Google Webmaster Tools: Webmaster resources that will help you with your crawling and indexing questions. Using these tools will improve your traffic, enhance your sites functionality, and help grow your internet business.

Google Analytics: A free tool that will help you write better ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives, and create higher-converting websites. The statistics will show you where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site.

Google Alerts: Receive email updates on the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. Example, type in “SEO TOOlS” to be notified when google indexes a page related to SEO Tools.

Yahoo Site Explorer: Allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page…i.e. find competitor’s link partners.

SEOBook.com Keyword Research: A fast, easy, reliable, and FREE way to perform keyword research. This tool shows you how many people search for keyword phrases in Google, Yahoo, MSN, and even results from WordTracker.com!

SEO For Firefox: See important competitive research and search engine marketing data directly inside Google and Yahoo search results. This extension pulls in many useful marketing data points making it a great competitive research tool.

Search Engine Rank Checker: Want to know where your website ranks in the search results? SEOBook.com Firefox Rank Checker extension allows you to easily check your website rankings in Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live search.

Back Link Analyzer: A free link popularity / link analysis tool. It shows what anchor text is linking into a page or site. So to surpass your competitors, plug in their URL, press submit, and find ALL sites that link to them, and copy

SEOChat.com Keyword Difficulty: see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or keyword phrases. This tool issues a percentage score that indicates how difficult it would be to rank on the first page for a keyword phrase.

Compete.com: Compete helps you benefit from click-sharing by providing free services that create a more trusted, transparent, and valuable Internet. Their main tool is “Site Analytics” which shows how many visitors ANY website receives.

Quantcast.com: Quantcast is the only open internet ratings service. They provide advertisers with audience profiles for millions of websites and services. Their “Similar Audience” reports provides a great competition research tool.

Alexa.com: Old. Yes, Alexa has been around for ages. It is a shame they decided to only display web statistics dating back 1 year instead of their normal 5. Still a very useful tool for webmasters analyzing competitors.

Archive.org: Also known as the “Way Back Machine” archive.com allows you to see how old a website is and what it looked like in the past. A great SEO Research Tool to use if buying an domain name for a micro site.

Stompernet Site Seer: A very “Confident’ Brad Fallon & Andy Jenkins put together an elaborate marketing campaign to promote Stomper Scrutinizer. It is a great tool but watching their videos is like watching Phil Helmuth play poker…very good but annoying.

Technorati.com: Technorati is a Blog Search / Web 2.0 Aggregation site. The lower your Technorati rank the better. However, a score of ZERO means you aren’t listed, so that isn’t good. Technorati is a great SEO TOOL to use for finding what “Blog / Web 2.0″ reach your internet business has

PRWEB.com: PRWEB is the large and respectable online press release distribution company. By publishing your press release through PRWEB your news will be Google, Yahoo, and MSN Live. Read webbizideas.com latest press release.

ADDTHIS.com: Do you ever see those Social Bookmarking Sharing Buttons - Del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook Widget, My Yahoo, and other little icons attached to blog posts? They are they to help webmasters build links…save time and use AddThis.com

SHARETHIS.com: Same concept as AddThis.com but more geared towards social networking sites. You can share articles through Email, AIM, SMS, Myspace, Facebook, and other Social Networks and Social Bookmarking Sites.

EzineArticles.com: Is a large & respectable article submission company. By submitting a unique and well written article through them you will receive decent exposure & deep back links. You can waste your time submitting articles to 1,000’s of directories or use quality directories like Ezine to spread your news.

Scribd.com: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” Scribd allows you to upload ANY sort of document to promote your product or service. HINT: Upload a document about SEO TOOLS and link it back to your site.

Squidoo.com: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” Squidoo allows you to easily create multiple back links to your site by creating multiple ‘lenses’ (i.e. web pages) on their website. View our Squidoo.com lens on “How to Start an Internet Business.”

YouTube.com: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” YouTube.com is a great place to watch funny videos. YouTube.com receives twice as many page views as Google does! Submitting a promotional video to YouTube.com correctly can SKYROCKET brand awareness & traffic to your company website.

