Thursday, July 16, 2009

IMAGES FOR WEBSITES

Stock Images
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A great site needs great images. Finding good ones can take up a lot of time and resources. This is a list of some of the better stock image sites out there, that have images for free or at a low cost.

When choosing the resolution that you will buy, remember that high resolution is not always better, but it does mean higher download times.

Pick the lowest resolution image that fits your needs. If you are not planning on heavily cropping or blowing up the picture often the lowest resolution will work fine. If you plan on using the image for the print medium or allowing people to print the image from your website, than a higher resolution image may be necessary.

Description
I Stock Photo Low cost stock photos
SXU Highly recomended
YotoPhoto Has Search by color
Morgue File
Stockvault
Stockxpert
Dreams Time
Stock Photography at Foto Search 2 million images from 140 quality stock photography publishers

FREE WEB HOSTING

Free Website Hosting Sites
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Free hosting… Is it worth it? In many cases yes. There are a several main drawbacks to using free hosting.
Lack of credibility
Most place banners on your page – usually in prime real estate like the top of the page.
Most give you a subdomain location or a directory with in their site (mysite.theirsite.com or theirsite.com/mysite/)
Even with these limitations there are some advantages though
It’s free – if you have a lot of domains this can make a difference.
Most come with site builders. If you are hosting a lot of little domains it can take a lot of time to set them up manually. Site builders help.
Separate IPs
So why would you want to use them? Here are some common scenarios.
You have a lot of domains you want to eventually build on or sell.
If your domain does not have a site attached to it, it does not age. By putting up a page or a few pages of text and getting the site indexed you start an aging process. Google does not put much weight on a brand new site. Start the aging process while your domain is waiting for you to get around to putting up the content you planned for it when you bought it.
Aged domains that have some PR also have far more value than unused domains.
Mini Sites. Mini sites are sites that are built on a very specific topic. You can then either place some adsence on the site or link to your main site from these mini sites or both. Mini sites provide highly related links back to your main site.


The advantage of hosting on many of these free hosting sites instead of just one, is that each hosting site will have a different class C IP. This gives the links a less manipulated look to them.

For more information on how your choide of a webhost affects the SEO on your site check out our article on SEO Webhosting

Free Hosting Site List
Free Servers 12 Mb. Banner ad on each page.
Fortune City 1Gb with 3Gb monthly bandwidth.
Tripod 20 Mb.
Angel Fire 20Mb.
Tripod UK 1Gb.
Free Webs 100Mb with 500Mb monthly bandwidth.
Fateback 60Mb with unlimited bandwidth.
Webspawner For beginners.
Biz 50Mb with unlimited bandwidth.
Pro Hosting 100Mb with 1Gb monthly bandwidth.
eSmart 250Mb.
Free Web Space 100 Mb.
Free Homepage 50Mb.
Site Palace 10Mb with unlimited bandwidth.
Top Cities 150Mb.
Domain DLX 100Mb with unlimited bandwidth.
1 ASP Host 100 Mb with unlimited bandwidth.
7 Host 50Mb. Banner ad on each page.
Planet D Unlimited space. Browser uploads.
Eccentrix 50 Mb with 900Mb monthly bandwidth.
2 Global Mart 12Mb. FTP uploads. Web-based email.
Central Pets For pet and animal related websites.
Global Web 50Mb space with 1Gb monthly bandwidth.
100 Megs Free 100Mb.
Anzers Unlimited space and bandwidth.
20 Megs Free 20Mb. Browser or FTP uploads.
T 35 Unlimited space with unlimited bandwidth.
Proper Comfy 50Mb with unlimited bandwidth.
Host Ultra No image galleries allowed.
Oam Web 5 Mb. Banner ad on each page.
Graffiti 20Mb. Button link required.
Storm Pages 50Mb with unlimited bandwidth.
00 Server 20Mb.
Free Web Page 150Mb with 600Mb monthly bandwidth.
Prime Tap 12Mb.
P Send 12Mb. Banner ad on each page.
Web Samba 30Mb with unlimited bandwidth.
Fortune City 25Mb with 0.5Gb monthly bandwidth. .
BZ 12 MB.
MSG Server 20Mb.
Free Web Town
World Break 50Mb.
SNN 50Mb. Banner ad on each page.
Community Architect 12Mb with 512Mb monthly bandwidth.
Comvision 2000 50 Mb.
Xaper 20Mb. Banner ad on each page.
Free Cyberzone 12Mb. Banner ad on each page.
WebHosting Pal 50Mb with 5000Mb monthly bandwidth.
Pci Free Host 12Mb with 512Mb monthly bandwidth.
Ababa 15Mb with 1Gb monthly bandwidth.

