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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Free Classified Websites( top ranked)

The Top ranked classified websites are the base in web industry. They keep the maximum market share in this industry. So these list is very important for web oriented people.

Free classified websites have changed the notion of internet marketing. Free classifieds are now one of the prime source of internet marketing. Craigslist.org is the leader and model in this field. Being inspired by the success of craigslist, internet giants like google, yahoo, microsoft have also started free classifieds.

Following is a list of popular free/local classified web sites like craigslist:



SL SitePage RankAlexa RankRemarks
1) www.craigslist.org 847The pioneer of free classifieds. English only. About 450 cities. Recently craigslist has registered the domains craigslist.ca, craigslist.co.in, craigslist.co.th, craigslist.es, craigslist.co.uk, craigslist.com.ph, craigslist.com.mx, craigslist.com.cn, craigslist.jp, craigslist.ch
2) www.backpage.com 62340Popular in USA. Also has 3 Canada cities
3) www.kijiji.ca 830,192Popular in Canada. Available in local language. The largest classified network. Other sites of this network are kijiji.com, kijij.in, kijiji.co.jp, kijiji.fr, kijiji.be, kijiji.de, kijiji.ch, kijiji.at, kijiji.it, kijiji.com.tr, kijiji.cn, kijiji.com.tw.
4) www.gumtree.com 7975Popular in UK, Australia (gumtree.com.au), South Africa(gumtree.co.za), Ireland(gumtree.ie), New Zealand(gumtree.co.nz), Hong Kong(gumtree.com.hk), Singapore(gumtree.sg), Poland(gumtree.pl), USA(newyork.gumtree.com)
5) loquo.com 62,249Popular in Spain. In Spanish and English language. Loquo's vacation rentals section is very popular.
6) classifieds.myspace.com 76Mostly popular as social networking site.

7) expo.live.com 75Microsoft's version of free classifieds
8) www.adlandpro.com 53431Classifieds and social networking
9) www.usfreeads.com 54261
10) www.oodle.com 610,050Accepts XML feeds for bulk submission.
11) www.adpost.com 59933
12) www.freeadvertisingforum.com ?31,660
13) www.sell.com 624,388
14) www.InetGiant.com 426,756
15) www.adquest3d.com 576,455
16) www.recycler.com 628,649
17) www.chooseyouritem.com 531,495
18) www.domesticsale.com 535,045
19) www.epage.com 840,443epage.com allows posting 10 ads from each free account
20) www.classifiedsforfree.com 431,133
21) webcosmo.com 3-
22) www.TheFlyer.com 5196,733
23) www.salespider.com 631,208
24) www.ozfreeonline.com 880,028
25) www.ClassifiedAds.com 593077
26) StumbleHere.com --Promising online USA free classifieds
27) iSell.com 6119228
28) base.google.com 73
29) olx.com 411,925Popular free classifieds of USA, India, Pakistan, Argentina and Mexico
Yahoo has discontinued its free classified service and merged it with yahoo shopping which is not free at all. So it is removed from the list.

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Sunday, July 6, 2008

Top 10 most viewed youtube videos

Youtube.com is the best video website of the world. Here we can upload, view and share video clips. Its bandwidth costs are estimated at approximately $1 million a day. It has millions of videos. In the month of January, this year nearly 79 million users watched over 3 billion videos on YouTube. Have you ever thought which are the most viewed videos on YouTube ? Have you seen those videos ? No. Then don’t worry today I am sharing the list of top 10 most viewed videos on YouTube (as on 3rd May 2008).

