Free Promotion Guide - This site is an excellent resource for Webmasters and provides free articles advising on how to successfully promote a Web site. Here, you will learn how to generate extra visitors by utilising search engines and directories. The guide also covers how to optimise your pages so they're search engine friendly and even addresses the various pitfalls you may encounter.

WordLinx - Looking to promote your Web site? WordLinx is a free traffic exchange service based on text links instead of banner adverts, making it faster, but also fairer. This service runs via clicks per link, rather than impressions, which is generally the case with banner adverts, so members only exchange genuine traffic. WordLinx is free to join but members may also purchase extra visitors.

Amazing Search Engine Secrets - A popular and well-designed site that reveals the hidden truth about search engine listings and provides valuable insight into meta tags, submission, keyword density and more. Although you have to pay a small fee to have access to the entire site, there are plenty of free tips here to get you started. It's definitely recommended for all serious Webmasters.

GoTop Link Exchange - This revolutionary service allows webmasters to locate other Webmasters wishing to trade links. Only Web sites who are interested in reciprocal linking are within the GoTop directory, meaning other webmasters can browse through the listings and approach numerous sites with an offer. New sites, in particular, will benefit considerably from link exchanges such as these.

I Help You Services - A friendly and knowledgeable forum-based Web site, offering free advice and help with search engine promotion. All the major players in the search engine world are discussed, along with smaller "up and coming" engines. Country and region-specific search engines, advice with meta-tags, Web page content and even the latest search engine news is available at I Help You.

LinkBox.ws - This well-presented site provides a free text link exchange service where participating Web sites can display links in exchange for credits. These credits are then converted into traffic from other sites displaying the LinkBox. The exchange ratio here is 1:1, meaning for every person who clicks on a link you display, somebody will be sent to your pages from another member site.

Position Agent - Position Agent is a service from Microsoft's bCentral network that allows Webmasters to instantly check their ranking position in many of the Internet's top search engines (Google, AltaVista, Excite, Hotbot, MSN, All the Web, IWON, Yahoo!). Although we've found their "advice" far too brief and inappropriate to improve rankings, the site does give you a general idea.

Self Promotion.com - Offers over 300 links to search engine submission pages. Spending some time submitting your site to all of them is well worth it! Self Promotion.com is very detailed and provides the best information on the Web. They also give tested tips on getting listed in the popular directory, Yahoo! It's a free service where you pay only if you're satisfied.

JimTools.com - Supercharge your Web site's traffic with the help from these promotion experts. They offer various online utilities, such as the meta-tag generator with tutorial, a submission robot (which submits your site to over 40 popular search engines), and a link checking facility, ideal for quickly rooting out so-called "dead links". We've have tried this and have been very impressed.

SelfSubmit.com - A search engine submission tool where you can submit your pages to over 100 engines, absolutely free of charge. To submit your site, the process is very simple: enter your site URLs (more than one is allowed), then enter your e-mail address. Here, you can also choose to omit search engines from the submission if you have already recently submitted to them.

I Need Hits.com - Amongst numerous promotion packages that cost money, I Need Hits.com provides a free submission service to 38 major search engines and directories. You'll have to fill out a medium-sized form before promoting your Web site, then wait around 1-2 weeks for the engines to index you. It's recommended that you optimise your pages first with other tools in this category.

Promotion World - A huge promotion resource, serving up truckloads of free search engine advice, along with other ideas to drive traffic to your Web site. Promotion World includes hundreds of articles, interviews with industry experts, tutorials and much more besides. They also have some useful online tools, such as a meta tag generator and search engine submission robot.

A Promotion Guide - Includes plenty of useful information about Web site promotion, particularly search engine optimisation and submitting to directories. However, at A Promotion Guide, you'll also find details about how to promote your site using other methods, such as banner advertising, reciprocal linking and Usenet advertising. It's both well-written and very informative.