1. DMOZ
www.DMOZ.org
This is the granddaddy of all directories, and is greatly respected by Google and the all other search engines. Listings in this direcotry are free, but you have to wait for your site to be listed. According to the DMOZ site, expect your site to appear in the listings at Google, AOL and other major engines about 2 weeks after you are listed in DMOZ.

2. Yahoo
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request
The name known to all. This free listing form may take a lonk time(months)to result in a link back to your site, but it is well worth a try this.

3. Zeal
www.zeal.com
A free listing just need to register. Zeal is owned by Looksmart.

4. Directory World
www.directoryworld.net
Requires a reciprocal link to their site, but is otherwise free. Good page ranks for all listing pages inside.

5.Really First
www.reallyfirst.com
This is one of the largest directories on web with over 50,000 links. Very poor navigation, but a free link if you add their link to your site.

This is just strating. Submit as many directoried you can. Remember lisiting to these site help you get get good pagerank, traffic and also improve your serch engine listing.

Google is heart of webmaster with its powerfull search engine and webmaster tools etc.
But yahoo is also in list. Yahoo can also help you in your business.

Yoy can use these two servies for your site sipport section.

Yahoo IM
You can use yahoo messanger for your support section. Everyone know what support ticket is so many people don't like to contact support team. Live is support is also good but if you have slow connection you will not open it.
So the best solution is yahoo. Just create a Yahoo Id with your company name and add it to your site and start living with your customer.

Yahoo Mail
Google apps gives you e-mail of your domain like you@your-domain.com, yahoo don't. You can still use its mail that is not on your domain. Yahoo gives unlimites webspace so you dont need to worry about it.

Domain Names are very cheap these days but many people still can't buy them.

The option is free Subdomain that looks likt domain names.

.tk
You can get your own .tk domain names like my-name.tk
It very easy and pupular but most of search engines don't like this and I don't like it too because it comes with adverstiment.

co.nr

It is also one of best free subdomains servie for your sites.
It Gives you
Free URL Forwarding, also known as Free URL Redirection


Intelligent Free Path Forwarding and Advanced Free META TAGS support

Free URL Cloaking also known as Free URL Masking

No banners or popup ads, actually, NO ANY ADS at all

Ability to use your free domain name with and without WWW, and more


uni.cc

UNI.CC is a free domain name that will help making your web sites more accessible using short and easy-to-remember Internet addresses.
This site provides domain name redirection service and a site builder tool. They do not offer hosting, mail or FTP services at this time.

Available services

Web forwarding
Convert your web site's address from something like
www.provider.com/users/something to www.name.uni.cc

Site builder
Create a complete site in few minutes. No programming or design skills required.

DNS Service
Delegate your UNI.CC domain name like a .com and get all the flexibility you need.


afraid.org
Here you can lot of free subdomain names with full domain control or you can use your own domain.

Google Webmaster Tools is one of Google's best free service.

It is very easy to use in blogger. To add your blog to Google Webmaster Tools you need to verify your blog by just uploading a simple META tag in your templates. It help Google to index your pages for Search result.

Using Webmaster tools you can also check that what problem is Googlebot getting to index your blog's pages to Google and Fix errors. Check how many pages Google has indexed and Check inbound and outbond links of your blog.


Adding Sitemap

If you are using Google Webmaster Tools to get your pages indexed by Google then you need a Sitemap to get top ranks in Google Search.

Its very easy to Add a sitemap but most of people don't know how to add Sitemap in blogger.
You don't need any external source for this because this feature comes with blogger.

Just add atom.xml at the end of your domain.
Like mine is http://www.runweb.org/atom.xml

Now you can add your blog's sitemap to google.

Hutch said that it completed the transaction with Vodafone on Tuesday. According to the pact, Vodafone has managed a retention fee of USD 352 million for 10 years, reports CNBC-TV18.



This will waive certain potential claims if they arise within the next 10 years. Hutch's gains before tax is likely to be nearly USD 9 billion.



Vodafone will pay USD 10.83 billion post fresh agreement with Hutch.



Hutch has made it official: its transaction with Vodafone was completed on the 8th of May. Vodafone will pay Hutch around USD 10 billion, instead of the earlier agreed upon USD 11.1 billion.



It is now just a matter of time before Hutch Essar officially becomes Vodafone Essar. The British telecom giant has finally completed its acquisition on Tuesday after getting all regulatory approvals.



Interestingly, Vodafone has reached a fresh agreement with Hutch and will pay USD 10.83 billlion in cash as against the USD 11.1 billion decided upon earlier. The adjustment is on account of Vodafone claiming USD 352 million as retention fee for 10 years. The retention fee is to waive off certain potential claims if they arise within the next 10 years.



Hutch, meanwhile will pocket USD 9 billion as pre-tax gains after making adjustments for retention fee that goes to Vodafone and the settlement fee that will now be paid to Essar.



After the deal is done, the top management can focus on integration issues. The pact with NTT Docomo, for internet telephony, has already been discontinued and the company is likely to rework a lot of the VAS offerings. The Vodafone brand will kick in, in a phased manner over a period of time. There will be clarity on what Vodafone will offer to spice up the telecom market later this month when Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone, visits India.

Source:- Money Control

These days Domains are very cheap. You can get your own domain for 6-7$ per year.
Normaly The Registrar don't give full domain feature. Many of them only provide DNS control. Most of people don't need anything else but some people want more.

If you want to use your domain at blogger you need cname control that normaly registrar don't provide. What you will do?

Lots of option available for free. You can use any services. I am giving you some info about famous services that people mostly use.

www.afraid.org
This is a free service. They have better feature for paid users.
You just need to Point your domian to their Nameserver.

Afraid give good features with good speed but limited.


www.mydomain.com
MyDomain also give domain tools for free. You can register a free account and add as much site you want. All features are unlimited. You can also buy domain from them.

Click on this Pic to see it Bigger...

This Pic made easy to understand Google PageRank.

You can see that if you want PR1 site then you need one of the following:
15 PR1 back links
or 3 PR2 back links

If you get 3 PR10 back link then your site will be PR10

Google update PageRank for site regularly.
You must wait for your rank to be updated.
You can download Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer to see everysite's PageRank When you open it.

You can publish your blog without blogspot.com subdomain. You can use your own domain name at blogger at no cost at all. Your blog will be work same as before but with a new Domain name.

Setting up Domain name

Go to your domain control panal where you can find setting for your domain.
If your domain provider don't give control over cname then you can get it for free by pointing your domian to some free services like www.afraid.org .

You have to create a subdomain name with "www". now set its cname record to google's "ghs.google.com".

And forward your mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com so it will work for both www and without www.

Now open your blogger account click on setting -> Publishing

Now click on Switch to Custom Domain

You will find a box for domain name. Enter your domain name with www like www.mydomain.com

Now press save setting. Your blog is ready with your own domian.