How to Purchase a Google Domains

Google Domains, if you are new, is a domain registration service where you can buy new domain names or transfer your existing domains from another registrar into the Google service. There’s no official announcement yet but Google Domains are now available in India without you having to use any hacks or proxy servers.

I own about a dozen-odd domains and they have been mostly purchased through Gandi, GoDaddy, Dreamhost, and BigRock. Last week, I purchased a new domain reverse.photos through Google Domains and, like most other Google products, loved the overall experience.

Everything is tied to your main Google account so there’s one less set of credentials to remember and the account is already secured with 2-factor authentication.

Google Domain includes intelligent and powerful search that will not only suggest domain names based on exact keyword matches but related words too. So a search for “blue widgets” will check the availability of “blue widgets” as well as “color widgets”, “white widgets” and “blueplugins”.

Google Domains aren’t cheap. The average 1-year domain registration fee is certainly higher than what other companies offer but a big advantage is that they do not charge you extra money for making your postal address and phone number private in the public WHOIS database.

There’s no transfer fee if you decide to move your web domain from another registrar to Google Domains but, as per ICANN rules, you’ll have to extend the registration period of your domain for an additional year. This additional year is added to your domain’s existing registration.

The most convenient feature, however, is shared domain management. Just like you can allow external users to access your shared Google Doc, you can add collaborators to domains registered through Google Domains and they can manage the domain on your behalf. You’ll continue to remain the owner of the domain but others can manage the DNS settings or renew the domain on your behalf.

Google Domains offer a simplified, hassle-free interface for managing domains, includes privacy by default, the pricing is straight-forward and the domain be easily integrated with G Suite (Google Apps) for email. It might be worth considering when you are out to buy a domain for your next million dollar idea.

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What to Do When You Cannot Open a Particular Website

Your computer is connected to the Internet but you are unable to open a particular website though all the other sites are loading without issues.

For instance, you can open yahoo.com and bing.com but it takes forever to load www.google.com even though the site is up for everyone else in the world.

What to Do When You Cannot Open a Particular Website

HOW TO TROUBLESHOOT YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION

Step 0: Like with everything else, switch off the modem, restart the computer, and turn on the modem again. Also clear the Internet cookies and browser cache. Problem gone? No, proceed to the next step.

Step 1: Temporarily disable your computer’s firewall and close any anti-virus software that may be running in the background. If you are now able to access the websites that were previously not loading, your security program is causing the problem. As as workaround, you can add that site to the “trusted” zone in Internet Explorer and see if it works.

Step 2: Open your hosts file and see if there are any entries for sites that are currently unreachable from your computer. The hosts file is located in the following folder:

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Step 3 : Try a remote screen capture.  This will help ensure that the site you are trying to access is not down at the source.

Step 4: Clear your DNS cache and run the ping and traceroute commands against the problematic site to make sure that it is not an ISP specific issue.

ipconfig /flushdns
tracert www.error-website.com
ping www.error-website.com

If the DNS server is an issue, you can easily switch to Google DNS or OpenDNS without having to call the ISP’s support. However, if the ping and traceroute connections are successful but the sites remain unreachable, proceed to the next step.

Step 5. Reset the modem to factory defaults and re-configure it with the same username and password that was provided by the ISP. You can reset the modem by pressing a pin inside the hole located at the back of the modem for about 10 seconds. Or you can call your ISP support and let them guide you through the steps over phone.

The last step is very likely to fix your internet connectivity problem.

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How to Host your Websites on Google Drive

If you are looking for a place to quickly host your websites but don’t have access to any web server, Google Drive is a great alternative. You can use Google Drive to host basic websites or even complex JavaScript based web apps. You may upload and publish any kind of static content* on your website including HTML pages, images, CSS, icons, audio & video files including podcasts.

FREE WEB HOSTING WITH GOOGLE DRIVE

If you are using the old Google Drive, you can easily host websites on Drive. First upload your website files to a folder inside Google Drive, set the sharing permissions of that folder as public, open the index.html file in the Google Docs viewer and then click the “Preview” link to get the URL of your website.

