1. Outstanding Headline:
   People are always searching for something interesting on the internet. If you have a killer headline, you are sure to get people’s attention. A headline is what makes a reader want to read more. Here are few successful headline starters: 
   i.    What everybody ought to know about [gourmet meal]
   ii.   Here’s a method that is helping [body to heal itself]
   iii.  Now you can have [over 500 T.V stations] [at just $x per month]
   iv.  Who else wants [better links]
   v.   The secret of [successful web marketing]
   vi.  Little known ways to [write better blog posts]
   vii. Have a [MySpace Profile] you can be proud of.
   viii.Get rid of [mortgage] once and for all.
2. Interview with high profile people:
   People always want to know what’s happening with Britney Spears or who Angelina Jolie’s going to adopt next. Interview with high profile people tend to get more attention. You can also interview famous bloggers or experts on the related field. The readers would love to know the expert’s point of view.
3. Providing Resources:
   A good list of resources can bring in more traffic. If the readers find it helpful they will bookmark it or refer it to others.
4. Tips:
   People always look out for better solutions. Tips are popular among the readers because they are short and easy to remember and make their life style better. So list of tips can help you get good traffic. You can also provide “Tip of the day” section.

The best way to get traffic is by providing unique and useful content. People are always looking for something different on the internet. Videos are getting popular these days. You can also provide interesting videos or images on your blog to get more traffic.

1. Mystickies: My Stickies is an online tool which allows you to place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the whole wide web. Along with the ability to put sticky notes on webpages mystickies offers a powerful interface to browse, search, sort, edit and generally have a wonderfull time with your sticky notes from any computer that has internet access.
2. Ecalc: Ecalc is an online calculator. The features available on this are: calculator, scientific calculator, constants, linear and root solver, unit conversions and base conversion.
3. IPtools: IPtools offers a wide variety of online networking tools. With this site you can look up IP address information, check spam databases, run pings, run traceroutes, lookup WHOIS information and much more.
4. 10 min mail: 10 min mail allows you to create temporary email addresses that expire after 10 minutes. It’s great to use for sites that require you to receive something through email but you don’t want to be bombarded with spam.
5. SpeedTest.net: This is a useful tool to check your internet speed. Use this link (http://speedtest.knology.net/) to check your downloading and uploading speed. 
6. Go2Web : Go2Web is a Web 2.0 directory. Here you’ll find sites that deal with Web 2.0 application and services. Another site similar to this is Web2Bookmarks.
7. RouterPasswords: Router Passwords is a handy site to find the default passwords of routers as well as other devices. 
8. YouSendIt: You can use this to send large files which are too large to send it through email. DropSend is a similar kind of website where you can send large files to anyone without using your email. 
9. urlPass : urlPass is a free service that allows you to dramatically reduce the length of long and cumbersome URL’s (otherwise known as web addresses or links).
10. Picnik: Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
11. Splashup: Splashup is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. 
12. Copyscape: Afraid your content has been copied? Use this tool to check which websites have copied your content. 
13. htm2pdf: A great site to convert your web pages to pdf files. 
14. Fodey: A little fun at work has caused no harm. Browse this site for fun-filled newspaper headlines, animated texts etc. 
15. Meebo: Meebo is a third party web based instant messenger service.
16. YouConvertIt: You can convert any media files like documents, images, videos for free. 
17. Cownter: Cownter is a service that allows website visitors to see how many people are currently looking at different pages within the site.
18. PimpmyIcon A good site to create animated icons using your own text and images. 
19. Jjot: You can use this site for jotting down notes. You can use it to take down any notes, reminders, or Internet research. These notes can be accessed from any computer and can be easily shared and emailed to other people.
20. SealGenerator: You can enter any text, choose an appropriate border, pick colors and get an official seal generated just for you.

I sure hope these sites will help you in someway or the other. If you have other interesting sites and would like to share it with us, Please go ahead and leave your valuable comment along with the link. Happy Surfing!!

