Webmaster Freebies

• Traffic-Generators.com
  Looking to boost your Web site's traffic? This free traffic exchange service lets you promote your site via banners and text ads. The site offers a 2:1 surfing ratio and you get 200 bonus credits when you sign up.
  
  
  
• Logical Media
  If you want to earn revenue with your Web site, this is a good place to go. Logical Media is a reliable and competent advertising network that pays you to promote their offers on your Web site. They also offer a good affiliate program.
  
  
  
• ABC Banners
  Do you need a custom banner? This free service lets you easily generate a banner with your message. There are over 20 pages of templates to select from.
  
  
  
• Link-Me
  One of the best ways to promote your site is through reciprocal links. This resource is a good place to start. This site also lists over 500 free-for-alls, which are basically bulletin boards that you can add your site to.
  
  
  
• The Banner Generator
  If you subscribe to a banner service, you'll need to make up a banner, which this site provides for free. Check out these examples. This service works with MSN TV/WebTV.
• StatCounter.com
  This free service offers an excellent way to keep track of your site's traffic and is easy to set up. StatCounter.com offers loads of detailed site stats and is highly configurable. The service lets you specific your counter's font, background color and digit color. An invisible counter option is also available.
  
  
  
• GoStats.com
  This reliable free Web page tracker offers lots of useful information about your site's traffic, including referrals, traffic trends and search engine data. The tracker is easy to set up; simply fill out a form and then cut and paste a few lines of HTML onto your pages.
  
  
  
• WebSTAT.com
  This is a free service for analyzing traffic to your Web site. WebSTAT.com offers loads of info on your traffic that you can view with convenient, easy-to-read graphs and tables. Easy to set up: just put a snippet of code on your page and you're all set.
  
  
  
• AmazingCounters.com
  Here's a speedy, reliable free Web page counter service that offers over 350 counter styles, as well as an "invisible counter" option. AmazingCounters.com gives you real-time stats about your site's traffic and the service is easy to sign up for and implement.
  
  
  
• Willems Soft Hit Counters
  This is an easy-to-implement, popup-ad-free, page hit counter that you can customize to match the look of your site. The service lets you choose the background color and your counter's style. If you have a counter style of your own, you can submit it and use it here.
  
  
  
• KiCounter
  Here's a free Web page counter service that's easy to set up and offers you several counter styles to choose from. KiCounter offers stats about your traffic, with no ads. Counters can be public or private.
  
  
  
• GetFreeStat.com
  This reliable, free Web-based stats service gives you lots of real-time, detailed information about your Web site's traffic. The service is easy to implement; just insert a piece of code on your page. If you'd like to keep your stats private, an invisible counter option is available.
  
  
  
• Free-Counter.com
  This site offers a reliable free Web page hit counter that features lots of real-time stats about your site's traffic. The counters here are customizable and there are many digit styles to choose from.
  
  
  
• StatsSheet.com
  Looking for data about your site's traffic? Here's a useful free Web hit counter service that displays no ads on your site and is easy to sign up for and implement. StatsSheet.com offers a Web traffic analysis system and statistics tool. An invisible counter option is available as well.
  
  
  
• SimpleCount
  This free service offers a quick and easy way for you to add a Web counter to your site. SimpleCount offers over 100 different counter graphic styles.
  
  
  
• Counting4Free.com
  Looking for a counter for your Web site? This new site offers a reliable, free Web page counter that is ad-free (unlike many services of this kind). Counting4Free.com offers dozens of digit styles to choose from and you can sign up for as many counters as you want.
  
  
  
• Speedy Counter
  This is a free Web site counter service that is easy to set up and gives you many counter styles to choose from.
  
  
  
• HitCounterOnline.com
  Here, you can get a free hit counter for your Web site. HitCounterOnline.com is easy to set up and offers a variety of styles, fonts, and background colors to match your site.
  
  
  
• Free-Hit-Counter.com
  Here's a good, basic free Web page counter that is JavaScript-powered. The counter is easy to set up; all you need to do is copy and paste a snippet of coding onto your page.
  
  
  
• Keeca Real Time Stats
  This is a free page tracking service that gives you lots of helpful details about your Web site's traffic. The service is easy to implement and offers an easy-to-read user interface that lets you view details about your traffic in real time.
• CounterBot.com
  Here is a good free Web page counter service that's easy to set up. You may have as many counters as you want, as long as the content on your site is free. You can either use a remotely hosted version of the counter or you can download the program and run it on your own server.
  
