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Thursday, April 14, 2011

HOW TO OPEN BLOCKED WEBSITES

IF you are not able to visit your favorite websites in your school or college or any place where some sites are blocked?
HERE IS A TRICKS FOR THAT



Below are the list of various sites from which you can surf the blocked websites !

http://kproxy.com
http://backfox.com
http://atunnel.com
http://calculatepie.com
http://www.stupidcensorship.com
http://www.vmathpie.com
http://www.xroxee.com
http://mathtunnel.com
http://www.pagemod.com

CONVERT SCANNED IMAGES INTO TEXT

OCR (optical character recognition) is the recognition of printed or written TEXT CHARACTERS s by a computer. IT involves
photoscanning of text character-by-character
analysis of the scanned-in image
and then translation of the character image into character codes
such as ASCII, commonly used in data processing.

In OCR processing, the scanned-in image or BITMAP is analyzed for light and dark areas in order to identify each alphabetic letter or numeric digit. When a character is recognized, it is converted into an ASCII code.

SO IF YOU HAVE SCANNED A PAGE CONTAINING TEXT IT WILL BE IN IMAGE & IF YOU WANT TEXT FROM THIS IMAGES YOU CAN TRY THIS SOFTWARE

CONVERT YOUR SCANNED TEXT DOC TO TEXT FILES


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Sunday, April 10, 2011

HOW TO DOWNLOAD VIDEOS FROM YOUTUBE & GOOGLE etc.

As we all know that none of the video sharing sites provide a link to download their videos. So we will have to do some trick to download the videos.

so
1)Here are some ways to download any video from the internet , they are based on the common hack (Right-click -> "Save Target As" OR copy the link into your download manager, but change the file extension to .flv)


2)Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.
Method 1: One of the easiest ways is to copy your video URL and paste it on KeepVid Lite. When you click submit, you will be provided with a link to save the video as an FLV file.


Method 2: For Firefox Users - Install the VideoDownloader Extension from Mozilla Add-ons website - It downloads all embedded objects on a webpage including the video clips. This is very easy for beginners.

Using these tricks you can easily download videos from Youtube or Google Videos or Metacafe.
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.
Now some more questions that arise are:
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.
How do I play FLV files on my computer - They dont open with windows media player or winamp or itunes or real player ?
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.
You can download free FLV players to watch FLV files locally. A good FLV player has a simple and easy-to-remember name - FLV Player. Another nice alternative is the Riva FLV player.Try them out.


How to convert FLV videos to Windows AVI or Quicktime MOV or 3GP formats ?
The free Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer software from Super can convert FLV files to practically any other video format including MP4, MOV H.264, AVI, ASF or Flash SWF animations. Super video convertor

How to convert AVI, MPEG, MOV, 3GP movie clips back to FLV format ?
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.

Say you complete editing your movie in Windows Movie Maker or Avid and now left with an MOV file that you want to convert to FLV. Just get the free Riva FLV encoder and relax. The Riva encoder even lets you select parts of the video that you want to convert to FLV and crop the rest.
Youtube Links, Download, google video Links, Youtube songs, google Video songs, download from Youtube & google Video.

I have three-four small video clips that I download from Google Videos and now want to join them into one single video -How do I merge FLV files ?
There is no free software that lets you join FLV files other than the expensive Macromedia Flash Professional. However, here's a simple trick to join several flv video files - convert individual flv files to avi using Super [as mentioned above], then join the multiple Avi files into a single avi file using free VirtualDub and finally convert this avi back to FLV using Riva FLV encoder.Its done.


How to watch Youtube Video on my iPod, PSP or Television ?
Again we'll make use of the Super Video Encoder mentioned above. Just convert the FLV file into a corresponding format (like Apple iPod or Sony PSP or MPG) and transfer it to your gadget



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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Increase the browsing and downloading speed in Windows Vista


Increase the browsing and downloading speed in Windows Vista

After migrating to Windows Vista, you may have noticed the slow internet speed. The Web browsing and downloading speed is slow as compared to the previous versions of Windows. While Windows XP opens a website quickly, Vista takes a bit more time to open it.

