Site
Tools and Services
Poll
It:
Poll It is a great free tool for webmasters with any size site.
Poll It allows you to easily add a great looking web poll to your
site. Ask your visitors any question, and set up the possible
answers. Paste some simple code into your site, and you will have
an interactive poll all ready to go. The poll can be customized
to your site's look and feel, all online, and best of all, for
completely free. They also offer other free services such as an
ad rotator, a traffic counter, and a guest book. Highly recommended.
StickyTools:
StickyTools offers a series of well-designed, web-based tools
that allow you to make your site more 'sticky' for your users.
Amongst these tools are: newsfeeds, financial calculators, portfolio
managers, music, nutritional guides, and a simple Tell-a-Friend
applet. Best of all, all of these tools are free to add to you
site.
Moreover.com:
Moreover.com provides a wide variety of newsfeeds you can easily
add to your site to build content. All in all, there are over
2000 news sources available for you to pull from. Once you sign
up for an account with Moreover, you will be able to create in
minutes a newsfeed that matches your site's content and design.
Very powerful.
Everyone.net:
Plug-in-Portal lets you add some of the web’s most valuable
services to your site. Using Everyone.net's online customization
tool and hosted services you can combine email, search, and community
services with your brand and content to instantly create a customized
portal. Your visitors get integrated portal services at their
favorite site, and you get increased customer satisfaction and
loyalty that translates into more page views and additional revenue.
You can add Plug-in-Portal for free, and customize it to your
brand and site in minutes
WebPosition:
The WebPosition site offers a variety of tips on how to improve
your rankings with search engines. You will also be able
to subscribe to a newsletter which provides some GREAT hints,
and up to date news on changes search engines have made to their
search logic. WebPosition also sells the awesome, aptly
named WebPosition software, which allows you to automate the process
of finding where your site ranks in each of the major search engines.
I HIGHLY recommend it for all webmasters as it will save you countless
hours of tedoius work and will help you improve your search engine
rankings!
SiteGauge:
SiteGauge is a convenient web site traffic tracking utility that
provides a wide variety of benefits over standard counters such
as real-time stats on traffic levels for all of your web pages,
as well as detailed referral information so you know where your
traffic is coming from. Best of all, it is free.
BondSmith:
From the same people that offer SiteGauge, BondSmith is an interesting
service that may be of interest to you if you use banners to promote
affiliate programs, pay-per-click programs, or sell ads on a CPM
basis. BondSmith allows you to add banner ad rotation to your
site, without any need for CGI scripts or programming skills.
Using their browser based interface, you are able to setup your
banners (and appropriate links) for rotation, as well as set schedules,
impression maximums, and targeting towards specific pages on your
site. Detailed impression and click-through info is also made
available. The service has other features, too numerous to mention.
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