Utilize the Power of StumbleUpon to Drive Traffic to Your Site

By: Don Crowther

StumbleUpon is an amazing site in terms of driving traffic. Basically, people sign up for StumbleUpon, they indicate which topic areas they are interested in, then load a toolbar and vote on which sites they like and which ones they don’t.

But where it really gets interesting is that members can, at any time, click on a Stumble button and be taken to a page that fits their areas of interest. In fact, so many people do that StumbleUpon has become a major traffic source for many sites, especially those that have some kind of interesting or entertaining linkbait associated with them.

For example our data for www.StomperBlog.com shows that, other than direct and internal traffic, the number 2 source of traffic for that site is StumbleUpon!

And that we actually get more traffic to that site from StumbleUpon than from Google!!!

Hmmm... maybe this IS worth paying attention to.

And that traffic isn’t worthless either. Our research has shown that it buys and clicks on ads at levels at rates that are usually at least equal and sometimes higher than other sites.

So, here’s what’s happening for your site right now, whether you’re a member of this service or not
• StumbleUpon members who come to your site are seeing it, and rating it either up or down
• They’re also adding reviews
• Some may be sharing your site with friends
• If your site is getting good ratings, StumbleUpon is including it in their list of sites that they feed out to people who click the StumbleUpon button. So you’re getting free traffic, with no effort on your part!


An excerpt from: Smarts Strategy Guide: Life and Death 2.0: A Quick and Easy Plan for Surviving [ And Thriving ] In A Social Media World

Place content on HubPages.com

By: Don Crowther

Hubpages.com is another great example of a site where you can post content, get it read by others, and get people to visit your site.

HubPages is basically an article publishing site, where you can set up an account, post articles or other content (hey, there’s even some poems up on this site!) and get great, quick search engine exposure for your pages.

But there are some other factors that make HubPages particularly interesting.

First, at least at this moment, it doesn’t nofollow links. So links, carefully and judiciously embedded, pass link value to your site.

Second, HubPages allows you to post sidebars above the fold and in other locations on your article.



One advantage that HubPages has over Squidoo is that could take less effort to build out a HubPage than a Squidoo lens, so you get a better ROI.

Another is that, while HubPages allows you to monetize your site like Squidoo, HubPages gives you a much bigger percentage of the revenues than Squidoo (60% of all the revenues you generate – they do this by showing your ad 60% of the time, and theirs 40%). That means that HubPages could result in a nice little check arriving in your account each month, in addition to the revenues you earn from getting more people to come to your site.

So, you can just do quick and dirty pages, or you can take things another step further, by putting a little more work into your pages to both add interest, and to try to become one of HubPages “featured pages” which will drive even more traffic to your pages.


An excerpt from: Smarts Strategy Guide: Life and Death 2.0: A Quick and Easy Plan for Surviving [ And Thriving ] In A Social Media World

Big Direct Traffic

By: Don Crowther

Your social marketing campaign will also drive big traffic DIRECTLY to your site from the social media sites, and that's huge. After all, that's really the holy grail, isn't it? We all want more traffic to our site, right?

Well, remember... these social media sites have more traffic than Google. And if you use the right strategies and tactics to put yourself in front of that traffic, then you don't have rely on Google to get traffic to your sites. And you don't have to worry about expensive AdWords campaigns, or other advertising.

Of course, let's be real... just because you start getting big traffic directly from the social media sites doesn't mean you will abandon your Google rankings and stop all advertising. What it means is that you will be getting a lot more traffic, and the average cost of that traffic will plummet down to levels that are more like 1998... there's that “back to the future” stuff I've been talking about.

And here's why we're so excited about social marketing (and our SMARTS technologies)... in this new frontier, Social MARKETING can spike your traffic FAST, and if you do it right, you get LONG TERM Search Engine traffic too. It's really the best of both worlds.

I mentioned this example in the video... Photobucket generates 55% of their traffic from their Widgets and applications on MySpace and Bebo, and it's now replaced Flickr as the largest photo sharing site in the UK. Why? Because for a variety of reasons Flickr didn't properly use social media and only gets 2.4% of its traffic from social media sites. What a great example of "you snooze you lose!"


