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Your site's stickiness is its ability to retain visitors and bring them back again later. Here I point out 5 great sites which offer a free service to make your site sticky:

1. Moreover - http://w.moreover.com/ - Add stickiness to your site by adding a Moreover webfeed. You can add news headlines to your site, no matter what it's topic, by choosing from hundreds of topics or creating your own with their webfeed wizard. Be your visitors' source of news!

2. CoolBoard - http://www.coolboard.com/index.cfm - Have your visitors coming back again and again by adding a message board! CoolBoard offers free remotely hosted message boards, making it easy to customize and add one to your site. If you put in the effort to build a community you'll be ensured plenty of repeat traffic to your site.

3. Atomz - http://www.atomz.com/ - Being able to search your site allows your visitors to find what they're looking for faster. Chances are, if they can find what they want, they'll end up browsing deeper into your site than if they couldn't search it. Atomz offers free site searches, that look just like your site, free for up to a 500 page site.

4. Directory - http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/links/ - A script offered by Gossamer-Threads, Links is a great way to add a directory to your site just like the big search engines. Offer your visitors a full directory of human-edited links on the topic of your website and they'll think of you as their resource and come back when they want to find something.

5. Guestbook - http://www.geekvillage.com/guest_book/index.html - Add a free guestbook to your site and increase visitor interaction! Get them participating by adding their comments to your guestbook, and reading the comments of others who have posted. Increase your stickiness as they come back to review the guestbook again.

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