Have you tried Mozilla Firefox as a replacement for Internet Explorer?  You should definitely download it now.  With a choice of many optional add-on downloads you can have an exceptional browser.  There are so many other free add-ons that we cannot list them all here.  Thanks to all Mozilla and Open Source programmers.

Need information about page rankings of competitor’s sites?  Download    SEO for Firefox.

Mozilla proves that there is such a thing as a free lunch and the dessert is Thunderbird, a fine email client replacement for Outlook and OExpress.   A favourite add-on for Thunderbird is Lightning which gives you a superb calendar/diary facility.

  Firefox          SEO for Firefox              Thunderbird

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Before you start building your website you will, of course, need a domain name and hosting.  At modest cost and with superb support we can recommend Namesco.  We have not often called on their support but correct and personal answers are emailed to you in the same length of time as many support services take for a dull generalised auto response email!

   Namesco to host your domain, email, broadband.

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It is always useful to have a quickfire FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program, especially when it is free and better than excellent value.  FileZilla FTP fits the bill and it is free!  Whether you want to upload an entire site or just upload robots.txt, upload sitemaps or change a single file permission then this is the tool for the job.  It is Open Source and is supported on Windows, Linux, BSD and OSX.

   FileZilla

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Now that you have a host and a website built, you need help with the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and keywords.  It is well worth going past the American salesmanship to look at Brad Callen’s SEO Elite.  SEO allows you to examine your opposition’s site and examine links and keywords.  Elite offers you the opportunity to analyse backlinks, links to your website, check that mutual links are still linking back, find where your pages are ranked and much more.  Brad also sends users informative articles on keyword positioning and selection.

  SEO Elite

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Hello Engines! helps you to boost the number of hits on your websites by submitting them to all of the world’s most relevant search services, by generating optimized HTML documents and by improving the search engine rankings of your websites. The program provides more than 20 highly effective tools that are indispensable for professional search engine optimization. 

   Hello Engines!

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After selecting a host, built and promoted a website and selected your keywords you need to check your site links you will need a lovely simple freebie called Xenu Link Sleuth.  If you are frustrated by other site’s broken links then you should check all your site links with speed and ease.

   Xenu Link Sleuth

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