However if you have migrated to the new Google Drive, you’ll be disappointed to learn that Google has dropped the web hosting feature. You can still create public folders inside Drive but the option to publish that folder as a website is gone.

No worries as there’s still an easy workaround that will let you publish your websites on to Google Drive in a single step.

FROM DESKTOP TO GOOGLE DRIVE IN ONE STEP

Step:-1.) Just put all your website file in a zip file – or you may use this zip file
Step:-2.) click here to upload that zip file to your Google Drive.
Step:-3.) Once the file has uploaded, the tool will generate the public URL of your website in the same step.

If you are using the tool for the first time, you may have to click the “Authorize” button since the script needs permission to upload that zip file to your Google Drive.

Internally, this little Google Script is doing all the hard work for you. When you click upload, the app creates a folder inside your Google Drive.

Step:-4.) Changes the sharing permissions to public (anyone can view, you can edit) and then generates the googledrive.com URL using the ID of the new folder.

Also Read:-

• Find Other Domains Hosted on a Web Server with Bing
• Get a Free .in Web Domain and Hosting from Google
• Ghost keyboard Typing – Notepad Tricks

There are a few things you need to know before hosting websites on Google Drive. One, you need to have an index.html as that file will be served when someone tries to access the homepage of your site. Second, Google Drive websites have a URL structure like googledrive.com/host/ and there’s no way to change the default URL.

GOOGLE DRIVE WEBSITES ON CUSTOM WEB DOMAIN

If you are hosting a website on Google Drive but wish to serve it under your own custom domain, that’s not possible yet but you can follow a workaround.

The trick is easy – you just have to wrap your Google Drive website URL inside an IFRAME tag as shown in the following snippet:

<html>
 <head>
  <style>
    body { margin:0; padding:0; }
    iframe { position: absolute; height: 100%; width: 100%; }
  </style>
  <title>Google Drive Website</title>
 </head>    
 <body>
   <iframe src="https://googledrive.com/host/ABCD/" frameborder="0"></iframe>
 </body>
</html>

The height and width attributes of the IFRAME tag should be set to 100% for the Google Drive website to occupy the entire screen. The only downside is that the URL in the address bar won’t change if you open a different page of the website since you are now browsing inside an embedded page.

Google Drives serves your website over HTTPS and thus can also be used for hosting custom Facebook Pages since Facebook requires that custom pages are only served over secure HTTP.

[*] Google Drive cannot be used for serving dynamic pages like those generated through PHP scripts on a WordPress website.

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How to Turn Off Amazon’s Personalized Ads Around the Web

Amazon tracks your browsing history, which it then uses to advertise products to you across the web. Whether you’re tired of seeing ads for stuff you just bought, or you just don’t want Amazon creeping on you, there’s a way to turn of personalized ads. Here’s how.

Amazon uses what it calls Interest-Based ads to sell you stuff. So if go you shopping on Amazon.com, you may see ads for similar stuff later. Some of these ads will show up on Amazon, while others may appear on other, unrelated sites. This is one of the ways you can end up seeings ads on a random blog for an item you just bought.

If you’d rather Amazon not track your shopping habits, you can turn this personalization off. To do this, head to Amazon.com and click Accounts & Lists towards the top of the site.

Under “Email alerts, messages, and ads,” click “Advertising preferences.”

In the Submit Your Preference box, choose “Do Not Personalize Ads from Amazon for this internet browser,” and click Submit.

Note, this won’t stop you from seeing Amazon ads, but it will prevent them from being personalized. This setting is also cookie-based, so if you clear your browser’s cookies or use another browser, you’ll need to change this setting again.

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How to Find or Create an RSS Feed for Any Website

If you’re still a dedicated RSS user, you’ve no doubt noticed some sites no longer go out of their way to cater to you. Where once an RSS logo would be prominently displayed, now it’s nowhere to be found. How are you supposed to find RSS feeds?

