Web Hosting and Domain Management 

GoDaddy - low-cost, easy to use, domain manager and hosting service

1&1 - popular low-cost, easy to use, domain manager and hosting service

My Discount Domains - very low-cost domain purchasing and parking

Network Solutions - big name provider of wide range of web services

Register.com - another provider of web hosting services

Yahoo Small Business - web hosting (and other services) from Yahoo

 Website Design Tools and Resources

Blogging and Blog Tools

Wordpress - popular free blogging service

Google Blogger - another free blogging service

TypePad - free micro blogging service

Ping-o-Matic - tool to update search engines when you update your Blog

Technorati - measures and tracks most popular blogs

Bloglines - list of most popular blogs to subscribe to

Feedburner - allow easy subscription to your Blog

 

 

Social Networking

Facebook - popular personal and business social networking site

LinkedIn - 'must have' business networking site

Twitter - realtime, short messaging (for personal and business)

BizNik - growing business networking site

Website Evaluation, Keywords, and SEO Tools

Whois.NET - find out who owns a specific URL

Google URL Submission - submit a URL to Google search engine

Yahoo URL Submission - submit a URL to Yahoo search engine

MSN URL Submission - submit a URL to MSN (Bing) search engine

Meta Tag Analyzer - free tool to analyze the Meta tags on any webpage

FREE SEO Tools - collection of free SEO tools

Microsoft SEO Tool - very thorough and complex analysis - but Free

SEO Glossary - good SEO/SEM glossary of terms

DMOZ Open Directory - hand-verified directory of most popular websites

Website Grader - tool to analyze your (or your competitors) website

Google Mobile Browser - view your website on a mobile screen format

Good Keywords - keyword analysis tools (some free)

Google Keyword Tool - Google's free tool for generating keywords

E-Commerce, Payment Processing, Merch Accounts

Beanstream - online credit card and direct transfer payments

PayPal - most popular online payment and merchant account service

Authorize.net - major provider on merchant account services

Heartland - large business merchant account services firm

Google Checkout - another service from Google to allow online e-commerce

1ShoppingCart - all in one shopping cart and e-commerce services

E-Junkie - sell and ship digital (software) products

PayLoadz - another online digital goods e-commerce service

Kunaki CD Mfg - manufacture and ship CD/DVD products