The links below are to free search engine optimization tools and other resources that I have discovered to help me design my websites. I was an information systems major in college but until I recently began building websites, I really did not know how to build a website correctly. Starting out, I researched all over the Internet and read hundreds of forum posts to discover these tools which improved my web sites significantly. I would advise taking a look at them to improve your web site projects.
Free Web Submission allows you to submit to a bunch of search engines totally free and easy.
AddMe another submission tool which submits your site to a dozen or so search engines. Normally, I would use both Free Web Submission and AddMe for every site I designed.
Top 25 Web is a tool used for checking you Google pagerank.
Self Seo are a collection of tools for webmasters like keyword suggestion, link popularity, and pages indexed.
HTML Validator checks your HTML code for errors.
High Rankings Forum is a SEO forum that will answer pretty much any question you may have. Read this article for Ten Tips to the top of the Search Engines.
HostPC is the best web site hosting option out there. I was simply amazed for about $35 a year I could use my one hosting account to run dozens of websites. In fact, with the two dozen web sites I have, I have only used 1% of the bandwidth and 1% of the storage space I have available. They have all the state of the art features that any webmaster would need.
Syndic8 search for RSS Feeds in any category.
Tag-Board if you want to add a shout out box to your website, which is an easy way to let visitors interact with each other.
Image Shack is a location to look for pictures and ideas.
Pic Findr searches the Internet for pictures that are copyright free for you to use on your web site.
RSS Feed Reader is a tool for putting RSS Feeds directly onto your web site. It is totally free, relatively easy to use, and you can choose any RSS Feed from anywhere to put directly onto your website. If you use the PHP solution method, your Feeds you import to your site are search engine friendly.