Swaptree is a new and innovative way for people to easily trade and swap books, CDs, DVDs and video games they are finished with, for the ones they want next – and it is all done for FREE. Your only expense is paying the shipping to ship your item but since you are shipping CDs [...]

You know you have always wanted to have an animated avatar of yourself to put on your blog, website, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, or upload on your Gravatar account but never figured out an easy way to do it – well that is, until now.

The new year is a time to get organized and what better way to help you keep up with your busy life than using an online calendar. An online calendar is better than writing everything down because all you need to do is check them once a day, have them send reminders by email or through your cell phone.

A tag cloud is a way to show your blog viewers the topics your posts fall under. Most of the time they are called labels. WordPress makes it easy for their users to show a Tag Cloud with a plug-in but Blogger users don’t have that option – until now. Zoom Clouds offers a simple way to include a Tag Cloud on your Blogger blog. The process only takes about 5 minutes to complete.

Ecards are a fun way of staying in touch with friends, co-workers and family. 123 Greetings, the online authority in free e-greetings, offers an free associates program which allows you to add an e-greeting card site to your existing website. It is designed for webmasters who would like to have a greeting card site of their own site without having to write the programs to create one. After you register, they send you one line of HTML code to insert on your website and you’re all set to go.

Having a website is necessary if you want to sell a product or service, run an online business, non-profit organization, or online newspaper. But, maybe you just need a website for a one-time event, to keep your club or organization updated about upcoming meetings, to post info about a wedding, baby shower or family reunion and you really don’t want to buy a domain name or pay for monthly hosting.

There are two types of sitemaps – HTML page or an XML file. An HTML sitemap is a single page that shows visitors all the pages on a website and usually has links to those pages. The XML type of sitemap is used by search engine crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed. An XML sitemap isn’t meant to look pretty for the website visitor.

One of the best ways to interact and keep your website, blog, or customers coming back for more is through an email newsletter. If you have a loyal following they are happy to hear from you. But, too often you have to pay for an email newsletter service because sending out an email to thousands of people from your regular email account will brand you as a spammer.

If you want to create a successful blog or website, it is important to understand where traffic is coming from and what people do when they get there. There are a number of free tracking tools available to help you keep track of how many visitors are on your site right now, what site they came from, what keywords got them there, how long they stay, and other statistical data such as country, state, browser type, monitor resolution, and what operating system they use. All of these traffic trackers are very easy to setup and offer a lot of help through FAQs and forums on their websites.

Every blog should include a search feature. If a reader has to click on every page or in every category to find what they are looking for they may leave out of frustration. Adding a search feature will make your reader happy and it is easy to do. Many of the Blogger templates do not include a search box. These simple instructions will show you how to add one to your blog.