Website Design Tips - Hypergurl

Promote your website through social bookmarks Social bookmarking is a popular new Internet tool where visitors use services that allow them to share sites they’ve bookmarked. In other words they share websites they’ve found useful or interesting with other members. Examples of popular social bookmarking websites include: del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/popular/ digg http://www.digg.com/ technorati.com (for bloggers) http://technorati.com/pop/ If you’re lucky enough to get your website bookmarked by a couple of hundred members it could add up to some serious traffic. Alexa statistics are showing social bookmarking services to be extremely popular. Del.icio.us is currently 119th most popular website on the Internet http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http://del.icio.us...

Web site promotion tools Many of you may have already read our website promotion page where we discussed ideas for attracting more visitors to your web site. In this article we discussed search engines, newsletters, message boards, guestbooks, banner exchanges, webrings as well as offline advertising. Since then a whole new range of web site promotion tools have come online. Here we will discuss a few of them that are handy to have in your webmaster toolbox: Back Link Analyzer Reciprocal linking between similar web sites is one of the best ways to to promote your site. Back Link Analyzer...

Build your website traffic with free ebooks Back in 2001 we built an ebook called "How to make a website from scratch". It was put together using a free ebook creator and distributed on download.com as well as many other ebook directories. Our statistics today still show over 700 unique visitors per week coming to Hypergurl from the links in that ebook alone. Not bad considering it's never been updated since that time. Ebooks are a fantastic way to help build your website traffic. It doesn't matter what your website is about, you'll find an ebook category that suits the...

Quick tip on finding out how many blogs listed with Technorati link to your website Have you ever been curious enough to wonder how many blogs link to your website? To find this out you simply need to visit: http://www.technorati.com/search/www.yourwebsite.com?sort=authority Change where I have yourwebsite.com to the name of your website url. For example here is a list of blogs that link to our site: http://www.technorati.com/search/www.hypergurl.com?sort=authority This can help give you an idea as to the popularity of your website. Over time, your aim should be to see the number of blogs linking to your website increase. If other webmasters...

Google has acquired FeedBurner - The advantages of this for webmasters The future of RSS feeds, seems to be still going strong with Google recently acquiring FeedBurner. For those who don't know what FeedBurner is, it consists of free tools to help webmasters better manage their RSS subscription feeds. Not only does it help website publishers to promote and deliver their RSS feeds, it now helps them to monetize on this traffic as well, with Google allowing tools to implement Google Adsense to their feeds. This is where Google aquiring FeedBurner will be to the most advantage for those that...