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Below are lists of resources available to some of the best tools on the web for online marketing and exposure:

Blog Software

Wordpress - The software your are using to view this site and blog. Excellent and free.
Blogger - A Google product. Excellent for creating and syndicating a blog. Free.
Typepad - Another blog product, excellent support and feature set. Small monthly fee.

Blog Searches

Google Blog Search - In Beta, Google’s blog search lets you find the blogs that have the most relevant content you are looking for.

RSS Feed Creation & Syndication

Feedburner - Burn your feeds through feedburner for better syndication and stats tracking. Free.
FeedForAll - Software that allows you to create your RSS feeds for syndication.

Web Creation Tools

Domain setup & hosting - Lunar Pages - Fast, inexpensive, reliable and great customer support. Free domain name when you host.
Site Design software - Personal Web Kit & Coffeecup
Do-It-Your-Selfers - Adobe Dreamweaver & Microsoft Frontpage

SEO Tools

Google - Google has a host of tools available if you sign up for a Google account. All free. Tools include: analytics, webmaster tools for conversion tracking and website analysis, Adwords, Adsense, etc.
Yahoo! - Yahoo is stepping it up and has started to provide several tools to help in your website development and optimization. Tools include: search submit, search, analysis tools and rss tools.
SEOBook - SEOBook, a leader in search engine marketing has a comprehensive set of tools to analyze and optimize your site and the competition.
SEO Chat - A great set of tools to help you optimize your website.

Social Tagging Sites

Digg - Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web.
Delicious - Del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else’s.
Reddit - Reddit is a source for what’s new and popular on the web — personalized for you.
Stumbleupon - StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites.
Technorati - We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”
Furl - Furl is a free service that saves the important items you find on the Web and enables you to quickly find them again.
Newsvine - All things news related…in one place.

Social Networking Sites

Authors on the Net - Every author has an audience and our job is to help you find yours. Authors On The Net is a free mastermind community for authors. We have tutorials on how to publish your book, how to distribute your book and most importantly, how to promote your book. We also have tools to help you start your own blog, how to use Amazon effectively, how to produce a Virtual Book tour and many other helpful tactics. And if you are short on time, we have partners who can help you implement what you learn on the site. To see if Authors On The Net is right for you, follow the pens below and we’ll walk you through the member benefits.
Razor Pages - Razorpages is the first community for independent and small press authors where authors can connect with authors and readers can connect with authors.
FaceBook - Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
MySpace - MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends’ friends.
Friendster - Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them.
LinkedIn - A social networking site for professionals.
Yahoo! Groups - A place to meet and make a difference online.
Google Groups - Google Groups is a free service from Google where groups of people have discussions about common interests.
Ning - Create your own social network for anything.
43 Things - A social networking site where users create accounts and then share lists of goals and hopes
Advogato - Tech based. Advogato is an online community site dedicated to free software development.
A Small World - A private online community designed for those who already have strong connections with one another. By invitation only.
Eons.com - Eons.com is the online community for “BOOMers,” those of us born between 1946 and 1964 and beyond, who want to learn and do more to make the most of every stage of life. Our community is the place for you to explore your passions and interests, keep in touch with friends and family, connect with interesting people to share life experiences, and most of all—have fun!

Wikis

Wikipedia - Create an informational wiki about your book or have someone create one about you.
PBWiki - Create a website for free with this powerful online collaborative software. Your website will be hosted by pbwiki, which will appear in the url string. (i.e. www.spiralnow.pbwiki.com)

Publish Your Book

Author House - Since 1997, AuthorHouse, the leading self-publishing company in the world, has helped more than 30,000 authors reach their book publishing goals and self publish more than 40,000 books.
iUniverse - For authors who are unable to break into the highly exclusive world of traditional publishing or who don’t have the time or resources to do it all themselves, iUniverse represents a great alternative.
Xlibris - At Xlibris, we give you all of the tools you need to publish your book quickly, easily and affordably. Through leading-edge print-on-demand technology, we offer a wide variety of design, production and publishing services.
Lulu - Lulu eliminates traditional entry barriers to publishing, and enables content creators and owners – authors and educators, videographers and musicians, businesses and nonprofits, professionals and amateurs – to bring their work directly to their audience.

