Google Analytics tool for web sites

[Mike1]

Send site maps to Google? Does this help your site climb in the ratings or does it just "force" register your sites with Google?

I'm generating the sitemaps on dynamic forum sites, to encourage crawls. vBulletin is fairly search engine friendly, but it appears Google prefers static pages, as opposed to dynamic pages. So, I tease 'em with the sitemaps. I'm not so much interested in the income-producing angle, as I am in trying to bring traffic to my sites. Then again, increasing page rank looks good to potential advertisers, doesn't it?

Can you recommend any web sites for learning how to promote a site?

Google Matt Cutts and get ready to read.

Aaron Walls' SEO book is highly recommended, although I've yet to read it. Google his name and you'll find his site.