Promoting a website can be a hard and time consuming task, if your website isn’t listed in any search engines yet you could be missing out on thousands of potential visitors.

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Check out our list of social bookmarking sites. They allow you to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite’s list of your browser.

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The robots.txt file is a simple text file (no HTML), that must be placed in your root directory, for example:

http://www.yourwebsite.com/robots.txt

User-Agent
The user-agent area contains the name of the robot, robots or all robots.

Example 1:
User-agent: * In this example, the wildcard * means all robots.

Example 2:
User-agent: googlebot In this example, only Google’s robot is excluded.

Disallow
The next area of the robots.txt file is the Disallow area. In this area you can exclude a robot or robots from indexing your folders, images, html pages, scripts or other files.

Example 1:
Disallow: /cgi-bin In this example, only the cgi-bin folder is excluded.

Example 2:
Disallow: /query.html In this example, only the query.html file is excluded.

If you would like your entire site not to be indexed by any of the search engines you would put this in your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

If you want to exclude all of the robots from a certain directory on your website, your robots.txt file would look like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/

If you want to exclude the robot from indexing a certain file in a certain directory, the robots.txt file would look like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /stuff/wacky.html

If you would like to keep a specific search engine robot from
indexing a specific file, the robots.txt file would look like this:

User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: /stuff/wacky.html

If you want to see more complex examples, of robots.txt files, view the robots.txt files of big Web sites:

http://www.cnn.com/robots.txt
http://www.nytimes.com/robots.txt
http://www.google.com/robots.txt
http://www.ebay.com/robots.txt

META DESCRIPTION TAG EXAMPLE

<META name=”description” CONTENT=”description of page goes here”>

When the user searches a search engine for a particular phrase related to your webpage, your webpage will show up in the listing. The search page is listed by its title and below that will be the description. The same description placed in the META description tag.

So using an appropriate description is important, as this will force the user to click the search link. If the user finds the description not relevant to his search chances are he or she will ignore it irrespective of your page rank. Keep the description short as the search engine will only display limited characters of your description. If the description is too long it will get chopped in the search listing which again will confuse the user who might ignore your link (web page ).

The second most important META tag is keyword. Keywords are words and phrases which are relevant to a particular document. For example if the webpage is about ice creams then the relevant keywords could be icecreams,flavor,raspberry,chocolate etc. META tags are not seen by the user until the source code is viewed. Earlier keyword META tags were important but now with more sophisticated search engines the importance of these tags have come down.

In principle only those keywords should be used which are already used somewhere in the document ( web page ). META keywords gives slight boost to the page ranking. Keywords can be separated by commas OR space. It does not matter.

META KEYWORD TAG EXAMPLE

<META name=”keywords” CONTENT=”keywords”>

And finally the third and not so important robots tag. The robot tag is a simple instruction to the search engine spiders on how to treat a webpage with regards to indexing. Following example shows how to instruct a search engine spider index and follow the links on a webpage. Alternately you can use the noindex nofollow parameters, which instructs the spider not to index the page. Of course you have to add robots.txt file to prevent spiders from indexing.

META ROBOTS TAG EXAMPLE

<META name=”robots” CONTENT=”parameters”>

Basic Tags
<html></html> Creates an HTML document
<head></head> Sets off the title and other information that isn’t displayed on the Web page itself
<body></body> Sets off the visible portion of the document
<title></title> Puts the name of the document in the title bar

Body Attributes
<body bgcolor=?> Sets the background color, using name or hex value
<body text=?> Sets the text color, using name or hex value
<body link=?> Sets the color of links, using name or hex value
<body vlink=?> Sets the color of followed links, using name or hex value
<body alink=?> Sets the color of links on click

Text Tags
<pre></pre> Creates preformatted text
<hl></hl> Creates the largest headline
<h6></h6> Creates the smallest headline
<b></b> Creates bold text
<i></i> Creates italic text
<tt></tt> Creates teletype, or typewriter-style text
<cite></cite> Creates a citation, usually italic
<em></em> Emphasizes a word (with italic or bold)
<strong></strong> Emphasizes a word (with italic or bold)
<font size=?></font> Sets size of font, from 1 to 7)
<font color=?></font> Sets font color, using name or hex value

Links
<a href=”URL”></a> Creates a hyperlink
<a href=”mailto:EMAIL”></a> Creates a mailto link
<a name=”NAME”></a> Creates a target location within a document
<a href=”#NAME”></a> Links to that target location from elsewhere in the document

Formatting
<p></p> Creates a new paragraph
<p align=?> Aligns a paragraph to the left, right, or center
<br> Inserts a line break
<blockquote></blockquote> Indents text from both sides
<dl></dl> Creates a definition list
<dt> Precedes each definition term
<dd> Precedes each definition
<ol></ol> Creates a numbered list
<li></li> Precedes each list item, and adds a number
<ul></ul> Creates a bulleted list
<div align=?> A generic tag used to format large blocks of HTML, also used for stylesheets

Graphical Elements
<img src=”name”> Adds an image
<img src=”name” align=?> Aligns an image: left, right, center; bottom, top, middle
<img src=”name” border=?> Sets size of border around an image
<hr> Inserts a horizontal rule
<hr size=?> Sets size (height) of rule
<hr width=?> Sets width of rule, in percentage or absolute value
<hr noshade> Creates a rule without a shadow

