Monthly Archives: July 2009

Traffic Volume Estimator: Statbrain.com

Tool: Network Solutions Domain Name Tools URL: http://www.statbrain.com Key benefit: It helps you assess  the traffic volume of various websites (expressed in estimated number of visits per day) Tip: Use this tool to research  your competition – assess their web … Continue reading

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Network Solutions Domain Name Tools

Tool: Network Solutions Domain Name Tools URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/and WHOIS service Key benefit: Conveniently search for availability of domain names and also see which organization is behind a particular domain name (WHOIS Search). Network Solutions is a trusted company, unlike some … Continue reading

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Web Development Training: W3Schools.com

Tool: W3Schools.com URL: http://w3schools.com Key benefit: You can save yourself a lot of time and money if you even just learn some of the very basics of web development… learning simple HTML will go along way in helping you master … Continue reading

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16bugs project requirements tracking tool

Tool: 16bugs.com project and bug tracking tool URL: http://16bugs.com Key benefit: This tool is marketed as a software bug tracker but I have found it also works really well as a simple and elegant tool to help organize your tasks … Continue reading

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Zoho Online CRM

Tool: Zoho  CRM URL: http://www.crm.zoho.com Key benefit: Online CRM (Customer Relationship System) helping you manage your sales tasks, contacts, leads, e-mails… Tip: Check out many other Zoho’s productivity and business applications, such as Zoho projects, Zoho meetings, etc. : http://www.zoho.com/ … Continue reading

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Web Archive (www.archive.org)

Tool: Archive.org – Way Back Machine URL: http://www.archive.org Key benefit: To help you find “old” content on the web: the content that is no longer available live Tip: Have you ever looked for information on a certain website only to … Continue reading

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Core FTP Lite

Tool: Core FTP URL: http://www.coreftp.com/ Key benefit: Free tool to conveniently and quickly transfer files over the Internet, using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). If you are involved at all with website development or simply dealing with large files that you … Continue reading

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Search engine submission to Google and Bing

Tool: Search engine submission to Google and Bing URL: http://www.google.com/addurl/,http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx, Yahoo is a bit different… it will be covered in a different posting. Key benefit: There’s no point putting in all the time and energy into your website, if no … Continue reading

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Google Analytics

Tool: Google Analytics URL: http://www.google.com/analytics/ Key benefit: You can’t do Internet marketing, optimize your website, better understand your customers, etc. without a Web analytics program and Google Analytics describes itself well as an “Enterprise-class web analytics made smarter, friendlier and … Continue reading

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WordPress

Tool: WordPress: Blogging and content management system URL: http://wordpress.org/ Key benefit: There are lots of different blogging software options, but WordPress is almost unquestionably the best one. This free platform can be used for sophisticated websites as well as more … Continue reading

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