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Internet Marketing
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Free web tools000 Web Site Tools is a solid all-round webmaster resource that lists such free services as hosting, promotion, web graphics, fonts, Javascripts, CGI, script collections, guestbooks, counters, HTML editors, graphics software, and much more. 3A Webcon are offering webmasters free guestbooks. The guestbooks are hosted on 3A Webcon's space, and include a link back to your site. Add4Free has engineered a script that is capable of submitting your site details to over 600 search engines, link pages, award sites and directories for free. AnsURL offers a free URL submission service that includes 25 major international search engines, as well as specialist Latvian and Russian engines. AO Soft provides a free 'domain parking' service. This operates by allowing you to reserve a domain name with InterNIC, and maintain the name at AO Soft while you develop your site. Similar services cost anywhere between $20-$50, but AO Soft offers the utility at no cost what-so-ever. Bravenet Internet Services offer a number of customisable interactive tools that can be implemented into your website. Their range includes free counters, intra-site search engines, guestbooks, classified ads and greeting cards. Click-on.to provide a free URL redirection service that can reduce your URL from http://members.company.com/~yourname/whatever.html to a much shorter, http://click-on.to/yourname. This obviously makes your URL easier to remember and to repeat, which could help you to generate more visitors. CyberName offers a URL redirection service that allows webmasters to utilise a short domain name, such as YourName.Web-Page.net or YourName.GamesPage.com in place of their existing unruly address. The service is especially useful to those who wish to change service providers, while retaining the same address. Using the service does require that you allow Cybername to trigger a popup Javascript banner ad every time your homepage is loaded, however. Delphi currently offers free message-board 'forums' and real-time chat facilities to web users. Each personalized message board can be made private or public, depending on the list owners' desires. Direct.at provide a URL redirection service that allows webmasters to substitute a shorter, permanent URL for their own. Current URL headerd include fullspeed.to, getit.at, direct.at, warp9.to and more, where your URL would look something like http://fullspeed.to.mysite. e.Tel builds live headline news, sports scores & market information Java tickers that can be quickly and easily integrated into your site's content for free, adding an up-to-date element to your design that will keep visitors coming back. EuroFreebies have developed a CGI-based mailing list system that they are offering to sites at no charge. Participating sites do not need cgi-access or knowledge in order to use the system, as all scripts are hosted at EuroFreebies. Your mailing list can be maintained via a web-based control panel, that allows for message composition, imported addresses and more, while providing useful, customisable statistics. This is a great way to keep people coming back to your site. Free Graphic Land provides a collection of links to some of the Net's hottest free webmaster reources, whose position on the site is decided according to the number of votes that each site has generated. FreeGuestBook hosts countless free, personalised, guestbooks. Each guestbook can be customized with options such as unique background wallpaper, graphics, a return link and even a midi atmosphere track. Overflowing with personality and practicality, these guestbooks are hugely beneficial to webmasters without CGI access. Free Guestbook is a new Web site providing, well, I think you know what. Their free guestbook service is especially useful for webmasters who don't have access to a CGI-bin, since the actual guestbook is hosted at Free Guestbook's server, though it can be integrated into the design of your page and customised to some extent. Free-Javascripts.com provides webmasters with access to an ever-expanding range of free cut-n-paste Javascripts. Each of their scripts are designed to both enhance one's site with dynamic, interactive elements and to allow for easy customisation, so that the scripts blend effortlessly into the page layout. Freedback.com allows you to add free fill-out forms to your site. These can be used to gather feedback and information, and to encourage interactivity from your visitors. The Freedback service does not demand any knowledge or access of CGI. Gibbleguts.com provides webmasters with the opportunity to integrate a dynamic comics feature into their sites for free. By placing their code on your site, a new Dan Gibson single-cell cartoon will be displayed on your site each day, keeping your visitors thoroughly entertained. GlobalGuest Voting Polls allows webmasters to add an interactive web poll to their site, allowing visitors to vote on a designated topic online. Guestbook.nu provides a service to both give away customizable free guestbooks (requiring no CGI knowledge or access), and a webmaster promotion program whereby webmasters can refer customers to the site and if the referrals sign up to receive a free guestbook, a