StumbleUpon.com: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” SU has a great collaborative filtering/recommendation engine that helps users find ne & related websites to their topics of interest. Internet Marketers join communities and use their networking power to promote their clients.

Reddit.com: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” Instead of bookmarking favorite sites on your desktop computer users bookmark them online using Reddit. You can also submit stories. If 1,000’s of people bookmark you, do you think that is good?

Digg.com: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” Instead of bookmarking favorite sites on your desktop computer users bookmark them online using digg. You can also submit stories. If 1,000’s of people bookmark you, do you think that is good?

Del.icio.us: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” Instead of bookmarking favorite sites on your desktop computer users bookmark them online using Del.icio.us. You can also submit stories. If 1,000’s of people bookmark you, do you think that is good?

Wikipedia.org: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” What, your website can be listed on Wikipedia.com? many people know of Wikipedia but don’t realize that ANYONE can edit the site…if you know what you are doing your site can be listed.

Flickr.com: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” Flickr is a social networking tool, a media sharing tool, a collaboration tool, and interactive tool. Webmaster, upload photos that relate to your product & service and link back to your site.

NewsVine.com Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” Newsvine is a perfect example of a social media / networking news website. If is a great place to submit new story. The best part about newsvine is that it is fast. if you have quality news it will be picked up and it will be featured.

Yahoo Answers: Have you heard the term “Social Marketing?” A user asks a question, another answers it. If you are a bike shop why not answer questions dealing with buying & fixing bikes to increase your brand exposure?

A great promotional technique to any business (online or off line) is witting & publishing a press release.  I tell my clients to (1) make sure your news is actually newsworthy (2) write for the media (3) include back links to your website.  When I write & submit a press release I think creatively, consider the bloggers, and use my press release to create deep links to products or services I am promoting.

PRWeb.com is the best place to submit a release but if you don’t have the $200 (best solution) to submit through them try these 100 free press release websites; download list below:

100 Free Press Release Websites

If you want to start an internet business on a “Shoe String Budget” you NEED to have a strong passion for the business/industry you are getting into. If you have the passion, you will acquire knowledge, and eventually wisdom; becoming a leading voice in your industry. As an expert you rely on yourself to build & market so your expenses are less.

Below I have I go over my ideas for the cheapest, fastest, and cost effective way to start an internet business on a budget. This was in response to a forum post where the user had a passion for “horror movies / Halloween.”

Build an Online Directory: Buy http://www.esyndicat.com directory software and start listing websites that deal with horror movies, haunted attractions, Halloween, horror merchandise, etc…

WHY: (1) finding related websites doesn’t cost money (2) a good internet business not only knows their competition but is associated with them. (3) will be a great way to familiarize yourself with the entire “horror industry.”

Build a Blog/Content Management System (CMS): Use Wordpress to save time & money. I would recommend using www.revolutiontheme.com for buying a template & installing the software (only $79). read about Blog Website Design

WHY: (1) Now that you are pretty familiar with the “horror industry” you will have found EXACTLY the type of internet business you are looking to start. But on a show string budget spending $1,000’s on development may not be the best move. Now you can do what Logan said, “create a site where you provide the movie planner, articles about horror movies.”

Figure it out from there: Dan Fernandez, WebBizIdeas CEO, famous quote is “We’ll figure it out.” I am a big planner but sometimes you need to run before you can crawl and you need to fail before you succeed. Building your idea this way will cost you less than $300. During the process you WILL find the perfect business / revenue model (don’t rely just on advertising or selling a product…be creative) for your “horror idea.

Minneapolis, Minnesota- June 12, 2008—At the tender age of just 17, Internet whiz kid John Bradley is set for life. No, he didn’t inherit a cushy trust fund – he sold an Internet TV Station that reported on online gaming news, reviews, games, and equipment!

John got into video production when he was only 14 by posting videos on YouTube.com. He excelled in his high school video & film class - and was soon giving tips on online video production to his teacher. “We used to create & produce live news for the school. Every day we would shoot school events” John said.

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