Spice Up Your Web Site, Blog, Squidoo Lens or MySpace Page with Free Widgets, Graphics and Apps
Check out the tips for designing and building a quality site/lens that generates traffic and gets found by the main search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Dogpile, Ask ...). And. after you generate all that traffic if you want to make money from your web site or blog or lens, you'll find the sections on free tools and professional tips for Making Money with Your Lens, Web Site or Blog very helpful.
Web Site Gadgets: Blogs, Hosting, Widgets, Stats, Add-ons, Protection
Snag some of these techie gadgets for your lens, web site or blog
Anime and Manga Downloads - Wallpapers, Themes, Sounds, EpisodesWidget Wonderland Free add-ons for your blog, lens or web site.
Free Web Services Free hosting, cool widgets, traffic counters, live chat, forums and loads of amazing free services for your web site or blog.
Web Traffic Stat Counter The BEST no-cost/low-cost web traffic stats program available. Super tracking, super support, and innovative features.
Bad Behavior Blocker - PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it
Fav Icon Generator - make a custom icon for your site to display in the browser address window
Free Site Map Generator - automatically creates an XML compliant site map for your web
Keyword Suggestion Tool - Google keyword assistant, external tool. Makes recommendations for keywords (tags) and phrases based on the content from your URL
Web Site Traffic Builder Information
But if you want to be sure your web site (or blog, or lens) gets found by search engines and displayed on the first page or two of results, you need to follow some basic rules.
First and foremost, play fair: publish good original content, link to related lenses, blogs and sites, update frequently, and get the word out in the blog-o-sphere. In short, develop quality organic traffic by building interesting content and creating interest (marketing) to attract visitors.
Much of the best advice you can find is right here at Squidoo, either as guidelines for building a great lens or in lenses built by the most giant of the Giant Squids. You can search for marketing tips, or check out groups that focus on lens development and making money on Squidoo as well.
Here are just a few resources ... more added all the time.
- Google Traffic Building Tips
- Official Google Webmaster Help Center: FAQs, tools and resources for webmasters
- Tweaker for Google AdWords
- I'm a Google AdWords tweaker. Didn't realize it until I read this blog post by Seth Godin. Many people start an AdWords campaign but then get stuck. They're either spending too much or simply not sure what the next step is. I'm a QGAP (Qualified Google Advertising Professional). QGAPs are often good
- RSS Resources, Tips and Tricks (Part 1)
- What's different about RSS feeds vs. straightforward web content? Not much, really, but one key difference is crucial: Content published in an RSS feed is typically set up to send out notifications whenever new material is available.
- How To Create A Quality Lens
- The word 'quality' has come up a lot lately on Squidoo, particularly when it comes to the Giant Squid Program. In order to be accepted you need 50 quality lenses, but what constitutes a 'quality' lens? Here's what I think defines quality and how you can get there!
- Squidoo's Geek Grrl Grannie - Pastiche
- Veteran online marketing consultant and developer focuses on Squidoo as a social media marketing tool.
- 131 Link Building Strategies
- This article was created to be "The Definitive Source" of link popularity building strategies on the Net, and because of the generous tips given freely by the contributors, it's become just that. Real world tactics from experienced SEO expoerts. Free.
Funky Text and Banner Generators
Make banners, sparkly text, funny pix, photos with words and more.
- Custom Sign Generator Widgets - Thousands Of Web 2.0 Image Generators
- Create customized clipart (personalize with your name or message, make logos, avatars, banners, buttons, funny signs) with Web 2.0 image generator gadgets and fun sign generators. We have thousands of templates to choose from ranging from logos to button makers (make banner ads, MySpace avatars, lab
- Blog Header Image Generator, Custom Title Bar Images
- Make your own blog title bar image or use these customized images for letterhead in important documents. Personalize header graphics with your own custom text.
- Web 2.0 CLIPART List On The Web 2.0 Search Engine
- Web2.0 CLIPART applications list, Web 2.0 based tools for clipart (no install needed). Ratings and useful information about free clipart tools, help finding clipart and free apps.
- Make a Free Avatar For Your Forum/Blog Profile
- Over 5,000 avatar/icon generators (almost 50 pages). Create your own customized avatars with your personalized words/text.
- Baby Floss Neon Sign Graphic Generator
- Myspace Graphics in neon sign style - you pick the text.
