.isnare.com/
http://www.clickforcontent.com/
http://www.allnetarticles.com/
http://www.authorconnection.com/
http://www.vectorcentral.com/

Article Format: You can format your article using a software
http://www.fwointl.com/FWOFormatter.html
Submit your articles:
http://www.ideamarketers.com/signup.cfm

Ezine Listing Sites
New-List.com
http://new-list.com/submit/
Newsletter Access
http://www.newsletteraccess.com/
Ezine Announcer
http://www.ezineannouncer.com/

Traffic Generators
http://www.killermarketingarsenal.com/
http://www.traffichoopla.com/
http://www.advertisingknowhow.com/
http://www.virtualtrafficjam.com/
http://trafficswarm.com/
http://www.milliondollartraffic.com/
http://www.smallbusinesshowto.com/donttouchmyads.html
http://www.spiderhub.com/
http://www.adgizmo.com/
http://www.trafficzap.com/

Viral Videos
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.ifilm.com/
http://www.tubemogul.com/

SEARCH ENGINES:
Search engines are the most popular tools in finding just about anything you want to know or search for in the internet. One of the most popular tools are the following:
http://www.google.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.msn.com/
http://www.alltheweb.com/

Open Directory/ Search Engine Submission:
Submit your site to thousands of other sites to increase visitor visits to your site/blog:
http://www.dmoz.org/
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/
http://www.evrsoft.com/
http://www.entireweb.com/addurl
http://www.exactseek.com/
http://www.freesearch.com/
http://www.ineedhits.com/
http://www.inktomi.com/

Keyword Tools:
To check the keywords used for a specific web site
http://www.seodigger.com/
http://www.semrush.com/
Find the perfect set of keywords for your web pages:
http://www.goodkeywords.com/
Analyze keyword density:
http://www.keyworddensity.com/
To get keywords for your specific niche:
http://www.nichebot.com/
Keyword suggestions:
https://adword.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
http://www.snap.com/

Hot trends check:
To look up for the most searched item today. This will provide good information on what’s in demand today and position your market niche
http://google.com/trends/hottrends
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
http://www.wordtracker.com/
To know what people are shopping online?
http://www.shopping.com/top_searches

WEB LOGS:
To download software programs that analyze your log files. The importance of log files is to track where the visitors of your site came from.
http://www.analog.cx/
http://awsd.com/scripts/weblog/index.shtml

Business Promotion/Public Relations Sites
http://www.spamfree4me.com/pr/ -Spam Free 4 Me -Fantastic site with tons of tools to promote your business including an article blaster, press release blaster, and search engine and free classifieds blaster. Free to sign up for an account to enjoy the above benefits.
http://www.smallbusinesshowto.com/freepressrelease.html -submit free press release
http://www.prweb.com/
http://www.prpal.com/

List Sites:
Promote your site to popular list sites with millions of subscribers worldwide.
http://www.yahoogroups.com/
http://www.groups.msn.com/
http://www.groups.google.com/
http://www.smartgroups.com/
http://www.topica.com/

Forums:
Forums is a great place to ask questions regarding your business, it also provides opportunity for you to help others by answering their questions. Take note: selling and advertising in forums is strictly prohibited:
http://affiliateforums.co.uk/
http://www.williecrawford.com/
http://www.jimworld.com/apps/webmaster.forums/
http://www.supertips.com/forums/list.htm
http://www.sowpub.com/
http://www.hunteridge.com/forum
http://www.mlmforums.com/

Screen Capture Software
http://www.camstudio.com/
http://www.camtasia.com/

Free Ad Swap Tracking Software
http://www.nowsell.com/pages/ad-tracker.html

PDF maker software
http://www.pdffactory.com/

URL Cutters:
If you have long URL you can shorten them through these sites. This is helpful for long affiliate referral links.
http://www.tinyurl.com/
http://www.snipurl.com/
http://www.urlinone.com/

Other sites worth visiting

References and Spell-check:
Spell checker:
http://www.spellcheck.net/
Search the dictionary, thesaurus or encyclopedia or web:
http://www.reference.com/
http://www.freedictionary.com/
World Map-wherever you are, there is a map
http://www.wikimapia.org/
Encyclopedia: very useful for research
http://www.wikipedia.org/

Website maintenance:
Check your website's link popularity:
www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/
Protect your website from plagiarism:
http://www.copyscape.com/
Scan your web pages to locate errors:
www.netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm
Check your website's link popularity:
www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/
Complete web authoring software for Windows, Max and Linux:
http://www.nvu.com/
Automated reciprocal linking and website directory generator:
www.onlinemarketingtoday.com/software/link-management/
Spyware remover:
www.spybot.info/en/spybotsd/index.html
Add your URL to Google:
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Cost Per Action sites (CPA):
These sites provide an income generating opportunities for you to place ads/banners on your site. Pay out can be in form of pay per click on banner ads or pay per sign-up:
http://www.azoogleads.com/
http://www.hydranetwork.com/
http://www.affiliate.com/
http://www.neverblue.com/
http://www.incentaclick.com/
http://www.clickbooth.com/
http://www.easyadsbuck.com/
http://www.clixsense.com/