Webmaster Management &
Web Site Maintenance

Important Monthly Tasks

Track Your Search Engine Rankings

Free Webmasters Tool Download
"... Amazingly fast and handy tools for webmasters; Search Engine Optimizer, Search Engine Position Report, Search Engine Submission, Site (link) popularity and Keyword Density Analyzer. All packed into a very tiny program, launch by a mouseclick, some of the applications virtually do not need a keyboard! A great reseach tool for emarketing ..."

TopDog
Perfect tool to track your website´s ranking over time. You want to be ranked in the first three (3) pages of a search engines search results for your preferred keyword phrases. If you did everything correctly in keyword selection & web page optimization and you remember to re-submit every month your ranking should steadily increase over time particularly if other websites start linking to yours (thereby increasing your websites popularity).

SERanker
Was once free. Another tool to track your website´s ranking over time.

Link Validation

Validate all of your web site´s external links on a monthly basis. If any are no longer valid either correct them or get rid of them.

Xenu's Link Sleuth
FREE!!! Downloadable program. Exellent!!!

HitBox links tester
FREE, but limited to one page at a time.

Testing Your Site´s Performance

HitBox Doctor
FREE test

NetMechanic

Keynote Performance Appraisal

Optimal Page Sizes

Compress Images to Improve Performance

Hitbox Image Reducer
"... Is your page too heavy? Does it take too long to load? Make your images smaller instantly with our Image Reducer tool ..."

GIFBot
ZDNet Image Optimizer

Optimizing Animated GIF's
WebReference.com

Testing Your Host´s Performance for Free

WebMeter
Test, measure and compare Web site response time,processing capacity and any access congestion... free.

Web Hosts - Uncovered!
Test your hosts relative performance

Other Ongoing Concerns

Traffic Analysis

Most hosts provide free traffic analysis as part of the hosting plan. If this is not the case you will want to read these guides.

E-business Tracking

Analyzing Website Traffic

Watch Your Traffic

Link Popularity Testing

See how many other websites are linking to you. Just go to the major search engines and search on your own domain name (without the www. or the .com parts).

Making Money as an Affiliate

Affiliate Programs Directory

Refer-It.com Your Directory Of Affiliate Programs

Sitecash.com Simple ways to make money from your site

Miscellaneous Concerns

Selling Your Site

Webmergers.com
"... leading provider of research and services for buyers and sellers of Internet and technology properties ..."

WebSiteBroker.com
"... helping anyone who wants to sell or buy an already existing web site ..."
URL: http://www.websitebroker.com/index.html

Websites-4-Sale
"... you have a developed website that you want to list for sale ..."

Changing Hosts

Moving Day - How to move your site to another server

How to Change Your Web Hosting Service (ISP)

Managing Email

Managing your Email

Webmaster Resources

Webmaster Tools

Absolutely Free Webmaster Tools and Resources

ServicesBase

1000 Web Site Tools

Traceroute, Ping, Domain Name Server (DNS), WHOIS, E-Mail relay, etc.

Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools

Web Management Knowledge

For Medium to Large Do-It-Yourself Web Serving.

SearchWebManagement

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