  1. evolution of dance.jpgEvolution of Dance is the Most Viewed (All Time) Video, Most Favorited (All Time) Video on YouTube. This Evolution of Dance video is done by comedian Judson Laipply as he dances in various styles to clips of music from the 60’s to the 2000’s. In the video, Laipply dances to a soundtrack that plays through various popular songs ranging from Elvis Presley to MC Hammer and Michael Jackson. During its initial rise in popularity, it amassed over 10 million views in under two weeks and was featured on CNN, MSN, E!, USA Today, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and AOL. Now he is working on part 2 of Evolution of dance. You can visit its website for complete list of songs.
  2. girlfriend.jpgGirlfriend” is one of the Avril Lavigne’s biggest hits in the United States, where it reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 songs whereas in UK it reached number two. Its music video is the most viewed music video on YouTube and is the 2nd most viewed video on the website after Evolution of dance, with over 82 million views as on 3rd May 2008.
  3. whatstheattitude.jpgWhat’s the Altitude” is a track off the The Audience’s Listening album by Cut Chemist. Its music video is currently the third most viewed video of all time on YouTube with over 72 million hits. Cut Chemist is the performing name of Lucas MacFadden, a solo turntablist. He is a former member of the funk Latin band Ozomatli, and of hip hop group Jurassic 5. You can read the complete lyrics of the song from here.
  4. what you want to hear.jpgWhat you want to hear is a short film starring Fatima Baeza. This video is in Spanish with more than 7 millions views. It is a love story about the relationship between fiction and reality. It is also the most popular spanish video on YouTube. In this video, Sofia comes home after a long day at work and chat with a friend and start preparing a dinner for her boyfriend. But something amazing happens as a result she is forced to choose between fact, fiction or something that is midway between the two.
  5. panda.jpgDisculpa los malos pensamientos (Forgive the bad thoughts) is a famous rock song by the Mexican band Panda. It was released in March 2006 as the third single from the band’s third album, “Para ti con desprecio”. The song how much anger and bad thoughts can be caused by a girl’s actions. Jose Madero arrives to his girlfriend’s house. She is pulled and moved by him throughout the video because she is apparently dead. Once inside the house, they have a dinner during which he proposes to her with her parents, who don’t seem to notice she is dead. On the YouTube video the story is shown with the help of cartoon characters. Since the video was in Spanish so I am not sure whether it was telling the same story or not.
  6. dont stop the music.jpgDon’t Stop the Music” is a song by Barbadian pop singer Rihanna from her third studio album, “Good Girl Gone Bad”. It was the third single from the album in most of the Europe, the second single in Germany and Spain and the fourth single in the rest of the world. It achieved big success in several European countries.On December 6, 2007, “Don’t Stop the Music” received a Grammy nomination in the category of “Best Dance Recording” at the 50th Grammy Awards.
  7. My chemical Romance is by an American rock quintet. This video is not available in India. When I tried to watch this video, I got the message on YouTube that “This video is not available in your country. “
  8. apologize.jpgApologize” is a song released by OneRepublic from their debut album Dreaming Out Loud. The song is the biggest radio airplay hit in the history of Top 40 radio in North America, racking up an astounding 10,693 spins in one week, breaking the previous record by 370 spins. The song has charted strongly around the world, reaching number one in 16 countries.
  9. noone.jpgNo One” is an R&B-soul song written and produced by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. It is Keys’ most successful song. It topped the United World Chart for two weeks and becoming the twentieth best-selling single of 2007. In this video, Keys is lying on a chair in an empty room and there is a musical instrument-decorated room in which Keys sings accompanied by a keyboard. Now Keys is shown alone, playing the piano on a rainy street, and she later finds herself surrounded with dozens of people. Then we see Keys is in a blue-lit nightclub. This video ends with a gear divided into four fractions, each showing previous scenes, and lying on the same chair in the same room.
  10. bleedinglove.jpgBleeding Love” is a pop-R&B ballad written by Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder and produced by Tedder for Leona Lewis’ debut album, Spirit, where it is the opening track. You can find the complete lyrices of Bleeding love on LyricsMode.

Google trends in web industry

From abhisays.com, we found this latest post for Google trends. We learn many important tips from this post. follow this post and make comments-

You may be aware of Google Trends. It is an online tool from Google Labs that shows the most popularly searched terms from the beginning of 2004 to now. Google Trends chart shows how often a particular search term is entered relative the total search volume google-trends.pngacross various regions of the world, and in various languages. It is one of the important tools for webmasters for getting the idea of searches made on internet. Till now we can search keywords in Google trends, now we can also search web site addresses here. Now Google trends compare and rank web site visits across geographies, and related websites and searches. After entering a domain name into Google Trends, it will return you traffic, search and geographic visitation data for that site. Trends for Web Sites will show sites related to the domain name you entered, it will also show searches that are correlated to the domain name and if you are logged into your Google account, it will show the estimated traffic for that site. You can enter up to five domain names and Google will plot line graphs for all the domains you entered in.