  
  
• Counters.cc
  At this site, you can sign up for a free counter service for your Web site that offers loads of statistics about your traffic. The stats available here include referrer traffic, search terms, detailed info on your last 25 visitors and more. You can opt to have your stats password protected and there's an "invisible" counter option, as well.
  
  
  
• Real Counters
  Here, you can sign up for a free graphical, ad-free hit counter for your Web site. This new service offers a variety of counter styles. You also get detailed stats about your site's traffic.
• Boards2Go.com
  This service offers free, remotely hosted message boards for your Web site. The boards here are customizable and offer features such as a search function, a counter and bad word filtering. For now, the boards display no banner ads, (although this may change in the future).
  
  
  
• Aceboard.net
  This free service lets you set up your own fully customizable message board. The boards here offer a good way for you to build a community around your Web site, as well as get feedback from your visitors. Aceboard.net boards offer lots of features, including an intuitive interface, smilies, and more.
  
  
  
• Hyperboards
  This free remotely hosted message board service lets you create your own custom forum. The service is easy to use and offers many features, including video sharing, a searchable forum directory and a single user login for multiple message boards.
  
  
  
• BoardSpace
  Looking to set up your own message board? BoardSpace offers free custom message boards, powered by the popular phpBB forum technology. BoardSpace offers lots of features, including unlimited posts and users, easy setup, daily backups and free support.
  
  
  
• My Free Bulletin Board
  Here, you can sign up for a free, remotely hosted bulletin board for your site. The boards here are customizable and easy to set up and are powered by the popular phpBB and Invision Power Board software. There are no limits on your board's bandwidth, posts or members.
  
  
  
• Ravelly.com
  This free service lets you easily set up a message board for your Web site. The message boards here are highly customizable and are offered in three styles. The service offers spam control and includes a search engine, as well as many other helpful features.
  
  
  
• MyMessageBoard.com
  (Note: this site is temporarily unavailable). A versatile free service that lets you set up your own fully customized message board. The service offers administrative functions, member registration and headers and footers that can be modified to match your own Web site. MyMessageBoard.com places no popup ads on your board and gives you unlimited space and membership.
• HotPlugins.com
  Looking to make your Web site sticky? Here, you'll find a powerful suite of free plug-and-play Web applications that you can use to enhance your pages. HotPlugins include E-mail service for your site, a guestbook, a poll service, a search engine, online forms, and more.
  
  
  
• Protect Web Form
  This easy-to-use free service offers you protection against Web form spam (using CAPTCHA images that foil spam bots). The service also offers protection again E-mail spam (using images and JavaScript).
  
  
  
• Free Web Design Community
  Looking for templates? At this site, you can download and share free Web design templates. All designs are based on XHTML/CSS and are validated to be standard compliant.
  
  
  
• Free Favicon Generator
  If you're looking for a favicon for your Web site, this is the place to go. (A favicon is a nifty little icon that appears in a browser window, just left of a Web site's URL, as well as in a browser's bookmarks section). This site offers a free favicon generator, as well as loads of helpful info.
  
  
  
• YellBox
  At this site, you can get a free "Yellbox" chat window for your site that lets you get instant feedback from your visitors. YellBox is easy to set up and the service is customizable. Features include smiley faces, a swear filter, a ban IP address feature, and more.
  
  
  
• WeatherSquare.com
  This free service lets you easily display real-time weather information on your site. Simply select your weather settings, colors and style and the site will generate an HTML code that you can copy and paste onto your pages. The service is compatible with most Web sites, blogs, forums and social networking sites.
  
  
  
• NewsToolkit
  This free service lets you easily place news headlines, on the topic of your choice, on your Web site. You can also customize the look and feel of the headlines, so they match your site's layout. The headlines are automatically updated every two hours. NewsToolkit also offers a link exchange program.
  
  
  
• DaysToGo.com
  This site offers a free customizable pregnancy countdown calendar, suitable for use either on Web site or on a forum posting. DaysToGo.com automatically counts down the days until your due date and displays how many weeks pregnant you are.
  
  
  
• FreeFind
  With this helpful free service, you can easily add a local search engine to your Web site, thus making it far more appealing and useful to your visitors. You can add search capabilities to your site, without CGIs or server modifications. Visitors to your site will see a search entry form that looks like part of your site, because it can be customized with your own background and logo.
  
