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Earning Revenue • Stopping
Spam • Search Engines/Directories
• Webmaster Tools • Articles
• Security • Misc.
Authoring Tips • About Sterling

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 | Google AdWords
- serves page-content-relevant ads to your site from their database.
Need tax ID number. Pays monthly if more than $100. |
 | Amazon.com
Affiliates - earn percentage on items (e.g. books) sold because of link
from your site. |
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My favorite search
engines & directories: |
 | How My
Web Pages Rank High on the Search Engines |
 | Word
Count - A tool you might find helpful when submitting material to
directories, or articles for review. |
 | For searching; Comprehensive, fast, weighted. (Far better than Yahoo.)
 | www.google.com Google
excels at finding THE BEST FEW links FAST for something that's really
WELL KNOWN with its "inbound link quality" ranking
system. I recommend also getting the google search navigation
bar. I use it dozens of times a day, and it is integrated into
your browser. |
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 | Most probable and effective for getting your site listed widely.
 | www.DMOZ.com 's Open
Directory Project, with its volunteer editor driven database, is
used by the majority of the top ten search engines, including AOL,
Hotbot, Lycos, Google (Yahoo's default), AltaVista, as well as hundreds
of other major directories. |
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 | About Yahoo
 | Extremely difficult to get listed there. Don't spend time
submitting anything but your very best pages. It once took six
months for them to accept a site I submitted. |
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 | Christian Search Engines and Directories
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 | LDS
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 | Misc.
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 | GifWiz -
dramatically reduce the file size of your images for faster downloads
and reduced bandwidth expense. I use it several times a day. |
 | Domain Registration
 | The one I use > ItsYourDomain.com
- $14.95/year, with volume discounts available. Easy to use,
excellent free tech support. Outstanding service. |
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 | I use Microsoft's FrontPage
2000 to author my web sites. |
 | pages.google.com -
Google's new free page creator tool. |
 | FrontPage
Express is a free program you can use to create/format web content. |
 | Bravenet.com -
specializing in easy-to-use, free webmaster tools. |
 | Web
Design Tips and Tricks - great for webmasters |
 | Send-a-link.com - add
a referral link to the bottom of your website like is found at the bottom of
this one. |
 | HTML Goodies
- beginning to advanced HTML as well as JavaScripting tips. |
 | JavaScript
 | Matt's
Script Archive - [advanced] Over 20 free Perl and C++ CGI scripts to
help make your web site more interactive! Guestbook, FFA links, WWWboard,
Counters, Formmail, cookie library, random image displayer, random link
generator, more |
 | The Javascript
Source - (free) tons of cut and paste scripts for your web pages. |
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 | AnyBrowser.com -
free browser compatibility check, meta tag generator. |
 | Discussion Resources
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 | WhatUseek.com
- free search feature for your site |
 | BeSeen.com - free polls,
chat, search, bulletin boards, shopping carts, more. |
 | PetitionOnline.com
- free online hosting of
public petitions for responsible public advocacy |
 | LinkExchange -
banner exchange (free). Caution: terrible customer support; if you
have problems you may never get an answer. |
 | Alta Vista Translation
- free. |
 | Urban
Legends - see if that latest disturbing e-mail announcement has any
merit. |
 | AJR News Links -
listing of newspapers, magazines, television, radio. |
 | Thoughts.com - free
script for an uplifting quote of the day. See my
endorsement. |
 | Bobby - a web-based
tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with
disabilities. |
Basic Usage Tips:
Articles:
 | EPIC Online
Guide to Practical Privacy Tools - snoop proof email, anonymous
remailers, surf anonymity, HTML filters, cookie busters, voice privacy,
email and file privacy, web encryption, disc encription. |
 | OptOut:
(free) Have you unknowingly installed software that covertly monitors and
inventories your computer data for transfer to a third party? They have a
program that you can run free that checks your hard drive for you. I
had 24 snooper programs/utilities on my hard drive that it removed for me.
http://grc.com/optout.htm
[Note: a friend said that this service themselves placed
snooping stuff on the hard drive when they ran their program]. |
This page posted on August 3, 2000
visits since November 2, 2001
Page last updated on November 04, 2007
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