Free Business Resources

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There are so many resources free business resources on the web to be taken advantage of, but the problem is that many people don't know about all of them. Sniper previously mentioned that he was looking for topics that could help the forum, so I was hoping we could sticky this and get a lot of responses on key sites and tools people use. Here are the ones I know of to get us started. (Note that a couple appear on multiple lists since some sites can be used as an advertiser or as a publisher.)

Website Design
<ul type="square">[*]Open Source Web Design - Free XHTML/CSS website templates[*]TemplateWorld - Free XHTML/CSS website templates[*]FreeSiteTemplates - Free website templates (free site categories in top-right when page loads)[*]12 Basic CSS Templates[*]CSS 1/2/3 Column Layouts[*]CSS Support Table[*]PNG transparency fix for IE[*]Web 2.0 Icons Pack[*]Free Icons Pack[/list]
Articles/Content
<ul type="square">[*]GoArticles[*]Ezine Articles[/list]
Keyword Research
<ul type="square">[*]Overture Keyword Selector Tool[*]WordTracker - Keyword suggestion tool[*]Google AdWords Keyword Tool (might require an AdWords account)[*]UrlTrends - Reverse keyword lookup[/list]
Advertising Methods (for inbound traffic &amp; sales)
<ul type="square">[*]Google AdWords - Display ads through Google search &amp; AdSense ads[*]Yahoo! Marketing Solutions - Display ads through YPN[*]Microsoft AdCenter - Display ads through adCenter[*]AzoogleAds - CPA marketing opportunity[*]Commission Junction - CPA marketing opportunity[*]ClickBank - CPA marketing opportunity[/list]
Advertising Opportunities (for revenue)
<ul type="square">[*]Google AdSense - Display AdWords ads on your site[*]Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) - Display ads on your site[*]JohnChow.com - An enormous list of CPC, CPM, &amp; CPA advertising methods[*]Top Paying Keywords - List of top paying AdSense keywords/phrases[/list]
Affiliate Marketing Opportunities (for revenue)
<ul type="square">[*]Commission Junction - Large affiliate site[*]ClickBank - Growing affiliate site[*]Amazon Associates - Amazon.com's affiliate program[*]Wealthy Affiliate (haven't used this, don't know, sorry!)[*]AWeber - Autoresponder, useful for affiliate sites[/list]
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
<ul type="square">[*]Yahoo! Directory[*]DMOZ - Open Directory Project[*]Strongest Links Directory List[*]Backlink Builder[*]Google Ranking Factors - Simple SEO checklist[*]Live PageRank - Google pagerank tool[/list]
Miscellaneous Tools
<ul type="square">[*]Google Analytics - Track numerous stats about your site's visitors[/list]


Please posts your comments &amp; suggestions for what to include in the Suggestion thread