Follow these methods to improve the browsing speed in Windows Vista:



Method 1: Open Internet Explorer and go to the Advance tab and turn off the TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption option. To prevent problems with some secure web pages, enable the SSL 2.0 (Secure Sockets Layer) feature and click OK.

Method 2: In Windows Vista, the TCP auto tuning feature is enabled by default. Some web servers do not respond properly to this feature, which makes these websites open slowly.

Note: To use this feature, you need to be logged into your Windows with administrative rights.

First click on the Start button, open the Run option and type CMD and press Enter. At the Command Prompt, type the following command and press Enter:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= disabled

This command will disable the TCP auto tuning feature. You need to restart your PC for these settings to take effect.

You can easily restore these setting by typing the following command at the Command Prompt:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= normal

These methods will certainly help you increase your Windows Vista internet speed.

How to print webpage without images and background colors

How to print webpage without images and background colors




Today tip will help you to print any website page in readable form (only text) without any extra graphics or images. There is a option on many websites "Print" to print a page in text format only, but if there is no print option then you can print out any webpage without its background colors and images using Internet Explorer setting. Generally Internet Explorer setting "Print background colors and images" is disable, another advantage of printing webpage without background colors, you can speed up your printing process and also save printer ink. But important thing to always preview WebPages before you print, in Internet Explorer go to File menu, then click on Print Preview option.

To enable or disable print background colors option, open your system Internet Explorer.

Click the Tools menu and then go to Internet Options and open it. Here click the Advanced tab then scroll down to find the option Printing section.


Now check the option "Print background colors and images" then Apply and press Ok button.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Hangs up internet dial-up connection


Hangs up internet dial-up connection

When you are browsing your favorite websites using dial-up internet connection, your incoming calls can create problem with your modem if the call waiting option in your modem sittings is enable. Your modem may be hangs up and disconnects the internet connection frequently. Normally when you disabled the call waiting option in your modem sitting and any body tries to call you, he will get the busy beep during internet connected. You should always disable the call waiting option to avoid modem disconnectivity or hangs up.









To disable the call waiting option, first click on Start button, then Network Connections.

Here double click on your internet connection and click on Properties button then General.

Under General tab select Use Dialing Rules box then click on dialing rules button.





Here select My Location then click on Edit button. Under General tab select the option To disable call waiting dial and put any number in next box like *32.

At the end click on Ok button and dial your connection again.

Friday, February 25, 2011

How to install cable modem

                      How to install cable modem

Installing a cable modem is a very easy with compare to dial-up modem or DSL modem but here does not even require you to open the case of your.





1)First thing you will determine if you are connecting your cable modem to your computer using USB cable or CAT 5 cable. But no difference connecting via USB or CAT 5 cable will do the same thing, however, connecting via USB will consume system resources that using a CAT 5 cable will not.

2)First one end cable you plug in your cable modem to the wall outlet cable and the other end via either USB cable or CAT 5 cable. If using a USB cable simply plug the USB cable into a vacant USB port on your computer.


3)If you connect your cable modem to your computer via a CAT 5 cable, then there is no need to do any thing, you are now ready to use your cable modem and browse the Internet. If you are connecting your cable modem via a USB cable, then you will need to install USB driver onto your system

4)If you run into problems disconnect all cables from your modem and restart your system and plug all cable again.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Search Engine tips

                   Search Engine tips

If you want to get some information about any topic using search engine, the search engine will search the given information and will provide a list of links of websites along brief description about each website. You should use the right search terms for relevant results.



The following points must be noted to search the information on the internet.

· •You can type all word in lowercase and also in uppercase, search engine will return the same result. But the best practice is type search keywords always in lowercase.

•Use + sign between words if you want to search the all words. For example, to search history of Football in Europe, type as:
history+Football+Europe

•To search the exact match, write the words in double quotation marks. For example to search the map of Europe, then type as:
"Map of Europe"


• Always avoid to use "and", "or" with search keywords, because these words will affect the search result.

New Live Maps Search Gadget

                     New Live Maps Search Gadget






There’s a new Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget that brings Windows Live Maps to your desktop.
Unlike the previous one, which did a great job of tracking traffic conditions in your area, this one is used to search Live Maps, even planning a route and getting directions right from the Gadget.

Read more at Mike Ormond’s blog where he explains the Gadget (he wrote it, after all).