  
  
• Freedback.com
  This nifty, pioneering service is perfect for Webmasters who'd like to add interactive forms to their site, but don't know a scripting language. Just follow the easy instructions here and Freedback.com will generate a custom form for your site. Note: the basic version of this service is free; you can also sign up for a free 30-day trial of an enhanced version of the service, with added features.
  
  
  
• FreeTemplateSite.com
  This useful Webmaster's resource offers quality free Web site templates. Just follow the tutorial here to create your own customized template, (suitable for either personal or business Web sites).
  
  
  
• Best-templates.net
  A useful resource for Webmasters, this site offers lots of free, ready-to-use site templates that can instantly give your Web pages a high-quality, professional look. Categories here include corporate, E-commerce, portals, frames, Flash, themed, and more.
  
  
  
• WebDesignHelper.co.uk
  Looking for a quick and easy way to build a new Web site from scratch--or give your existing site a facelift? WebDesignHelper.co.uk offers loads of free, ready-to-use Web page templates. Here, you'll also find menu graphics, table templates, style sheets, scripts, icons and more.
  
  
  
• GUIStuff.com
  Do you want to give your Web site a new look? This fine resource offers loads of quality free GUIs (graphical user interfaces). Here, you'll also find free online tools for creating Web site elements, such as navigation bars and Flash multimedia content.
  
  
  
• FlashHeaven.net
  This site offers a nice roundup of all things Flash-related on the Web. (Flash, an "authoring environment" from Macromedia, lets you create multimedia presentations on the Web). FlashHeaven.net offers free Flash tutorials, source codes, sounds, loops, fonts and more. (This site is available in English and German versions).
• Freedback.com
  This nifty, pioneering service is perfect for Webmasters who'd like to add interactive forms to their site, but don't know a scripting language. Just follow the easy instructions here and Freedback.com will generate a custom form for your site. Note: the basic version of this service is free; you can also sign up for a free 30-day trial of an enhanced version of the service, with added features.
  
  
  
• EZpolls
  (Note: This service is no longer free). Are you looking for feedback from your site's visitors on a particular topic? Or would you like your visitors to vote on a particular issue? EZpolls offers an easy-to-set-up custom poll generator. You don't need to know CGI scripting: all you need to do is follow the instructions to create an interactive poll that you can customize to match your site's appearance.
  
• 4gk.com
  With this free redirection service, you can easily shorten your Web site's lengthy URL to a short, easy-to-remember URL. The service has lots of features, including password protection and URL cloaking.
  
  
  
• 1iny.com
  Does your Web site have a lengthy, cumbersome URL? 1iny.com offers a free URL redirection service that gives your site a shorter, easy-to-remember URL. The service is easy to implement.
  
  
  
• Biz.vi
  This free URL and domain redirection service lets you shorten your Web site's URL. Biz.vi offers lots of helpful features, including URL cloaking/masking, free path forwarding (for both subdirectories and files) and meta tag support. Unlike a lot of services of this kind, Biz.vi is ad-free.
  
  
  
• ME.cx
  You can give your Web site a short, easy-to-remember URL with this free service. ME.cx also offers cloaked redirection, path forwarding, Meta tag support, and more. The service is ad-free.
  
  
  
• URL Redirect
  Here's a free URL redirection service that offers lots of handy features and displays no banners or popup ads. URL Redirect offers free domain names, detailed traffic reports, meta tag support, path forwarding, quick activation, and more. The service also offers URL cloaking (which gives you the option of having your new subdomain URL displayed in your visitors' browser address bar).
• WebFormDesigner
  This free program lets you easily create E-mail forms for your Web pages. WebFormDesigner provides various form elements, such as edit boxes, drop-down menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc. Once you're finished designing your form, the program produces an HTML code snippet ready to paste onto your Web pages.
  
  
  
• CheckYourLinkPopularity.com
  How does your Web site fare in the search engines? This excellent freeware program lets you easily check the link popularity of your Web site on various search engines. The program is also useful for comparing your site's popularity with that of your competitors. (For Windows).
  
  
  
• Stone's WebWriter
  A classic freeware HTML editor, WebWriter is easy for beginners to use and is packed with features that even many commercial programs don't offer. With WebWriter, you can easily edit HTML tags by right-clicking and you can format text, just as you would in your word processor. There's also a helpful built-in image viewer. (Free for private, noncommercial use only). For Windows.
  
