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Want to run a web server but you've got a dynamic IP address? ZoneEdit's free Dynamic DNS server allows cable modem, dsl, and dial up users to run web sites on their home PCs. You can buy a domain name anywhere, and then use ZoneEdit's dynamic DNS solution to point that domain name to your machine.
Systran, publishers of the famous translation software, also run an online web page translation facility. It translates up to 16kb of data for free between 5 language pairs. (English <=> French, German, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese)
InternetSeer "site down" monitoring
Keep tabs on your hosting service and find out when your site's down. InternetSeer remotely monitors your Web site every hour to ensure that customers and visitors have access to your site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No extra hardware or software is required. You get an email if your site goes down and another when the site is back. On top of that they send you a weekly summary of any problems. They'll check up to two URL's for free.
Add URL's free section includes: Free Meta Tags, Doorway Page Generator, Press Release Wizard, Position Ranker and Free Top 10 Search Engine Submissions.
Sign up with Vstore and you can set up an online store where you'll earn between 5 and 10% commission on sales. They actually run the business and supply the goods you just advertise and collect commission. After choosing between many different ranges of products you can then personalise your store with a range of styles and colours. You can also change the text on the home page.
Web sites of up to 500 pages they can have their own search engine courtesy of SearchEngine.com. Full detailed reporting and fully customisable indexing and results appearance. The search system is hosted by them, all a web site owner need do is drop a few lines of HTML on to their pages. Setting up a search engine is quick and easy, and can be done in a matter of minutes.
Add a search facility to your site - no programming, asp or cgi needed. Freefind works like a search engine. Give them your URL and they immediately spider your site. Once it's added to their database you simply paste the html code they give you into your page where you want the dialog box to appear. Freefind also give you links that provide a site map and a "what's new" page. Try this one!
Steve Gibson, in the form of The Gibson Research Corporation, has a really useful website with lots of information about internet security and firewalls. One special feature is the Shields Up! security test and port probe. Do NOT try this if you're using your accessing the web via a company network - it'll trigger all sorts of firewall security alarms!
Toolzone offer very good pagecount, statistics, guestbook, marquees and sound, all for free with no adverts. The stats on the pagecount are excellent. They tell you the IP address of all visitors and give you a calender of number of hits, day by day.
Got ads on your website? Ad Rotator is a free ad rotation service so you can stop "banner burn-out" by showing different ads when visitors return to your pages . They insert 10% of their own ads to pay for the service. Ad Rotator tracks impressions and click throughs and reports in real time with tables and visual graphs.
Plug-in-Portal is a set of integrated, hosted services that can be easily added to any web site, transforming it into a customized portal. Plug-in-Portal is free, highly customizable, fast to set up, and includes Plug-in-Email™, Plug-in-Search™, and Plug-in-Community™. Note that you have to own your own domain name and have it hosted with an organisation that allows you to change your MX (also called resource or reference) record and create a CNAME record on the Domain Name Server that hosts the domain.
British freebie site banner exchange
It shows 2 banners of your banners for every 3 you show on your site and because its new and hasn't alot of features (yet) they're giving 500 free banner exposures when people sign up.
Web Polls from PollIt.com are a fast, easy, and free way to add interactivity to your website. You pick the question to ask and up to 25 answers for voters to choose from. It takes only few minutes to add a poll to your website.
Another service from the folks at PollIt.com. Just add a few lines of HTML to your page. There are over 100 styles of counter to choose from!
Add-url search
engine submission
Add-URL will submit your web site to the top 10 search engines for free. The piad-for service submits your web site to Yahoo!, AOL, MSN and 1500 other search engines. Their free section features: meta tags, doorway page generators, position ranking and free top 10 search engine submissions.
Add-it search engine submissions
Free search engine submission service from Add-It. Submits your URL to 25 search engines. Have your web site title, a short description (2 sentences) and 6 keywords ready!
Another free search engine submission service is available from Submit-It.
Works but no longer being maintained. Submits to 2 dozen major engines.
Not a submission service as such but a useful page with direct links to web site URL submission forms.
Submission to 18 top search engines.
Free submission to 10 search engines.
RankThis! is a free online tool to help you determine your "ranking" on different keyword sets in 10 of the major search engines.
Free advice on how to get your website known. VirtualPromote is full of useful tips and information.
Analog is the most popular logfile analysis software in the world. And it's free. Logfiles make available an amazing amount of information about traffic to your site. Find out how many visitors each page gets, even how popular individual files are. You can also find out which site your visitors have come from - find out which search engines are working for you!
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