At the top of the list are 3 resources that deserve special mention because they have been crucial to our education and continued success. These are not paid endorsements.

Adventive.com's Moderated Discussion lists

Free, moderated opt-in email discussion elists. Their I-Sales Discussion List is required reading at business schools. I read it every day.

Workz.com Webmaster Resources

Expert advice, guest expert articles, several quality newsletters.

Search Engines: The Unfair Advantage Book

A comprehensive overview of internet marketing with search engines and directories. Information is refreshed monthly. Comparisons, research, charts, insights, tips, tricks and techniques. If you want to jump start your understanding of the search engines and directories you can't go wrong with this. www.searchengine-news.com

Search Engine Optimization by RankWrite

The Rank Write Roundtable answers your questions about search engine optimization, SEO, online copywriting and writing for the search engines.

WebPosition Gold - http://www.webposition.com

The automated ranking report saves us days of work every month.

Search Engine World - http://searchengineworld.com

One of the busiest search engine optimization chat boards with dedicated chats for every major search engine.

Michele Web - http://www.michele-web.com/

Terrific web design resources site. Tools, tips, techniques, great bits of code and javascript, full of useful advice for the beginning web designer. Also read our page about Basic Web Design.

robots.txt syntax checker - http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~sxw/robots/check/

The exact syntax of your robots.txt file is very important. This will tell you if you have it right or wrong. There is also a link on this site that goes to the robots.txt standards page where you can learn how to write robots.txt files if you don't already know how.

The CGI Resources Index - http://www.cgi-resources.com

Lots of scripts, some free, some shareware.

CNET Builder - http://www.builder.com

Many useful tools for the designer.

GIFCruncher - http://www.gifcruncher.com

Free online GIF compression tool makes your graphic files smaller so they load faster and use less bandwidth.

TechTV - http://www.techtv.com/ -

Television about computing. This is the companion website to the TV channel. This is great stuff for anyone in the online business. Help, resources, advice, software, tips, tricks, technology and best of all, cutting edge ideas and info.

Jakob Nielsen - http://www.useit.com

Mr. Nielsen really did write the book on website usability. If you don't know what it is and why it's important you will lose sales. Jakob's writing can be quite dense for non-techs but there you need to understand it yourself or hire a professional internet marketing consultant to help you with it.