An excerpt from: Smarts Strategy Guide: Life and Death 2.0: A Quick and Easy Plan for Surviving [ And Thriving ] In A Social Media World

Is It Too Late?

By: Don Crowther

This is the weird thing... lots of people actually think that it's too late to get the jump on those big name social media sites. They think that you needed to get onboard months or years ago to have first mover advantage. Well, the truth is, most marketers haven't even BEGUN to understand how to use them, let alone hit their true potential.

This is the bottom line: we're talking about a HUGE flood of Internet traffic AND attention... and it's all sitting there, waiting for you to tap into it.

So the real question is how do you market to that starving crowd? How do you put yourself and your business in front of that traffic and that attention?

Well here is the SUPER KEY POINT... and this is why this is one of those once in a lifetime defining moments for you and your business...

It's just like back in 1996 when you could submit your site to Inktomi and get listed that same day...

TODAY if you know the correct strategies and tactics for Social Marketing, you can grab nearly INSTANT traction on these social media sites... the very sites that are collectively getting MILLIONS of new users every month.

As I mentioned earlier, this opportunity won't last forever. It's easy pickings now... but that window will start to close in the next 12 to 18 months. But if you get there now you will have a HUGE first starter advantage.

An excerpt from: Smarts Strategy Guide: Life and Death 2.0: A Quick and Easy Plan for Surviving [ And Thriving ] In A Social Media World

First, let's look at traffic.

By: Don Crowther

You probably already know that traffic to social media sites has exploded over the last three years. But not many people know just how explosive that traffic really is. Let's look at a few facts...

First off, let's look at some hard data from Alexa.com... I showed these charts in my “No Secrets” video, but they're important enough to take another look at – and it's easier this way when they're not flying by in a video.

Let's start with Facebook... it seemed to come out of nowhere, and now it has almost as much traffic as
Google:



Now let's look at Myspace vs Google... you can see that Myspace actually beat the mighty G during much of 2007:

And did you realize that YouTube has almost twice as many monthly page views as Google?

And look at the trends on the graphs. Remember, these social media sites are growing by leaps and bounds. In fact, they are pretty much doubling every six months. Just imagine where they're going to be in a year or two.

Here's something else that's going to make you sit up and take notice...

According to Comscore, a highly trusted global Internet research company, in a typical month:
• Just under 2/3rds of everyone who goes online worldwide, visits MySpace
• And 29% of them visited Facebook
• 35% of them visit YouTube
• And 27% of them visit Wikipedia

And like I just mentioned, this all becomes even more important when you realize that the number of active users for most of the social media sites doubles every 6 months.

Facebook is currently adding more than a million visitors every week!
And this is not just a bunch of kids. Well over half of all MySpace visitors are older than 35. And a huge percentage of the growth at Facebook is coming from adults. There are now over 100,000 Facebook users who are older than 64!

And I mentioned this in the video... it's important is to realize that social networking is much larger than the MySpace and Facebook sites that most people think about. In fact, our SMARTS database now contains over 1,920 different social media sites. And we add more nearly every day.

An excerpt from: Smarts Strategy Guide: Life and Death 2.0: A Quick and Easy Plan for Surviving [ And Thriving ] In A Social Media World

Smorty.com - A Review

When it comes to blog advertising, and from the endorsement of my online friends as well as my personal review, I could best recommend at you the smorty.com.

Why?

It's because smorty has the world's largest network of high-quality blogs. Each and every blog, including mine(freebiztraffic-arsenal.blogspot.com), has undergone a careful review before accepting them in their advertising network. Thus, making it sure the participating blog sites had a quality targeted traffic.

It has a two-way collobarative approach:

1. being an advertiser - wherein you could write articles on your products or services with a link of your site and thru smorty it could boost your search engine traffic with quality, relevant articles and links from thousands of blogs.

2. being a blogger - wherein you could make money by writing opinion about people's products or services and by pay-per-click advertising on your blog to generate residual income. Smorty will pay you directly to your Paypal account.