- ACME Heart Maker
- ACME Heart Maker
Make your own candy valentine! Up to four characters per line. - Flickr Sign Generator
- A generator to make signs for myspace, blogs, forums with letters from Flickr.
- Image Generator Links 2008, Make Custom Graphics/Clipart Online
- Customize thousands (over 5,000 currently) of image templates with your custom text. Send creations as free egreetings or download the clipart to use on your web space
Free Web Site Cartoons, Jokes and Photo Funnies
Cartoons, pictures and humorous content automatically updates
Cartoon Feeds -for blogs and web sites
Daily Cartoons for Newsletters and Intranets - Business related chuckles, updated automatically
Graphics Software Downloads & Online Tools
Free trials and totally free cool tools
- Picasa
- Google's popular photo editing and organizing tool is part of its cool suite of free computer downloads for XP and newer PC systems.
- PhotoShop Brushes
- Create your own layouts with cool grunge effects.
- Image Factory: Free Graphics, Free Clip Art, Free Web Design Tips, Free Fonts, Free Software
- Image Factory free graphics, fonts, and clip art downloads for home, school and personal use.
- IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide
- IrfanView ... one of the most popular viewers worldwide.
- FlamingText: Free online tool for generating custom webpage graphics and animations.
- Create your own free custom animated graphics and clipart. Also available: fonts, buttons, banners, icons, animations, and web templates.
- 15 Online Graphics Generators
- Shiny edges, reflections, neat 3D effects - you love them and can't get enough of them. Well, there's no reason to spend any time in Photoshop creating them
- ULT-TEX.NET-Free banners, counters, web and image tools
- Web and image tools and utilities, holiday and other occasion countdown banners.
Banner makers, scripts, backgrounds and images. - Obamicon.Me - Make any Image into an Obama-like icon
- Create your own Obamicon, your image inspired by Shepard Fairey's iconic Barack Obama 'Hope' poster.
Free Fonts
Find the fresh face that's just your type ...
- Free Fonts & Typography Tools
- Cool tools to tweak your text - loads of sources for font-related tools and tutorials.
- Newest fonts at dafont.com
- Newest additions to this HUGE archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.
- Download Free Fonts @ 1001 Fonts .com
- Download free fonts for Windows and free fonts for Apple Macintosh. All fonts on this site are either freeware or shareware and in the TrueType or PostScript format.
- Free Fonts Links and Public Domain Font Downloads
- Free resources for web design, scrapbooking and desktop publishing-free fonts, free font programs, public domain fonts, font download links and font designer software links.
So You Wanna Be a Designer ...
Flash Animation vs Animator Live Duel Action
Animator vs Animation
From http://devilducky.com/media/46686. I find this very entertaining.
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Free Web Templates & Coordinated Web Sets
All the pieces, ready for you to plug in your text and pictures and link together.
- Clip Art and Graphics - Free For All
- Web Sets Links at Free Graphics Squioo Lens
- Pets Theme Web Set-Static Graphics
- Cute web set for your favorite four-legged furballs.Cats Rule/Dogs Rule header, I ♥ Cats header, pawprint link buttons.
- Web Sets by Donna
- Donna Stahl Larson's free web set designs: themes include florals, quilts, amimals, guys interests, kids, tartans and many others.
- Free Web Sets by Efteligra Graphics
- Soft themes feature animals, fractals, butterflies - mainly feminine themes.
- Google Directory Search - The BIG List
- Comprehensive list of Sites offering coordinated web sets as listed in the Google Directory
- FullMoon Graphics - Eye-imagine for you!
- Eye or inner self awareness theme, free web page design set.
- Free triple background page template
- You can use this template to learn some basic html using tables to make complex backgrounds.
- Ann-S-Thesia: Linkware
- Linkware web graphic sets by Ann-S-Thesia available for free online download.
- Open Source Web Design - Download free web design templates.
- Download and upload free web designs.
- Our Blogger Templates
- Free Blogger Templates | Design Tutorials | Blog Tips
- MySpace Basketball Layouts
- Basketball-Layouts.com - choose your favorite basketball team and search for the premade layout you like best.
- Online Journal Templates
- Designed for youthful computer journal writers and bloggers.
