Stumble Upon A Flood Of Traffic
Stumble Upon is perhaps the best social networking site to send you a host of traffic every month. The heavy stumblers have a few pet hates however and it is time for you to find out. But before we get into this, lets take a closer look at Stumble Upon and how it works.
Before you can become an active stumbler, you have to download the free software from Stumble Upon. Don’t worry, it’s quick and easy. Once you have the software downloaded it will ask you to install it and install a toolbar into your browser. To use Stumble Upon you will need this toolbar. It looks like the following image.
Most bloggers are concerned about SEO and how they can rank on the first page of Google for their chosen keyword. Naturally, when you first come on board as a brand new blogger, you have no clue about all this geek talk, but soon enough you will start to grasp the more finer points of SEO and why it matters so much to your online income.
Build Traffic With Forum Posts
Forum posts are a fantastic way for new and established bloggers to build traffic to their site. Depending on the forum you use, this can actually be a nice and steady stream of traffic too. Not only will this get you free visitors, but if you position yourself as an authority in the forum, then the traffic can become regular too.
Naturally if you are new, then this won’t apply unless of course you already have specified knowledge you can relate to others. You might be anew blogger, but you are very good at building websites and manipulating code. This type of knowledge will always fare well in any metablog related forum since most bloggers get frustrated when they can’t find a solution to their coding problem.
4 Cool Firefox Plugins That Make Browsing Fun
Firefox is in my eye the best web browser there is. It is way more safer than IE7 and works a treat. That’s not all though, with Firefox you can also install some cool and useful Plugins that allow you to do just about anything (except cook dinner). I wanted to introduce you to some of them so that you can see what is possible.
Firefox Companion for eBay: if you are an eBay shop-aholic, then you will love this Plugin as it allows you to keep track of on your eBay trading, regardless of where you are online. Stay on top of your bids and become a master bidder with this Firefox Plugin.
This Plugin is free for all.
Is The New WordPress 2.5 Holding Up to The Hype?
I’ve watched with interest on the development of the latest WordPress version 2.5. The tension and anticipation has been built up over the last few month and I have to give credit to the guys over at development. They certainly know how to keep us on our toes.
But now that the curtain has been well and truly drawn and bloggers have started to play with their new bubble wrap, the ugly truth seems to surface and I don’t think you are going to like it either.
Capture Images, Video and More with SnagIt
SnagIt is a fantastic software that allows webmasters and blog owners alike to take professional looking screen shots. You can capture images, logos, pop up windows and anything else you see on a website easily with SnagIt.
The only thing that can’t be copied is Flash. But really, you don’t want to anyway since this is a whole different apple to bite. Once you capture your image, you can edit it in many ways and add pointers, arrows, annotations, borders and much more.
Did you know that Squidoo is a great platform to build your own blog totally free of charge? The Squidoo blogs are actually called lenses and they can resemble anything you dream off. I have personally built about a dozen lenses and I use them for affiliate marketing.
How to get the luscious into Squidoo
Given enough thought, detail and promotion, these lenses can actually be very rewarding in terms of earning some extra money. The hardest part would be to decide on how you want to build your lens. For the purpose of being successful and actually selling stuff from them, you will need to take a step back and look at what you are knowledgeable about.
The reason being is that you will need to write some related information in your lens and the more you are comfortable with the topic at hand, the better the lens will be. Alternatively if you are good at research, you can also create a lens in no time and use it to sell affiliate products from.
Finally, today we’re going to cover our third and final type of site in the Different Types of Website Series. The first type was a mini site. The second was a blog.
What are content sites?
Put simply, a content site is a site filled with … you got it … content. Normally, this content would be in the form of informational articles. But content these days, spans across other forms of media as well. There are content sites filled with entertaining videos (think YouTube), audio interviews, how-to screencasts, image collection (as in Flickr).
Pretty much anything.
Although you can create one website about anything and everything, it’s better practice to specialize in a certain niche. So, you could build a site about beds and have articles about beds, videos on how to choose the right bed, images of different types of beds … If you absolutely need to write about chairs as well, you could easily just start a separate site about chairs.
I’ve recently completed writing a “how to” on uploading files to your web host server. I published it on Hubpages.com to test their system. Come check it out.
You’ve grabbed a set of web site building tools and made your own website. Now, all that’s left to do is to upload your website and other related files to your web host’s server. A lot of newbies find this difficult but it really isn’t.
Click here to read the rest of the tutorial article.
This is the last tutorial in the Basic Nvu Tutorials series. Publishing has actually been covered in the first tutorial but, for the sake of completeness, I’ve decided to add another tutorial on publishing the completed web page. If you missed the previous tutorials in this series, please go back and watch them first:
