Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Cool Twitter Must-Haves

Read the great post 19 Twitter Mashables. Social media can work for you or it can be a big waste of time.

This post gives some great twitter tools to help you maximize your use of twitter to build your reputation and join communities online.

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Let Blog Visitors Instantly Tweet Your Blog

TwitThis is another great service that can help your blog go viral. Add the TwitThis button to your blog and your readers can instantly post about your blog for all of their twitter subscribers to see. Pretty easy to set up and not too intrusive.

No reason why you should not add this easy way to let others broadcast your blog today!

Visit TwitThis to get the code to paste on your blog.


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Monday, December 8, 2008

Leverage Twitter With Mr. Tweet

Mr. Tweet is a brand new tool that promises to help us make more powerful connections on twitter. Connecting with the right people on twitter can undoubtedly help you grow your online business faster and more easily. But how do you who are the best people to follow and be followed by? My Tweet will let us know.

All you do is sign up to follow Mr. Tweet then he will dm you with more info.

Try it out today!




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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Increase Your Blog Traffic Part 1

Submit your site to various search engines such as Google, DMOZ as well as any directories that are appropriate for your content.

If you are a WAHM, add your site to one of the several WAHM directory sites.

There are directories for homeschool moms, Christian moms and many more. Find out which directories your likely readers will be checking and make sure they can find you there.

Do a search in a major search engine for your topic or related topics and add the word "directory" to see what other users will see and make sure that you submit there.

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Duplicate Content- Not Worth It

Seems some bad Internet marketers/ SEO chasers may buy hundreds of domains and duplicate content across all of them creating what Google calls "a poor user experience" for those who are using their search engine. As a result, Google and other search engines appear to have gone a little crazy with not indexing duplicate content in their main search pages.

What's an honest network marketer to do?
1. Do not be tempted to post your blog articles in different venues. Write new articles for article submissions.

2. Read the Google guidelines for webmasters on html specifics you can implement for specific circumstances.

3. Don't worry- Google says the good guys should not worry too much about this. If you say so...


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Monetize Your Blog Part 2

Scribefire, the nifty Firefox plug-in for quickly posting to your blog, now offers an ad network.

Scribefire aggegates a number of ad placements, including Adsense, and allows you to feature ads on your blogs and get PAID!

Remember to check the ads being placed to insure that they are relevant to your visitors. And most importantly, keep creating great content because that is what will bring the visitors who will click on the ads.

Depending on the ads and the audience, expect a conversion rate of not greater than 3% on average. You will need a lot of visitors to click if each click is worth only a few cents and you would like to make hundreds or thousands of dollars per month from advertising. (these figures are highly dependent on the type of ad, blog, audience demographics and more but just to give some sample figures...)

See Monetize Your Blog Part 1


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Monetize Your Blog Part 1

Text Link Ads is an easy way to monetize your blog. I was amazed at how simple it was to set up.

Once you sign up and confirm your registration by e-mail, give a little information about your blog or website, get the RSS, place it on your site and forget about it!

Text Link Ads, as their name implies, are contextual ads that are meant to blend seamlessly into your site, offering your visitors opportunities to learn more about products and services related to your content.

It is nice to have some Adsense alternatives. Many of the big-name Internet marketing gurus (like John Chow) state that they make much more from ad sources other than Adsense.

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