Let’s take and example. I am comparing the trends for Yahoo.com, MSN.com and AOL.com

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It will also show the Regions where these websites are mostly visited, related websites, and related searches. Here you will have drop down where you can select Yahoo, MSN or AOL at a time and see their details.

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Untill now, I normally use Alexa for getting more informations on websites, now I can also use Google Trends for this purpose. Thanks Google

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

How to start with facebook.com ?

Facebook is a huge online community to make friendship and meet friends and family. It is one of the largest Online social networking sites in web industry. You can start with facebook by following tips-

1. Key Terms:
Make a list of your best key terms and weave them into the rest of your worksheet items. Key terms are one, two, or three word terms that someone might use if they were searching for your business in a search engine.

2. General Information:
Your Name
Business Name
Email Addresses
URLs
Instant Messaging screen names

3. Biographical and Descriptive Information:
Short bio (50 words)
Longer bio (100 words)
Short company description (50 words)
Longer company description (100 words)
Business mission statement

4. List of Products

I based these worksheet items on a typical Facebook profile and page. If you choose a different social networking site, examine some completed profiles and base your worksheet items on them.

Create an Account and Thoroughly Complete Your Profile

If you haven't already, get a Facebook account. Completely fill out your profile using your worksheet. Under the relationships tab, choose "networking." You can skip the personal and education tabs for business profiles, but there is no harm in filling them out. If you have an existing account, upgrade your profile information using your key terms.

But don't stop there!

Facebook, like most good social networking platforms, offers many marketing opportunities for businesses - some for free. You can find these by clicking the "Advertising" link in the footer of the Facebook site, or by following this link: http://www.facebook.com/business/.

Since I can't cover all of the marketing tools in one article, let's focus on my favorite: The Facebook Page. It's my favorite not only because it is free, but because it makes use of the many diverse Facebook applications.

Facebook pages are specifically for marketing a business or a product. They offer a way for a business to represent itself to the Facebook community in an authentic way. Facebook users can search pages the same way they search for people within the network community.

Create your page by going to "Page Manager" in the left sidebar of your Facebook profile, or by following this link: http://www.facebook.com/business/ and choosing Facebook Pages. Choose the best category for your business.

Use Key Terms in the Name of Your Facebook Page!

It seems that the actual page name is the only text on a Facebook page that is used in a search. With that in mind, use at least two of your best key terms in your page name.

Populate your page with all of your best worksheet information. You may have only a few seconds to catch a reader's attention, so put your best key terms forward.

Once your page is in place, add applications to help represent your company in your own unique way. To find applications for your page, click on "Applications" in the upper left corner of your page, or search for them here: http://www.facebook.com/apps/.

Applications are not difficult to install and are usually very easy to set up. Use this general rule of thumb when choosing an application: If you can't figure out how to set it up after the second try, find another one. There is often more than one application available to accomplish the same task.

Applications Top Picks:

My Flickr: Display photos from your Flickr account using this application. These photos can include logos, product photos, photos from events, etc.

Upcoming: Add all of your events to upcoming.org, and you can easily display them on your Facebook page with Upcoming's Facebook application.

YouTube Box: Allows visitors to play your YouTube videos right on your Facebook page.

Simply RSS: This allows you to display up to eight RSS feeds on your Facebook page and display the feeds from your business's main site and newsrooms.

Implementing these applications creates an interactive page that also gives visitors a personable look into your business. To see all of these applications in use on one page, visit Dalton Publishing.

Note: If you use a particular application regularly, consider donating to the application's creator - they do not get paid to develop these applications.

Promoting Your Social Networking Presence

Now that you have invested the time in creating an impressive presence on Facebook (or whichever social networks you chose), go the extra mile and research how you can promote your new presence both inside and outside of the network. Here is a link to Facebook's promotional guidelines.

Of course, invite everyone on your mailing lists to join your network and visit your sharp new page!



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