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 now 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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LinkWithin support related posts with thumbnails of wordPress plugin, it is easy to install and free! LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive.

LinkWithin retrieve and index all stories from your blog archive, not just recent stories, making them accessible to new or casual readers of your blog who would not otherwise encounter them.  The widget links to stories that are relevant and interesting to readers of a particular post, keeping them engaged with your blog, and increasing your traffic.
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The widget is free and ad-free. It takes a minute to get the widget up and running on your blog, no signup required!

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If you’d like to remove the default Blogger navbar, you can do that easily by inserting
a simple like I did here:

The text was inserted just above the “Variable definitions”

#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

Don’t forget to click the SAVE TEMPLATE. Now it is ok, how clearly!

Can build a gallery use wordpress? Yes, you can download this free wordpress gallery theme to build a gallery use wordpress blog.

This theme can be seen in action on MixCSS, which is being launched as a high-end design gallery that showcases the true power of the Gallery theme. You can check out the live site, which acts as a demo for the Gallery theme.

As always, the template is completely free and may be used for any private or commercial project without any restrictions whatsoever.

Download:free wordpress gallery theme(.zip, 1.1 Mb)

Demo:live demo

Usage:How to use and install

If you want to use bigger thumbnails for WordPress theme Gallery, you can look this site.

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You can start a micro blogging community just like twitter ™ with these Free Open Source Microblogging script, and also you can try these microblogging applications.

Free Open Source Microblogging script

1.StatusNet is the open source micro messaging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.

With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand. Previously Laconica is the engine which runs the popular micro blogging site Identi.ca

It is built with PHP/MySQL & offers a smooth usage as it is a widely used, mature application.

2.Yonkly is build on Asp.net MVC framework is another Free Open Source Twitter Clone and Microblogging script as well as Web service.

Based on ASP.net MVC framework makes it really fast

Very Easy to setup and take very less time

Besides the open source version, it has a hosted & an advanced standalone version.

3.Jaiku was the microblogging site of Google. However, they decided no longer to develop the code but make it open source under the name JaikuEngine.

Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine. Alo, there is an open source mobile client & frontend.

4.Floopo this free microblogging script is built with PHP & MySQL.

It functions very similar to Twitter & provides a powerful backend to manage the whole system.

5.Sharetronix Opensource – The Ideal Microblogging Tool for Your Community

Sharetronix Opensource is a multimedia microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company, or group to exchange short messages over the Web.

Microblogging application

6.Jisko is a PHP microblogging application that offers a Twitter-like API for developing it further.

Users can have their profile pages, message with each other easily & Jisko is compatible with mobile devices.

7.PageCookery is a single-user microblog which can pull data from social networks like Flickr, last.fm, etc.

It offers an Ajaxed interface where users can comment to the entries easily.

P.S. The original page is Chinese. However, you can view the English version behind Google Translate.

8.EchoWaves is a ready-to-use hosted application where the source code is offered for free.

It is a collaboration tool & a social network which is focused to conversations rather than the users.

9.P2 WordPress Theme This is a WordPress theme which can convert your blogging engine into a Twitter-like interface.

It has real-time updates where new posts & comments come in without reloading. There are also inline comments, posting from homepage & more.

10.TypePad Motion enables publishers and marketers to create vibrant, branded communities that deepen loyalty and increase page views while giving you total control of your brand.

It is based on Pownce & MovableType Motion and built with Django.

P.S. You can choose Hostgator as your microblogging web hosting, because they suport 99.9% Uptime, cPanel, Unlimited Space and Traffic, $9.95/m.