This document provides a list of 30 tools to boost web traffic. It describes tools for adding video, live video/chats, slideshows, maps, polls, surveys, blogs, podcasts, Flickr groups, YouTube videos, presentations, word clouds, ads, publishing print content online, embedding documents, selling photos, converting tables, creating charts/graphs, finding photos, RSS feeds, email newsletters, widgets, sharing content, social networks, mobile sites, and turning websites into mobile apps. The tools are grouped into categories like content for your site, content outside your site, and building mobile sites.

1. FREE!
30 Tools To
Boost Your
Web Traffic
Chris Snider • ChrisSniderDesign.com

2. Chris Snider
• AME/digital at
Des Moines Register
• Adjunct professor
at Drake University
• Former Juice Editor
• Former news design director
at St. Louis Post-Dispatch

3. Tools For
Your Site

4. 1. Vimeo.com
Add video to your site - and let others share your video

5. More Video Options
• Vimeo.com
• YouTube.com
• Blip.tv
• Photobucket.com
• Flickr.com (video isn’t free)
• Revver.com
• Viddler.com

6. 2. Livestream.com
Add live video to your site

7. Live Video Options
• Mogulus.com
• Justin.tv
• Ustream.tv
• qik.com
• 12seconds.tv

8. 3. CoverItLive.com
Live chats

9. 4. Animoto.com
Turn photos into music videos

11. 5. Vuvox.com
Create slide shows and embed links

14. 6. SoundSlides.com
Slide shows + audio

15. 7. Maps
Show where things are on a map

16. Mapping sites
• umapper.com
• mapalist.com
• mapbuilder.net
• quikmaps.com
• fmatlas.com
• google.com/maps

17. 8. Polldaddy.com
Polls that you can embed on your site

18. 9. Google Forms
Create surveys and add them to your site

19. 10. Wordpress blogs
Fully functional blogs on your site

20. Blog Tools
• Wordpress
• Tumblr
• Posterous
• Blogger
• Typepad

21. 11. Podcasts
Sites host podcasts that you embed on your site

22. Free Podcasting/Audio
• wpaudioplayer.com
• mypodcast.com
• podomatic.com
• gabcast.com (create podcast from phone)
• Apple’s Garage Band
• Audacity

23. 12. Flickr.com groups
Add a module to reader photos already on Flickr

24. 13. YouTube Videos
Create a custom player to add reader videos to your site

25. 14. SlideShare
Powerpoint-like presentations embedded on your site

26. 15. Wordle.net
Show speeches/text as a word cloud

27. 16. Google Adsense
It’s like free $$ for your site

28. 17. Issuu.com
Post your print edition online - or just your photos

29. 18. DocStoc.com
Embed pdfs and word documents on your site

30. 19. SmugMug.com
Show off and sell your photos

31. 20. tableizer
tableizer.journalistopia.com

32. 21. Swivel
Turn data into charts and graphs

33. 22. Creative Commons
Find photos for your web site.

34. Tools Outside
your Site

35. 23. RSS Feeds
Put your content into RSS readers

36. 24. Email newsletter
Send your news to email inboxes

37. E-Mail Newsletters
• Mailchimp.com
• Feedburner.com
• Campaigner.com
• Icontact.com
• MailDogManager.com
• Newsberry.com

38. 25. Widgets
Place your content (or links to your content) on other sites

39. Widget-Makers
• Sproutbuilder
• Widgetbox
• Gigya
• SpringWidgets
• Oosah
• Clearspring

40. 26. ShareThis.com
Allow readers to easily share your content

41. 27. Ning.com
Build your own custom social network

42. 28. TWITTER.COM
Bring the conversation to your site

43. 29. Mofuse.com
Build a mobile version of your site

44. Build A Mobile Site
• MoFuse
• Wirenode
• UBIK.com
• Mippin
Source: 10,000words.net

45. 30. MotherApp
Turn your web site into an iPhone application

46. 31. Newspaper Blog
Promote your site on the BIG site

47. Chris Snider
@ChrisSnider
ChrisSniderDesign.com