Archive for July, 2010

Top 15 Social Networking Websites

Social Networking websites (especially the most popular among them) are another powerful way to get traffic for free, here are top 15 social networking websites list for you choosing.

1.Facebook.com: Was initially intended for college students — it branched out, and social-networkingnow allows everyone membership. 150 million members.

2.MySpace.com: 191 million members. This site is massive, boasting the largest membership of any social networking site on the Internet.

3.Linkedin.com: 12.5 million members — a powerful tool for business networking.

4.Friendster.com: 29 million members. Friendster was considered the top online social networking service until around April 2004, when it was overtaken by MySpace. Demographic studies indicate users are from 17 to 30 years old.

5.Stumbleupon.com: Boasting 2.75 million users, StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. A great way to get website promotion. Bought by eBay for $75 million in May 2007.

6.del.icio.us: The website del.icio.us (pronounced as "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and is now part of Yahoo!.

7.digg.com: Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories, in a social and democratic spirit.

8.Orkut.com: Orkut is an Internet social networking service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. It claims to be designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. Now has a membership of 57 million.

9.Twitter.com: A free social networking service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts that are up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. The site has become very popular in only a few months — a lot of people are watching it.

10.Classmates.com: 40 million members. One of the oldest social networking sites around, Classmates was kicked off in 1995, and has proven to be a great way for members to to connect with old friends and acquaintances from throughout their lives.

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Top 10 Places to Get Free Traffic

This is really easy to get free traffic once you understand how to promote your website. There are many ways of getting free web traffic to your web site, I list top 10 places for you now.

Top 1. Search Engine

Every website has to be actively promoted on search engines as the most free traffic come from there, like Google, YaHoo, Bing, and etc. Search Engine

Top 2. Write Article

You can submit article to article directories like EzineArticles, but to get the best results (and the most traffic back to your site) you should write a quality article, and Don’t forget to post the link to your website under the article with your keyword.

Top 3. Social Networks

Creating a profile and interacting with other users on social networks like LinkedIn, Ryze, and MySpace can do wonders for your business. LinkedIn and Ryze are great for connecting with other business owners, but MySpace presents the largest opportunity to drive a substantial amount of traffic to your site. And more socian networks can work well like Facebook, Twitter.article directories

Top 4. Social Bookmarking

Reddit, del.icio.us, digg, Furl, and StumbleUpon are all highly visited social bookmarking sites where users “bookmark” web pages that they enjoy to share with others.

Top 5. Squidoo and Hubpages

You can create your own pages free in Squidoo and Hubpages, you can get more free traffic and back links, alos you can make money from there.

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