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U. S. Business Advisor : Sponsored by the SBA, this site offers access to federal government information and services. Linked topics include financial assistance, taxes, laws and regulations, as well as other business related topics.

The Small Business Administration (SBA) web site is one of the most important web resources for small business, including much information about all aspects of starting and running a business, government regulations and tax law, foreign trade, and just about any other topic of interest. There are two important pages of links to web sites pertinent to small business and the Internet: the Internet "Hotlist" and the Office of Advocacy E-Commerce links.

SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) is a government-sponsored non-profit organization made up of volunteer retired business leaders who are available to advise and discuss all aspects of starting and running a business.

Internal Revenue Service: We're all familiar with the nation’s tax collection agency. The IRS website provides information that helps taxpayers understand their tax responsibilities.

Form SS-4, Employer Identification Number (EIN): An Employer Identification Number (EIN), also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number, is a nine-digit number that the IRS assigns to business entities. The IRS uses this number to identify taxpayers that are required to file various business tax returns. EINs are used by employers, sole proprietors, corporations, partnerships, non-profit organizations, trusts and estates, government agencies, certain individuals and other business entities.

Marketing Resources on the Web

Direct Marketing Association - Guidelines and news from the leading association of direct marketers www.the-dma.org

E-mail address directory - Bigfoot's databases facilitate searches for e-mail addresses www.bigfoot.com

International Trade Administration - Broad range of export-related information, statistics, and country reports www.trade.gov

E-Commerce Times - This free online publication includes daily news and feature articles for entrepreneurs and companies doing business on the Internet. www.ecommercetimes.com

Web Marketing Today - The Web's largest source of key information about doing business on the Net; with over 2,200 pages and 16,000+ links to resources on e-commerce and Web marketing. http://www.wilsonweb.com/

ebusinessforum.com - This Web site from the Economist Group (the publishers of The Economist) provides international business, economic, and political analysis and forecasting. http://www.ebusinessforum.com/

Google Webmaster Central - Welcome to your one-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes websites. You can learn here how to ensure that your site is easily crawled and indexed and access tools that will enable you to diagnose crawling issues, study statistics on how your site is doing in our index, and tell us how you'd like your site to be crawled and indexed. www.google.com/webmasters

For Web Publishers: Google AdSense - Earn more revenue from your website, while providing visitors with a more rewarding online experience. Google AdSense™ automatically delivers text and image ads that are precisely argeted to your site and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful. And when you add Google WebSearch to your site, AdSense delivers targeted ads to your search results pages too. With AdSense you earn more ad revenue with minimal effort and no additional cost. www.google.com/intl/en/ads/index.html

Search Engine URL/address

• Google http://www.google.com/advanced_search.html
• Alltheweb www.alltheweb.com
• Ask www.ask.com
• Alta Vista www.altavista.com
• Dogpile www.dogpile.com
• HotBot hotbot.lycos.com
• MSN search.msn.com
• Infoseek www.infoseek.com
• IXQuick www.ixquick.com

Miscellaneous Sites

• Google Maps maps.google.com
• Refdesk.com http://www.refdesk.com/
• Newspapers http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html
• Trade Show Central www.tscentral.com
• U.S. Census Bureau www.census.gov

Open Directory Project - The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The Open Directory is the most widely distributed data base of Web content classified by humans. Its editorial standards body of net-citizens provide the collective brain behind resource discovery on the Web. The Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others.



Free Site Map Builder - This free and easy to use site map builder is fast, efficient and allows you to build a sitemap that can instantly be submitted to Google. The only requirement is a popular browser that supports java, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and others.

A site map (or sitemap) is a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site. An example is the one on EFF's (Electronic Frontier Foundation) page. Site maps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found. This is especially important if a site uses Macromedia Flash or JavaScript menus that do not include HTML links. Site maps do have limitations. Most search engines will only follow a finite number of links from a page, so if a site is very large, additional strategies besides the site map may be required so that search engines and visitors can access all content on the site. While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to relay page function, web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate both as one and the same.

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