Download the Gadget here 

Thursday, January 27, 2011

How to Delete URLs from your Browser

How to Delete Specific URLs from your Browser(Firefox & IE)




Sometimes a situation comes that we have to delete certain specific website address (url) only from the web-browser location or address bar say to preserve your identity. For example, you visited a certain website and don’t want your friends or others to know that you visited that site, then you have two methods to delete the website links either delete all the urls from the address bar or only the specific one(recommended).

In Firefox, you just need to move your mouse over the website entry and press Shift + Delete Key combination to delete the desired address from the history.





For Internet Explorer, follow the steps exactly as described bellow; do keep in mind this trick needs editing the registry and you need to be very careful with it:

1)Close any open Internet Explorer window
2)Go to Start->Run and type in regedit.exe and press enter to launch the registry editor
3)Navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerTypedURLs
4)Delete the desired URL

Tips to use Pop up Blockers

Tips to use Pop up Blockers

Pop-up window messages basically used for online advertising to increase the web traffic with minimum cost, but these pop-up messages can be used to damage a computer or also for hacking purpose. In routine when you are browsing the internet and suddenly a new window pop-up dialog box display with different messages for example" speed-up your internet ","free upload your files or images". All pop-up messages are not dangerous for you but some unwanted program and website that might be disturb your computer performance.






There are many free pop-up blocker software's available in market but always download it from well-known sites. Simply Download Google toolbar and install it to use its feature "Block annoying pop-up" to block the pop-up messages, You can say this is simple and best way to block unwanted program.


If you are working with Internet Explorer and want to block the pop-ups windows and unwanted messages. Open the Internet Explorer and click on Tools menu and go to Pop-up Blocker option, here you can Turn Off Pop-up Blocker to block pop-up from all websites. But you have option to allow some websites for pop-up. For this purpose open the Pop-up Blocker Setting. Here you can add some specific websites name to allow for pop-up and click Add. If you feel any problem to block any pop-up message due to some problem, simply click on the X at the right top of the pop-up windows.

Internet Explorer Multiple Homepages

Internet Explorer Multiple Homepages



Many web browsers like Mozilla Firefox but now Internet Explorer 7.0 also allow you to set the multiple home pages. You can open all home pages at the same time; this is great option to open your favorite websites with a single click. But you have option to set single home page according to your need.

•Follow the given steps to set multiple home pages in Internet Explorer.

•First open the Internet Explorer 7 and go to the option Tools then click on Internet Options.

•Select the General tab, here you will get option "To create home page tabs, type each address on its own line" and type the URL in the Home page section.



•Type one URL in one line then press Enter to type another URL. Press Ok to finish.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Create your own f@ke login page!!!

This goes into more detail on how to create a fake page to login, and get redirected while it is sending a email of the password and username to your inbox. If you found this easy, then try out the post, “How to Hack Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Orkut or Any Other”

Fake login page is a fake page which you can use to hack others username and password. Fake login page looks exactly like the original page and if someone login in your page using his original username and password, the username and password will be mailed to you The process of Hacking anyone’s id using fake login pages is known as Phishing

Now let’s learn how to create your very own fake login page.
{1} Open www.jotform.com and Sign Up.
{2} then Login there with your newly registered account.
{3} now click on ‘ Create your first form’.
{4} Now delete all the pre-defined entries, just leave ‘First Name:’ (To delete entries, select the particular entry and then click on the cross sign.)
{5} Now Click on ‘First Name:’ (Exactly on First Name). Now the option to Edit the First Name is activated, type there “username:” (for Gmail) or YahooId: (for Yahoo)
{6} Now Click on ‘Power Tool’ Option (In right hand side…)
{7} Double click on ‘Password Box’. Now Click the newly form password entry to edit it. Rename it as ‘Password:’
{8} Now Click on ‘Properties’ Option (In right hand side…). These are the form properties.



