Social bookmarking websites are great. They help you spread the word of your blog, website or article and you can discover new ones. Personally, I like StumbleUpon the best. I like to stumble over the net, giving away many "Thumb up".

However, there are always websites that I come across when stumbling, that I just have to give a "thumbs down", or just directly navigate away from. Why? I have 12 reasons why I hit the "Show next page" button directly.

Leaving out the 404 error pages and servers being down, here are the reasons I press the "Show next page" button in random order. Remember these tips and don't make these mistakes on your own website. These tips are not only for users from StumbleUpon, but for all websites.

As a blogger, the main thing that you probably want is having many RSS feed readers. Remember the 22 steps you must do after setting up a blog? One of the tips in that article was: If you're a member of any forum, place the URL to your blog in your signature and reply to threads. Here is a nice little trick to optimize that signature, showing off your RSS feed.

Attract more readers to your website and help spread the world. This technique uses the help from Feedburner.

Do you hate getting spyware from P2P programs such as LimeWire?. And don't you want to download the full album through torrents since you only want that one single or song? Here's the solution: A couple of HTTP search engines making life a little bit easier for you.

I only placed the logo's and URL's to the websites, since they mainly do all the same thing: Bringing you your music for free.

Since the beginning of this blog there were a lot of visitors and my website kept on growing. Because of that, several advertising websites contacted me if I was willing to put their clients ads on my website. I rejected them because they weren't in the best interest of my readers, which is very important for me.

I did some research and created a top 5 worst forms of online advertisement that will surely keep your visitors away.

This list is created from the users point of view. I think that if you add the number 1 on this list to your website, you'll probably receive more money. So it's up to you: Do you want more visitors and a high-quality website or do you want to fill up your website with loads of ads, keeping your visitors away?

Let me start that I wont put the Pop-up advertisement in this article. Those are old and most people now have a pop-up blocker or use Firefox to stop pop-ups. Who does believe that they're the 10.000th visitor of the website and click anyway?

Don't you hate it when someone sends you an e-mail or chat message with an URL that looks like this:

Or comments on your blog / website that have these huge links that will screw up your website layout?

Set an example and use any of the services listed below that will make the URL short to re-direct someone to the correct website with the long URL. All short URL's lead to the main page.