Give Away Free Ebooks

Ebooks are books that are made available in an electronic format. The beauty of ebooks is they cost virtually nothing to produce and distribute. Ebooks initially became popular as the perfect format for information products being sold and delivered online, but they have now been recognized as a very effective resource for building traffic.

After you have written an ebook you can give it away to visitors as a reward for subscribing to your mailing list or newsletter. Your ebook for traffic building does not need to be the same number of pages as a full-length book. Many ebooks being used as free incentives are in the range of 12 to 25 pages.

You can even recruit related businesses and web sites to give away your ebook to their customers. The other site benefits because their visitors get something for free. And you benefit because you reach new readers with your information including a link to your web site.

Many ebook authors include a few advertising and affiliate links towards the end of their ebooks which can lead to additional revenue, especially if their free ebooks are heavily distributed.

Author: Daniel Moro, Daniel Moro's Online Business Review

Aweber.com - A Review

What is Aweber?

All I know Aweber is one of the pioneering provider of an email marketing software since it's founded in 1998. They had long time serving and helping small businesses automate their email follow up and newsletter delivery for website guests.

Currently over 41,300 and counting customers Aweber had serving, backed with their growing 30-person team who had a wealth of experience and knowledge about permission-based email marketing.

What are their advanced features?

They claimed that they could quickly create and run your campaigns with powerful and easy-to-use marketing tools.

Here the following are the essential Marketing Features, that form the core of an effective email marketing campaign:

1. Send Email Newsletters

2. Publish a Signup form to your website

3. Create Autoresponders

And being a netpreneur I'm fun of doing business with them thru their affiliate program, savoring its partnerships benefits:

1. recurring 20% commissions

2. recurring 10% commissions for sub-affliate sales

3. bi-weekly check mailing

4. no cost

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Hits4Pay.com - A Review

What is Hits4Pay?

As I understand it's an avenue where we could earn some good extra cash by simply viewing advertisers' offers. The company started in business since 1998, where they kept in maintaining one of the largest free membership website that helped their advertisers gained more exposure to their programs/services instantly by reaching their specific target market of their choice.

How does it work?

Hits4Pay is quite simple as one of the few companies which pays highest in such kind of industry.
Here are the following options for you to get paid:

1. Signup Reward: Get paid of $10 in your Hits4Pay account as soon as you signup for a free account.

2. Direct Income: Get paid of $0.02 for each advertiser's email that you read from us.

3. Direct Referral Income (1st level): Get paid of $0.01 simply by just referring them a few friends and earn $0.01 for each email that they read. And you will get also a credit for your direct referral reading emails.

4. Referral Income: (2nd level): Get paid of $0.01 when your direct referrals refer others, you earn $0.01 for them reading the emails Hits4Profit send them.

Imagine with their compensation plan, your income is leveraged and could add up to a substantial residual monthly income, by just simply reading your emails from them.

Host4Profit.com - A Review

If you told me where soon I will host my blogsite, I definitely tell you that I'm confidence and have trust on the Host4Profit.com after my thorough evaluation. Not only that my trusted friends online, I met in business forums, have a good recommendation to me about it as the best preference over other hosting providers but a good avenue to act as an internet marketer.

Yes, I would be in your side that there are other hosting services out there on the net that are considered highly remarkable too. In fact I have something to mention to , but being an internet marketer or netrepreneur I would suggest to take a look of Host4Profit.com. I guess this would be suitable for us because you will not only avail its hosting service but most appealing is their affiliate program system. You may reach to the point wherein you won't even paying a dime to your website hosting because the cost would be handled by your commission earned.

How to turn our necessity into a Profit Machine?

We could make $10 dollars per month from every account we could refer to this Host4Profit.com
Here the following, the guidelines:
50 customers being referred = earn a profit $500 Per Month
100 customers being referred = earn a profit $1000 Per Month
1000 customers being referred = earn a profit $10,000 Per Month

The Host4Profit has also designed and provided us with Money-Making Plug-In Sites that let our friends and own family sign-up and begin making money immediately.