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{9} You can give any title to your form. This title is used to distinguish your forms. This Title cannot be seen by the victim.
{10} Now in Thank You URL you must put some link, like http://www.google.com or anything. Actually after entering username & password, user will get redirect to this url.(Don’t leave it blank…)
{11} Now Click on ‘Save’. After saving, click on ‘Source’ Option.
{12} Now you can see two Options, namely ‘Option1′ & ‘Option2′. Copy the full code of ‘Option2′.
{13} Now open Notepad text editor and write the following code their.
Paste the Option2 code here
{14} And now save this as index.html. And then host it, mean you will have to put it on the internet so that everyone can view it. Now i think that you would be knowing it and if in case you do not know it please leave a comment with your email-id and i will mail you how to do it. Now you can view it by typing the url in the address bar.

NOTE: If u want to send it to the internet, then first you will have to create a hosting account which you can create on www.110mb.com and there are many other sites which you can find on the internet very easily.

I suppose that you created your account at 110mb.com

now login to your account then click on “File Manager”, then click on “upload files” or just “upload”. Then select the file which you want to send to the internet and click on upload. And you are done.

Now you can access you file on the net by just typing the url ofthe file.

And you will receive password of the users that login to your site through email-id which you’ve entered while creating the form. 

Protect yourself from fake login pages

Using fake login pages is the easiest way to hack passwords. Identifying a fake login page is very easy but many people neglect to do some small checks before entering the login details and fall in the trap. I have seen a person paying 500$ for a fake login page of paypal. This proves that there are still people falling in this trap. This is just an example, there are many fake websites of banks, yahoomail, gmail,orkut,myspace etc …
This post is an attempt to show what a hacker does to hack your password using fake login pages and how to protect yourself from those fake logins.I will try to keep this post as simple as possible, there may be some technical details which you can safely skip. Warning: I strongly advice you not to try this on anyone it may spoil your relation with the person on whom you are trying it and you may even end up behind the bars.

What goes on behind when you enter your login details in login form??

When you enter your login details in any login form and hit enter they are submitted to another page which reads these login details and checks the database if you entered the correct username and passowrd, if yes then you will be taken to your account else you will get an error page. What an hacker does??



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A hacker creates a fake page which looks exactly same as the original page and some how tricks you to enter your login details in that page. These login details are then submitted to a file.At this stage the hacker has two optionsHe can either store the login details on his server or he can directly get them mailed to his email id. All the above said things happen behind the scenes, you will have no clue of it. When you enter you login details for the first time your details are submitted to the hacker and you will be directed to a error page ( this is the original error page). When you enter ur login details again you will be logged in to your account. It’s quite common for us to enter the login details wrongly sometimes so you will not become suspicious when you get the error page.

How to identify fake login page traps ??

Never enter you login details in unknown sites.
Always type the address directly in to the browser.
Do not follows the links you get in mails and chatting even if they are from your friends
Always have a keen look in the address bar and verify if the address is correct. Check the screen shot below. Some people buy doamins which look simliar to the original site example: 0rkut for orkut, pay-pal for paypal,yahooo for yahoo. Some times you may over look these small differences and fall in trap.
Please do report to the hosting site or the original site owner when you find a fake login page.
If you feel like you entered your details in a fake login page change your password immediatley.
Now let’s go on with the trick..

You have to upload the fake login page on some server with php support. There are many free web hosting services available on the net, first sign up for anyone of them.Google for some free webhosting services,you will find many. Upload the files in the zipped folder on to your server and give the link of the fake login page to the person whose password you want to know. When the person enters his email id and password in to the fake login page they will be stored in a HTML file named “passwd.htm” on your server in the same directory where you uploaded the login page. Check that text file to get the passwords you wanted.
Here is the demo of the trick
Note:Don’t enter your actual password

click here to view the fake login page of yahoo

The password you entered is saved into this page

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Trace anyone on Internet

Trace anyone on Internet




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Tracing IP Address is not a tough job, it can be done with various tools and method. Today I am sharing the best and simple method with which you can not only trace any IP Address easily but can also see that the target is using which Operating and Internet Browser.

Lets start :

Step 1) Visit this link http://www.shivampatel.net/trace/and enter your email id in it. You will receive your trace reports in it.

Step 2) At the bottom click on Submit and Register.

Step 3) Open your mail that you entered in Step 1

Step 4) You will receive a link in your inbox like this http://acmepeers.com/?u=vyg(Mostly its in Spam)

Just follow the instructions in the mail you received.



