The Webmasters Must Have Software Toolkit

The focus on this list is for the beginning webmaster starting out with all 100% free software and using a windows based PC. FTP Client: The best choice here is Filezilla. Filezilla has now been around for many years and has the benefit of being free, and is continually being updated. I have used Filezilla [...]

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Get Addicted to Smush It

Smush_it update: Smush_it is now a Yahoo tool and can be found here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/smushit/ Smush_It will smush a few extra bytes out of your images to make them smaller. In my experience it  shaves a little bit off each image, but if you add up  a few “k” off each image, it could add up [...]

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Prevent Hotlinking from Specific Sites Only

You want to prevent hot-linking. But not ALL websites. Sometimes you don’t mind if someone hotlinks from a forum or a review about your product, etc. However there are those that you DO want to block. You can use the code below and place it into your htaccess file. I placed the code in the [...]

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Rank Checker

Seobook has released a very nice firefox extension call Rank Checker. This is a free open-source tool that will show your rank for specific keywords on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Using a rank checking tool is a real time saver. Rather than try to dig through results to find your site, this will give you [...]

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Google Webmaster Tools

Google webmaster tools. Google did a nice thing for webmasters by creating a handy tool to help track sites and also to upload your newly created sitemaps. Visit Google Webmaster Tools and sign up account, or use an existing Google account if you have one.

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Site Maps

XML Sitemap? What in the world is that you might ask. Well not so long ago Google came out with a way for webmasters to tell Google about their pages. The most common way is to use an XML sitemap. How does it work? You create a sitemap, then tell Google where that sitemap is, [...]

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