  
  
• AAAHTML.com
  Are you trying to learn HTML? This is the place to go. Here, you'll find loads of free tutorials on every aspect of Webmastering, from frames to tables to graphics. It's a handy resource, whether you're a newbie or a seasoned veteran.
  
  
  
• WindowHTML
  (Note: this site is occasionally inaccessible). Here's an excellent free Web authoring tool that lets you create eye-catching Windows-like HTML pages. Easy to use. (For Windows).
  
  
  
• Arachnophilia
  Don't spend $50 on a commercial Web authoring program until you've tried this cool free program. Arachnophilia is an outstanding Web editor, bursting with features. It'll import fully formatted text, tables, and outlines from any Windows-compliant application and automatically convert it to HTML. It also has built-in FTP capabilities that can automatically upload files (although it can't delete files, like a true FTP client can). Powerful keyboard macros can include system commands---even other macros, for maximum flexibility. (For Windows).
• FormLog.com
  Would you like to set up a submission form on your site, but don't have the programming skills to do so? A free service, FormLog.com lets you easily create a custom form for your site: just follow the instructions and then copy and paste a snippet of coding onto your pages to get started.
  
  
  
• ScriptSocket
  Here, you'll find free remotely hosted CGI scripts that let you add nifty features and enhancements to your site. Scripts here include a search engine, a news board, a generic gifts store, a page counter, a random linker, a jump box, and more.
  
  
  
• SiteGadgets.com
  This site offers loads of free, ad-supported interactive gadgets that you can easily add to your site. Gadgets here include such useful site features as a links page, a jump box, a spam fighter, a random image, a random link, a simple counter, a password protection feature, a voting booth, a guestbook and more.
  
  
  
• YourCGI.com
  This site offers a nice collection of free remotely hosted CGI scripts that you can customize and use to enhance your Web site. Scripts here include a stats tracker, a guestbook, an access counter, a spam fighter, a random link script, and more.
  
  
  
• CGI2You.com
  This handy Webmaster's resource offers various free enhancements for your Web site. They offer a free counter, guestbook, message board and poll service.
  
  
  
• Freedback.com
  This nifty, pioneering service is perfect for Webmasters who'd like to add interactive forms to their site, but don't know a scripting language. Just follow the easy instructions here and Freedback.com will generate a custom form for your site. Note: the basic version of this service is free; you can also sign up for a free 30-day trial of an enhanced version of the service, with added features.
  
  
  
• PerlAccess.com
  (Note: this site is occasionally inaccessible). Are you aiming to learn Perl? At this site, you'll find tutorials and free perl downloads. You can start learning how to program CGI scripts from scratch, or pick up on an advanced lesson.
• UltraGuest
  A handy free ad-supported service, UltraGuest lets you easily set up a custom guestbook on your site. The service has many helpful features, including unlimited entries, smilies, stats, spam protection and more.
  
  
  
• AnvilBook.com
  Here, you can sign up for a free guestbook for your Web site. AnvilBook.com guestbooks are easy to use and offer lots of features including time zone and date formatting and customizable body background, link and text color. You can also choose your own guestbook questions and edit and delete guestbook entries.
  
  
  
• Guestbooks.cc
  Looking for a guestbook for your site? A free service, Guestbooks.cc offers remotely hosted guestbooks with loads of options that we've not seen elsewhere. Features include complete customization, a word filter, IP banning, smilies, a spam filter and more.
  
  
  
• FreeGuestBooks.org
  This is a good place to go if you're looking for a free guestbook for your site. FreeGuestBooks.org offers remotely hosted guestbooks that are highly customizable. The service offers nice features such as smilies, user authentication, IP banning and a WYSIWYG editor.
  
  
  
• GuestbookGiant.com
  Need a guestbook for your site? This easy-to-use service lets you create a custom, reliable guestbook for your visitors.
  
  
  
• Guest Gear
  (Formerly known as GuestWorld). A part of the Lycos empire, Guest Gear is far the largest free guestbook server, with over 2 million users. Just sign up and they'll E-mail the coding to cut & paste onto your page and you're ready to go. Guest Gear has added a number of nifty new features to their service, such as visitors' stats and a form that lets you automatically E-mail everyone who's signed your guestbook. There's also an extensive control panel that offers many features, such as message filtering, profanity checking, etc. Besides English, Guest Gear is also offered in German, Italian and Swedish.
  • A normally reliable service, Guest Gear has been plagued by outages, sometimes lasting several hours, from time to time over the past few months.
  • Note: you're limited to 250 entries in your guestbook here. If you exceed that limit, older entries will be deleted (although you can save your entries as a database file to your hard drive at any time).
  