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Send this link to one who's information who want to know. As soon as anyone clicks on the link given above, a trace report will be generated and mailed to you. You can click the above link yourself to check the accuracy of the system by tracing yourself.

Its a tried and working method.

Make your own social Networking website for free

Make your own social Networking website for free




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Want to make a Social Networking Website like Orkut, My Space! Here is a list of websites with which you can create your own Social Networking websites for free.. Have a look :

1) SocialGO lets you easily create and run a feature-filled social networking website.
You choose who can join, what they can do and how it looks and the best part is it's free to get going.
http://www.socialgo.com/



2)Ning offers the latest social networking features, all infinitely customizable to meet your unique needs. The Ning Platform makes this possible. As a platform, you don't have to appeal to Ning for the features you want. If you have the time and the inclination, you can build them yourself. It's the software equivalent of Home Depot. Unlike other services that offer a “one-size-fits-all” offering, your social network on Ning runs on a programmable platform.
http://www.ning.com/



3)Elgg allows you to create your own social network, quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organizations, groups and individuals.
http://www.elgg.org/



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4) WackWall is a free service that lets you create your own social network website.
No installation, no downloads, NO FEES - choose the title and address for your social network and go customize it. FREE.
http://wackwall.com/



5)Use KickApps to power audience growth & engagement on your website. Build your own community with social networking and photo & video sharing; create your own widgets, custom video players and much more.
http://www.kickapps.com/

Why your website load slow

Want to know why your web page load slow. Here is a simple and powerful Mozilla Firefox add-on tool known as YSlow that analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on Yahoo's rules for high performance web sites.




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YSlow gives you :

Performance report card
HTTP/HTML summary
List of components in the page
Tools including JSLint

Requirements :
You must have Mozilla Firefox. (Click here to download MOZILLA FIREFOX)


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You must have Firebug add-on installed in your Firefox. In case you do not have, you can install Firebug from HERE.

Source : http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

Internet Error Codes and Meaning

Internet Error Codes and Meaning

Sometime you are browsing the internet and trying to open any website, your e-mail and any FTP sites , but you see different error codes there. You should be familiar with these error codes. You can solve these problems if you are well-known with the meaning of error codes.






Error Codes
Meaning
400This is bad request error, First check you may be typing wrong URL name and server could not understand your request.
401You are trying to open any unauthorized access site or page. Check your username and password if you are trying to open any webpage.
402Payment Required Error
403You are trying to open any forbidden page and you are blocked by that domain.
404Here you are trying to open the webpage that was removed or re-named, also check the URL spelling.
408This is time out error. you should send the request with in time that the server set for you.

How to access the restricted or banned websites

How to access the restricted or banned websites




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You can access the restricted or banned websites with the help of this tip. You may have problems to accessing your favorite's politics, news, and sexy websites in your office and other public places. Some time these websites banned by Government, ISP and may be by your office network administrator. These tips are very useful, if you are using internet particularly in school, college and office.

Follow the given points to access the banned website:
Technique 1: Search the banned website, for example www.avitricks.page.tl in Google and yahoo search engine then open the cached copy of that page to access the website. You can get also cache link of that website, if you search in Google with keyword cache:URL name and get cache link to access the website. For eg:type in google search :-cache:www.avitricks.page.tl


Technique 2: Another method to access the banned website using its IP address, because you can open the website with IP address instead of actual URL name. This technique bypasses the URL based restrictions. For example if www.myspace.com is banned in your school, you can open it using IP address 216.178.32.51. You can search online IP conversion tools to get IP address of any website.



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Technique 3: There are some mini web browsers can help you to open the banned websites, for example Opera Mini Browser, install it and try to open any banned website. Another Real Player browser can successfully help you to access the banned website. This Real Player browser bypasses the many restrictions of website banned tools.

Technique 4: There any many websites Anonymizer tools are available to fetch the banned website. These anonymous surfing tools that protect your identity on the internet and give the access to banned sites. As far as the service provider is concerned you are viewing a page from Anonymizer and not the blocked site.

These tips are very useful to access the banned websites in your university, cybercafe ,office and other public places.

Increase web traffic

Here are 26 sure-fire ways to increase web traffic and site visitors to your website. Use some or all of them, and let us know which ones worked best for you.