RSS feed is one of the best things you’ll be doing to your blog or website to get more traffic. In the past RSS feed were used mainly for blogs but with its popularity it is used for websites as well. The benefits of using RSS are:

• Saves surfing time:
  RSS feed gives the summary of the related articles and with the help if this, the users decide whether to read the whole article or to ignore it hence saving time. 
• Updates:
  RSS feed keeps you updated on the latest changes occurred in a particular website. 
• Spam Free:
  RSS feed does not use email addresses to send the updates therefore it is spam free. 
• Power of Subscription:
  Subscribing to RSS feed is really easy. The users can subscribe from an RSS feed of related website anytime. Unsubscribing is also easy with this. You can simple delete the RSS feed from your aggregator. 
• Marketing:
  RSS feed keeps the users updated with the latest products and services. This could help the prospects interested in the product as well as the businesses.

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2. The second captcha is an eyestrain for sure. Need a really good eyesight for this.

3. This captcha looks more like jigsaw puzzle.

4. Sure you can read “wikipedia” over here but what is 431 doing in the background? Are they supposed to be part of the code as well?

5. If I had to just type the dots it would have been easier.

6. Good when you have nothing much to do.

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9. Another sum another headache.

10. Can anyone answer this?

How can you make Stumbleupon advertisement work for you?

1. Appealing Content:
You need to pay about $0.50 per visitor which might not be expensive compared to PPC but it still does cost something. If your content appeals the visitors you can have natural traffic from SU. You can start off with the paid advertisement and then focus on improving your content to drive natural traffic to your site.

2. Attractive and Unique Content:
Visitors use stumbleupon looking for something different. Some judge a website by its cover. Try to make your site or blog attractive. The gorgeous and interesting sites draw the visitors attention and helps them to stick with the site. While attractive designs and logos help, it is equally important to have unique content. You can try various things to set you blog or site apart from others.

3. Test and work:
It is wise not to throw big money at once on SU advertising. You can start off with a small budget advertising scheme and test the results. You can then analyze over how many visitors liked your site and how many did not. You can read the comments and improve on the sectors people disapprove of. Then you run another campaign and keep testing it until you get consistent number of vote ups and then you can raise your budget accordingly.

If you follow these tips there are higher chances of stumblers turning into frequent visitors. The key target is to bring the visitors back and increase the traffic with the help of StumbleUpon.
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1. Your profile page is the place where people find you and know about your company. You can write about your company, the product or the service on your profile page. It’s always better if people can relate to you. You have to believe in what you are writing about. If possible you can create an About Me Page where you can write the details you want others to know.

2. On social sites like Myspace, Facebook or Hi5 create your biography page. You can place the link to your website on this biography page. BY doing so you get backlink from these sites as well as the profile visitor interested in your product or service will get to know more about it through your website.

3. Develop your online social network. You can make friends who are in similar field or share the same interests as yours. You can even invite or ask your friends to write blog articles at your site about your products or services.

4. You can provide easy social bookmarking feature on your blog like del.icio.us, stumbleupon, digg etc. Provide an action button for each article on your blog. You can add this feature through addthis.com.

5. If possible provide a Forum Page. Forum is the place where people share their ideas, information, doubt etc. about your product, service or your company itself.

6. You can even provide videos and publish it on YouTube or Google Video.

7. There are many social photosharing sites like Flickr, Smugmug where you can share pictures, leave comments on other’s pictures or browse other’s pictures.

Marketing through social sites is one of the efficient, easy and cost shaving marketing schemes.

1. Headline is the essential part of a sales copy. An attention grabbing headline will let the readers be more enthusiastic.

2. You should start by describing the benefits of using your product or service. It should include the details and the highlights of your product. It should let the visitors know how it can make things easier for them for e.g. you can talk about reliability, affordable price and how it is different from other products.

3. You can then write all the features of your product or service. Remember to mention all the details. These features should emphasize on how a customer can benefit from it.

4. You should start with the strongest point of your product. If the customer gets impressed at the beginning it’s always better.

5. Testimonials help increase sales. Testimonials from real people helps increase credibility.

6. You should try to make it sound natural. Fancy words or pretentious way would not do any good. Be yourself and write it the way you’ll explain it verbally.

7. You should know who you’re writing for. It should be written to impress your intended audience.

8. A sales pitch can include things like: A good deal, discounts, guarantee etc.

9. You can include bonus, gifts or discounts if they order within certain time period.

10. At the end you tell the reader how an order can be placed. Provide all the details including privacy policy, terms and conditions.