  
  
  
• Web Diner Guestbook Templates
  Add some style to your site's guestbook with the cool templates offered here. Lots of neat designs. Usage requires a linkback. Their guestbooks require a mailto: form to receive responses from your visitors. Go here for information on mailto: forms.
  
  
  
• Dreambook Guestbook
  This free service lets you completely customize your guestbook to match your site. In normal editing mode, you can select from a variety of templates. If you switch into advanced mode, you can edit the HTML directly to make your own custom forms. You decide what fields appear in your guestbook, and how they are arranged. You can even ask your visitors questions and create complex questionaires. Visitors have reported tech problems lately, such as images appearing as broken links on guestbook entries. Tech support is difficult to get here, our visitors report.
• SiteGadgets.com
  A welcome addition to the ranks of Webmaster freebies, this site offers loads of free, ad-supported interactive gadgets that you can easily add to your site. Gadgets here include such useful site features as a links page, a jump box, a spam fighter, a random image, a random link, a simple counter, a password protection feature, a voting booth, a guestbook and more.
  
  
  
• Crawl-It
  This free service lets you easily add a search engine to your Web site. There's no need to download or install anything; just follow the simple instructions. Crawl-It will spider your site and then E-mail you a snippet of code that you can copy and paste onto your Web pages.
  
  
  
• WsScheduler.com
  Do you have a Web site, but no access to scheduling utilities such as cron or at? This free Webmaster service offers an online job scheduling utility (remote cron).
  
  
  
• Mike's World
  Back in action after a three-year hiatus, this site offers a handy roundup of free goodies for Web site designers. Here, you'll find clipart and font resources, as well as Webmaster tutorials.
  
  
  
• AmazingColors.com
  Looking for the right colors for your Web site? This free service makes it easy for you to find the right colors for your pages and (with just a few clicks) you can get the RGB value for the color that you're looking for, suitable for use in HTML coding, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), etc.
  
  
  
• Webmasters Cavern
  This site serves up a collection of free Webmaster goodies to help you build and promote your Web site. Webmasters Cavern offers free Web design and development tools, code generators, menu creators, DHTML tools and more.
  
  
  
• ChoiceWebTools.com
  At this site, you'll find a nice collection of tools, services and articles to help you build, enhance and promote your Web site. Although some of the items require a fee, most of the content here is free.
  
  
  
• ScriptDungeon.com
  This site offers many helpful free resources for Webmasters and network administrators, including scripts, utilities and tools. The free code here includes PHP, Active Server Pages (ASP), JavaScript and more.
  
  
  
• WebDesignHelper.co.uk
  Looking for a quick and easy way to build a new Web site from scratch--or give your existing site a facelift? WebDesignHelper.co.uk offers loads of free, ready-to-use Web page templates. Here, you'll also find menu graphics, table templates, style sheets, scripts, icons and more.
  
  
  
• AdWords Wrapper
  Do you use the Google AdWords system? AdWords Wrapper is a free, time-saving tool that helps you convert and manage keyword phrases for use in Google AdWords campaigns.
  
  
  
• 2bone LinkChecker
  This free service gives you a quick and easy way to check the links on your Web pages. Just enter the URL of the page you want checked and the program will notify you if there are any dead links.
  
  
  
• Free-Webhosts.com
  Are you looking for free Web space? This regularly-updated directory lists over 800 free hosting services on the Web. Free-Webhosts.com offers reviews, ratings and a searchable database.
  
  
  
• Marketing Forum Watch
  Are you involved in Web marketing? This handy service offers free, searchable headlines from over 65 major Web marketing and search engine discussion forums and message boards. If you're involved in E-commerce, be sure to check out the E-commerce Forum Watch , which offers a similar service.
  
  
  
• Viewstep.com
  Here, you will find a directory of free resources to help you build, promote and earn revenue from your Web site. Viewstep.com offers free Webmaster tools, templates, tutorials, search engine tools, and more.
  
