The best way I am told, to make money is to spend money. Scrooge and myself have different ideas. So whilst I wait for the ghost of Christmas past checkout the free online resources that I have come across that may be useful for your websites.


Most of your traffic will probably come from the main search engines. Ideally you want to ranking for keywords that have a reasonably high number of daily searches. Seobook have a tool which enables you to see the daily searches for a keyword in all the three major search engines. The tool is very quick and easy to use and you may spot a niche to target

It has been mentioned on a number on occasions in this forum of the benefits of having your own domain name rather than having a DIY subdomain. If your desired domain has already been registered this Domain Suggestion Tool I think is easily the best domain suggest tool I have come across. It will come up with some usable alternative suggestions.

Having a unique site has again been identified in this forum as key to creating your own brand and thus improving your chances of success. A free way to achieve this is to learn HTML and CSS yourself and alter a DIY template site. At w3schools.com you will find free try-it-yourself online tutorials that will teach your everything you need to know about HTML XTML and CSS. Spend A couple of hours going through the tutorials and you wil have all the info you need to make your site unique

In keeping with creating uniqueness, as you probably know your are able to upload your own images for use on your site. The is a limit on the size of those images currently set at 50k. In order to get my images to come at or below 50k I use an online resize tool Smalljpg.com This free tool allows to to re size and change quality values of photos up to 9m the tool is easy to use and is completely free.

You can find 5 million free images at commons.wikimedia.org If you can't find what you are looking for and you absolutely must pay then try Absolutvision you can get 10 picks for $4.99, the cheapest I could find.

To earn additional revenue from your site you might want to try AdultAdworld Webmasters can get paid for every page Impression.They have CPM ads that pay you for every impression your site generates which pay upto $3-5 per thousands impression. English speaking traffic will pay the most. I have gone for the pop unders as they are less intrusive. Although predominantly an adult network when you have completed the sign up process you will find you are able to you add Non adult sites also.

I tool that can be handy if you don't have the best word processing software is Spellchecker.net Just cut and paste your website content into this tool for spelling, grammar, and thesaurus checking. Nothing will put of potential members than por spelig

A lot is talked about search engine optimisation and the importance of optimising your site for your chosen keywords to achieve higher rankings in search engines. If you want to try your hand at optimising your site you can download demo software from Ibusinesspromoter.com and Link Assistant both demos allow to check if you site is optimized for your chosen keywords. The downside is that that much of the advice to improve you rating is not shown in the demo. However I have found that if you copy and paste a general sentence from your report and do an advance search in google you will find reports that contain all the advice intact. Obviously the reports you find on the net are geared to that particular companies keywords. You will however, get a clearer idea of the route your site should be taking. (I hope that makes sense)

I hope these resources prove useful. I will continue to add any additional resources as and when I find them.

Thanks for the input snb, anyone else have any good links for fellow scrooges out there? .

You might also want to check out a couple of nifty free image editors:

Paint.net: Paint.net 3.5

The gimp for Windows: The Gimp for Windows