SEO and Marketing Tools

Bethers · #1 05-06-2006, 04:23 AM

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.

beebrothers · #2 12-23-2006, 11:50 PM

lots of useful info..thanks

philipc9635 · #3 12-24-2006, 12:02 AM

Hey Beth

It's like getting a Christmas present

Thanks

Bethers · #4 12-24-2006, 12:05 AM

You're very welcome - glad some people are finding this post.

webb and romic · #5 03-19-2007, 03:27 PM

dear Beth
I lve this post as I have been looking for a script for drop down window that you can close and move around, and hey i found it thanks to your links. great that dynamic site...
even i understood most of it
thanks
james

oh beth just a quick question in the wrong forum i know sorry ... but how do you get your pages to fit the whole screen instead of what mine look lke when i set to 800 and centre. the reason is i am opening a new site for designer jewellery and need the pages to be wider like yours but with no side scrool
thanks in advance...
james

larazovich · #6 03-19-2007, 03:39 PM

thanks for these Beth.

karel · #7 03-19-2007, 05:53 PM

Thanks for that Beth, some I have come across before and some not. The tool that helped check my spelling was useful, I caught two mistakes on my site, there's me thinking it was perfic in that depeartment.

Bethers · #8 03-19-2007, 06:46 PM

James,
If you see my sites whole screen, it's only because I make my sites at about 1000 width instead of 800 - which means people who still have the 800 width have to scroll. But people with 1024 and above (about 80% + of internet users) do not. It is still not full screen for any of the resolutions - just wider.

If you want your site to be universal with no sidescroll, you'd have to keep your 800 width in BV.

Thanks, Liz and Paul! Good thing James bumped this post!

webb and romic · #9 03-21-2007, 02:01 PM

HI Beth
Thanks for the info. I think i am better keeping it at 800 then instead
but it leaves not much room for other related products on the add to cart page but i will live!!!!
If you have any other fanbtastic links hiding up your sleeve then please drop them down as its like having a birthday present early... and so much fun to do and add to the site makes it look so much more professional.... well i hope
thanks beth your a gem!!!! i'll give you discount on my website... if you like jewellery that is. (it's coming soon)
James

scubadiver · #10 03-27-2007, 01:58 AM

Beth, thanks for all the useful sites. I will be using some of them to help my site along. Thanks so much!

1lear · #11 05-02-2007, 06:26 PM

Excellent and helpful and more work for me (smile)

Andy128 · #12 05-02-2007, 08:30 PM

Beth- You're a star once again. Thanks for taking the time to do all this.

**By the way- I'm still climbing in Google thanks to you.

Andy

karel · #13 05-04-2007, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Beth- You're a star once again. Thanks for taking the time to do all this.

**By the way- I'm still climbing in Google thanks to you.

Ditto Beth, my site is now on the second page for the word 'Anxiety' and the first page for so many key phrases, the sites above it are mostly goverment or charity sites that I will probably never be able to compete with. So anyone who has a chance to read Beths e-book, do so, its a great place to start and learn.

This is also a good chance to bump this post up, some excellent recources above.

Bethers · #14 05-06-2007, 06:41 PM

TY Andy and Paul - you are both superstars in my book - and have done such wonderful jobs with your own sites - people should look and learn from them.

SEO isn't really hard - it just requires some homework and applying the right information - which is actually always remembering who the site is for (and it's never for ourselves).

asirimarco · #15 05-06-2007, 07:30 PM

Hi Beth - many thanks for the info from long ago - will use it to advantage. even tho I am not commercial I get a lot of people who want to drive to south america. i just got an internet connection after for being without a while and wondered where you were.

Patience · #16 05-09-2007, 01:03 AM

Beth, you're a doll! Thanks for this thread.

Bethers · #17 05-09-2007, 04:24 AM

YW, Ann - and good to have you back posting.

Thanks, Vicki!