Webmaster Tools

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Advertising Networks

Add these advertisements to your website and earn money!


Google Adsense
“Discover your site’s full revenue potential”

Chitika
“Turning page views into profits”

AdBrite
“The Internet Marketplace”

Text Link Ads
“Targeted Traffic, Branding and Link Popularity”

Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN)
An advertising programme from Yahoo!, which is still in Beta. They currently accept applications from U.S. only.

CrispAds
Pay per click blog advertising network.

Blogads
One of the leading blog advertising network.

Commission Junction
“A global leader in the online advertising channels of affiliate marketing and managed search.”

Last updated by elf on April 26th, 2006.

Directory Submission

To appear in many different directories, including Google Directory, you only need to get your website submitted into one directory:

OPD (dmoz)
Open directory project.
How to submit: Submitting a site to the Open Directory Project

Last updated by elf on June 16th, 2007.

Domain Name Registration

A few recommended domain registration sites:

Last updated by elf on June 13th, 2006.

Keywords Analysis

Overture Keyword Analysis/Selector Tool
Not sure what search terms to bid on? Enter a term related to your site to this tool and they will show you related searches that include your term and how many times each of the listed terms was searched on last month!

PRsearch
PRsearch offers services to check the PageRank of your site and also position of your site on certain keywords in top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN). With this tool, you don’t have to browse thru search results page by page to check your position.

Keyword Density Analyzer
A keyword density and word depth calculator. It helps you to determine whether there are too little or too many keywords on a certain page in your site.

NicheBOT
A keyword research service for better search engine placement. Type a keyword or phrase and get the top 10 related keyword discovery listings to find out the best keyword for your website.

Last updated by elf on April 25th, 2006.

Search Engine Submission

Always remember to submit all your websites to these search engines (at least the 3 top search engines) to make your sites appear in their search results.

Add your URL to Google
“Share your place on the net with us.”
Remember to add the sitemap of your site to Google Sitemaps to further help Google to crawl your website better. Also, check out Google’s Webmaster Help Center for some guides from Google.

Yahoo! Submit Your Site
“Suggest your site for inclusion in Yahoo! Search.”
(This site requires registration)

MSN Search URL Submission
“Submit your site to MSN Search”

Last updated by elf on April 28th, 2006.

Webmaster Forums

WebmasterWorld
“News and Discussion for the Web Professional”

Digital Point
A very active webmaster forum on internet marketing and search engines.

SitePoint
“Empowering Web Developers Since 1997″
They covered web design, CSS, XHTML, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Affiliate Marketing, ASP.NET and also website promotion.

Ozzu
A webmaster forum on search engine optimization (SEO), Google, programming, hosting, web design and internet marketing.

Last updated by elf on April 26th, 2006.

Website Hit Counter

StatCounter
“Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats.”
A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter/meter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

Google Analytics
“Sophisticated. Easy. Free.”
Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors.

Site Meter
“Counter and Statistics Tracker.”
Site Meter is a free, fast, and easy way to add a web counter to your web page. Not only does it display the number of visitors to your web site, it also keeps statistics on the number of visits each hour and each day. (Sample Site Meter Report)

Last updated by elf on April 28th, 2006.