There are three options of products that allow us to keep a 100% profits:

1. eBay Secrets Revealed

2. Email Marketing Strategies Revealed

3. ebay Marketing Secrets

4. Internet Cash Machines

After sign-up of Host4Profit hosting account, you can take these all sites(enumerated above) and put them up on your domain and be in business instantly.

Trafficswarm.com - A Review

I'd been using trafficswarm for almost 3 years time because of the good things it brought to me with my various internet business promotions - from affiliate programs promotion to selling ebooks or any good stuffs from the net.

I considered trafficswarm as passive but active with its results of driving visitors to your blog or site. Passive in the sense you may even earn a credits by just opening your internet browser or else just viewing others advertisement of your interest.

Whatever you opted to either opening your internet browser or viewing some other members advertisements you still have the way to earn credits.

Credits will be used for you to make your own advertisement more visible to other members. The more credits you have the more visible your ad will be and get more hits as well to your site or blog thus a greater percentage of conversion may happened.

How it looks like? See below...

Free Store Club - A Review

What is Free Store Club?

Free Store Club has been described as a wordwide network of Internet store owners. You don't need to cost high to build an e-commerce site and have troublesome what products to sell. Because everything is provided at no cost at you in setting up an online store of your choice with a hundreds of product lines of your choice.

How does it work?

After your free sign up , Free Store Club will automatically create two websites on the internet that are only exclusively yours. The websites will be considered as your own sites with a unique internet address and a label of your name or business name right on the front page.

Here are the two mentioned websites:

1. Retail Internet Store - has a stocked with hundreds of products that whoever visitor may order at your convenient online store. You get profits from the order of your new customers or repeat customers for life.

2. Business Opportunity Website - this will serve you an avenue to earn a residual income by bringing people into this business and advise them to become a store owner like you.

Free Store Club committed that they will put our business always with a fully stocked and e-commerce enabled online store at free.

GetRef.com - A Review

I considered GetRef.com a link exchange website with a better value that enable you to get more targeted referrals from your affiliate program of your endorsement, even without spending a dime for your promotion, just simply earning credits that determine the visibility of your program to other members of the said site.

The best thing I discovered from GetRef.com based on my evaluation is that you have an alternatives of earning credits at your choice. All I know it has three ways to earn a Getref credits:
1. earn credits by simply joing a program;
2. earn credits by simply clickling links; or
3. earn credits by simply referring members to Getref


Why there's a need to earn credits?

It's because once you have available credits you can the spend it to get other people join your programs.


Is there's a way to earn credits without a little effort?

Yes, because you could buy them if you don't want to earn them and this is a lot quicker and less hassle for you.


How could we benefit from this website?

You could spend your credits in two ways at your advantage:
1. buy referrals for your program, or
2. buy exposure for your link

I guess this would be helpful for someone who wanted to advertise their program or website at no cost with less hassle or little effort. Simply by earning credits and spend it for advertisement.

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AdlandPro.com - A Review

AdlandPro is considered as one of the most visited classified websites in the world. They offer free classified ads for everyone, which has the simplest way to advertise.

Not only that, they also offer a free traffic exchange advertising, a credits based program, wherein you will be given 500 Traffic Exchange credits at your first time of joining the said traffic exchange program. The idea of the program is simple, you display ads for other advertiser on your site, and in return, your ad is displayed to visitors on other sites. How often, will merely depends on your available earned credits.

You could even more easily make your own community web page to advertise your product or service in the Adlandpro Community (a free networking and lead generation system). You may use your community web page as the affiliate linked page to earn more credits thus promotes more visibility of your ads to other members.

The best I'm in favored of is their affiliate program, because you could even have unlimited ads per month if you join their affiliate program. It's so easy and totally free to become one of their affiliates.

And being an affiliate or a member you will get all the benefits below:
1. Get paid up to 25% commissions
2. Earn traffic credits
3. Get your ad displayed on the top of their pages
4. Get statistics on performance of your ads
5. Free promotional tools
6. Earn up to $1 from one click from displaying their pay per click results

Sign-Profit.com - A Review

What is Sign-Profit?

