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The impression that you need large sums of money to set up asuccessful (and profitable) website is totally wrong.Indeed, the longer that I do business on the Internet themore I find that there are numerous free resources out therethat can be amazingly helpful. I thought therefore that I'd put together a list of my tenfavourite free business-building resources and exactly whatthey can do for you.Ready?1) Link CheckersVisitors to websites hate "dead links" - links that don'tgot anywhere.And because visitors hate it, so do search engines. They'llpenalise you for dead links.Therefore, by just making sure all your links work properlyyou'll look more professional, get better rankings in thesearch engines and build better rapport with your visitors.> http://validator.w3.org/checklink2) AlexaAlexa ranks websites by traffic. The smaller the number oftheir ranking, the more traffic they get.You can use it to keep a running tab of whether your trafficis increasing or decreasing - and compare it to yourcompetitors. Another useful feature is to check out potential linkpartners. Someone emails you and asks for a reciprocal link.But if you're getting more visitors each day than they'llget all year then it's not a fair deal - you'll send themtons of traffic and get virtually nothing back in exchange.> http://www.alexa.com3) Google ToolbarThe Google toolbar has two particurly useful features.Firstly by installing it on your browser, whenever you visita website it'll tell you their Google PageRank. PageRank isGoogle's measure of how "important" a site is. A PR of 1-2is typical for new sites. 5 is reasonable and 7+ is veryimpressive indeed.By only linking to high PR sites (5+) Google will seeyou in a better light.Secondly, is that the Google Toolbar effortlessly lets youcheck "backwards links".That way, you simply surf over to each of your maincompetitors, and use this feature to see which websites arelinking to them. Then assess each website based on their PRand Alexa ranking to quickly come up with a powerful list ofpotential link partners. Easy!> http:/ oolbar.google.com/4) BetterWhoisYou've got a list of potential link partners with highquality sites. Next visit each one to check for the qualityof the site and that it's theme is closely related to yours.Then find some way to contact them.But what if you can't find one anywhere?Just visit BetterWhois, type in the domain name, and up willpop all the information - including their email address.Sorted. > http://www.betterwhois.com5) Link PartnersDone all of that, and still want more link partners? Wellhow about a website that lists dozens of websites, allactively looking for link partners?> http://www.linkpartners.com 6) The Warrior ForumProbably the greatest internet marketing discussion forum ofall time, run by a select group of very helpful andsuccessful internet marketers.Together with links to tons of free articles, ebooks andspecial offers for visitors to the forum you'd have to bemad not to become a regular. > http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/7) Internet Marketing IndexThe real strength of this site is that it is a *huge*database of marketing products and services.All the links are categorised under dozens of headings -search engine optimisation, running a newsletter, writingebooks etc.So if you have a problem but don't know where to start - youjust find the relevant heading and follow all the links tosee masses of ebooks, programs and member sites that'll tellyou everything you need to know about that topic.> http://www.internetmarketingindex.com8) GetResponseThe very least you should be doing with your website isgathering email addresses of your visitors. You can then usethis information to market to them time and again.You may decide to run a full-blown newsletter, and you mighteven like to use an autoresponder to distribute usefularticles or sales letters to your prospects.Whichever of these you decide to do, GetResponse will do itfor you. > http://www.getresponse.com/index/400399) HyperTrackerProduced by the same people as GetResponse, HyperTracker isan ad tracking service. If you place adverts anywhere on thenet HyperTracker will let you keep ontop of the results.> http://www.hypertracker.com/index/4003910) Sitesell's Free EbooksSitesell have made some free "trial" copies of theirebooks available - which are a fantastic introduction totheir company, and e-commerce in general.You-d have to be mad not to try them all out if you're newto e-commerce.> http://freetrial.sitesell.com/buynow.html**Note To Editors** If you decide to use this article on your website or in your newsletter, you are more than welcome to sign up to our affiliate program and swap our direct link to EbookSalesAssistant.com with your own affiliate link. Find out more at http://www.EbookSalesAssistant.com/affiliates.html Article Tags: Link Partners