Tables
<table></table> Creates a table
<tr></tr> Sets off each row in a table
<td></td> Sets off each cell in a row
<th></th> Sets off the table header (a normal cell with bold, centered text)

Table Attributes
<table border=#> Sets width of border around table cells
<table cellspacing=#> Sets amount of space between table cells
<table cellpadding=#> Sets amount of space between a cell’s border and its contents
<table width=# or %> Sets width of table — in pixels or as a percentage of document width
<tr align=?> or <td align=?> Sets alignment for cell(s) (left, center, or right)
<tr valign=?> or <td valign=?> Sets vertical alignment for cell(s) (top, middle, or bottom)
<td colspan=#> Sets number of columns a cell should span
<td rowspan=#> Sets number of rows a cell should span (default=1)
<td nowrap> Prevents the lines within a cell from being broken to fit

Frames
<frameset></frameset> Replaces the tag in a frames document; can also be nested in other framesets
<frameset rows=”value,value”> Defines the rows within a frameset, using number in pixels, or percentage of w idth
<frameset cols=”value,value”> Defines the columns within a frameset, using number in pixels, or percentage of width
<frame> Defines a single frame — or region — within a frameset
<noframes></noframes> Defines what will appear on browsers that don’t support frames

Frames Attributes
<frame src=”URL”> Specifies which HTML document should be displayed
<frame name=”name”> Names the frame, or region, so it may be targeted by other frames
<frame marginwidth=#> Defines the left and right margins for the frame; must be equal to or greater than 1
<frame marginheight=#> Defines the top and bottom margins for the frame; must be equal to or greater than 1
<frame scrolling=VALUE> Sets whether
the frame has a scrollbar; value may equal “yes,” “no,” or “auto.” The
default, as in ordinary documents, is auto.
<frame noresize> Prevents the user from resizing a frame

Creating a site can be fun and stressful. Here are some free tools you might find useful when designing your website.

Auto replace
Very useful in creating web page by easily replacing text across multiple web pages. You can download it here.

Notepad++
Improved version of notepad that supports several programming languages. Download it here.

Html kit
These tools are very useful for coding web pages. You can download it here.

Cool text
It is a free graphics generator for web pages. You can download it here.

Irfanview
It is an image editing software. You can download here.

Pixie
It shows value for colors on screen. You can download it here.

Coffee cup free FTP
It is very useful to drag and drop files to and from your websites. Download it here.

Filezilla
It is a fast FTP with a lot of features. Download it here.

Lynx browser
It is a standard text browser to check their web sites for accessibility. Download it here.

Video Encoder
It converts video to streaming flash. Download it here.

Kool moves
It easily creates flash animation. Download it here.

Firefox web developer tools
These tools are very useful for the development of sites. Download it here.

W3C Validator
It checks the markup validity of your page coding against web standards. Download it from here.

XSPF Music Player
It plays mp3s on your websites. Download it here.

List of websites that offer free image hosting. If you are promoting a website on forums or other websites with banner ads and running low on bandwidth you can upload them to one of the hosts listed below and conserve bandwidth.

http://imageshack.us/
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/
http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/
http://tinypic.com/
http://www.imagebam.com/
http://www.4freeimagehost.com/
http://photobucket.com/
http://www.largeimagehost.com/
http://www.imgplace.com/
http://www.supload.com/
http://www.photoleech.com/
http://imagevenue.com/
http://imagecloset.com/
http://www.imageox.com/
http://www.uploadhouse.com/
http://www.theimagehosting.com/
http://www.turboimagehost.com/
http://www.imagecave.com/
http://www.instantimagehosting.com/
http://www.freeimghosting.com/
http://www.onedump.com/
http://www.imagefilez.com/
http://www.fusionpics.com/
http://imagehostdirect.com/
http://www.villagephotos.com/
http://www.photolava.com/
http://www.bagthatpic.com/
http://www.imagecabin.com/
http://www.keepmyfile.com/
http://www.freemyimage.com/
http://www.glowfoto.com/

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If you cant afford to pay for hosting here’s a list of sites of that offer free web hosting. Most free web hosts come with forced ads, meaning they place a add on all of your pages. Some also have file restrictions or don’t support PHP. More hosts to be added check back regularly.

Social bookmarking websites are becoming more and more popular. They allow you to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite’s list of your browser.

del.icio.us – http://del.icio.us/
Digg – http://www.digg.com/
Listible – http://www.listible.com/
BlinkList – http://www.blinklist.com/
StumbleUpon – http://www.stumbleupon.com/
linkroll – http://www.linkroll.com/
Yahoo Search myweb2 beta – http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
reddit – http://reddit.com/
CiteULike – http://www.citeulike.org/
Furl – http://www.furl.net/
GiveALink – http://www.givealink.org/
linkfilter – http://www.linkfilter.net/
Netvouz – http://www.netvouz.com/
RawSugar – http://www.rawsugar.com/
Simpy – http://www.simpy.com/
Spurl – http://www.spurl.net/
Tagza – http://www.tagza.com/
URLex – http://www.urlex.info/
Web Feeds – http://www.web-feeds.com/
Yoono – http://www.yoono.com/
Diigo – http://www.diigo.com/
TekTag – http://www.tektag.com/
Cloudy Tags – http://cloudytags.com/
A1-Webmarks – http://www.a1-webmarks.com/
Technorati – http://www.technorati.com/
Publish your site – http://www.article-publishers.com/
LinkBoy – http://www.linkboy.us/
FriendSite.com – http://friendsite.com/