(a)Optimize your site (SEO).
Win on the search engines when people search for keyword phrases related to your products or services.
(More about search engine optimization.)

(b)Get your site listed in directories.
Submit your site to all the major web directories. This will generate traffic directly from the directories themselves and will also help to improve your link popularity. That helps you win on Google!

(c)Get listed in search engines.
Submit your site to all the major search engines.

(d)Get links to your site.
Get people with complimentary sites to link to yours. You offer rental kayaks on the beach. Ask the local restaurant owners to link to you, and offer to link to them. Ask the local tour guides, the real estate agents, the night clubs, and everyone else. Links lead to clicks onto your website and help to improve your search engine rankings.

(e)Buy links to your site.
Buy text links on other websites. That means more spiders stopping by, more people clicking through, and better search engine rankings.







(f)Buy banner ads.
Buy banner ads on other websites. It helps to build brand recognition.

(g)Participate in a banner exchange program.
It won't cost you anything, and will lead to a few extra visitors. Plus, you're spreading your brand all over the place.

(h)Participate in a WebRing.
Connect your site with other sites in your niche.




(i)Pay for clicks to your site.
Pay for clicks or inclusion on the search engines so that people will see your site in the sponsored links section of the search results when they search for keyword phrases related to your products or services.
(More about pay per click.)
(j)Set up an affiliate marketing program.
With affiliate marketing, you can either pay per click, pay per lead generated, pay per sale, or pay per customer acquired.

(k)Use smart public relations (PR).
Get news coverage of your business and your site. Approach online and traditional media. This will often lead to others placing links pointing to your website, which leads to more clicks and also to improved search engine rankings.

(l)Use E-mail marketing.
Ugly, but effective for the cost. Blast out your special offers, but be nice about it.

(m)Use off-line marketing.
Promote your site. Put your url on all your license plates. Paint it on your car. Buy newspaper and yellow pages ads with your url. Put up flyers and stickers. Sponsor a little league team. Do anything and everything to spread the word about your website around your city.

(n)Run regular promotions.
Stage regular giveaways and spread the word about it.

(o)Get published.
Write articles for publication on other websites. The author profile will link to your site. The article will show that you're an expert.

(p)Publish yourself.
Write articles for your own site regularly. This will help you to win on the search engines and gives your visitors a reason to come back over and over.

(q)Ask for reviews.
Ask for reviews of your self-published articles on other webmasters' websites. Ask for reviews of your website, your products, your software, your services. These will usually include links to your articles.

(r)Write briefs.
Write daily or weekly news briefs focusing in on your industry or specialty area. This keeps your site "fresh" in the eyes of the major search engines and helps you to spread a wide net when fishing for top search engine positions.

(s)Create a newsletter.
Ask your visitors to sign up for your newsletter, and encourage them to send it along to people they know. Send a newsletter regularly with teasers or lead-ins to your in-depth new articles or with special offers and the latest products.

(t)Post in chat rooms.
Become active in bulletin boards and chat rooms focusing on your industry. Leave inciteful comments, and people will click on your profile, then visit your site.

(u)Give away free stuff.
Offer something people want at your site. Give them a reason to come back and get more. Offer free downloads and update them regularly. Offer coupons or discounts. Content content content.

(v)Give awards for excellent sites in your niche.
This builds more links back to your site and establishes you as a credible reviewer, an expert in your space.

(w)Run a contest and promote it.
Photo contests, essay contests, goofy contests, random drawings, anything. Example: Messiest Garage in America contest on OfftheFloor.com.

(x)Join your local business organizations.
Chambers of Commerce and other organizations will often add your site to their member directory. That's an added advantage over the obvious business-building and networking opportunities.

(y)Create an RSS feed.
Give people another way to interact with your content.

(z)Be accessible.
Build your site so that it is accessible to all browsers and to PocketPC and Palm Pilot users. Don't forget, people with disabilities buy things too. Make your site Section 508 complaint. Your competition probably hasn't.

We really couldn't stop at Z. This last suggestion is our most important one:

Be a good Internet citizen.
Provide useful resources on your website, resources that make people feel thankful that you put in the time and effort. Help every person who ever calls you on the telephone or emails you a question. When they ask "How can I ever thank you?" just say, "If you like my site and think it's useful, why not link to it?"