Tuesday, July 04, 2006

The best stuff in the world

From mashable.

The Best Stuff in the World is a social site with a simple aim: to help you find the best stuff. The stuff in question is submitted by users and arranged into categories to make comparisons easier.

5 steps to your own Business Idea

Site building/ Affiliate marketing toolkit

From Plentyoffish:

I see a lot of people are creating sites these days that are geared towards helping people make money online. The latest one is http://www.earnersforum.com which only allows people who make a certain amount of money online to join. The entire SEO space needs a clear leader to come out and take over. Information is just all over the place right now.

Top Affiliate networks.

www.cj.com
www.Azoogleads.com

Competitive Intelligence Sites.

www.alexa.com (free)
http://ranking.websearch.com (free)
http://www.metricsmarket.com/tools/trafficchecker/ (free)
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ (free just type in a domain name)
www.google.com/trends (same as overture but it makes graphs)
www.hitwise.com ($20,000+/year)
www.comscore.com ($60,00+year)
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/ (EXPENSIVE)

SEO Sites - You get a lot of clueless people and a handful earning thousands a day. So don’t believe everything you read.
http://www.seroundtable.com/ Sort of a techmeme for SEO
www.webmasterworld.com Good adwords forum, hardware etc
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ huge forums
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ more forums.

Resources.
http://www.techcrunch.com/company-index/ ( Great list of companies that have done FREE R&D into ajax)
www.google.com/adwords
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
http://adcenter.msn.com
www.google.com/adsense
http://publisher.yahoo.com



Another good one is http://forums.digitalpoint.com/


Analyzing tool http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/