You’ll probably know how badly for SEO your e-business is having broken links in your website. Is very common to link external pages and then forget about those links. Those pages can go offline and you’ll never get noticed.

To prevent this, you’d better check your links frequently, especially those external ones, but also those one that point to some other pages inside your website.

The most obvious way to do this is manually, by clicking on each link. This can be a tough task if you have a very big site or with lot of external links. So I recommend you to use an application that helps you with this control.

A very good one and free for Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP is Xenu’s Link Sleuth. This application checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on “normal” links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

If you don’t want to install any piece of software in your PC, you can still try Dead Links.com, a broken link checker that has a free service for small websites. If your site is really big, you can use one of the paid services. I tested the free one and it’s really good.

Can’t wait until tomorrow to see today’s traffic stats? If you are an anxious person, this tool can crisp your nerves.

FEEDJIT gives you real-time traffic data on your blog. You just need to cut and paste a piece of code and you’re all set. No registration required and it’s completely free.

FEEDJIT also track popular links across blogs, so if you’re the first to link to a popular site, your blog may appear on their home page.

One of the major problems when designing and programming a website is the way it looks like in the browser. Many people use to design and program the website in a unique browser and forgot o test it in the other ones (or al least, in the most popular ones).

In my opinion, every website must be tested at least in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. Maybe I can add Opera too, but the other three represents a great percentage of all internet users.

The best way to do this is installing all these browsers in your computer. If you are lazy for this, you can use BrowserShots, a very nice online tool that helps you testing your website in different browsers. Be patient, sometimes it’s a bit slow, but a good tool.

I once wrote about PrezentIt, a very nice online presentation software. Now, I found Preezo, a similar online application to create professional quality presentations using an ultra-fast Ajax user interface.

With Prezzo is very easy to collaborate with your team on a centralized web document, as also share your documents with partners, customers and other users. Of course, in order to use it, you have to register.
 This application in very new, it was launched some days ago. Even if it’s not much complete and functional as PrezentIt, I saw lot of potential in this new tool.

Many times I was asked about an online application that let us create business presentations. I just find PrezentIt, a community where someone can create (by himself of in group), share and show business presentations.

This endeavor, created in Peru, allows users to create up to 30 presentations and store up to 30 MB of images.
 
Ah, by the way, PrezentIt is totally free. You only need to register. Nice tool, but, IMO, needs to make some extra improvements and increase the storage per user.

Are you planning to going e-business? Maybe your budget is not too much. In that case, you have to take care of any penny involved in this adventure. When planning your web design, you can hire designers whom can create exclusive artworks for your site, but this represents money.

A free alternative is using an open source wed design. One of my favorites is OSWD.org, where you can find hundreds of free designs for your site.

The Open Source Web Design project (OSWD.org) was founded in September, 2000 by Francis J. Skettino. Their goal was to provide the Open Source community with quality web designs to help get people’s projects on the web in a way that is both organized and good looking. From personal blogs to content managements systems to full fledged businesses, OSWD has been providing free web designs to those who need them for years.

Day after day, many people contribute with this project with their designs. Take a look, some of them are really beautiful!.

Do you have an online business? Are you planning to go online soon? Please, don’t forget to have a tool that verifies if the site goes down. Many hosting providers have these kinds of tools, but are only for internal use and you probably never get informed if the server goes down.

Montastic is an online tool that verifies your domain availability each 10 minutes. You can apply up to 100 domains verification and it’s totally free. The domains availability can be viewed in a Yahoo! Gadget too created by Montastic.

If there’s any problem with your domains, you’ll receive an email alert. Please, do not subscribe for this service using an account of the same domain you are checking, because in case the domain goes down, you’ll probably never receive Montastic alert.

Movie Masher is free software that can be installed on any web server to enable advanced video editing features for end users. Like other open source development projects, it benefits from ongoing community feedback and code contributions.

It’s a very nice application, and great for those that doesn’t know much about what and how to edit their videos. Anyway, in my opinion, a little improve of their interface is need.

From Plaxo you can centralize your contact information for multiple services as Outlook, Outlook Express, Google Calendar, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, Hotmail, Thunderbird and LinkedIn. When a friend of yours changes their contact info, you’ll see the change automatically (in case your friend is a Plaxo user).  Other features included birthday reminders and some more.

There’s a free basic service and some other premium services with some extra features such fixing duplicate contacts, sending unlimited ecards, getting assistance from Plaxo and many more.
It’s really a wonderful tool!. Get connected!.

PcNames brings us a very interesting tool. It shows the domains names availability while you type it in their search box. Developed in Ajax, it quickly shows if domain is taken or not, checking the following extensions: .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .us.

In case the domain is taken, it shows a whois button to know who registered our desired domain.