Sign-Profit is said to be a part of Sign Network and known as a plug & play source of income. Basically their business is to connect customers and advertisers using their unique and non-standard concept.

How does it work?

After your registration with Sign-Profit you may do one or both of the following:
1. Get the banner code, or
2. Insert it into your signature

Sign-Profit, then, will pay you everytime someone is viewing your forum page or website with your post(s) or ads.

How much will you earn?

As of this date I found in my private log-in area that Sign-Profit generously gives you $1.55 dollars per 1000 impressions you made of their image block. It's simply a matter of how heavy is the traffic you've attracted to your website or forum posts.

Or, earn up to $0.99 for every friends who will signup under you.


How to start?

After your registration, just place the code provided to you at your private log-in area to your signature or website upon their validation or approval. Then, you will receive money for each impression or signup you've made.

Drive Headquarters - A Review

DriveHQ is considered one of the largest online storage service providers operating since 2003 and has a full support promised at 24x7x365.

What DriveHQ offers?

It offers the following:
1. Online File Storage and Sharing
2. Online File/Email Backup
3. FTP and Email Server Hosting Services

It is being said that DriveHQ is primarily designed to meet the most demanding requirements of large enterprises and service operators.

I've been into use of DriveHQ since 2005 until now because of the benefits it brings to me. Thru DriveHQ I can now easily access my important files on the net wherever I go. Most especially I'm so amazed the feature I found out to be very appealing to me. The said feature is synchronization.

Imagine I could even access my computer folders or files in my office even weekends or holidays anywhere and anytime. Whatever changes either minor or major changes of one of the files I've set to synchronization will both be updated in my local storage(my computer) and DriveHQ online storage. No need for me to buy or bring a USB or any portable storage devices. Simply an internet connection will work and everything would be accessible from my computer hard disk by online. That's really a great feature I'm in favor of!

Furthermore, let me enumerate to you the DriveHQ's other features that you may take advantage of:
1. Drag-n-drop upload thousand of files, access from anywhere, anytime.
2. Backup your files and emails, easy, secure and automatic
3. Host your own FTP server/email server/website
4. Quick sharing with a URL link
5. Map DriveHQ folder

Is this FREE?

For personal use, I could best recommend you to avail its free 1GB storage upon free registration as well as the privilege given to earn on their affiliate program.

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Resource-a-day.net - A Review

The Resource-a-day.net claimed that they are the world's first FREE Internet resource which has also a 100% opt-in mailing and affiliate program.

I don't know if this would be attested by my fellow internet marketers. But for me as I began my venture in internet marketing last 4 years as of this date, I could attest myself that Resource-a-day.net is claiming right. Because after my thorough surfing the net and given myself a project to discover a good free resources for internet marketers, I found Resource-a-day.net a one of a kind in terms of its business concept that period of time. I know I'm just looking at my own perspective, but that's what I could affirmed thru my experience.

How I benefited from the Resource-a-day.net?

Through their free subscription you could even access their daily free resource directly into your email. I treasured every bit of information being shared to its members thru their newsletters authored by internet experts. I learned a lot of tips and ideas about internet marketing at no cost at you worth most for internet newbies.

What's challenging?

Not only you benefited from their free internet resources of which you can't afford not to tell your friends. Doing that effortlessly you could even be rewarded in some good ways.

a. Upon signing up for free, you earn instantly $10 dollars.

b. By getting others to subscribe for free, you'll earn:
1) $0.40 per member that you sponsor(1st level).
2) $0.20 per member sponsored by the one you sponsor(2nd level)
3) $0.05 per member of your 3rd level
4) $0.03 per member of your 4th level!

The earning system mentioned above has 4 levels deep of which each level has unlimited width.

Therefore, the sky is the only limit of how many you will directly sponsor. Whatever you choose comfortable at you. You may sponsor 10, 50, 100, 1000 or 10,000.

For me it's fun and it's rewarding! Even, getting a hundreds to subscribe is easy.

