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• Earn Cash from Your Site
  learn how to add paying links to your site and get checks mailed to you every month
• Promoting Your Site
  Build traffic to your site with these extremety effective and free (or cheap) resources
• Building Your Site
  help with constructing and attractive and useful site
• Registering Your Domain Name
  register your domain for $15 or less
• Hosting Your Site
  find places that will host your site for cheap or even free
• Tracking Your Stats
  resources to help you track visitors to your site
• Testing Your Site
  other resources to help make sure your site runs smoothly
    

• Cheap Hosting

• $15 Domain Registration

Registering Your Site

• WhoIs? - Get info on who owns a particular domain

• Internic - Register your domain name directly (no extra fees)

• Directnic - Register domains for $15 a year, cheaper than internic

• FreeDomainForLife - Get your free domain today !

Hosting Your Site

• Hostsave - $6.95 a month for EVERYTHING I need.  Mailboxes, forwards, good space, stats

Building Your Site

• Webmonkey - Site programming tips and lessons from Wired

• Builder.com - More HTML programming tips and lessons

• Beginner's Guide to HTML

• HTML Quick Reference

• Microsoft IE HTML Reference

• HTML Reference Manual

Tracking Your Stats

• Hitbox - Put a little box on your site, and you'll get great stats coverage.... FREE

Earning Cash from Your Site
These are the sites that I recommend to make money easily from any web site getting traffic.  These are my top personal money makers - the only thing stopping me from millions is not enought traffic ;-).

• Commission Junction - turn your traffic into profits. Within a few minutes, you can be placing individual products and links from hundreds of quality merchants on your web sites and earning revenues from them. It's that simple.  My favorite part is that the minimum is across merchants, so you don't have to wait months to get paid... you'll get your check every month if you hit $25 total.
• DirectLeads - Offer your visitors free stuff and free memberships to cool programs, and make $1, $2, or even $10 per signup.  One of my top moneymakers.
• Websponsors - Similar to Directleads above -  make cash for sending people to free programs
• Valueclick - ValueClick will pay you $.12 for every click-through one of their ads on your site gets. I use it on most of my other sites (and possibly soon this one, if it gets some traffic)... its really easy to set up (just copy and paste some HTML) and they just mail you checks. THIS is why the Internet is amazing.
• QuickCommerce - accept credit cards and checks on the internet to sell WHATEVER you want

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Promoting Your Site

• Paid Submission Service - submit DIRECTLY to the main engines yourself IN ONE STEP -
  GUARANTEED 48 hour inclusion to Altavista, HotBot, iWon, LookSmart, MSN, Overture, Slider, whatUseek and other search engines.
   

• Webposition - the software the professionals use to get great search engine placement

• Search.com - Submit your site to 15 major search engines for FREE

• Search Engine Watch - Ratings of the major sites, and info on how to get better listings

• Linkexchange - Trade space on your site for free advertising on others

• Site Inspector by LinkExchange

• Sparklist is a great value for maintaining a mailing list, starting at $50 per month

Great Utilites (not free, but worth it)

• SubmitWolf - submit your web pages to thousands of engines automatically.  Register your website's details with 1500+ of these sites, simply and quickly achieving mass exposure.  Why pay a submission service to promote just a single URL, when for just $95 you can own the software which many such services themselves use. In addition, you can submit as many URLs as you like, at no extra cost. Incidentally, over 1000 URL submission services rely on SubmitWolf technology.

• Trellian FTP - a good FTP application to transfer your files to your Web site.  transfer files between your PC and any FTP server on the Internet

• Button Factory - quickly and easily create stunning buttons, menus, logos and icons for use on your website or multimedia presentations

• Classify 98 - automated submission wizard for classified Ads.  It has a database of over 1500 Classified sites and can submit your Ad to up to 500 Free Internet Classified sites within minutes. Manually, the same task would take days, if not weeks.

• Global Promote - will submit your site to tons of 100s of engines for $25

Testing Your Site

• Site Inspector by LinkExchange - Check your site's popularity, HTML validity, search engine rankings, and more

• Web Site Rater - check for dead links, spelling, browser compatability

• siteowner.com - Various goodies for site owners, including Meta Tag Building, and other tests

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