Before you try one of the below options, try contacting the people behind your favorite sites: often they’ll get back to your with a URL. But when that fails, you need to take matters into your own hands. Here’s how to find, or even create, an RSS feed for any site, even when one isn’t prominently offered.

Finding Hidden RSS Feeds on Most Sites

Most sites are built using a Content Management System, or CMS. Every major CMS offers an RSS feed by default, meaning an RSS exists for such sites whether the site’s creators realize that or not. In these cases, you can use a simple URL hack to find the RSS feed.

Around 25 percent of sites are built using WordPress, for example. Many others are built on platforms like Google’s Blogger, Yahoo’s Tumblr, or Medium. Here’s how to find RSS feeds for all of those.

* If a site is built using WordPress, simply add /feed to the end of the URL, for example https://example.wordpress.com/feed. You can also do this for category and pages, to get specific RSS feeds. Read more here.

* If a site is hosted on Blogger, simply add feeds/posts/default to the end of the URL, for example http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. Read more here.

* If a blog is hosted on Medium.com, simply insert /feed/ before the publication’s name in the URL. For example medium.com/example-site becomes medium.com/feed/example-site. You can do the same thing for individual author pages, if you want. Read more here.

* If a blog is hosted on Tumblr, simply add /rss to the end of the homegpage’s URL. For example, http://example.tumblr.com/rss.

Create a Custom RSS Feed With Five Filters’ Create Feed Tool

The good folks at FiveFilters.org offer Feed Creator, a tool that scans any web page regularly and users any new links added to create an RSS feed. All you need is a URL and a few parameters.

The first field, “Enter Page URL,” is the simplest: copy the URL for the site you wish had an RSS feed and paste it here. The second, “Look for links inside HTML elements whose id or class attribute contains” is a bit more complex, but don’t panic: it’s actually pretty straightforward.

Head back to the site you’d like to create an RSS feed, then right-click an example of the sort of link you’d like to see in that RSS feed. Google Chrome will give you the option to “Inspect” the link; other browser should offer similar wording.

Do this and the Inspector will pop up, showing you the website’s code alongside the site itself.

The link you right-click should be highlighted, as shown, and the class of the URL should be visible in a pop-up for the link and in the left panel, though this may take some exploration depending on the site. The exact wording will vary, but in our example here “allmode-title” is what we’re looking for. Copy this and paste it back on the Feed Creator page.

The third and final field, “Only keep links if link URL contains,” gives you a touch more control. If you notice that only particular links to a particular page interest you, add some wording from that URL. This can help filter out ads and other annoyances.

Once all that is entered you should be able to click the big green “Preview” button.

If everything worked, you’ll see a collection of headlines.

Congratulations! You can now subscribe to an RSS feed for a site that previously didn’t have one. If not, don’t panic: just head back to Feed Creator and try some now criteria. This can take a while, but once you get the hang of it you’ll be able to create feeds for any site.

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How to Download All Images on a Web Page at Once

Five Methods: Installing DownThemAll  Downloading All Items on a Page  Downloading Items Linked From A Page  Downloading Items Linked From with Syiwe  Downloading All Items with Saveallimages

Ever come to a web page with tons of pictures that you would like to reference,  but don't want to individually download each one?

This article will show you how to download all the images on a page at the same time using the Firefox add-on DownThemAll and "Syiwe", a web app that allows save all images from a URL into your Google Drive private Folder.

# Method 1 of 5: Installing DownThemAll

1. Launch Firefox.  Navigate to the DownThemAll AddOn page, and click the big green+Add to Firefox button to start the process.

2. Once the file's been downloaded, you'll be prompted to install the AddOn with caution. 

Click Install, and then restart Firefox by clicking the restart button when prompted.

