Word Press Sociable Link Poster for Social Networks

There is a new plug in out for the Word Press Blog. It is called Sociable and is located at: http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable/.

You can download it from there and load it into your plugins directory on your server. Then you need to run the install for it and activate the plugin. At that time you will run their setup program and decide which of the social network links you want on your post.

I use all of them but you may only want to run specific ones. There are check boxes for the ones you want.

What Sociable then does is place links to all the chosen social networks so that your users can repost your blog posting to their own social networks. Of course this ends up in getting you links. The full list of networks is below:

What I am suggesting for all my customers and also doing for myself is registering at all these social network sites. Then as you post articles you can click on each link and post that article to your account at that social network. You will be amazed at how much traffic this will get you. Here is the complete list. Please contact me if you would like more information.

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• Digg
• Sphinn
• del.icio.us
• Facebook
• Mixx
• Google Bookmarks
• MySpace
• BarraPunto
• Bitacoras.com
• BlinkList
• blogmarks
• BlogMemes Fr
• BlogMemes Sp
• Blogosphere News
• blogtercimlap
• co.mments
• connotea
• Current
• Design Float
• Diigo
• DotNetKicks
• DZone
• E-mail this story to a friend!
• Fark
• Faves
• Fleck
• FriendFeed
• FSDaily
• Global Grind
• Gwar
• HackerNews
• Haohao
• HealthRanker
• HelloTxt
• Hemidemi
• Hyves
• Identi.ca
• IndianPad
• Internetmedia
• Kirtsy
• laaik.it
• LinkaGoGo
• LinkArena
• LinkedIn
• Linkter
• Live
• Meneame
• MisterWong
• MisterWong.DE
• MSN Reporter
• muti
• MyShare
• N4G
• Netvibes
• Netvouz
• NewsVine
• NuJIJ
• Turn this article into a PDF!
• Ping.fm
• Posterous
• ppnow
• Propeller
• Ratimarks
• Rec6
• Reddit
• RSS
• Scoopeo
• Segnalo
• Simpy
• Slashdot
• Socialogs
• SphereIt
• StumbleUpon
• Symbaloo
• Suggest to Techmeme via Twitter
• Technorati
• ThisNext
• Tipd
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• Twitthis
• Upnews
• Webnews.de
• Webride
• Wikio
• Wikio FR
• Wikio IT
• Wists
• Wykop
• Xerpi
• Yahoo! Bookmarks
• Yahoo! Buzz
• Yigg

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Before you begin, consider your reasons for starting a blog. Are you promoting a business, or do you simply want a place to host a personal online journal? Are you blogging to market affiliate programs, or do you want to feature banner and link ads to generate income? If your needs are fairly simple, one of the many free blogging services will probably be perfect for your needs. For bloggers with more complex needs, you may need paid blog technologies and Web hosting services. Blogs serve as excellent content management systems that can be created in a matter of minutes and are easy to use. The following tools are among those used most often by avid bloggers.

Popular Blogging Tools

WordPress is one of the top blogging tools, voted a ‘Forbes Favorite’ by Forbes.com. The open-source application offers a wide range of applications and is the perfect choice for users who want to host their blog on their own website. If you’re looking for a high-quality blogging tools that offer a wide range of features, WordPress just might be the perfect choice for you.

Blogger is extremely popular for both business and personal blogging. Provided by Google, this free service offers great features such as free hosting, the ability to add banner and text advertising links, and a great range of beautifully designed templates.

TypePad is owned by Six Apart, the same company that offers the popular blogging tools Moveable Type and Live Journal. Basic membership starts at five dollars a month for a hosted blog and offers the ability to post via email or mobile phone.

Moveable Type has gained popularity for use as a business blogging tool. Free options are limited, but paying members have access to improved support, design options, and posting access. Beginners often report difficulty with this blogging platform, but many intermediate and advanced users are committed Moveable Type fans.

Live Journal is a wonderful option for users who prefer community-based blogging. This popular service offers both free and paid options with the ability to connect to friends and join community groups.

Top Blogging Promotional Tools

Once you’ve started blogging, its time to promote your weblog to the world. There are a number of great services that have emerged specifically to track the millions of blogs that are updated every day. Other great ways to advertise your blog include social bookmarking sites and blogrolls. A blogroll is basically a list of links to related blogs. The following are some of the most popular blogging promotional tools.