  
  
• JavaScript Kit
  A regularly-updated resource for free JavaScript and Java, this site offers over 300 free scripts and Java applets and a very active JavaScript forum where developers can meet and discuss their script projects. There are also handy tutorials here, where you can learn JavaScript, DHTML and Webmastering. (Note: this site was formerly known as Website Abstraction).
• Adsense Tips
  This free E-book offers suggestions and advice for making the most of Google's popular AdSense text ad program on your site. This book, in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) format, includes AdSense tips and case studies for Webmasters.
  
  
  
• FreeFind
  With this fantastic, free service, you can easily add a local search engine to your Web site, thus making it far more appealing and useful to your visitors. You can add search capabilities to your site, without CGIs or server modifications. Visitors to your site will see a search entry form that looks like part of your site, because it can be customized with your own background and logo.
  
  
  
• TopCities.com
  A solid free Web space provider, TopCities.com offers you 150 megabytes of space, unlimited bandwidth, and free subdomains. Here, you upload your files using FTP, or via their online EasyUpload utility. TopCities.com also offers a number of free enhancements for your site, such as a guestbook and a message board.
  
  
  
• FreeWebSiteProviders.com
  Looking for a free Web hosting service? This handy directory offers reviews of over 400 free hosters across the Web. The site also features a roundup of free Webmaster services, such as Web page templates, URL redirection services, counters, hosted CGI scripts, graphics and more.
  
  
  
• AAAHTML.com
  Are you trying to learn HTML? This is the place to go. Here, you'll find loads of free tutorials on every aspect of Webmastering, from frames to tables to graphics. It's a handy resource, whether you're a newbie or a seasoned veteran.
  
  
  
• ChangeDetection.com
  An essential free Webmaster tool that helps you build traffic (and also offers a useful service to your visitors). This service monitors your site for changes and then automatically E-mails your visitors to let them know when a particular page has been updated.
  
  
  
• Freegraphicland.com
  Here's an index of Webmaster-related sites, ranked by the number of votes they're received from visitors. Site categories here include graphics, JavaScript, CGI, CCS and HTML.
  
  
  
• Dr. Watson
  This is a free service that not only checks for coding errors on your Web page, it also checks for that great bane of Web authoring: broken links.
• SiteProbe
  This handy freeware online tool checks the status of your site hourly, 24 hours a day. It also offers a helpful "second opinion" system to reduce the number of potential false alarms.
  
  
  
• InternetSeer
  This service monitors your Web site around the clock and alerts you via E-mail if your site encounters downtime and becomes inaccessible. InternetSeer's basic "Standard Service" is free and allows you the monitoring of one URL per hour.
  
  
  
• LinkCounter.com
  (This service is no longer free). Have you ever wondered how many clicks your site is sending to an affiliate program or linkback partner? This unique service monitors the number of clicks your links are getting. It also monitors internal links so you'll know where your visitors are going.
• OnlyTopSites.com
  Looking for more targeted traffic for your Web site? This free service lets you create a "top sites" list, with your own subdomain (such as: yourlist.onlytopsites.com). You can customize your list, with your own logo, background and template. You can also add your site to an existing top sites list.
  
  
  
• LE-ADS.com
  Looking to promote your site? This is a free advertising exchange that lets you promote your site via text advertisements, banner ads and opt-in E-mail ads. You can also earn credits by viewing ads, as well as by referring others.
  
  
  
• Search Engine Rankings
  Are you curious about how your Web site fares in the search engines? This helpful free tool offers instant, online reports of site rankings in seven top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, AOL Search, MSN, AlltheWeb and more.
  
  
  
• Top-Keywords.com
  Here's a free reference tool for Webmasters who're trying to optimize the content and Meta tags on their pages. Top-Keywords.com offers a dynamic list of the top 500 most frequently searched keywords on the Web's search engines. This data is also helpful if you're trying to spot new trends and business opportunities on the Web.
  
  
  
• Link Popularity Checker
  How popular is your Web site? This handy free tool checks the number of pages linking your site and compares it to various other Web sites, (both popular and obscure). This service queries many major search engines, including Google, AltaVista, MSN, Lycos, AOL and HotBot.
  
  
  
• Link-Me Links Exchange Database
  One of the best ways to promote your site is through reciprocal links. This resource is a good place to start. This site also lists over 500 free-for-alls, which are basically bulletin boards that you can add your site to (and believe it or not, they do pull in traffic).