# Method 2 of 5: Downloading All Items on a Page

1. Navigate to a page with images. Right-click in the window, and a contextual menu will appear.

• Select DownThemAll!... You will be shown a window with the the option to select any of the files (including images) on that page, for download. In addition to images, you can download software, compressed archives, PDFs, videos, and audio.

2. Click on the Pictures and Media button. 

It's located at the top of the page, and when clicked, will auto-select all the files that match the filter criteria below.

3. Review the selections.  Deselect any of the images you don't want to download, then click the Start button. It will save your files to the directory listed under Save Files In:

• Note, you can even auto-rename your images in the Renaming Mask field. Simply enter a default name for the file, any renaming tags (as shown in the list below), and the extension you want the file to have. It will not convert your files to that type, however.

4. Click on "Start!".  Your images will be downloaded in the directory you specified.

# Method 3 of 5: Downloading Items Linked From A Page

1. Navigate to a page with images.  Right-click in the window, and a contextual menu will appear. Select DownThemAll from the menu.

2. Click on the Links (n) button.  This will give you a list of all the links on the page.

3. Select the desired links.  As before, select all the items you want downloaded, as well as the location you wish to save them, and any naming convention you wish to use.

• The files will be downloaded into your selected folder as HTML files with the embedded link to the full-size image page. Double-click on the HTML page, and it will open in your default browser.

# Method 4 of 5: Downloading Items Linked From with Syiwe

1. Launch your web browser.  Navigate to the http://www.syiwe.com page, and click on the big red button to start the process.

2. Login with your Google Account credentials:

3. Allow syiwe access your google drive to save images on there:

4. After your authentication create your first gallery on button highlighted:

5. Insert the name of gallery an click in create gallery:

6. Now, you must click in button Add Photos to Gallery in right top:

7. Insert on the text field the URL of the Website that have a gallery that you want save, and click in search images:

8. You should see a list of clickable images, select images that you want send to your google drive, a click in the big red button "Save selected images on Google Drive":

9. And finally you should see all images save on your private Google Drive folder like this:

# Method 5 of 5: Downloading All Items with Saveallimages

1. Go to Save All Images

2. Paste the site's url that has images you want to download to the field

3. Click "Display all images" button to begin processing - images will be extracted and displayed as thumbnails for you to preview

(or save single image you like)

4. Green button "Save All Images" appears after the processing -

click on it to save all image as zip file to your computer.

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How to Increase Website Traffic for Free

Many people spend a great amount of money trying to launch their website through strong advertising campaigns; however, a lack of funds shouldn't be a setback as there are many ways to get traffic without spending a dime.

Steps:-

# Optimize your website to be search-engine friendly. 

1. Submit it to various search engines and directories. In addition to major search engines such as  Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and MSN, it's worth submitting to lesser known web directories. If your website is listed in as many places as possible, it can boost your rankings in major search engines as well.

2. Make sure your title, description head, and header html tags accurately convey the subject of your site; search engine algorithms use these as keywords to categorize your site and direct relevant traffic.

3. Spread the word about your affiliate program by submitting it to affiliate program directories and contacting the owners of related websites.

# Create a links page that will contain the links to other non-competing websites in the same industry. 

1. Contact the owners of other websites with your proposal to exchange links. You will add their link to your links page, and they will link to your website in return.

# Post in forums. 

1. Visit the online discussion forums where people in your target market like to gather. Post useful responses to people's questions, and include a link to your website at the end of your post next to your name. Although you ultimately want to get your sig file with the link to your site seen as often as possible, don't overdo it with your posts, otherwise other forumites won't respect you, and therefore won't visit your site.

# Comment on blogs.

1. Visit other people's blogs on the topic related to your website. Most blogs allow you to add comments about the issues being discussed. Add insightful comments about the blog topics, and leave your website link. Your comment and your link will permanently remain on the blog website.

# Create an e-mail "signature" - your name, your website address and a short tag-line describing the main benefit of your site.

