People are asking lots of questions about optimizing. Here are some sites that might help (Updated for a few items on 10/31/07):

For marketing:
www.backpage.com
www.craigslist.com - will not take business ads
www.prweb.com
www.prleap.com


SEO Tools:
My current favorite is:
SEO CHAT - with lots of different tools
http://www.sitereportcard.com/
http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html

Keyword Suggestion Tools: (some of these will not work with the new Google rules or if you don't already have a Google api)
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/
http://inventory.o*****re.com/d/sear...ry/suggestion/

A great Keyword Tracking Tool:
http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker.html

Ranking Tool:
http://www.googlerankings.com/
http://www.yahoosearchrankings.com/
http://www.nichebot.com/ranking/

HTML:
http://www.htm**oodies.com/
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey...ml_cheatsheet/
http://www.activejump.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

On line html editor:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit....=tryhtml_links

Check site's xhtml validation:
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_validate.asp

Web-safe Fonts:
http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

Backlink Checker:
http://www.webuildpages.com/neat-o/


Plus some others just cuz:

Making a Favicon:
http://www.html-kit.com/favicon

Colors on your website:
http://www.trainingtools.com/Resources/Color_Chart/
http://www.allprofitallfree.com/color-wheel.html
http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

JavaScripts:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/cutpastejava.shtml

For countdown banners:
http://siggiez.com/countdownz/index.cgi

Banner and Slideshow codes:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com


Render a Logo:
http://cooltext.com/

Credit Card Logos:
http://www.merchantexpress.com/credit-card-logos.htm


These are some of the websites I use or have used and find useful for beginners and pro alike. Hope they help.

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Beth
A Child's Palace - Pinata Palace - Moxie Enterprises

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