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One way to make your website stand out from the rest is by using unusual graphics. Check out this site that offers a free tool that can take your existing graphic image and turn it into a glitter image. It’s called Glitterfly.com and looks really interesting. Adding sites like this to your list of online resources could come in handy right now or down the road. Get your images glitterized today.

If you have your own website, you can never have enough free webmaster tools. It’s very helpful and also fun to check different stats about your or your competitors sites. Check their pagerank, their number of backlinks, whether your site is banned by Google or not, and many more things at Build-Reciprocal-Links.com! They have tons of different webmaster tools to use… and they’re all free!

The solution to almost any website problem is increasing traffic. Not enough sales? Increase your traffic. Not enough users? Increase your traffic. Not enough leads? Increase your traffic. But, how do you go about increasing your traffic? Is there a way to with one transaction increase your traffic and also improve your search engine rankings? The answer is “Yes”.

There are a number of ways to increase your traffic, but one of the most effective ways is to buy text links from sites that are both relevant to your content and also have a great deal of traffic themselves. Getting links from quality websites improves your search engine rankings and your traffic at the exact same time. Then, your newly improved search engine rankings will also add to your traffic. So as you can see, buying quality text links can have an incredibly positive effect on your website.

Check out BidOnLinks.com and see how they can improve your search engine rankings and your traffic by hooking you up with sites that may want to have your link included in their content. The site is very easy to use and the concept is a simple yet effective way to improve your site’s positioning in search engines. BidOnLinks.com could be the answer to your website’s traffic problems.

When it comes to looking for content to add to your website, good high quality article portals and directories are worth their weight in gold. Quality articles are a great way to add quality content to your website or blog, thus making it a higher quality site and having a better chance at both gaining and retaining visitors. Increasing traffic, both first time and repeat, is the name of the game for almost any blog or website on the internet.

Because of its very nature of needing to be updated frequently, to be successful in the blogging athmosphere you need to regularly update your site. Finding quality articles is a must and can take the pressure off the demands of the constant updating your blog needs. Always be sure that the content you’re adding, whether authored by you or someone else, has the quality that you want displayed on your blog or website. The value of a quality article portal is enormous.

Audio Text?
What’s “audio text”?

If you setup a free account at Read The Words, you can upload or type in any text you’d like and once you submit it, it will be converted into audio form and you can then embed it on your site. Use it for placing a podcast on your site. Use it for an audio welcome. Use it for anything you can think of… it’s really a cool idea. Here is a sample below:

Check it out at ReadTheWords.com

The Advertising Possibilities Of An Online Forum

When it comes to getting the word out about your website or online business, you either want to put your name in front of the most sets of eyes as possible or you want to put your name out to an area where it will be discussed and recommended. When it comes to doing the latter, few places make as much sense in focusing your advertising and marketing time and money as online forums.

Online forums provide a place for people to spend time discussing issues, problems, or ideas. Some forums are focused towards a specific niche and others are more general forums where the discussion of almost any subject is encouraged. Finding the right forum can be a problem sometimes, here is a directory of active forums to look through, it may help. Another tool you can use is called Twing, it is a search engine devoted to the searching of posts and topics of online forums. Type in your query and it’ll bring back results from forums related to what it is you’re searching for, a quite valuable tool.

Next we’ll look at the different ways to advertise in online forums.

Check out the photo editing possibilities at Picnik.com. You can upload a picture and use tons of effects to enhance and change it and then save the picture back to your computer to use as you please. The amount of different effects you can apply to your photo or image is quite good. Everything from sepia and matte finish to black and white can be done to your picture. A great utility that has many uses, especially if you are on the road.

One of the oldest ways of advertising your website is by search engine submission. Most of the more advanced search engines will find your site through organic links from other sites. Some of the niche-specific or smaller search engines out there still may require you to submit to them so they can include you in their search results.

Here is a great tool that allows you to submit to several search engines for free.

It’s easy to use and we tested it out and it appears to work pretty good. It can’t hurt to try anyway, right?

HideInFront is a great free web resource that can come in handy when doing web promotion and advertising of your site or service. What it is, is a free anonymous image hosting site. You upload your image and they will host it there for free. They also provide you with a link to your image and some html to use if you need it. You now can post your image to forums, in emails, in chatrooms, anywhere you want to really and it doesn’t take any space up on your hosting package. Very nice tool, especially for temporary needs and real quick promos.

http://hideinfront.com

Let’s face it. Trying to find a good, reliable website designer isn’t as easy as it looks. There’s plenty of good ones, for sure, but they are often very fussy about the projects they take on and are frequently hard to contact.

An easier way is to use a service like Just Web Designers, which offers to get you quotes from up to 4 website design companies just by filling in one form.

The idea is that the Just Web Designers staff can match what you want with their database of web development and design firms. They can get you quotes from local designers - Liverpool website design firms, for example - or from national companies. The choice is yours.

And, if you need specialist work done, such as Ecommerce design, then they promise to be able to match you with specialist companies as well. The service is free to use and the response from their team is very fast, so I can see this working very well.

It’s just a shame that it’s limited to the United Kingdom for the moment.