1. Set your e-mail program to automatically add your signature to every e-mail that you send.

# Look into traffic exchanges.

1. There are many types of traffic exchanges but the idea is the same - you team up with other webmasters, and they send you traffic in exchange for you sending them traffic. Search the web for "traffic exchange" to find those services.

# Create something of value that people will pass around.

1. It can be a report with useful information that you allow people to give away. It can also be some kind of cool and unusual web-page that people will want to e-mail to all their friends. Of course, the pass-around item will include your advertisement and your link, spreading the word about your website. This is a "viral" strategy.

# Write Articles.

1. Write articles on the topic related to your website, and include a link to your site in your author bio. Submit your articles to article directories, and allow people to publish your article in their newsletters and websites. Your articles will spread around the web like wildfire. People will read them and visit your website. The best part is that people who read your articles will regard you as an expert, and they will be much more likely to buy from you when they go to your website. How's that for a free publicity?

# Use accurate keywords for your content. 

 1. The point of keywords is that they are the terms most people looking for your article by topic will search by. Check those with free Google terms and use the most popular relevant one in your title - a descriptive title to let them know right away what it is if it's a word with multiple meanings. Drawing blood for a phlebotomist is not the same thing as a comics artist drawing blood in a fight scene. Be very literal and then use the exact keywords several times in the article where they are relevant, as well as synonyms. Don't overdo it, or you look like you're trying to spam Google. Just use the keywords naturally when describing the topic.

• If it is a confusing keyword phrase like Drawing Blood, link to the other meaning and mention that in the first paragraph. "This article is about drawing blood in graphic novels. Phlebotomy is drawing blood for medical tests or donations - here's the other page on "Drawing Blood." Then link to the phlebotomy page in that. By redirecting confused people you leave them a good impression and they might stop to read your article if they also like doing comics art!

# Start an e-zine for your web site.

1. When people read each issue they'll be reminded to revisit your web site. Submit it to all the free e-zine directories on the internet.A news letter!

# Start your Own online discussion community.

1.  It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community, they will regularly return to communicate with others.

# Advertise your site at free classified ad sites.

1. There are many of these on the net. Some of the more popular ones are craigslist, inetgiant, freeadvertisingforum, and gumtree.

# Join free safe-lists.

1. These are lists of subscribers who have opted-in to send and receive emails to each other. You can instantly reach potentially thousands of people by sending out emails, and you don't have to worry about receiving spam complaints either because everyone on the list has opted-in to receive emails.

2. Getting a myspace page could also increase your site traffic because hundreds of people will see it.

3. Constantly update content on your web-page, so having a news section is a great deal for search engines especially.

# Update your Facebook status to let your friends know everytime you update your blog and create a Facebook fan page. 

1. Your friend's friends will see when they join the fan page or comment on your status.

2. Submit your website to top social bookmarking sites to create a back link to your website, which will increase you page rank as well.

3. Sign up to yahoo answers and leave great helpful comments to questions people are asking for, leaving a link back to your site with more helpful tips on it.

# Stay on topic. 

1. All this socializing, forum commenting and question answering ought to be on your website's main topic. The more your activity and site content match in topic, the more likely the right people find it. The more targeted your affiliate links are to the topic, the better you'll do with them too. People don't mind advertising that's on topic, it starts to look like a convenience directory rather than irritating commercials.

Tips:-

• Use word of mouth. Tell everyone you know about your website.
• Create Business Cards that have something like "This card is worth $400,000. Let me show you how" then have your url at the bottom of the card. There are websites out there that allow you to create and receive business cards for free.
• Whatever types of free advertising you decide to pursue, make sure that you use ad tracking software. This will allow you to track where your visitors are coming from, and what types of advertising are the most effective.
• Start right here on HowFind. Read up on how to publicize your website on Howfind without breaking the rules. If you can provide quality content, you can create a win-win relationship where you share knowledge and get publicity in return.
• Choose your email settings wisely no matter which free advertising outlet or method you decide on.