Technorati is one of the leading trackers of weblogs. By signing up and adding Technorati links to your blog, you can gain traffic from searchers who use the service to find blogs of interest. This is a great way to locate niche blogs on highly specific topics.

Del.icio.us

is one of the most-used social bookmarking sites of the Web. Users can add interesting links to their del.icio.us bookmarks and share their lists with other users. The service also allows users to ‘tag’ links by subject, so related posts can be found quickly and easily.

Digg allows community members to rank stories, websites, articles, and blog posts. You can add a links to your blog that allow users to quickly submit the content to Digg. Stories are promoted on the site based on user-rankings and popularity.

No matter what blogging technologies you choose to use, always remember that the key to a great blog is interesting content. Write about the things that interest you and that you are passionate about. Express your personality and become an active participant in the blogging community in order to benefit from all that weblogs have to offer.

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Microsoft’s search engine has a strong first month, taking away market share from rivals Google and Yahoo. But experts doubt it will last.

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This expert expects it to last for a long time and I expect MS to at least catch up to Google in the next year if not exceed it’s market share. — Joe

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1. Get your own website and domain name.

It looks cheap and marks you as a “newbie” when you post a long affiliate link in your ads. With domain names as inexpensive as they are now you can purchase your own domain name. You can then either forward your URL to your affiliate link or set yourself up with some free hosting and establish more of a web presence. Your best bet is to write a benefit-full description of your affiliate program and link to your program via an HTML link that is part of your description.

2. Build your own list.

Stop relying on one-shot ads to make you money. Real businesses have repeat customers that they cultivate in order to make more profits. You must do the same. Make a commitment to establish relationships with your customers and especially with visitors to your site. Create an email list to keep in touch. Send out periodic tips or articles and focus on helping your customers. Only promote your affiliate links in unobtrusive ways; don’t make your emails one big ad.

One of the best ways to build traffic to your list is to write a short report that describes the benefits of your affiliate program. Make this report available only by email. When someone sends for your report, they are added to your list and you can continue to communicate with them.

3. Build traffic to your own site and list.

This is where you really make your affiliate links your own business. By having your own site and building your own list you are building your own business and brand, not just marketing someone else’s. By doing this, you can market to your own customers over and over again. Do not overlook this point: When your ad redirects a customer to your affiliate link, you have lost that person as your own customer because you lost the ability to communicate with them on a repeat basis. When you direct customers to your own site and list, they build a relationship with you.

There are many ways to build traffic: write articles, post in forums, market in safelists, advertise offline, etc. My advice is to pick one traffic-building method, work on it for awhile, and master it before moving on to something else. If you focus on offline advertising, write and rewrite your ads until you determine how to get the best response. If you market on safelists, make a list of the top 50, and send your ad to 10 each day. Keep testing to make sure your safelists are responsive.

These three strategies will help you build and grow your affiliate marketing business.

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This simple and easy to use contextual advertising programs allows businesses to purchase advertisement links on relevant website all across the World Wide Web.

Tips for achieving great results with Google AdWords are common, but many simple secrets to success are overlooked. Learning some of these top Google secrets can improve your chances of building a thriving business through keyword marketing.

Top 5 Adwords Secrets

1. Write Compelling and Keyword-Rich Ad Titles

In order to reach the right audience, you need to focus your AdWords campaigns on well-chosen keywords. However, it is also important to create interesting titles that grab reader attention and inspire them to click on your links. By creating titles that successfully incorporate keywords into intriguing titles, you can dramatically increase the effectiveness of your AdWords marketing campaigns.

2. Track Your Adwords Results

Once you’ve created an ad, you need to track the success in order to gauge the return on your investment. If an AdWords ad is a great success, you should apply a similar strategy to future campaigns. If an ad performs poorly, you will know that you need to adjust your AdWords strategy and technique in the future.

3. Use Calls to Action

You can’t just expect readers to click your AdWords links if you don’t give them a good reason to. Asking your readers to take some sort of action is a great motivation tool and can significantly improve the click-through rates of your ads. Phrases such as “Buy Now,” “Download Today,” and “Sign Up for FREE” have proven to be very effective attention-grabbing calls to action that inspire readers to click.