Remember the subscription is free and you even get valuable free daily internet resource.

FreeSurveyLeads.com - A Review

Free Home-Based Business Survey Leads

FreeSurveyLeads.com is a more specific niche of leads. The 100% opt-in leads are of business type related more specifically home-based business. For me the leads are of a great importance for a number of internet marketers, because the type of leads provided at free have a highest responsive rates for business opportunities endorsements.

What's the difference between Free-Leads.net compared to FreeSurveyLeads.com?

I guess they are just developed and maintained by one organization because of its reciprocate links showed at the bottom of each site.

But one thing I could stressed out about their difference - Free-Leads.net is more of a general opt-in leads while FreeSurveyLeads.com is more of a specific business target leads taken from a sort of business surveys.

What's the commonality?

They have in common about the assurance of 100% opt-in leads as well as the revolutionary viral system they both implemented. The viral system has been designed to help them promote their business and help us gain the benefits of dowloading their opt-in leads. It's a win-win situation for both the company and its members.

How we get more advantage of dowloading more leads from others?

Just be quick to step up on the highest level possible you could.
Here the following are the 5 achievement levels:

Level 1: Bronze (no referrals needed) = 25 free opt-in leads weekly

Level 2: Silver (refer 5 people) = 150 free opt-in leads weekly

Level 3: Gold (refer 15 people) = 100 free opt-in leads weekly

Level 4: Platinum (refer 30 people) = 200 free opt-in leads weekly

Level 5: Diamond (refer 50 people) = 400 free opt-in leads weekly

How could the company gain profits?

Simply, if somebody wanted to fast track his/her level to Diamond(gaining an access to dowload 400 opt-in leads weekly), he should avail the one-time upgrading offer to Diamond Level upon payment of a certain amount mentioned in their back office apart from other promotional offers. Thus, a good cash flow of profits will be gained by the company to keep them going into the business.

How to get started?

The 4-step process:

Step 1: You fill out the form provided in the site.

Step 2: Make sure to activate your account thru your email.

Step 3: Log-in and get your survey leads.

Step 4: Start referring others to move up to higher membership levels and get more leads by using your referral link(ex. http://www.freesurveyleads.com/?ref=3328)

Blogger.Com in Draft - A Review

Yes, smart guys of Google running the Blogger.com have come to nearly publish their pride new blue color Blogger Logo.That for me signifies a big leap of advantage over others because of such a great enhancements of blogger thru its competitive advanced features being added to.

I personally tried the Blogger in Draft and discovered some amazing enhancements of which I salute to smart guys behind the development

What I immediately noticed was the new term for adding page element, it's already anew to 'add gadget'. I've found a numerous new useful gadgets that you couldn't imagine its numbers, being arranged in different categories such as:


1. Basics (number of gadgets: 19)
a) Blog List - show off what you read with a blogroll of your favorite blogs.
b) Slideshow - add a slideshow of your photos to your blog.
c) Subscription Links - let your readers easily subscribe to your blog with popular feed reader
d) Search Box - search over your blog, your blogroll, and everything you've linked to.
...etc
.
2. Featured (number of gadgets: 1)
a) Blogger Play - Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. You can click the image to
be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click ?show info? to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile
information about the blogger who uploaded it.

3. Most Popular (number of gadgets: 45,959)
a) Search YouTube - A search module, which searches YouTube by tags.
b) Weather Forecasts - Live Weather. View local weather conditions and forecasts provided by WeatherBug. Enjoy a great international weather service right on your homepage. Simply edit the settings to enter your local city
c) This Day in History-This Day in History - daily pick by the editors of TheFreeDictionary.com
......etc.

4. Newest (number of gadgets: 44,872)
a) Webmaster Search Engine - Webmaster Resources
b) Endangered Animal of the Day - Every day enjoy a new Endangered Animal Picture. This animals are adorable and must be protected.
c) Claude Monet Art of the Day - Every day enjoy a classic work of art by Monet. He was one of the founders of French impressionist painting and is generally considered to be the most outstanding figure among Impressionists. If you like fine art, you will love this gadget!
.....etc.