Warnings:-

• Steer clear of any advertising tactics that could be construed as spam.
• Don't try to use meta data with the keywords that has nothing to do with your content because Google will bring your rank down.
• Beware of free advertising and traffic swapping. Choose who you advertise with carefully. Check out the site and do a Whois search on anyone that wants to site swap with you prior to agreeing to swap sites.
• Keep all free ads directed to your business information while setting up an account on Craigslist or other free advertising site. If you decide to advertise for free on Craigslist, make sure your email settings are safe. Use your web site's email at all times. Set your advertising to target only the country(s) with whom you want to do business with when initially setting up your free account. Otherwise there is a high chance that you will be bombarded with mass amounts of spam of the worst kind. If you make the mistake of using your own personal contact information, including email address during set up of your account, you'll likely receive all the usual spam from a Nigerian Prime Minister needing to transfer money (in order to try to extract your bank account information). You may even receive a fake check in the mail for money. This can happen to anyone when listing a personal item for sale. The moral is: Do not post personal information for all to see on Craigslist and other free advertising venues. These same issues happen with traffic exchanges as well (see next).
• Be careful who you choose to exchange sites with. Be picky. It is your reputation on the line. The bottom line is to keep it all business when using free advertising and other site promotion options.

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How to Increase Website Traffic

Two Methods: Improve your Internet Presence  Improve Your Website

There are many creative ways to increase traffic to your website. Some will cost you money, and some won't. Below you'll find many legitimate ways (ranging from free to costly) to boost the number of visitors to your website. But if you don't have so much as a cent to spare, read How to Increase Website Traffic for Free.

Method 1 of 2: Improve your Internet Presence

1. Offer free, original, and quality content on your site. 

This is the most effective means for increasing traffic to a website; offering people something that they cannot obtain elsewhere, or at least, not to the level of quality that you are offering it. Ways in which to ensure that your content is of higher quality than competitors or is unique include:

• Creating content that is helpful and useful. Simply cobbling together information from another website will not generate traffic. You need to offer visitors the information they need to achieve a goal, solve a problem, be entertained, find out quality news or have a good laugh.
• Keep it fresh. For repeat visits, it is crucial to provide regular updates to the website, especially in frequently viewed zones. Add fresh content every few days if possible; at a minimum, weekly.
• To have a fully functioning and successful website, you need to make sure your tags are in place and your links are not broken. You also need to submit a sitemap.xml file to Google to have your website show up in Google's search engines. There is a tool that inspects websites just in case you missed tags and links and it creates a free sitemap.xml file. It gives you results in minutes.
• Outsource article writing. If you hate the thought of generating content yourself, or your team is not writing-savvy, consider outsourcing this end of the task. Depending on the length, content, specialization and quality required, prices can start as low as US$5 per article. However, don't neglect attempting to write your own work - who better than you knows your own business, hobby or club and can express precisely what needs to be said? Just sit down and start writing an article. You may be impressed when you're done!
• Add video to your landing pages (VLP - Video Landing Page) that is informative and relevant to your site. Respected studies show that good video can improve conversions and page ranking more than most any other item you can add to your pages.
• Use landing pages for fast fulfillment of your PPC advertisement.
• Launch some contests. It'll draw you instant traffic. You can Goggle search some free sponsor program and do such contest frequently.

2. Supplement your original content.

• Leverage available free content from sources with Creative Commons licenses that support your website message that readers will share.
• Find for-fee products that will allow you to fully use premium branded content that is legally allowed to be shared.

3. Trying to get more backlinks on your website this may help to increase the traffic.

• Get a proofreader. Poor spelling and grammar reflect badly on the services and information being provided; avoid unwarranted negative judgments by getting the writing in order prior to publication online.
• Avoid content generators. While these were once the delight of a fledgling web industry, they are no longer useful. Putting your own team's creativity online is what is useful.
• Never copy and paste from another website - Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines are too smart for this nowadays and will detect copied and unoriginal content, sending you to the bottom of the pile.