FORUM SITES FOR SEO

Free Forums List
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Forums can provide several benefits to a Webmaster. Quality forums are frequently spidered by the Search engines, sometimes even a couple times a day. This provides a quick way to add links to your website. Adding a link to your website from a signature in a forum is a quick way to get your website recognized by Google.

The search engines seem to only count a few links from each domain when counting links to your website, so normally only the first few posts to a forum will help you in your link count. However this is not the only way that a forum can help.

Forums provide valuable services for a Webmaster.
Increased Site Visitors. If you are posting to threads that are popular in the forum and you provide a valuable contribution, you will often receive visitors to your site from the links in your signature.
Web SEO forums also provide a large amount of insight and information on how you can improve on the quality and popularity of your web site.
Forums can also be social gathering places, in any business it is important to "network" or make friends with others sharing similar business interests. Forums are a great place to do this.
Forums are also very useful in keeping up with industry trends. The Internet changes vary rapidly with new marketing ideas being added almost daily. Forums are one of the best ways to keep up to date.
Posting to a forum can often provide an immediate increase in the visitors to your website. Be sure to create a signature for each forum you participate in which includes a link to your website.

There are many good SEO forums on the internet, but these are some of the ones I have found most useful. In addition, you should try to find forums that are specific to your industry. Industry specific forums will help you learn what it takes to market your product or web site.


Forum
Digital Point
Frog Engine Forum
hedir - Human Edited Directory
High Rankings
Site Point
Site Reference
Web Pro World
Webmaster World
wrox

PRESS RELEASE SITES

Free Press Release List
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Press releases are another great way to add back links to your web site. These normally require a specific format, so be sure to read the instructions for each site.

Press releases are not only posted on the web site you submit to, but are also picked up by other related web sites. This can make each press release give you a large number of new back links for your web site and improve your page rank.

However submitting to Press Release sites does take some time, once you have created the release an easy way to get it out to a large number is by using software. When choosing a good program it’s vital that it submits to the sites properly, and makes sure your release gets to the right category.

One program I use that works well is Press Equalizer. It still takes a while to set up before each release, but it gets to the sites and enters the data automatically, saving you a lot of time. Press Equalizer is not free, you do have to buy the software, but the price is not too bad for the time it saves you.

Often, software does not hit all the sites you want and at times it’s worthwhile to pay some of the Press Release sites so that you will be more prominently displayed, for those sites it’s best to submit by hand, otherwise I recommend getting something to help you get the job done faster.

If possible, get the press release written by a professional press release writer. The basic advantage of press release writing service is the specialized content one gets. Professionals bring a unique perspective of their own, which hits the mark rightly. A professional provides with flawless press releases that goes right to the press without any changes. Dzesire.net & Pro Business Writer are some of the players in this field.

Professional press release writers know the basic requirement and as a result, they can work on various angles and get the perfect draft for publication. In contrast, you may not get the desired result if you do not have any experience in this field, which sabotages the purpose of the press release. Therefore, why take a chance! Hire a professional press release writing service right away.

For help on how to write a press release see the article How to Write Press Releases.

Of the many press release sites available I have only included those that have given me the best results. The more you have time to send to the better, but at least do these.




URL
24-7 Press Release
Big News
Express Press Release
Free News Release
Free Press Release
Free Press Release Blog
Free Press Release Center
MB Publishing
PR Free
PR Leap
PR Web
Press Base
Press Box

ARTICLES SUBMISSION

Free Article Submission List
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Another great way to get back links for your web site is to write articles and submit them to web sites that will promote your articles. Write an article on something that you know and put your web site in the signature of the article.

Hundreds of new links
Each time someone adds your article to their web site it adds a new link to your site. This is a great way to add hundreds of new back links to your site to improve your page rank and show yourself to be an expert in your field.

For some ideas on how to write articles to be used for SEO see the article SEO Article Writing 101.

When writing articles for SEO purposes it is important to have your keywords in mind before writing the article, for help in choosing keywords see the article Keywords Choose Them Wisely.

We've compiled a list of some of the top websites for you to submit your articles to. We recomend that you first submit to the sites in our "Top Picks" section, we have found these to be some of the most effective sites on our list. After submitting to the top sites continue through the list submitting your article to each one.

Submission Time Saver
Our list contains the sites that we manually submit to while promoting our own websites, however there are hundreds of additional sites available. Submitting to each one of these Article Directory sites can take a huge amount of time. However there are cost effective tools that can help you submit to these sites quickly and efficiently.

One of the most popular softwares available is Article Submitter! For a onetime purchase, this tool can shave hours off the time it takes you to submit your article, and will give the additional bonus of doing it to hundreds of article submission sites. With each site you get a link back to your site as well as increase the chance of other sites seeing and publishing your article and links.

