This web page features top sites for putting together your Internet marketing program, including key search engines, submission services, exchange services, Internet PR services, information services, and many more!

Please note that this is a very personal list, based on the sole judgment of John Kremer. If you'd like to nominate a referral program, associate sales program, pay-per-click programs, or other website paying programs, please email John Kremer. I know that I have missed some companies I truly would like to add to this list. Your company might be one of those. Thanks for your support. — John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books

For other recommended sites, see http://www.bookmarket.com/12.htm.

Publicity and PR / Internet Marketing
Creating Books & Products / Writing & Selling Manuscripts
Internet Marketing Resources

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Useful Sites for Internet Promotion

Alert Site — For as little as $5.00 per month, this site will alert you to any broken links on your website as well as any slow performance.

AlertBot — Website monitoring service that tests website availability, performance, and alerts webmaster of downtime. Also provides ftp, http, pop3, snmp, https, smtp, ip, and dns server monitoring. Free 15 Day Trial.

Award Sites — Rates and links to 2,000 sites that offer awards.

ClickZ — One of the best resource sites for all things having to do with developing and marketing websites.

NetMechanic — This site allows you minimize gifs, check links, and do other website maintenance for free (on web sites less than 400 pages).

Pay Per Click Search Engines — Features the search engines that give you top position on specific searches, for payment.

ReadWriteWeb — A resource for what's new on the web. Very useful.

SEOChat — The best website for maximizing your search engine natural searches. Features lots of tools and resources for getting the most website visitors from search engines.

Smashing Apps — Features free and useful online resources for web designers and developers.

Virante SEO Tools — A wonderful collection of tools for search engine optimization.

Website Garage — This site provides inexpensive tools for optimizing your site and analyzing your site traffic. For instance, they offer the Hitometer, which for $4.99 per month provides a detailed report that identifies those links, directories, keywords, and search engines that are most effective in getting people to visit your site.

Website Grader — Helps you see how your website is doing as a marketing vehicle.

WilsonWeb — Subscribe to their Web Marketing Today newsletter and get some free ebooks. Also check out their Web Marketing Research Room.

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Blogging and Social Networks

Blogging sites and resources, blogging directories, group blogs

Knowledge-sharing websites, wikis, widgets, and more

Social networks and social networking

Video-sharing websties

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Bing: http://www.bing.com — My favorite search engine.

Google: http://www.google.com — The largest web site search engine. 33% of the market (2005). 45.1% of searches in September, 2005. 42% of searches in February 2006; 55.2% in July 2007 (comScore Networks); 66.4% of online searches in the U.S. in February 2008 (HitWise); 70% of the U.S. market in October 2008 (Hitwise).

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Website Rankings

Alexa.com: http://www.alexa.com — Provides a relative ranking for website popularity.

Ranking.com: http://www.ranking.com — Calculates the online popularity of the most visited websites.

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