5. News (number of gadgets: 1,279)
a) Digg 2.0 - Discover the best news, images and videos as voted on by the Digg community, from the social news website Digg.com. You can now customize your Digg gadget by topic, and view more story information, such as comments and a friend's activity feed. Let us know what you think at feedback@digg.com
b) Wall Street Journal - Displays a Wall Street Journal front page from http://www.newseum.com (Cheers to Cameron Hall, whose National Geographic POD gadget was used as an example)
c) Reuters News in Pictures - Reuters News in Pictures - Live Updates! (unofficial)
...etc.

6. Tools (number of gadgets: 4,480)
a. Wikepedia - A Wikipedia Search and Go widget. Language choice.
b. Thesaurus - Thesaurus Lookup using thesaurus.reference.com's database
c. Woot!Watcher - Never miss a Woot! again. This gadget will show you the Woot! of the day, or will allow you to track Woot-Off in progress. You can specify keywords to be alerted on when they show up on woot.com. --------- This gadget was created as a service for the Woot community, by a member of the Woot community...
...etc.

7. Communication (number of gadgets:1,372)
a. Google Talk - See your contacts and send instant messages.
b. Skype - A free way to communicate with anyone.Skype is only for communication?? I have an idea to use it for reminding your friends. Remind what?? Anything. Sending happy birthday message, conference call, morning call...etc. Try it soon.. please refer http://yourjovi.googlepages.com/skype_help
c. TeleMessage SMS Sender - Send SMS text messages to mobile phones (including international) using the fast and easy auto-completion feature.
...etc.

8. Fun & Games (number of gadgets: 2,827)
a. Hangman(word game) - word game provided by TheFreeDictionary.com
b. Breakout - A flash version of the classic game of breakout.
c. Air Hockey - This is a very addictive and high quality air hockey game in which you play a tournament against the computer!
...etc.

9. Finance (number of gadgets: 330)
a. Google Finance Market Summary - 'The original' gadget view of Google Finance's Market Summary. NEW 8/31/2007: Support for Google Finance Canada, and custom height control! Why use my gadget instead of Google's own? More features! So be sure to Edit your settings! Comments, feedback, and suggestions welcome.
b. Stock Ticker - Live stock ticker, highly customizable. Real time quotes from Yahoo! Finance. Select your preferred indices and stocks and store it. Use symbols used by Yahoo! Finance.
c. Google Finance Sector Summary - 'The original' gadget view of Google Finance's Sector Summary. Why use my gadget instead of Google's own? More features! So be sure to Edit your settings! Comments, feedback, and suggestions welcome.
...etc.

10. Sports (number of gadgets: 233)
a. ESPN Tabbed Sports Feeds - Live News feeds from ESPN.com. Edit the gadget settings to view between 3 to 15 Headlines in each Category (Top Stories, NFL, MBA, MLB, NHL, Motorsports, Soccer, College Basketball, College Football, Outdoors.com, Bassmaster, Videos, Boxing, Golf, Autos). Choose long or short news summaries from ESP...
b. Sports Photos of the Day - Sports News in Pictures from Reuters (unofficial)
c. Live Customized Sports Scores - Displays scores for multiple sports, updated live through CBSSports (sportsLine.com). Create a free acount at cbs.sportsLine.com to customize.
...etc.

11. Lifestyle (number of gadgets: 3,954)
a. This Day in History - Important events in history, brought to your desktop.
b. National Geographic Photos - National Geographic Photo of the Day
c. Top 5 movies at the box office - Get a list of top 5 hollywood movies at the box office this week
...etc.

12. Technology (number of gadgets: 601)
a. Google Hot Trends - Watch the latest Google Trends live on your Google Destop or Google Homepage! Google keeps track about what people are searching for, updated each hour. This gadget displays these Top-100 search queries and also displays its hotness factor in color.
b. Hubble Images - Hubble Image of the moment
c. Astronomy Picture of the Day
...etc.


And most of all you could add your own gadget, that's how flexible now and advance blogger has lifted to.

For more details you may view http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/