We feed and we make grow their businesses. We are in fact, their only workforce to make their communities work and generate advertising revenues, so how can we get part of this back to our own sites ?

The answer is easy: We link back to our own sites.

I give you the content but I want the chance to have a link back to my site. So in this post I’m publishing some easy ways to accomplish this.

FLICKR

www.flickr.com/photos/movil/2122684586/
Add a link to the description to your photo story. Sometimes I also add a link to a related entry on my blog. Be sure to TAG all your photos since that’s the most easy way to find and browse related pictures. I’ve seen that non tagged photos get considerably lower traffic than the tagged ones.

YOUTUBE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJFyRPvPPNM

I discovered this browsing other people videos. Placing a link as the very first words on the description the link appears in the right panel. That is the most clickable area ever!

I hope the readers have more tips and tricks about how to get part of Web 2 traffic back to your site.

• 2 rolls of double-sided tape (About 7 € each)
• 6 to 8 cotton bags from your local supermarket.
• A ruler (if possible a 50 cm one).
• A cutter.
• A good pair of scissors.
• Foscurit. Foscurit is a gray plastic that does not let in any light (nor any wind)
• Spray paint. If it matchs the color of your window a lot better!
  OPTIONAL and only for Freaks: Plastic L’s . This is at the end to insulate the angles.

Good, now that you have all the materials you can put Hands At Work:

1. Cut the cotton in 2 cm vertical lines. Like you can see in this picture:
   
2. Put it inside the window horizontal holes
3. Mount it with the spray painting. From the 2 sides being the most important one the outside one (that where humidity and wind will get inside)
4. Fix the double-sided tipe on the window borders. This will be later used to mount the plastic foscurit:
   
5. Stick the foscurit over the double-sided tape.
6. The final touch. Touche! If you are a detail freak and you want even more insulation get some L plastic corners (you can get these in Leroy Merlin, I will ask them for comission later…) . You can stick those with silicon in the top and the bottom side of the window with the window closed.

Another video about insulating a window. Mine is much better insulation because reduces a lot more the noise!