1. Submitting your website to search engines:
   Submitting your website to search engines is the thing of the past. It is true that in old days you had to submit your website to search engines in order to get indexed. It however doesn’t affect your website in anyway to submit it but it is not a necessary thing. The best way to get your site indexed is by getting backlinks from popular sites which the search engine spiders crawl regularly like dmoz.org or yahoo directory.
2. Google Sitemap:
   It is another myth that Google sitemap helps you get better ranking. The truth is if your website is crawler-friendly then Google map doesn’t help you boost your ranking in anyway. If you already have Google sitemap, it’ll do no harm.
3. Content Update:
   Content updating for higher ranking is another myth. It is true that regular change in the content increases the crawl rate but it doesn’t help you get better ranking. It is advisable to make only the necessary changes on your website.
   
4. PPC can hurt/help:
   There are many who believe that PPC (Pay Per Click) might hurt their organic ranking which is nothing but a myth. While others think PPC can help get better ranking in search engines, which again is not true. PPC is a form of marketing and it helps you in no way to fluctuate your ranking.
5. Use of Meta-Keyword Tag:
   Using meta-keyword tag to help get better search engine ranking is again something that was useful in the past. Some search engines do refer to this but Google ignores this tag.

A negative keyword is a special kind of keyword matching option with which you can prevent your ad from appearing when the specific terms are a part of the user’s search. When you add a negative keyword to your ad group or campaign, your ads won’t be shown for search queries containing that term. For Example: When you use a negative keyword –free picture, it would prevent your ads from showing on any search queries containing the terms free picture. However your ads might appear on variations of these terms.

You can add negative keywords to your ad group very easily. It is just like adding any other keyword with a negative sign (-) before them for e.g. –picture basketball. This keyword could be negative keyword for a basketball seller.

Importance of Negative Keywords:

When you run a Google Adword campaign it is very important you use negative keywords. The reasons for using negative keywords are:
• Relevancy: Adding negative keywords prevents your ads to be shown under phrases that are not relevant to your advertisement.
• CTR (Click Through Rate): If your ads are shown under irrelevant phrases there will be fewer clicks. Hence, adding negative keywords increases your CTR because there’ll be fewer instances of searchers viewing your ad but not clicking. The good thing about getting higher CTR is that it will help you get higher position without requiring a higher cost per click (CPC).

Ways to find negative keywords:

There are various tools to find negative keywords. Some of them are as follows:

• Google Keyword Tool:
This free tool might be of great help to search for negative keywords. You can make a list of all your keywords, paste them on the search box and select the “use synonym” check box. You can make a list of words you are not sure of.

• Overture Inventory Tool:
You can type your keywords here and check for the ones that are not relevant to your site and list them under your negative keywords.

The quantity and quality of inbound links are used by search engine algorithms to rank a website. The higher and better the back links are the better are the chances of getting listed on primary pages of search engines. Linkbaiting aims at increasing relevant back links to a website.
¼br> There are many ways you can link bait:

• Informational Hooks:
Information link baiting includes any content written in order to provide useful information to the readers. If you provide information that helps and educates readers, they might always return and use it as a reference.

• News Hooks:
The inquisitive nature of human being and the desire to keep oneself updated encourages news link baiting. You provide latest news, updates on certain topic which will draw attention of the readers.

• Humor Hooks:
Humorous articles, jokes, funny pictures etc are another form of drawing more people onto your website. Funny stories, bizarre pictures or mocking cartoons could be used as link baiting.

• Controversial Hooks:
Drop your piece of mind on something or someone and people would love to stop by and dispute your view. Saying something unpopular or mean yields lot of attention and keeps readers who want to drop in their views on your view.

• Resource Hooks:
You can build a resource list to create link bait. You can create a comprehensive list of blogs on your niche where you can link out which in turn will be linked in. You can also create fun or useful tools good enough for people to link to it. You can provide “How To” on specific topic and people will love to refer and link to it.

Link baiting is all about providing professional and quality content that is interesting, entertaining, useful and informational. You should make it user-friendly and welcome comments for more interactive approach for your material which will help you bring more traffic.