Entries Tagged as 'Resources'
Much of the content on this blog involves information on marketing your site through social media and social networking sites. However, maybe you want to create your own networking site to fill an existing void or rather than using some of those that already exist. If you are interested in building a networking site, you could of course have the site built from scratch, or you could use some type of existing platform to handle the back end of the site.
In this post we’ll look at 9 options for creating your own social network. Some are free options, and others are paid options that may be more appealing depending on your situation.
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Gyutae Park from Winning the Web has released a free internet marketing e-book, The Winning Way. I’ve been following Gyutae for a while now and his blog is one of the few internet marketing blogs that I continue to read. Winning the Web always has original and practical content, even in a very saturated niche.
The Winning Way is a checklist 500+ proven internet marketing strategies. Gyutae shares his knowledge and expertise by briefly covering each topic (the book is well over 100 pages long). Despite the length of the book, it is very easy to read. Gyutae even offers a guarantee for his free e-book. If you do not find at least 3 new ideas in the book, he is willing to pay you $50 (see the details of the guarantee).
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Part of attracting visitors to your website is knowing what topics are hot and what people are seeking. Whether you’re studying trends to find potential topics for content to target social media, or whether you’re wondering how you should optimize your pages for search engines, trend-tracking tools can be incredibly helpful.
The resources listed in this article are all free, and they go about tracking trends in a variety of different ways. Try to find a few that you think will be able to help in your own work with your website or blog.
Google trends provides data on search phrases that are hot.
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Currently there are a number of excellent blogs that cover various aspects of internet marketing. I thought it would be worthwhile to put together a list of some that stand out as being among the best sources of content.
Personally, I wouldn’t recommend subscribing to all of them because of information overload. I would recommend subscribing [...]
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If you’re looking to boost the social media traffic that your blog receives, you may want to consider adding a few icons to your favorite social media sites (or more accurately, to those that are relevant to your blog). Here is a brief collection of ten icons sets that feature a number of social media-related icons for your own use.
Web 2.0 Social Bookmark Icons from IconsPedia
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It seems like every day I see more and more being written about Twitter. I have to admit that I don’t really get the fascination with micro blogging, but it’s becoming more and more common, and many bloggers find the services to be extremely useful for connecting with their audience. With all of the [...]
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Did you know that today is RSS Awareness Day? Due to the occasion, I thought I would post this huge list of RSS-related resources. Feel free to share your favorites in the comments.
Articles
Introduction to RSS
What is RSS? RSS Explained
RSS Specifications
RSS 2.0 Specification
History of RSS
35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today
Making Headlines with RSS
The Evolution [...]
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If you’re a WordPress blogger and you’re looking to use social media to reach more readers, there are plenty plugins to enhance your blog’s optimization for social media. Here are 10 of the best.
Share This - Choose which sites you want to target and let your readers vote for you with this plugin. Share This [...]
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Integration with Blogs and Websites:
1. FAlbum - A WordPress plugin for displaying your photos.
2. MyFlickr - Add photos search from Flickr photos in your website and display them.
3. Flickr4Writer - A plugin for Windows Live Writer that allows users to easily insert photos into blog posts.
4. FlickUrPic - A plugin for Joomla that allows for [...]
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