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Facebook TabSite is a free online mini webpage for your business. Creating this mini webpage in Facebook is simple by using an application tab. You can create this tab within your Facebook page without having to know anything about Facebook Markup Language, also known as FBML. It is an easier option for those who don’t want to spend money on a developer. Facebook TabSite looks more professional then an original fan page and is a wonderful marketing tool for any business serious about expanding their presence. You can easily add content, images and links to your documents like .pdf and .docx so fans can have easy access to forms that are capable of viewing and downloading. With the free personal profile you get two TabSite subpages, 5MB of storage, you will be able to track how many fans view your TabSite and you’ll be able to publish updates to your wall instantly all while combining your blog or other social media pages. The choices are endless.

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In today’s world, so much business is done online. You may store database or vital company information using online services.  Using the Internet to store this kind of information can be very beneficial but it can also be risky. To ensure that a virus doesn’t attack your company or computer, you can download AVG, a free anti-virus.  AVG provides “powerful, easy-to-use protection that works efficiently and invisibly in the background so you can focus on using your computer, not worrying about security.”

With this free business tool, you can spend more time enjoying your computer and less time worrying about viruses your computer could catch.

Click here to download AVG free anti-virus for your computer today.


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Are you interested in learning more about a particular software program, website design, or marketing? What if you could learn these things for FREE? Check out the HP Learning Center.

HP offers online courses that are available on-demand or on a weekly basis. Here are a list of some of their most popular classes.

These courses are great for entrepreneurs on the go who don’t have time to sit in a physical classroom or dig through shelves in a bookstore.

Happy learning!


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Get Clicky is a web analytics tool that gathers and analyzes traffic data for your website. This free SEO tool provides real time information to track your website’s performance.

If you post a new article or a new feature in your website, you can see how the visitors are responding to the new feature or if it is making any differences at all. The real time results lets you react to changes as they occur. Results are shown on a “dashboard” that contains various information such as traffic sources (what drives people to visit your site), visitor segmentation (who visits your websites and where they are coming from), and Twitter analytics. You can further enhance the report by using the filter feature to narrows down results.

There is no cost to sign-up with Clicky. The free version gives members the opportunity to track one website with a customizable dashboard that contains reports on content/searches/referrers, individual visitors and actions, data history for the last 30 days, and 10 name and filter visitors. Members can upgrade their reports that include ad-free analytics, visitor hostnames and organizations, email reports, data tracking, and more for a fee.

To begin monitoring your sites traffic, visit Get Clicky.


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You built this fantastic website with beautiful graphics, captivating video and amazing content. Now what? Perhaps, your website isn’t showing up in the search engines. Do you want to know what Google, Yahoo and Bing think of your site?

Try using Stimator for gathering this website data. Simply type in your URL, and it will tell you the monetary value of your website. This tool can be used for marketing, research, or SEO purposes. Stimator uses various performance measures and grades your website according to the following criteria:

  • Page rank – this is calculated through the Google algorithm to rate the importance  of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. This algorithm determines where sites rank in the search engine by keyword
  • Backlinks – when other websites links to your website
  • Traffic volume -  how many people visit your website
  • Social bookmarking – assigning a keyword(s) to a piece of information to help describe the item when searching or browsing
  • Directory inclusion – making your website available in web directories to get traffic
  • Domain value – how unique and popular your website’s name is

Stimator also provides a rank for your website and shows how well your website fared on their valuation analysis for each category. If available, tag words related to your site are shown on the top right hand of the page. You can also write your opinions on the comments section at the bottom of the page.

This site can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of your website and the exposure it gets on the Internet. It shows which areas of the website are performing well and which areas need improvement. This not only encourages more traffic, but also establishes the website’s credibility to the online community.

To find out how valuable your website is, visit Stimator today.


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1. FREE Web site building tools
formspring.com
Need a form for your Website, here’s your resource. Formspring allows users to built hundreds of thousands of forms and receive millions of submissions. They serve a variety of customers, from small businesses to Fortune 50 companies.

Form Types you can create include:
* Online Order Forms
* Online Registration Forms
* Online Contact Forms

The FREE package let you create:
3 Forms
15 Fields per form
50 Saved submissions per form

They also offer programs upgrades starting at $9 a month.

Cost: Basic package is FREE

2. FREE Web site hosting
www.000webhost.com
If your Website is small with few graphics, this company offers a FREE hosting package
There’s a 2 meg file upload limit on the free account, so you would be really limited on images (or pdf files or flash). On a site note, I saw some reviews on a couple of sites that said they didn’t pay their affiliate checks – or if they did, they were very slow to do so.

Cost: FREE

3. FREE Web site feedback
http://www.startupnation.com

Start-up nation is a great site full of small business resources. One of the features I really like is you can post your Website in their Website feedback forum and the community provides you feedback. I’ve done this several times and got some sound insight in a fast and friendly manner.

Cost: FREE


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iWebtool – Free Web Tools, Analysis

www.iwebtool.com/tools/

Find a large amount of useful analytical tools in one place, such as a keyword density checker that analyzes your sites most common keywords; a pagerank checker, a tool that analyzes link popularity, and many more.  It’s your free online toolbox.

Cost: FREE


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www.good-tutorials.com

Good-Tutorials is the largest source of tutorials on the web today. It has been featured on numerous TV channels and magazines, such as the BBC or PC World, and has been linked to by thousands of sites, blogs and forums.

This website offers free tutorials on CSS, Flash, HTML, Illustrator, Java, Java Script, Photoshop and more. The tutorials are straightforward and are updated frequently. Do you need to “create a beautiful website from scratch’? You can browse or search by keywords. Are you a genius in creating 3D designs with Photoshop? You can post your tutorial and get feedback from other users.

Cost: FREE


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colr-org

Colr – Free Color Palettes
www.colr.org/

Colr was inspired by “those paint color cards in hardware stores”.  The tool is simple–upload any image–the banner on your site for example–and Colr will extract its color palette and html code.  Useful for website design and improving the visual appeal of your site, Colr is a FREE tool.
Cost: FREE


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Clicktale – Watch Someone Use Your Site, Traffic Analysis

www.clicktale.com/

ClickTale records movies of your visitors’ browsing sessions. Scrolling heatmaps show where visitors look and how far down they scroll. Link Analytics shows every interaction, hover, hesitation time, and much more. It’s a brand new approach to website analysis and optimization, showing website owners movies of users’ browsing sessions, as well as meaningful reports of behavior inside their webpage, aggregating thousands of visitor sessions.

Cost: FREE


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