Article Writing Help
If you don't like to write you will find forums on our "Forum Sites" page where you can find authors to write the articles for you, often for less than $5 - $10 per article. Likely one of the first places you will want to try is the "Digital Point" forum. There are hundreds of writers willing to take on any subject that interests you.

Some authors will submit the article they write for you to a number of article submission sites. It's is often cheaper to buy the software to do it yourself. The other adventage of doing your own submissions (using software) is that you will be able to edit the articles and more importantly the links in the articles if you need to later, this is not available if you have someone else do the submissions.



Top Picks
Articles Base
Ezine Articles
iSnare




Add Me
Amazines
Article 99
Article Alley
Article City
Article Codex
Article Hub
Article Word
ArticleMark
Articles Base
Articles House
Articleware House
Author Connection
Business Know How
Business Publicationss
Business Tool Chest
Buzzle
Connection Team
Content Tycoon
Cumuli
digital-women
Dime-co
Ezine Articles
Ezine Trendz
Ezine-Writer
Free Article Exchange
Free Sticky
Free Zine Site
free-articles-zone
Freebie Articles

DIRECTORIES INCLUSION

Web Directory Inclusion
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Back links are a vital part of raising your score with the search engines. Buying links can be very expensive and finding sites willing to link to your site can be very time consuming. Still link building should play an important part of your web site promotion strategy.

Submitting your web site to relevant free inclusion web directories is an easy way to gain back links to your web site. There are hundreds of inclusion web directories on the Internet willing to link to you web site for free.

The purpose of this list of web directories is to make it easier to add your web site to a large number of online directories. Choose the Google Page Rank (PR)

below that you would like to start with, the list can be filtered to remove specialty web directories by checking the “View General Directories only” checkbox. Click on the link directory you would like to add your web site to. Click on the add site or the link suggest/add url and follow the instructions of the directory. Often you will be asked to work your way to the most relevant category before you suggest your link for inclusion. When you are finished adding your web site, close the window and choose the next directory.

To see what the PR of these directories as well as you own site you can download the toolbar for Internet Explorer of install Firefox with the Google toolbar.



Directory Submission Services
An option for those that don’t have the time to add their websites to hundreds of directories is to use a directory submission service. The price varies considerable for these services depending on the features offered. Some of the things that can affect the price are:

Do they check to see if your website is already in the directory before submitting? If not then the service may only be suitable for new websites that have not been submitted before.
Do they vary the link text? It’s best not to have the text used for the links all the same. If the directory allows, try to switch between several choices of text.
How many web directories do they submit to?
Will they give you a list of all the web directories they submit to?
Over what period of time do they submit to directories? Some will submit to several hundred directories, it might be best to stagger this over a few months.
What is the mixture of PRs for the directories? You would not want to pay a lot to be submitted to only PR0 directories, while it’s fine to submit to them too, you would want to be sure there are many PR5, PR6 and PR7 directories submitted to also.
Don’t expect 100% acceptance in free submit web directories. If the service does a good job most of the web directories should accept your site, but often not all will.

One service I've used in the past that has produced very good results is

Best Web Directories' Manual Submission Service.
They provide prompt service at what I feel to be a fair price, and you should be happy using this directory submission service. For the price you pay, this service will give you a nice boost of links that you can continue to add to later.

Other Promotional Strategies

While web directory submission should not be the only link building strategy you use, it can be very effective in adding back links to your site. Don’t forget to check out our “Article submission”, “Press release”, and "SEO Forum" pages for more tips on link building.

If you need more information on how to submit your web site to a link directory you will find this article to be useful.

Tips on Quickly adding Web Sites to Directories.
How To Manage Directory Submissions.
Don't Spam Google!

GOOGLE PAGE RATING

Google PageRank - Definition
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Written by Guest Writer The basic idea of the algorithm PageRank is that incoming links on a website should be considered a recommendation. The more links to a page has the more important the page is considered. The scale of PageRank ranges from 0 to 10, with the value of 10 represents the upper end, and very few Web pages have a PageRank of 10. It receives a page with many incoming links on a higher PageRank, and the higher the PageRank of link page, the higher the value of the receiving end's link page. The idea is that a link (recommendation) from an important page (higher PageRank) is worth more than a page which itself has a low PageRank.

The concept of PageRank was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University and that design led to the founding of Google by both. They were the first to display results almost exclusively due to the PageRank of sorted pages. That represented a revolution, since up to this time, the Internet search pages were only then evaluated by how often the keywords in the text and in the meta tags occurred.

PageRank was an innovation where the webmaster could no longer easily manipulate the positions in the search results pages of thier web pages just by repeating certain keywords. This novel method of valuation also attributed to the great success of the search engine Google, because much more relevant search results were delivered. But it turns out that this method of evaluation of a web page could not remain as the sole criterion, because link exchange, link buying and blog entries also affects PageRank.