Website & Blog Helpers
If you're like me, you don't want to create websites for a living, but maybe are trying to create your own website for fun or profit - or even just trying to learn more about it and tweak your site.
It has always been wonderful when I've been able to find free tools for my website on the Internet when I needed them. Â
I work on my own website, and along the way I found I needed tools to help me do things I wanted.
Rather than keep them hidden away in my Favorites List, I decided to share them on this page so more people can find these good websites!
If you have any to suggest, please feel free to let me know about them, so I can consider them for this page. I'd love any suggestions!
What's in this page:
- Free SEO Evaluation of your Website
- Page Rank and Submitting your URL to Search Engines
- Link Checkers - Make sure all your website links are working
- Free Places to Advertise
- Stopping Website Plagiarism
- Ebay Listing Help
- Text and Graphics Sites, Free Animations and Logos
- HTML Help
- Website Color Help
- Places you can get a free website
- Other Squidoo Pages Related to Sitebuilding and SEO
- More Free Website Tools
- Free Photos Pictures for your Website
- Follow me on Twitter!
- Neat Stuff
- Blog Helpers
- Button and Graphic Generators
Free SEO Evaluation of your Website
- Free Evaluation of your Website's SEO
- Free report will help you get on the right track. Unlike other websites that might give you some kind of computerized evaluation of your site, Emily (a real human being!) will evaluate your site and show you the problem areas and give you a quote to get the problems fixed.
If you are paying a lot of money for advertising your site, you may find that having your search engine optimization of your website is an investment that keeps paying you back (I've found is more effective in the long run than advertising.)
Page Rank and Submitting your URL to Search Engines
- Google Page Rank Prediction
- Enter the urls you want to check and see where they are predicted to rank on Google.
- Google Page Rank
- Check your web site ranking report for Google, Yahoo and other search engines
- How to Submit your URL to Search Engines, Google
- How can you index your website in the search engines?!? This is an often asked question for website owners! There are several top search engines to think about. Indexing your website will gain more exposure for your site, since your URL will be indexed among the best of the best...but it's your job
Books to help you build a website
You aren't a dummy to use these, just knowing that none of us know everything there is to know about something is a sign of intelligence. The titles are just to be cute and catch people's attention, and it has worked. The 'for Dummies' series of books have been popular for several years, and each is written and edited by a known expert in the topic featured.
Link Checkers - Make sure all your website links are working
Free link checkers online to ensure all website links are working
- W3C Link Checker
- Free link checker will go through all the links on each page of your site you enter & will alert you to links that are no longer working.
Don't lose this info!
Remember to add this page to your Favorites or email it to yourself so you can find this page again when you need it!(link on right)
Free Places to Advertise
Here are some free places I've found to post a business ad:
Stopping Website Plagiarism
I have had my website content stolen a lot lately. You really have to be vigilant and diligent to make people change it. Duplicate content hurts both the offender and the offended sites!
- Copyscape
- Search for copies of your page on the Web. Defend your site with a plagiarism warning banner! Premium - Unlimited searches, copy and paste. Copysentry - Automatic web monitoring.
- Copyscape How to Respond to Plagiarism
- Actions to take if you find your website content has been stolen.
Ebay Listing Help
- Zoicks
- How to create your own "About Me" page, creating backgrounds, adding images to your auction with HTML, background color selector, jazzing up your page with templates, and more.
Zoicks.com is the place to get your eCommerce website customized, set up and installed. Customer Support is part of the complete package. We stick with you until you are confident with your website and can run it yourself.
Website Designers on eBay
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Text and Graphics Sites, Free Animations and Logos
- CoolText
- Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of work.
HTML Help
I finally have some basic HTML memorized, but it has taken me quite awhile! I still need to go to sites for help.
- Tryit Editor v1.4
- This is an HTML test board. You put your HTML or work on your HTML on the left side of the screen, and on the right you can see it generated into how it would appear. This has saved me a LOT of headaches.
Website Color Help
- Color Match, HTML color code, match website colors, color scheme
- Color Match is a website tool showing how to match website colors and help in choosing a website color scheme or color code. Also displays the HTML Color Code.
Webdesign and Marketing Help Books
Places you can get a free website
- Tripod
- Tripod.com offers free websites that are supported by advertising.
- Google Pages
- Google now offers free websites without any advertising on them. If you already have a Google account, this is very fast and easy.
- Freewebs
- Freewebs offers free websites supported by advertising.
- Site Kreator
- Several people have recommended this free web-site builder to me.
Other Squidoo Pages Related to Sitebuilding and SEO
- SEO Tips for Newbies
- When I first came up with the idea that I could make more money by having my own website I didn't have a clue about what I was getting into!Since then it's been a rat race to get the No.1 page rank in the search engines...
More Free Website Tools
- IBD Host
- Features include tutorials for php cgi shopping cards, etc. Code for a PHP contact form. Lots of good tools here.
- WebsiteGrader.com
- Just enter your url and Website Grader will point you toward some things you can do to improve your website's ranking and marketability.
Free Photos Pictures for your Website
Morguefile has free photos that users upload. Please give the photographers credit whenever and wherever you can to show your appreciation for their kindness and talent!
- morguefile.com Where photo reference lives.
- Morguefile.com free stock photos
- Share-a-pic
- Share a pic offers photos you can use on your website, Squidoo pages, blogs, and more. Users get rewarded by sharing their photos with others.
Follow me on Twitter!
Just WHAT am I up to now?!?
- DarlaDixon
- aka Darla Dixon
- 1,703 followers
- 1,475 following
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Neat Stuff
- Pop Up Generator
- Really easy to use html generator for pop up window
- Scrolling Text Box
- html scrolling text generator
- Blinking Title Bar Text
- If you want text to appear in the title bar of your visitor's browser, this will help you do it. A great way to promote a special offer!
Blog Helpers
Different tutorials, and sources for blog templates
- Make Blogspot Blog into 3 Columns
- This page gives you step-by-step instructions on how to turn the Minima Blogspot Template into a 3 column layout. Works great! Just follow it carefully to make sure you don't miss any steps.
- WooThemes
- Welcome to our WordPress themes shop. At WooThemes you will find some of the most cutting edge WordPress templates...
Button and Graphic Generators
Free button and graphic generators. Glassy buttons, navigation buttons for your website and more.
- Glassy Buttons Generator
- Creates glassy looking buttons.
- Free Web Button Maker - ButtonGenerator.com
- Web Button Generator
Create multipurpose web buttonsfor your website. This one is especially good for navigation buttons
Reader Feedback
What do you think of this page? What did you find the most helpful? What did you find the least helpful? Did you find what you were looking for? Let me know what you need and I'll try to find it!
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- Susan52 Susan52 Jan 4, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
- Thanks for the information, Darla. Bookmarking this page!
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- CleanerLife CleanerLife Nov 7, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
- A lot of good sites listed here, thanks for collecting them all in one place.
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- joe joe Sep 18, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
- Hi Darla,
Thanks for the great post. I'd like to suggest adding YellowBot to the list of places you can advertise for free.
Keep up the good work!
joe
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- natdg natdg Apr 21, 2008 @ 9:42 pm
- These are good resources especially for newbies who has lot to learn about maintaining their site. These are very helpful.
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