- Full Layouts for MySpace, Blogger, More
- Webfetti, full free layouts for your blog or web site.
- 27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers | Graphics
- Starter kits are great timesavers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis.
Icon Sets, Emoticons & Smiley Graphics
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- 50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets- Smashing Magazine
- Beautiful and free icon sets to provide users with memorable metaphors and illustrations.
- Smiley Generator - Happy Face Maker
- Make free custom and personalized smiley faces online (no signup, no installs, no cost).
- pizzadude.dk
- Avatars and dings by PizzaDude, the prolific fontmaker dude.
- Emoticons for Your Web Site - Emoticons to Add Emotions, Feelings and Flavor
- Emoticons are fun, funny and strange graphics that you can use in your writing or on your Web site to express emotion, context or feelings.
- Free Graphic Clipart Smiley Face Animation
- Free unusual graphic clipart smiley faces. Free to use without registration or fees.
- Sketchy Icons
- Hand drawn icon set by Mathilde at Deviant Art. Quirky and cool graphics.
Drawing & Animation Software
Free and low cost software to create or modify illustrations, photos and movies
- Free Graphics Editors downloads
- Long list of free Graphics Editors at Free Downloads Center.
- GIMP - Downloads
- GNU Image Manipulation Program - GIMP, a free image editor, official download site. Runs on Linux, Windows and MAC systems.
- Free Online GIF Tools
- It's an online GIF image edito -- nothing to download or install, no prepaid tokens or subscriptions.
Demo: Adobe Fireworks Animation
A few steps and you can animate an object
Adobe fireworks cs3 tutorial- animation
the first fireworks tutorial by me, it is about animating objects in adobe fireworks cs3
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Vector Graphics Software Downloads & Online Tools
Free and low-cost programs for drawing vector graphic images.
- Inkscape. Draw Freely.
- Inkscape is a Vector Graphics Editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator, that strives to be SVG Compliant, open source, responsive and extensible.
- Random Free Vectors Part 11: Watercolors | BittBox
- bittbox - Homemade vector freebies, design tips, tutorials and bitts.
- Find Free Clip Art
- Find Free Clipart, clip art search engine with featured collections and sites, including a list of vector image resource sites.
Template Dev and Design Stuff on eBay
Make it easy and pleasy ...
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand byRoll Your Own - Share Your Graphics & Pix
Free graphics libraries with images for sharing - to give or to take
- Open Clip Art Library Drawing Together
- The Open Clip Art Library archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project must be placed into the Public Domain according to the Public Domain statement created by the Creative Commons.
Free Content: Articles and Stories
Add feature stories that relate to your site - draw visitors and fee search engines
- MyArticlePub.com
- Main Directory for MyArticlepub.com, with free searchable index to help you find just the write stuff for your site or blog.
- HubPages
- HubPages is your online space to share your advice, reviews, useful tips, opinions and insights with hundreds of other authors. HubPages is completely free, and you can even earn online ad revenue!
- Helium - Where Knowledge Rules
- A directory of real world knowledge.
Code tools, scripts, progamming resources

- Handy Programming Cheat Sheets
- Web design and development cheat sheets for all these essential code forms:
- Perl Regular Expressions
- Mod Rewrite
- ASP / VBScript
- PHP
- MySQL
- Javascript
- Microformats
- CSS
- CSS To Javascript
- HTML Tags
- HTML Character Entities
- SafeSurf Rating System
- SafeSurf Rating System - get verified and add meta data that identifies your site as a safe web surfing site.
Tickers & Counters
- Free Birthday Countdown Ticker
- Lilypie ticker automatically calculates days until next birthday. Cute designs to customize - no registration required.

- All Occasion Countdown Banners.
- Snag a colorful graphic countdown banner for any holiday! Automatically counts days till next holiday of your choice.

Fun & Games for Your Web Site
Add entertainment - games and puzzles widgets for your web site or blog
- FunFlip Social: Web Site Games
- Play a game, then grab the code from your fave to add to your blog or personal page.
- Kissing Booth Toy for My Space
- The best MySpace layouts, comment graphics, flash toys, codes, generators and other cool stuff! Customize your profile whether you're on MySpace, Friendster, or any other site!
- MagMyPic - Fake Magazine Covers with your Photo!
