Tips for boosting news web sites. This is a presentation prepared for high school students.

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

5. FREE!
30 Tools To
Boost Your
Web Traffic
Chris Snider • DesMoinesRegister.com

6. Tools For
Your Site

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

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

9. 2. Mogulus.com
Add live video to your site

10. Live Video Options
• Mogulus.com
• Justin.tv
• Ustream.tv

11. 3. CoverItLive.com
Live chats

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

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

17. 6. SoundSlides.com
Slide shows + audio

18. 7. Maps
Show where things are on the map

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

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

21. 9. Response-o-Matic
Create surveys and add them to your site

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

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

24. Free Podcasting
• mypodcast.com
• podomatic.com
• gabcast.com (create podcast from phone)
• Apple’s Garage Band

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32. Tools Outside
your Site

33. 19. 4info.net
Send text alerts to readers

34. Text CHRISTEST
to 44636

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

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

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

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

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

40. 23. SproutBuilder
Build really cool widgets - or Flash-like presentations

41. 24. Sprout + Facebook
Put your sprouts on Facebook

42. 25. Facebook Fan Page
Give your site a home on Facebook

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

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

45. 28. TWITTER.COM
Promote your content, 140 characters at a time

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

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

48. 30. Newspaper Blog
Promote your site on the BIG site

49. Thank You.
Questions?