Hey, you!

If you have nothing much to do, if you're bored and you just don't know what to do with your time, like you are just surfing around for no reason, try going over to the sites linked to this site, there is a list of those at the right side bar. They are good sites and there are some in fact which will really make your day.

Happy surfing!

where do you get your referrals?

A number of users at Mylot had expressed their desire to have referrals but have no idea how. Here are suggestions or real places where you could get your referals:

1. immediate members of the family provided they are of majority age---I was able to get my son (inactive) and my sister who is now actively participating here (lucky me)

2. neighbors---those with internet is a must

3. friends--close, casual, online or offline

4. officemates

5.other forums

6. classmates (if you are a student)

7. your students (if you're a teacher)---I was able to get many here but they are no longer active

8. others

Even strangers or new acquaintances can become your referrals. When you meet friends, simply ask for their names and e-mail addresses and tell them that you are inviting them to join a discussion group. Remember to always give support to your referrals.

the beauty of links

Out of curiousity, I searched via Google for each of my four blogs to check if the blogs are included in the search engine. The search automatically led me to my blogs along with all those which are linked to them. Beautiful. In fact I was surprised to see my blogs in one blog directory when I do not remember having submitted my urls there. I found out that this became possible simply because one of my links is a member of that site so anyone searching for her blog would also see my blogs' urls.

That is the beauty of having links. Your site automatically crawls along with the site that links to your site and vice versa. Ergo, the more links, the more chances of showing up in search engines like Google and Yahoo.

the secret

The number one secret to driving traffic to your site is getting the right link. Just what do we mean by "the right link"? By this we mean getting linked to an already popular website or weblog which has its own loyal followers of say, 15,000 to 20,000 hits per day. The next question is, how? How do we get linked to such a site?

There are such sites that will link you for a monthly fee for sure and real visitors in real time. There are also sites that "sell" traffic, and the number depends on how much you can afford to pay. However, if you have a friend who owns a site with his own number of visitors, you can ask him for link exchange. You may also do the same with other new web owners who share the same problem.

The secret is out. Getting linked to a popular website is the surest way to drive traffic to your own. Go for it now.As a newbie we need to hit the streets to find this secret Messiah.

Oplink4traffic

About two months ago an effort to drive traffic to new blogsites was launched. It was dubbed "Oplink4traffic" which stands for Operation Link for Traffic which was based on the principle that the number of new blogsites or websites is good enough to create the much-needed hits or visitors newbies need. There were only quite a few who responded and so the drive just sort of faded away.

Driving traffic to one's site is one of the biggest problems new website or weblog owners have to deal with. You will know this when you will have your own site. It is difficult to get noticed most especially that there are thousands of new websites or weblogs that are created everyday. Your site must be extraordinarily loaded with useful content and with multiple affiliations to amount to anything especially with Google.

Traffic. Hits. Visitors. Affiliations. Links. They are the same dog with different collars. We want people to come to our site. What do we do? First , get the site noticed. Make people know that your site exists. One way of doing this is by joining in different forums where you can freely invite people to your site. Next, submit your site to blog or site directories. Third, link exchange---link them and they link you back. Use search-friendly keywords that will make your site appear when people type in what they are searching. And last but not the least, update your site regularly for it to be worth a comeback.