4. Create Landing Pages

When readers click your AdWords link, they want to learn more information about your offer quickly. Don’t simply direct your links to your home page or product pages. Create a specific landing page for each ad that spells out the details of your offer, why it is a great offer, and how it can benefit the customer. Using AdWords links to directly communicate your sales pitch to the customer is one of the best ways to increase online sales.

5. Focus on the Unique Qualities of Your Business

What sets your business apart from the thousands of merchants promoting their products and services on the Internet? In order to get the attention of online viewers and generate lots of link clicks, you need to stand out from the crowd. If your business offers a unique service or has an original tag line, showcase your originality in your AdWords message. The sheer volume of online advertising makes it easy to blend in, so you need to find a way to be distinctive and interesting.

Finally, remember that true success often comes with trial and error. By planning your AdWords campaigns and tracking the success of your ad links, you will be able to plan and implement highly successful keyword marketing campaigns. Be patient, stay motivated, and stay open to new ideas in order to build a bright future in online marketing.

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Choosing a Video File Format

If you are creating your own viral video, you need to choose a file format before adding the video to your site. Common choices include Flash video format, Windows Media format, Real Media format and Quicktime format. While all of these formats are perfectly good choices, Flash videos are often preferred because more browsers are equipped to view them.

How to Embed a Viral Video

Once you have selected a video to feature on your website, you need to use the correct object tags to embed the file on to your Web page. Begin by inserting the following code on the page where you want the video to appear:

Now, let’s break down the elements of this HTML code. In place of the URL value, you should insert the specific Web address where the video can be found. This may be on your own server or on a free hosting site such as YouTube, StreamLoad, or Google Video. Replace the XX values with a specified height and width of your video. Finally, replace VALUE with either of the following:

True – This causes to video to begin playing immediately when the page is loaded.

False – This indicates that the video should only be played when the user presses the start button.

Important Factors to Consider

Before you begin embedding clips for your video marketing campaigns, there are a few important things to consider. First, always remember that your page design should account for the size of the video. Create a specific area where video can fit on to the page.

One of the biggest concerns with online video is file size. Some viral video clips are huge! This can be a major problem for both Web publishers and users. Large files take up more server space and eat up bandwidth in a hurry. Users often lack the patience to download enormous video clips, especially those accessing the Web through a dial-up connection. If a file is significantly sized, always give your viewers the options of starting or downloading the clip at their own discretion.You can also conserve server space by hosting your video marketing clips of free sites such as YouTube and Google Video.

By carefully choosing great viral video clips for your website, you can draw in new viewers, increase the entertainment value of your site, and take advantage of word-of-mouth marketing. Before you begin, spend some time practicing embedding video objects on to test pages. Once you have mastered the skill, use it wisely. Not every page needs a video clip. Instead, create a specific section of your site that offer viral video clips that appeal to the needs and interests of your audience.

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Yet people creating and paying for emails make simple mistakes and lose customers.

In today’s economy, return on investment has never been more important as marketing spend is now analysed and questioned by senior stakeholders. Companies can’t afford to be making such simple mistakes and missing potential sales. The fundamental aims of any campaign should be high deliverability, targeted mailing, maximum click-through rates and basic personalisation – don’t let the email be the reason customers go elsewhere.

Affiliate Marketers should always remember these top 5 email marketing mistakes:

Five, trying too hard – designing an email as if it was a website, heavy use of flash or java script, which doesn’t show up properly in an email and can be complicate. Keep it simple and clean, allowing reader to click to company’s website.

Four, ability to reply – adding the wrong return email address either by accident or on purpose to avoid filtering responses lands. Replies can provide valuable information from problems with the email to enquiries about the product. Create a dedicated inbox account.

Three, missing information – need a comprehensive and segmented database. I’ve had this happen to me, ‘Dear xxx.’ Do you think I read it? (Actually, I did. You never know.) Even writing ‘Dear customer’ is preferable.

Two, image but no text… – many ISPs don’t automatically download images so recipients are left with blank boxes. This makes it hard to track response rates. Always make sure this is considered in the email design and use a tool that demonstrates different ISPs or send a test mail to yourself first.

One, stopped as spam – Words in subject lines such as WIN A GREAT PRIZE will not get past spam filters.

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