21. Submit your website to Craigslist Classifieds.

22. Make sure you optimize the titles of your pages by adding relevant keywords.

23. Send your articles to Ezine publishers but it’s better to write separate articles for that and don’t publish the articles form your website.

24. Get a link from social networking websites like MySpace, Orkut, Facebook, Yahoo 360, Windows Live Space e.t.c.

25. Consider using a traffic generating website like BlogRush.

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Do you have a new website or blog? And are you struggling for traffic? If your answer to the above questions is Yes then follow the below tips. I’ve sorted some tips to drive traffic to your website almost all webmasters follow these to drive traffic to their website. But these are not instant traffic providers but it will help in the long term.

1. The first step to drive traffic is of course submitting your website to Search Engines like Google, Live Search and Yahoo!. I suggest you to use FREE Website Submission by Submit Express.

2. Once you submit your website to search engines then it’s time to submit your websites to Free Web Directories. Try Submit Your Website To Over 800 Free Search Engine Friendly Directories.

3. Write some interesting articles and submit the same to bloggers in your niche. They will most probably link to your article from their blogs.

4. Join the forums in your niche and place your link in it’s signature. It will drive traffic as well as increase your site popularity.

5. Register on social bookmarking websites like Delicious, Digg, Furl, Simpy e.t.c.

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Every owner of a web based business no doubt already understands the importance of building website traffic. The amount of website traffic you are able to generate can have a profound impact on everything from direct sales of products and services to affiliate income and ad based revenue. It is important for every would be web based entrepreneur to take the time to research the pros and cons of various traffic building strategies.

One of the most interesting, and potentially most profitable, ways to generate additional website traffic and potentially additional income as well, is to include a Google search bar on your website. Providing a Google search bar can be a great compliment to an existing Google AdSense revenue stream, and it can provide additional "stickiness" as well. This stickiness is a great way to keep visitors to your website there long enough to see what you, and your advertisers, have to offer.

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Why is Social Bookmarking so crucial today in promoting you web site and your business or blogs? I am here to assist you with the answer and outline some strategies for managing the ever-increasing number of Social Bookmarking Websites. For the better understanding how social bookmarking works, you need to know about purpose of bookmarking. Ideally, the purpose of shaping up social bookmarking was to store, categorize, search and share your favorite links through the practice of “folksonomy”. You can save your favorite website links with the help of social bookmarking web sites and can access them in any other computer. Millions of web surfer floods these social bookmarking sites to search for relevant information.

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Social Bookmarking is a trendy way for Internet surfer to save, share and search required bookmarks. In social bookmarking process, web users store required links to the web pages that are found useful. These URL lists are either accessible to the public or a detailed network, and the best feature is other people with similar interest can view these links by category, randomly or by given tags. The popularity and competition in field of social bookmarking have extended than earlier. They have services to offer is more than just sharing bookmark links, such as rating, ability to import, feed back, add notes, reviews, print links, email links, automatic notification, subscription, make groups and social networks.

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Today Google announced at the eMetrics Summit in Washington several Google Analytics features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. The new Google Analytics features a site search reporting service, event tracking and more. Google also announced about the release of Urchin Software limited beta.

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Exciting Announcements at eMetrics Today

First, you’ll be able to use Google Analytics to track site search activity. Simply edit any of your Google Analytics profiles to enable “Site Search” and you can find out what people search for on your site and where these searches lead. Located in the Content section of your Google Analytics reporting interface, Site Search reports show you the keywords and search refinement keywords people use, the pages from which people begin and end their searches. You can also see how search on your site affects site usage, conversion rates, and e-commerce activity.

Google Analytics Adds Site Search Reporting & Event Tracking, Urchin Software Also Updated

The site feature will be available worldwide soon, and will enable you to track internal searches on your site and apply those site searches to other metrics on your site. The site search reporting feature also works with Google Custom Search, GSA, Google Mini and many other non-Google site search products.

Google Urchin v.6 Rumored To Launch Today

Rumors, rumors. Google is preparing to launch version 6 of Urchin this morning at the emetrics conference in Washington DC, according to multiple sources. This is the server side analytics product, not Urchin as a service, which is now called Google Analytics.

Google updates Analytics service, unveils Urchin beta

Google Inc. is set to roll out new features to its Google Analytics service and a beta release of Version 5 of the Web analytics server software gained with its acquisition of Urchin Software two and half years ago.

Google hears our pleas: Urchin Software resurrected

Google announced a closed beta of what it is calling “Urchin Software,” which for all intents and purposes is the long-awaited Urchin 6.0. In a phone call, Brett Crosby, senior manager of Google Analytics, told me that the release will be very familiar to existing users of Urchin, and it will largely sport the same interface.

Google: Urchin analytics software lives

After an almost three-year delay, the next major version of Google Inc.’s Urchin Web analytics server software is entering a beta testing period, at a time when some customers have been openly wondering if the product would be discontinued.

What makes a good web page What makes a bad web page? Here are some guidelines to design a better web page:

You Should Have A Theme

Define your theme clearly and make sure that your web pages, graphics and text all focus on that theme. So that the web page looks useful for the visitor or customer.

Don’t Add Images Unnecessarily

Make sure that the graphics used in your web page are small in size so that it loads quickly. Reduce the size of each file as much possible as you can. Use GIF format for your images as it loads faster than JPEG files.

Your Web Page Should Load Fast

Make sure that all your web pages are less than 50 KB in size including all animations, images, navigation and text.

Use HTML To Build Your Web Pages

Use HTML as far as possible and never use java, DHTML or similar codes which require your visitor’s browser setup correctly to show your page.

Respect Search Engines

You must respect search engines if you want traffic from search engines like Google, Live Search, and Yahoo. So read the webmaster guide lines of popular search engines before you design your website. Use the following link to read the guidelines of major search engines.

Google Webmaster Guidelines

Live Search Site Owner Help

Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines

Love Your Surfers and Visitors

Design your web site so that surfers using a slow internet connection can also download and use your website easily.

No Horizontal Scrolling For Your Web Pages

Design your web pages so that you never force your surfers to scroll left or right regardless of their screen resolution.

Know Your Traffic

Use a good traffic analysis program which gives detailed information about the visitors to your web site. This information helps you to analyze the nature of your visitors. Use the traffic analysis programs Google Analytics & AWStats.