ASSOCIATIONS
GPWA The Gambling Portal Webmasters Association is a private forum for gambling portal owners to discuss all topics relevant to running a gambling
portal.
CONTENT
Gambling Press Provides
free gambling related headlines and summaries.
Gamemaster Online A good source for blackjack lessons and other gambling instructional content.
Jackpot Madness A portal owned by the casino software developer, Microgaming. They provide dynamic links to the progressive jackpots together with press releases about recent jackpot winners.
Mark Pilarski A
gambling writer who offers paid content such as articles and Q&As.
Play4Prizes Provides free games to encourage people to revisit your site daily for the chance to win prizes. Is also a referral site for some traffic as people are encouraged to visit other sites with the games.
DOMAIN NAME REGISTRARS
Melbourne IT Not the cheapest but the best with the most favourable terms.
EMAIL MARKETING
Constant Contact maintain your opt-in email list for a small monthly fee. Test it out for free.
Vertical Response maintain your opt-in email list and charge based on each email you send. Test it out for free.
FORUMS
A Best Web Extensive forum for discussion of all types of affiliate programs.
WebHosting Talk Not a hosting site per se but a forum to discuss hosting companies. Good for researching potential hosts so do a search of the forum on the company you are considering.
HOSTING
Rochen This is my host and absolutely faultless service and fast helpful support.
LINK MANAGERS
Link Manager Automatically maintain your reciprocal links. 30 day free trial then only $20 per month to save so much time.
WSN Links Fully templated and translatable links management script. Features unlimited custom fields, member system, voting and review systems, file uploads, advanced search, markup codes, database backup, censor, search engine friendly URLs, advanced usergroup permissions including options to require manual validation of submissions etc.
MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS
SEO Count Monitor your keywords and ranking in Google with this tool that uses the Google API.
Webmaster Tools from Webmaster Toolkit where there are too many tools to list so just go ahead and check them out for yourself.
OTHER PROGRAMS
New Affiliates is a site dedicated to help people find new affiliate programs.
SCRIPTS
The CGI Resource Index Matt Wright's CGI specific site.
Dynamic Drive Searchable
database of dynamic HTML work.
Hotscripts Searchable
database of java, perl, php scripts etc.
Matt's Script Archive Probably the original searchable database of Perl scripts by Matt Wright.
The PHP Resource Index Matt Wright's php specific site.
Script Search Searchable
database of java, perl, php scripts etc.
Sourceforge A huge site used to manage development projects available under the open source licences.
Warped Web Free
php scripts for banner rotations, traffic counters, link checkers and more.
SEARCH ENGINES AND DIRECTORIES
All The Web Search
engine.
AltaVista Search Engine.
DMOZ The Open Directory Project is owned by Netscape and sites are added by a team of reviewers.
Google The most important search engine to be listed on.
Looksmart Was important but has managed to alienate itself somewhat. Important but not a relevant as say, Google.
Roar Pay per click search engine with your first site submitted free. Reaches 60 million per month and reasonable prices still.
Yahoo! The most important directory but expensive and difficult to get listed on quickly.
SITE BUILDING
Adobe Developers of Photoshop, the best graphics package. Pricing and features make it more relevant for professional users.
Coffee Cup A free HTML editor with a good reputation.
ebay Australia Heaps of templates available.
ebay United Kingdom Heaps of templates available.
ebay United States Heaps of templates available.
Jim Tools Extensive site offering a range of tools for the webmaster from site creation to marketing and more.
MacroMedia Developers of Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
NoteTab My personal preference for text editors.
Paintshop Pro Easy to use graphics package offering a free trial period.
Site Point A great place for tutorials on all aspects of coding websites.
Webmonkey Articles and other how-tos for the webmaster.
SITE MONITORING
QWK.Mon Site monitoring service with email, sms and pager alerts.
1st Warning Site monitoring service.
SPYWARE / SCUMWARE REMOVERS
Ad-aware The best free tool to remove spyware components from your computer.
TRAFFIC SOURCES
Email Lotto One of the oldest and most established free lotto sites. Comes with good recommendations from other webmasters.
Visitor Finder Targeted traffic including specials for casino traffic.
WEB TRACKING AND TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
HitsLink Paid service that provides analysis of website traffic. A 30 day free trial is available and pricing based on page view numbers.
Webtrends Live Package that analyses your log files. Is more expensive than other types of traffic analysers but also more comprehensive.
UTILITIES
RoboForm Fills in forms automatically without spyware. Good for checking your statistics.
