From the Competitous Website:

“Having accurate information about competitors is vital to your company’s ability to maintain its competitive advantage. With a structured way to manage competitive knowledge, your company can maximize opportunity in your market while minimizing the threat of current and potential competitors. Competitious is an easy, confidential way to discover and share competitive information collaboratively across your organization, and keep your company competitive.”

The Competitous Home page

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From the DreamHost Hosting Webpage:

“With so many hosting options available from DreamHost, there’s a price and a package to meet anyone’s needs. Plus, if you pre-pay for two years of service on any of our hosting packages, we’ll give you a 20% discount - forever!”

This is a great host who offers tons of bandwidth, tons of storage, and a great package for hosting your domains.

Not only is DreamHost a good host, but according to their website they are carbon neutral:

“We’ve purchased enough of these credits - which are retired after purchase and not resellable - to account for our energy usage. The proceeds of these credit purchases are then put toward funding further emission reduction and renewable energy projects. We are not currently able to actually power our servers with the wind or the sun, but this is the next best thing! Our Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) have been certified by Green-e.”

If you are interested in getting hosting on the cheap, you can use this code: RMENOT when you sign up for dreamhost and get your hosting for $50 off the first year every plan they have. Your costs (plan dependant):

Plan Cost Discount This Code’s Discount
Monthly L1 $59.90 $50.00 $9.90
Yearly L1 $119.40 $50.00 $22.40
Two years L1 $190.80 $50.00 $93.80
Monthly L2 $69.90 $50.00 $9.90
Yearly L2 $239.40 $50.00 $142.40
Two years L2 $382.80 $50.00 $285.80
Monthly L3 $89.90 $50.00 $9.90
Yearly L3 $479.40 $50.00 $382.40
Two years L3 $766.80 $50.00 $669.80
Sale Info: While L3 is at L2’s price, L2’s discount will be used for L3.
Monthly L4 $129.90 $50.00 $32.90
Yearly L4 $959.40 $50.00 $862.40
Two years L4 $1,534.80 $50.00 $1,437.80

DreamHost Website

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From the Multiple IE Website:

“Ever wanted to test your website in various versions of Internet Explorer?

It is possible to run Internet Explorer in standalone mode without having to over-write previous versions thanks to Joe Maddalone who came up with a way of achieving that in November 2003. Basically, Internet Explorer is run by exploiting a known workaround to DLL hell - which was introduced in Windows 2000 and later versions - called DLL redirection.”

This tool has saved my ass many times over.  There are STILL people who are using deprecated, outdated, and ridiculous versions of “Internet Exploder” out there.  This tool lets you see what your site looks like in each one of them.  For a site that is going to have tons of users from all over the world, or even just the country, with various technological backgrounds, this is a lifesaver.

Multiple IE

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About David Naylor:

“More commonly known as DaveN, started working in the SEO industry over 9 years ago with three large corporations, releasing their database driven data, creating internal link structures and improving usability.”

David posts to his blog about tons of different things having to do with the SEO industry. Everything from sites with good SERP, search engines, and anything else SEO related it seems like.

David Naylor

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From the Search Crystal Home Page:

“searchCrystal lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place.
It is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines or RSS feeds.

You can embed searchCrystal as a Widget on your site or blog to share personalized crystals, or use it to find out what is popular on Wikipedia or use the Search Analytics Toolbox in your browser as a powerful competitive intelligence tool.”

Despite the fact that I think that these guys are against using capitalization on their site, they have come up with a great tool that is fun and easy to use.  It will hit a couple of different search engines for your search term, and display the results in cool and different ways, that help you visualize what the most relevant result for your search term is.

Search Crystal

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