Tools and Resources

Books

Covering Niche markets,Keywords,Affiliate Marketing, Website Building-Niche books

Keyword tools

Wordtracker free keyword suggestion Tool-Recommended

A number of these tools rely on the free Overture tool which is being replaced by Yahoo sometime in the future and  as of 2007 is somewhat unreliable.

Good Keywords- is free Windows software tool from
Softnik Technologies -for finding the ideal set of keywords for
targeting your web pages. I use this tool almost every day.–Recommended
download!!

Even better keywords from searchguild.com is also an excellent keyword
finding and ranking tool. I use it for more detailed analysis.

Search Query Difficulty Checker - Tells you how difficult it would be to rank on
the first page for any query you specify [Web Based App]

Online overture and Wordtracker comparison tool. This tool lists
overture and Wordtracker results side by side. Excellent for resolving
any doubts as to target plural or singular.

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

Sitebuild-it Online keyword, brainstorming and research tool. Comes with the SBI package

Niche Database- A unique database of niche keyword research and
keyword research tool. Even if you don’t buy the product I would
recommend you look at the sales page as it contains an incredible
useful tip for quickly finding niches.

Meta Tag Checking

• http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ - has nice facility that
  tells you how good /relevant you title and description are in
  relation to your chosen keywords. It also gives a page optimization
  report.
• http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html -
  has nice facility that tells you how good /relevant you title and
  description are in relation to your chosen keywords. It also gives a
  page optimization report.
• http://www.scrubtheWeb.com/abs/meta-check.html

Meta Tag Generation

• http://www.submitexpress.com/metatags.html
• http://www.scrubtheWeb.com/abs/builder.html
• http://www.mystiblue.com/meta_tag_generator.htm

Website ranking tools

www.googlerankings.com which allows you to check your Website
position in the first 1000 results. They also have a tool for Yahoo-Yahoorankings.com
Prsearch.net also have a website ranking tool to check your position at all the
major search engines (1000 results) -You can even enter multiple keywords.

http://www.searchguild.com/rankchecker.php - This tool requires a
Google API (free from Google link provided) and will check your
position each day (first 100 results) for a selection of keywords.

Search engine simulators

How Does your site/page look to a search engine spider.

• webmasterscene
• Poodle Predictor- How Does your site/page look to a search engine spider.
• webconfs spider simulator
• 1 hit tools

Trellian Webpage- free WYSIWYG editor- excellent
Notetab lite-Very popular and good Free Html editor HTMLValidator-Very good Free Html editor and HTML checker-get it.
NVU ( pronounced N-View) Is a complete open source Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival
programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.

Commercial Web page editors

The two most popular are DreamWeaver and Microsoft FrontPage both available at amazon.com or amazon.co.uk.