- Fake magazine covers with your picture for MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5 and other networks. Upload any picture to create your own cover. Choose from 18 different magazines.

Marketing Lenses
SEO and best marketing practices
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Squidoo Workshop 101 - SEO for Beginners
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Squidoo is great for people who have something to say, but aren't web-obsessed enough to learn HTML. Still, you need to know a thing or two about web publishing if you want your creations to be seen. Learn how to use tags and keywords to improve your...
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Squidoo Traffic Tricks: (how to get more visitors and a better search engine ranking for your Squidoo lens)
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Do you have some lenses that don't get as many visitors as they deserve? Would you like to learn how to get more people reading your lenses? Wanna know how to make people come back to your lenses again and again? Would you like to rank higher in G...
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Part 1: Affiliate Marketer Tips and Tricks For BIGGER Check$ (a small collection of advice, learned from experience)
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Being a successful affiliate marketer has nothing to do with how old you are, your race, gender, or what grades you got in school. So if you're looking for an arena where you can show off your PHD, forget about it. Being a successful Affiliate Markete...
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Squidoo Tech Stew - Tips for Tasty Lenses
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Squidoo Tech Stew is a collection of top notch Squidoo lens building and promotion resources. Remember the fable about Stone Soup, where each member of the group added a single ingredient to a humble pot of soup and the result was a big and delicious...
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GreekGeek's Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found
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So, you want to learn how to build successful Squidoo lenses (or any kind of webpage), attract web traffic, and get your Squidoo lens found by Google! This three-part tutorial covers: Learn the Secrets of My Squidoo Success!Part I: Ten Steps to Build...
Earn Money with Your Web Site, Blog, or Lens
Make Money Online with Affiliate Ads, Contextual Ads, Search Related Ads
How can you make money with a blog, lens or web site without investing your own cash? Simple. Get paid for your great content.If you publish a blog, build Squidoo lenses, or manage a web site (or many sites) you can earn money by offering your readers/visitors enhanced content through quality product links. You select the programs you like and if accepted, you place appropriate text links, buttons and banners on your published pages.
You can even find a sponsor for your web site. shareasale.com is one of the best programs available. They're easy to work with, they pay every month, and you control what links appear on your pages.
Check out shareasale.com today. I've been a satisfied publisher member for years.
Monetize Your Lens, Blog or Web Site with Advertising Spots
You can monetize your blog, website or lens by publishing advertisements related to your site and page content.
The most popular ad publishing network delivering content-based ads is Google. Yahoo and Microsoft use a similar search results model to select and deliver content-enhancing ads to your pages. I'm a big fan of Google - I use Adsense formats on all my blogs and web sites with excellent results. I use Google search to enhance the visitor experience on my web sites while also generating income.
There's another content-related ad service you can try if you want to make money with your blog or web site. Chitika serves targeted ads based on the user's original keyword search string. The same search words that brought a visitor to your blog or web site define what ads (if any) will display on the page.
Search Targeted Advertising for Your Blog or Web Site
Ads relate directly to visitor searches
The Google Adsense and other content-related advertising programs work well for publishers who want to enhance page content and earn money with their blogs and web sites. Squidoo uses Adsense positions and shares revenue with lensmasters. I also employ Google search to provide additional content and to generate income on my web sites.
But what about the search that brought a visitor to your page in the first place? If it's not quite what the visitor wanted to find, he or she might click on a Google ad, or they might use Google search if it's available. Or they might just abandon the page and return to the search results or initiate a new search off site. If you deliver ads that are keyed to the search string and offer a targeted search directly from the landing page, you might still have an opportunity to generate income from the visit.
Search string ad delivery places ads related to the original search string on the landing page of your site. You place format codes on the pages of your web site or blog in the positions you want to monetize, then the ad network will serve ads directly related to the original search keywords or phrases that attracted that visitor.
The Chitika ad network does just that -- it employs search string technology to serve ads on the landing page.
How Chitika Works
The Chitika network serves ads that are keyed to searches - the ads are directly related to search strings that visitors typed in to reach your page. It has similar controls and ad formats to Google AdSense, and it has features to allow you to serve your AdSense code if there aren't any relevant ads to show. As a publisher, you have control over your ad placement positions and formats just as you do with AdSense. And, you can decide whether to use Chitika in conjunction with your other services or to keep them on different content pages. You can use Chitika on the same pages as your Google Adsense ads - or not. I like the features and controls Chitika offers and the additional opportunity to generate income from a near-miss hit to a page.
