All are FREE and/or have FREE sections on each site.
Try these out and let me know which ones you think are best. If you find one you don't like, or a site does not go to a good SEO site, let me know and I'll take it off.
Submitting your Site:
Submit to DMOZ (for nonprofit sites)
Podcasting:
More about Google
Designing your Pages
Website Resources - market your website and put it on search engines
75 Useful Web Design Resources
Other Resources
Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
Check the Ebay Tips page for more interesting links, too.
Important to know: WHAT IS SEO? For people just getting to this page, SEO is Search Engine Optimization. It's the art of having people actually FIND your page.
Here are some ways to optimize your web page:
Get a free counter
Question #1: What is a counter?
A counter is a tallying program that people can choose to put on the bottom of their web pages. A counter tells you how many people are on your site each day. Some companies can tell you exactly where each computer is that comes to your page, when the busiest time of day is for your page, and much more.
This can be fun to find out, and kind of addicting. I remember how thrilled I was when I found out that people were coming from other countries to see my website. It was really fun.
And, best of all, you don't need to spend money in order to put these programs on your website.
When you go to a site to get a free counter, the site will have instructions telling you how to download their free files. Here are some great sites that offer counters:
Bravenet not only has great counters (customizable, too) but has other totally free services that webmasters can use to make their web pages spiffier. They have free forms, chat rooms, templates, and a lot more. They offer their services (as most sites do) to webmasters.
The Sitemeter site pages can give even more information about your site visitors. I decided to put both of these kinds of counters on my pages. Unfortunately, both services have limits as to how many pages you can put counters on. You can pay to be able to count everyone on every page, all the time. Maybe I will do this someday.
More about being a webmaster:
Don't worry if you are just a beginner at "webmastering." If you have a web page, you already are a webmaster, because you are in charge of that page. Bravenet and the other services on this page make it their job to explain their services, and that makes things a lot easier.
I still am a beginner at both SEO and web page design, but I feel that I can help others save a lot of time finding information through these links and sites. I can't wait to explore each site even more. Let me know what you think about the sites, and please email me with others you like.
Icons
How to make Icons for your page
SEO Tools
More Advice Sites
Get a successful site - one tip at a time
Free book on how to start your own business
Marketing Advice
Attracting advertisers to your site
Affiliate Program directory pages http://www.associateprograms.com/directory/
Blogging
Website Troubleshooting
Hosting Services
Get a Domain Name