4. Improve Your search engine ranking by focusing your content on keywords related to your topic. This is called search engine optimization and will help people find your website when they're searching the Web. Make sure the keywords flow naturally with the text and when you are brainstorming for good words, ask around for words that come naturally to people of all ages when looking for your type of site. To help you understand better, realize that the keywords not only go into headings and page names but also into "meta tags". "Meta tags" are the software code that website visitors do not see but search engines do. Finally, don't overdo the keywords; over-stuffing keywords will result in a very low search ranking for your website. Also, be very careful not to place key text inside graphics; search engines cannot pick up graphics.

5. Get linked.

This is a very important part of website management. Exchange links. Trading links with other websites that are closely related to the subject of your website can bring you more website traffic. These are two-way links because you must provide a link to them, too, and linking to low-quality websites can threaten the credibility of yours. Only link to sites that are dead on topic, and truly help your visitors.

• Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc.
• Be sure to not be too excessive with your link exchanges and do not make this your entire link building method. Google webmaster guidelines specifically says to not engage in link schemes including: Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you.")

6. Use social media. 

Post compelling content and you’ll soon build a loyal following. Follow and share with other users, who may reciprocate and follow you. Keeping up to date with social media and finding time to post can be tricky, but it’s well worth it. Let people talk and become part of a community and they’ll promote your content for you. This will save you a great deal of time, and they will share much further than via conventional strategies.

7. Advertise your presence.

Besides using links, you must make use of numerous other ways to increase web traffic. Sit down and write a list of all the ways you can think of to get your web address noticed and clicked on. For example:

• If you have money - consider pay per click. The big search engines like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft provide schemes. But find out first how to limit your expenditure to the level you want.
• Use e-zines. Make your own that relate to your website and form a regular reminder each issue for people to visit your website. Submit all the free e-zine directories on the internet.
• Submit your articles to e-zines, websites and writing sites that accept article submissions. Include your business information and web address at the end of the article. This is a good way to create one-way backlinks to your website.  This is the most effective way to get listed on any search engine. Usually, the more relevant links you have pointing to your site the higher you will rank.
• Go beyond the electronic medium and into the print medium. Advertise in local newspapers, business brochures, magazines, nationwide publications and mail-drop literature. And don't forget the perennial favorite, the good old Yellow Pages™ - printed version naturally!
• Small business cards left in cafés, on signboards, exchanged at meetings etc.
• Use local resources such as clubs, libraries and community centers for non-profit website awareness raising.
• Participate on message boards. Post answers to other people's questions, ask questions and post appropriate information. Include your signature file containing your website's URL at the end of all your postings.
• Start your own online discussion community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community, they will regularly return to communicate with others.
• Use word of mouth. Tell everyone you know about your website, give out business cards to passers-by in the street, and so on. You might even want to run a guerrilla marketing program!
• Use your car, especially if your website is area-specific (e.g. a website detailing local events or selling local services). Get some vinyl decals or bumper stickers created and turn your car into a moving advertisement, literally driving traffic to your web site!

8. Give freebies.

Who doesn't like a freebie?! Online freebies are commonplace and they leave the visitor wanting more when they are well written and informative introductory materials. Consider such freebies as:

• Giving away an eBook with your ad on it. Allow your visitors to also give the freebie away. This will increase your ad exposure and increase web traffic to your website at the same time;
• Holding free online classes or seminars. They could be held in your website's chat room. The idea of "live" information will definitely entice people to visit your website. You will become known as an expert on the topic.
• Giving visitors a free entry into your contest or sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your visitors. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site to get the results.
• Letting visitors download free software such as freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could even turn part of your site into a free software directory. If you created the software, include your ad inside and let other people give it away.
• Targeting specific groups who might worry about using the internet with free classes in using it on your site - senior citizens, busy workers etc. might find these convenient and alluring.
• Offering free online services or utilities from your website. For instance, they could be search engine submitting, copyrighting, proofreading etc. The service or utility should be helpful to your target audience.
• Giving free consulting to people who visit your website. You could offer your knowledge via e-mail or by telephone. People will consider this a huge value because consulting fees can be very expensive.
• Offering a free start-up package that has a finite time; enough time for the customer to practice with your online product and like it enough to pay for continued use.
• Sending out free CDs, DVDs etc. that contain starter packs or teasers to encourage the customer to use your site more.
• Offering free screensavers or templates for business cards, cards, writing paper etc., anything that a customer can print out.

