web design rules and tips

This post has some links to great tools for checking your website for keywords and other things.

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=25029

At this website you can sign up for SMS alerts to your phone or pager about any RSS feed.

http://www.feedbeep.com/

I have found that if you post a link from a site with a good PR and allow google to find the new page from that link, your initial rankings end up being much better than if you try and submit the site manually to google.

http://www.allthewebsites.org/

seems like a decent press release site. May try to use it and see how it goes.

http://www.ereleases.com/

at this website you can submit articles and other info to be posted on their forum. It also has good info for site promotion (seo).

http://www.storebuilder.co.uk/

Great free directory service. You can even post sub domains and the site is posted right away.

apexoo

http://www.xland.info/
http://www.thommo.info/
http://www.pawnt.info/
http://www.list-directory.info/
http://www.informativeinfo.info/
http://www.directorydirectory.info/
http://www.directory123.info/
http://www.directory-list.info/
http://www.directory-free.info/
http://www.directory-directory.info/
http://www.directory-active.info/
http://www.guide-directory.info/
http://www.directory-internet.info/
http://www.directory-business.info/
http://www.a-web-directory.info/
http://www.add-link.info/
http://www.directory-link.info/
http://www.a-free-directory.info

great site! this is sooo useful!

Info Places Directory

How can you quickly add thumbshots to your web site?

There's a free web service that allows you to quickly add thumbshots to your web site. Although the service is provided by a German company, it works with web sites in all languages.

Just add the following code next to a link on your links pages

view at: http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/articles/link-popularity-improvement/link-thumbshots.php

img src="http://www.thumbshot.de/cgi-bin/show.cgi?url=[LINK]" border="0" onload="if (this.width>50) this.border=1; this.alt='Vorschau bei Thumbshots.de';"

Replace [LINK] with the URL of the web site for which you want to have a thumbshot image. If you use the service for the first time, you might have to wait a few minutes until the thumbshot for the web site has been created.

If you want to use their free thumbnails service, you have to put a small link to their web site. Details can be found here.
How to quickly add thumbshots to all links on your link pages at once

If you use ARELIS http://www.axandra-link-popularity-tool.com/ to create your link pages, just add the following HTML code to your link page template:
view at: http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/articles/link-popularity-improvement/link-thumbshots.php

img src="http://www.thumbshot.de/cgi-bin/show.cgi?url=[A-Link-URL]" border="0" onload="if (this.width>50) this.border=1; this.alt='Preview';"

ARELIS will automatically add a thumbshot image to all link partners in your link directory then.

You can also use this to offer potential link partners an incentive to link back to you. When ask for a link back to your site, offer your link partner a banner of a thumbshot next to the link in your link directory. If the link partner agrees to link back to you, just enter the following URL in the Picture or banner URL in your link directory edit field in ARELIS:

http://www.thumbshot.de/cgi-bin/show.cgi?url=[A-LINK-URL]

Thumbshots can give your link pages a professional look. If you use ARELIS to create and manage your link pages, you can quickly add thumbshots to all link partners in your link directory at once.

possible tool: http://www.axandra-link-popularity-tool.com/