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Search Engines

Google

• Google Help
  • Webmaster Help Center
    • My site & Google
      • My site's ranking in Google search results
        • How do I add my site to Google's search results?
        • How can I improve my site's ranking?
        • Why doesn't my site show up for a specific keyword?
        • How do I change my site's title and description?
        • How can I tell if my site is included in Google's search results?
        • Why does Google remove sites from the Google index?
        • I don't see my site in search results, or my site appears lower in results
        • How do I request reconsideration of my site?
        • Why should I report paid links to Google?
        • Will participating in an affiliate program harm my site's rankings?
        • How does Google calculate the number of results?
        • What's an SEO? Does Google recommend working with companies that offer to make my site Google-friendly?
        • Will participation in AdWords or AdSense affect my listing in Google's free search results?
        • What can I do if I'm afraid my competitor is harming my ranking in Google?
        • Will switching hosting companies or changing my IP address affect my listing in Google?
      • Creating a Google-friendly site
        • Webmaster Guidelines
        • How can I create a Google-friendly site?
        • How do I change my site's title and description?
        • I create and publish video content. How can I make this available to Googlebot?
        • How can I use meta tags to give Google additional information about my site?
        • Working with AJAX-enhanced sites
        • Tips for avoiding comment spam on your site
        • Tell Google about your site
        • How can I prevent images from appearing in Google search results?
        • How can I create a Google-friendly URL structure?
        • Make sure that your TITLE tags and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
        • What file types can Google index?
        • Does Google index dynamic pages?
        • Does Google index sites with frames?
        • Working with Flash, images, and other non-text files
      • How Google crawls my site
      • Preventing content from appearing in Google search results
      • My mobile site in the Google index
      • Information for public sector webmasters
    • Using Google Webmaster Tools to monitor my site
    • Using Sitemaps
• Google Blog

Yahoo!

• Yahoo! Help Central
  • Yahoo! Search Help
    • Web Publisher Resources
      • Webmaster Resources
      • Search Indexing
        • Search Indexing
          • How do I use the rel="nofollow" attribute to help combat weblog comment spam?
          • Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines
          • How can I see if a site is in your search index or not?
          • How do I add my site to your search engine database?
          • My site used to be in the database. Why did it drop out of your results?
          • How do I keep my page from being cached in Yahoo! Search?
          • How can I filter explicit, adult-oriented content from web search results?
          • Do you index dynamically generated pages (e.g., asp, .shtml, PHP, "?", etc.)?
        • Indexing Updates
          • How do I have my web site or web pages removed from the Yahoo! Search Index?
          • I moved my web pages to a new site. Will you update my URLs to match the new address?
          • How do I notify you of new or updated pages on my site?
          • You're still crawling URLs that I removed ages ago. What's wrong with your crawler?
          • How do I change the title or description shown in the search results for my page?
          • We changed our web server's IP address. Will you update it?
      • Search Ranking
        • How are web documents ranked?
        • How do I improve the ranking of my web site in the search results?
        • My site used to be in your database, but it is no longer showing in search results. What's wrong?
        • How do I search for sites that link to mine?
      • Yahoo!'s Web Crawler
      • Site Explorer
      • Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines
• Yahoo! Search Blog

Microsoft (MSN/Live)

• Windows Live and MSN Help
  • Help for Windows Live products and services
    • Live Search Site Owner Help
      • How do I submit my site to Live Search?
      • How do I add Live Search to my website?
      • How does Live Search determine how to rank my website?
      • How does Live Search generate a description of my website?
      • How does Live Search index websites?
      • How can I increase the site ranking for a site hosted in another market?
      • How do I control which pages of my website are indexed?
      • How do I add my site back to Live Search?
      • How can I make sure my website is correctly indexed?
      • Why hasn't my site been indexed yet?
• Live Search Blog

• About MSN Search (old docs)
  • Site Owner Help
    • MSN Search Web Crawler and Site Indexing
      • About site indexing on MSN Search
      • Guidelines for successful indexing
      • About site ranking
      • About your site description
      • Control which pages of your website are indexed
      • Block your website from MSN Search Preview
      • Troubleshoot issues with MSNBot and site crawling
      • What to do when your site moves
      • Remove your website from the MSN Search index
    • Tools and Services for Site Owners
      • About site optimization services
      • Add MSN Search to your website

Ask.com

• Webmasters Information

Other search engines

• AOL is powered by Google
• AltaVista is powered by Yahoo!
• Excite is powered by Google, Yahoo! & Ask.com
• Lycos is powered by Ask.com
• Dogpile is powered by Google, Yahoo!, Live & Ask.com

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Tools

Browser Software

• Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13
  • British English, for Windows
  • All languages & operating systems
  • Addons
    • Google Toolbar
    • Alexa Toolbar
    • Web Developer
    • Adblock Plus
    • StumbleUpon (sign up)
• Internet Explorer 7 (for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003)
• Opera 9.27
• Safari 3 Public Beta (for Windows XP, Windows Vista or Mac OS X v10.4.9+)
• Mozilla SeaMonkey
• AOL Explorer
• Netscape
• Mozilla Suite
• Flock
• K-Meleon
• Amaya 9.99

Opera 9.5

Not yet the default version, but you can download early here.

Firefox 3

Released to web developers for testing purposes.

• Downloads (All languages and operating systems)

Internet Explorer 8

For web developers & designers to help prepare their sites for the launch of IE8.

• Download

Security Software

• Statup Inspector for Windows
• AVG Anti-Virus:
  • for Windows
  • for Linux/FreeBSD
• AVG Anti-Spyware
• AVG Anti-Rootkit

Chat Software

• Google Talk
• MSN Messenger
• mIRC

Image Banks

• Wikipedia
  • Images by copyright status
    • Free images
• Wikimedia Commons
  • Copyright statuses
    • Public domain
• Morguefile
  • Morguefile

Site Widgets

Traffic Stats

• StatCounter
• Google Analytics

Maps

• Google Maps
  • Google Static Maps
• Ordnance Survey OpenSpace (UK mapping for non-commercial use)

Chatrooms

• IrCQ-Net Chatrooms

Site Lookup Tools

ICANN Whois Report Generator

Most official tool - provided directly by ICANN, but doesn't support as many domain name extensions as some whois tools.

Nominet Whois Tool

Official whois lookup tool for ".UK" domain names, and only works for ".UK" queries.

Google Keyword Analysis Tool

By far the best keyword tool on the web, providing comprehensive access to Google's search data.

More lookup tools »

Forums

Digital Point Forums

Title

Webmaster Forum - Internet Marketing & Search Engine Forums

Google PageRank

6

Alexa Traffic Rank

281

• Search Engines
• Marketing
• Business
  • General Business
  • Payment Processing
  • Legal Issues
  • Domain Names
  • Copywriting
  • Buy, Sell or Trade
    • Freebies
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• Design & Development
• Products & Tools
• The Digital Point

Accessify Forum

Title

Accessify Forum: Accessibility Discussion Forums

Google PageRank

5

Alexa Traffic Rank

191,633

• Web Accessibility Forums
• Project Specific Forums
• General

Lorelei Web Forum

Title

Photoshop Tutorials, Webmasters discussion, Graphics, Web Development, SEO and Make Money Online

Google PageRank

4

Alexa Traffic Rank

83258

• Lorelei Web Lobby
• Lorelei's Tavern - The Drinkery Corner
• Tutorials, Graphics and Design
• Marketing & Development Related
• Software, Technical & Security Support

More webmaster forums »

Directories

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