Drive Traffic to Your Online Shop
Get more visitors (potential customers) with affiliate programs.
You only pay when you get results!
- Share A Sale for Merchants
- Learn how to increase your sales, develop your brand, and generate interest in your site. Drive more traffic to your online store using performance based marketing.
Free Web Page Sites
- Squidoo - Build a Lens
- Join Squidoo and build a lens (one page web site) about any topic you want. Build several and link them together. Earn royalties (money) for yourself or your favorite charity. Free, easy, fun.
- Create Your Own Free Wetpaint Wiki
- Wetpaint is the largest network of free wiki websites. Wetpaint wikis are great for groups, classes, and more; start your free website in 3 steps.
MySpace Lenses
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How to get a MILLION myspace friends [quickly and easily!]
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Myspace. Wow. I fought against it for a few years. Then joined. Kicking and screaming. Now I want 1 million friends. And why not? What a good story to tell at a dinner party! I'd like 1 million friends, and here are the ways I've found that wi...
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Myspace Music Codes | Music Codes for Myspace | Myspace Music Video Codes
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Myspace music codes- a complete directory. Find HTML codes for music videos to put on your MySpace page. Your Myspace needs music video codes! Find all MySpace music codes here! Find out about free album downloads Need unlimi...
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Free Myspace Layout
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Free Myspace Layout is available. Check out our Free Myspace Layout links
Comment Codes & Glitter Text
- St Patricks Day MySpace Graphic Comment Codes
- To use the free graphics, copy (ctrl+C) the HTML code from below the image and paste (ctrl+V) the code on your blog or page or web site.
- Heart Generator
- Make your own personalized love graphic
- GraphicsFactory.com : Free Animated Letter Glitter Graphics!
- Free Animated gif Signatures, Glitter Graphics, and Letters.
Blog Tools and Widgets - Recent Posts
The latest buzz about web site and blog design tools.
Social Entertainment Resources - Virtual Worlds
- Meez: Home ~~ Avatars, Free Games, and Virtual Worlds
- Meez is the social entertainment leader combining avatars, web games and virtual worlds
- 20th Century Geek Grrl: It's a Widget Wonderland
- Free widgets and add-ons for your blog, lens or web site, reviewed by 20th Century Geek Grrl - Pastiche, Giant Squid.
I'm a Web Jockey From The Good Old Days
When the WWW was the Wild Wonky Web, I was learning HTML
Lensmaster Pastiche, aka Lee Hansen, has been a member since August 12 2007, has rated 1,062 lenses, favorited 446, and has created 103 lenses from scratch. Lee Hansen donates their royalties to Squidoo Charity Fund, Room to Read, and Fund for Peace. This member's top-ranked page is "Clip Art Borders & Frames". See all my lenses
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Web Widgets and Blog Building Tools Index
All the web publishing intel in this lens is right here
- Web Site Gadgets: Blogs, Hosting, Widgets, Stats, Add-ons, Protection
- Web Site Traffic Builder Information
- Funky Text and Banner Generators
- Free Web Site Cartoons, Jokes and Photo Funnies
- Graphics Software Downloads & Online Tools
- Free Fonts
- So You Wanna Be a Designer ...
- Free Web Templates & Coordinated Web Sets
- Icon Sets, Emoticons & Smiley Graphics
- Drawing & Animation Software
- Demo: Adobe Fireworks Animation
- Vector Graphics Software Downloads & Online Tools
- Template Dev and Design Stuff on eBay
- Roll Your Own - Share Your Graphics & Pix
- Free Content: Articles and Stories
- Code tools, scripts, progamming resources
- Tickers & Counters
- Fun & Games for Your Web Site
- Marketing Lenses
- Earn Money with Your Web Site, Blog, or Lens
- Search Targeted Advertising for Your Blog or Web Site
- Drive Traffic to Your Online Shop
- Free Web Page Sites
- MySpace Lenses
- Comment Codes & Glitter Text
- Blog Tools and Widgets - Recent Posts
- Social Entertainment Resources - Virtual Worlds
- I'm a Web Jockey From The Good Old Days
- Tool Time - Say Hello!
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