Free Webmaster Resources

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Written by Stephen Byers

When you enter the world of affiliation and websites, you need to know how to promote, optimize and analyse the effectiveness of your forex site. Every affiliate needs to know about the back links, errors in sitemap, internal and external links information, google crawler, directory and article submission, social bookmarking and more. Below are some useful webmaster resources:

Google Toolbar

When you start exchanging links with other forex websites, google toolbar is quite important. With it you can see the page rank (or shortly PR) of other sites. When you trade links with others, the higher PR of the website with your link is, the better it is for you. When google sees that high PR sites are linking to you, it considers your forex website important and therefore improves your ranking in the search engine linking.

Website Grader

Website Grader is a free search engine optimization tool which grades overall effectiveness of your forex website. It gives a score and includes explanation about things that need your attention. The information you receive includes website traffic, social popularity, comparison with competition site and other technical features.

Google Analytic and Webmaster Tools

Google Analytics is a great webmaster tool. It shows all necessary information about your forex website traffic and marketing effectiveness. The features are flexible and easy-to-use. With Google Analytics you can analyze your website performance and improve the converting ratio accordingly.

List of Free Directories

Directory submissions are important part of search engine optimization. Website and article directories are good ways for webmasters to promote their sites. Directory Critic is a link building resource. There you can find a giant list of directories to use.

Article Submission

Submitting your article is a good way to build back links. You contribute a good content and in exchange you are allowed to have up to 3 links in the author resource box. Make sure to read the article submission policies, because all directories differ from one another. The approval rate depends on how well you follow the terms and conditions. Below is the list of some article submission sites:

1. ezinearticles.com

2. article-buzz.com

3. goarticles.com

4. articlekingpro.com

5. free-articles-zone.com

6. articlesbase.com

7. searchwarp.com

8. articlecity.com

9. articlerumble.com

10. joeant.com

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking means saving bookmarks (or in other words, url addresses) to a public site such as Digg or Delicious. Social bookmarking are used for 2 main reasons:

Access your bookmarks from any computer connected to the web

Share your bookmarks with other members of the social network.

Below is the list of most favored social bookmarking sites where you can store, tag and share the links with other members of similar interest.

1. Digg.com

2. Delicious.com

3. StumbleUpon.com

4. Reddit.com

5. Mister-wong.com

6. Furl.com

7. Spurl.com

8. Yahoo Bookmarks

9. Google Bookmarks