Profile Creation Sites

Orkut - Orkut is an online community designed to make your social life more active and stimulating.
Squidoo - Create lenses to help create buzz about you and your stuff.
Gather - Gather is a place to connect with people who share your passions. Let your unique voice shine through the articles, images, reviews, or audio you publish.
Launchtags - LaunchTags Create and publish web pages about what you know.
Hubpages - HubPages is your online space to share your advice, reviews, useful tips, opinions and insights with hundreds of other authors.

Photo Sharing Sites

Flickr - Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform.
Faces - Faces offers free photo sharing and printing including online dating, chat and blog services.
WebShots -Webshots provides a stage for members to upload and share their personal videos and pictures in albums in a variety of areas
dotPhoto - Allows visitors one place to manage all their photos and to share them online.
Smugmug - The ultimate in photo sharing. Easily create online photo albums. Share, store, organize and print.

RSS Feed Capture/Readers

Yahoo Site Explorer - Allow Yahoo! to pick up your site or blog RSS feed.
Google Reader - Get all of your RSS feeds in one place.
Newsgator - A free online RSS reader.

Sites To Help You Sell

Cafe Press - Create and sell your own designs, photos and images on a wide variety of customizable products with zero upfront costs and zero inventory investment.
Paypal - PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet.

Event Promotion Sites

Upcoming - Upcoming is a social event calendar website to list and promote your events.
Full Calendar - FullCalendar provides local event-related services in many US cities.
Going Boston - Going helps you find fun things to do and fun people to meet in Boston.

Amazon Tools

Search Inside™ -When customers search for books on Amazon.com, we use the actual words from inside participating books–not just the author, title, and keywords supplied by the publisher–to return the best possible selection of books. With this powerful new search feature, customers can discover books that may never have surfaced in previous search results! With Search Inside!, customers can also browse sample pages and do additional searches inside a particular book to confirm that the title is just what they’re looking for. All of this helps publishers and authors like you sell more books.
List Your Title - List your book with Amazon in a number of different ways. Add descriptive content and images as well.
Amazon Connect - AmazonConnect is a new program open to authors with at least one book for sale on Amazon.com. This program allows authors to post messages directly to their readers on a wide variety of subjects. Posted messages will appear the readers’ Amazon home page, as well as the author’s book detail page(s), profile page and blog. As part of the program, authors are able to create their own profile page with personalized information.
Amazon Shorts - Amazon Shorts provides established authors with an opportunity to expand and supplement their body of work by writing within genres and themes they are best know for in short format, reaching their fan base in new ways; the program provides readers a risk-free way to sample a variety of the best content available online for less than a cup of coffee; and it provides new authors with a venue to establish and grow an audience.
Amazon Upgrade - Amazon Upgrade is an exciting new digital initiative that will help you generate incremental revenue on your titles sold on Amazon.com. When you enroll a title in Amazon Upgrade, customers who have purchased a physical copy of your book can upgrade to digital online access of the same title for an extra fee.
Digital Text Platform - Digital Text Platform is a fast and easy self-publishing tool that lets you upload and format your books for sale in the Kindle Store.

Google Tools

List Your Books with Google - Allows you to join the Google partner program and get your books listed with Google.
Google Sandbox - The Google sandbox allows you to look at the monthly search volume and provides you with suggestions based on your inserted term. Free.
Google Analytics - A comprehensive and free tracking tool for your website.
Google Site Tools - A comprehensive set of tools to help you deliver a better website for the search engines.

Book Listing Sites & Review Sites

Yahoo! Directory Book Reviews - A listing of all the book review sites on the web.
BookPage - BookPage is a monthly book review publication distributed to more than 400,000 readers through subscribing bookstores and public libraries.
Book Reporter - The Book Report Network aims to solve reader dilemmas, with thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, literary games and contests, and more every week.
Curled Up - Curled Up With a Good Book is an e-zine committed to bringing good books from presses of all sizes to the attention of our readers and newsletter subscribers.

Keyword Research

Google Sandbox - The Google sandbox allows you to look at the monthly search volume and provides you with suggestions based on your inserted term. Free.
Wordtracker - A great research tool to dig down deep into the keyword trenches and come up with some excellent short and long-tail terms. Much more comprehensive than Google’s free tool. Monthly fee.
Keyword Discovery - Another excellent tool similar to Wordtracker. Much more comprehensive than Google’s free tool. Monthly fee.