9. Be patient.

Search engines need a lot of time to index a new website and domain. They need time to index all your content; it's worth the wait and should be factored into your website profitability and/or popularity timeline. In the meantime, continue to add high quality content to your website and keep it up to date and relevant.

10. Use all of these free techniques to increase traffic to your website:

USFreeads.net, twitter.com, bloggvertise.com, drop flyers, chat rooms, forums, Youtube, Myspace and Google Groups.

Method 2 of 2: Improve Your Website

1. Balance your page. 

To improve your website, balance your page because when users enter a website, their focus first starts at the top left of the page and hovers there before slowly tracking to the right. The web user is focused more on the text of the page, rather than images or graphics. This is where balance comes into place.

• Balance will not only make your page more visually appealing, but it will make your page easier to read and items easier to find. A good object will help the objects on your page flow.
• Keeping it simple. If you clean your website up by removing all the unnecessary visual elements, it will allow important items to stand out. You should leave some white space on the page so the illusion of the space is visually pleasing, as well as easier to navigate.

2. Clean backgrounds. 

The background textures and colour you chose have the ability to estimate the overall appeal of the website. Lots of texture and graphics in the background can be distracting, and the more texture you add to the background, the less noticeable your text and images become. If you are going to use a colour on the background, you should make sure there is significant contrast between the background colour and the text. You will rarely go wrong with black text and white background because it’s clean and easy to read. You have to be careful when using brighter and darker colours such as red or yellow. They cause visual fatigue (temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work) and the reader will lose their focus on the text.

3. For easy navigation, you should create a toolbar with links that are easy to navigate and position the toolbar in an area that makes sense. 

Web users often look for the toolbar across the top or down the left the left hand side of the page. You shouldn’t forget a link to your homepage. It’s often forgotten but very important to point your users to your homepage.

4. Text readability should make your pages easy to read, break up blocks of text and create short paragraphs.

You should consider the key points on each page and create headings and subheadings use one or two fonts. You should select one font for your headings and subheadings and another for the body text and highlight key words and phrases by bolding or using a different colour. You should be careful when selecting colours, and not to use every colour in the rainbow. Many such as yellow and pink don’t stand out well if you’ve selected a white or black background.

5. Horizontal Scrolling.

It would be better if you get rid of horizontal scrolling because users hate to scroll left to right. It's disorienting and annoying, so if you've got it, lose it. Vertical scrolling is ok if you have to have it, but consider moving larger blocks of information to another page and providing links. There's also the danger of missing vital information that falls below the screen if a user decides not to scroll down to view it. So if you’ve got to have a scrolling page, try to keep all your important information above the fold.

6. Make it quick.

We all get impatient when it takes more than 5 seconds to connect to a website. Users want to make contact, and make it quick. You need to ensure that your pages load as quickly as possible. Eliminate unnecessary graphics, especially flash graphics they can be time hogs.

Warnings:-

• Do not be fooled by those traffic sellers promising thousands of hits an hour. What they really do is load up your URL in a program, along with a list of proxies. Then they run the program for a few hours. It looks like someone is on your site because your logs show visitors from thousands of different IPs. What happens in reality is your website is just pinged by the proxy, no one really sees your site. It is a waste of money.
• Don't get caught up with website generators and internet tricks. All these "black hat" tricks will only work temporarily. Your business needs to be set up for the long term.
• Never spam. Your credibility will be gone before you know it, and with it will go your traffic.

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