link to the referring webmaster's site will appear on the top of the guestbook, for many satisfied visitors to see. Homepage Tools presents a unique collection of free web tools and services that make the webmaster's life that much easier. InterNexis is offering webmasters access to a free, personalised discussion group for their sites. The discussion form will be hosted on the InterNexus server, so you will not need access to a CGI-bin, or require programming knowledge. JumpList has developed a feature allowing webmasters to take control of unruly external link lists. Using JumpList grants the webmaster control over their links, allowing him/her to assign new and hot status to the appropriate links, while guarding against expired links. The list is presented in a dynamic, expanding format on JumpList's server, but can be easily modified to represent part of your site. mine.at offers the choice of three short and catchy top-level URLs that redirect users to your site. Replace that tedious address with http://mine.at/whatever, http://yours.at/whatever or http://everything.at/whatever. This is a free service, but requires users to accept an ad either on a delay page, popup window or in an ad frame. MyReply.com provides webmasters with a free autoresponder. As such, webmasters can direct visitors to their autoresponder address, which sends the visitor a pre-written email, automatically, for free. My Reply do not place any limitations on the number of hits that you send, and their service allows you to update your message online. Net-Ads Submission Station enables webmasters to submit multiple URLs to 24 of the Web's most popular search engines with one click. Simply fill out their form and watch as your site is promoted on multiple sites for free. PNN Web is offering free site submission to 10 search engines to all webmasters, or to 300 directories for those who place a banner link to PNN Web on their site. Pro Launch adds an element of exciting enpredictability to your web surfing experience by providing you with a new start page every time you open your browser. Pages selected by Pro Launch represent some of the best and most interesting sites online, and all are suited to your personal interests. Responders.net provides webmasters with the tools necessary to set up forms on their sites, with form submission results being emailed to the webmaster. Responders.net claims that the process of adding such a form to one's site can be completed in 60 seconds. Strange News is offering webmasters the opportinity to place a free news ticker on their page - providing up-to-date news bulletins and fresh, automatically-updated content to your site's visitors. The ticker also helps increase your traffic as your site will automatically be placed in the SponsorSite webring. Submit Express allows webmasters to submit their URL to a number of popular search indexes, simply by entering their URL and email address. Submission is completed while you wait. SubmitShack offers free website submission to more than 200 search engines and directories, all handled with one form. Tealnet.com is a popular provider of free guestbooks that are profanity-proof and time efficient. Topelko.com is offering a free updater service. They provide you with the HTML code needed to place a form on your site which allows visitors to enter their email address if they wish to receive an email whenever your page is updated. The addresses are stored and able to be administered on the Topelko site, providing you with an easy-to-manage mailing list. Removals, the sending of messages and additions are all easy to administer. Web Address Book has created a solution for people who: A) spend more time online than anywhere else, B) lose track of time while online, C) have a bad habit of misplacing their little black book and/or diary, or D) who simply want to use the most efficient system possible to keep track of their contacts, appointments, memos, to-do lists, bookmarks and more. Web Address Book takes care of all of these by providing an online personal organiser that offers powerful storage and retrieval of your most important data. This is a very professional service, and is highly recommended. webGFX provides an infinitely useful service to webmasters who lack sophisticated graphic design software. Within minutes of visiting webGFX, you can walk away with a series of fully customized logos for your website. And these aren't the boring, grey automatically-generated logos that you may be used to from such online services, these are graphics featuring options such as reflections, shadows, transparencies, outlines, textures, gradient fills, font type and size selection. This service is highly recommended. Website Abstraction has developed a categorized collection of javascript applications that webmasters can add to their page at no charge. Web Spider provides all the free tips and tricks you need to spice up your Website. Includes free tutorials that cover aspects of Web design and promotion, as well as a range of free Javascripts, free custom animated banners and more. Window.to offers webmasters a free URL redirection service. This allows webmasters whose sites are accessed via long, awkward URLs to access the same site via http://window.to/yourname |
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