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Simple Search Engine Optimization Tips
Are you getting at least 100 new visitors to your blog everyday? If not, it may be that your blog is not optimized for the search engines, which is where people begin their search for products and services online. Some “search engine experts” would have you believe that search engine optimization requires a lot of advanced techniques to rank well. But the truth is that even a little simple... More...
Using Twitter to Wish People Luck
Wishing people luck has always been a popular thing to do, but with social media tools like Twitter at our finger tips, wishing someone luck on Twitter has taken on a whole new meaning. Recently I got the opportunity to help out with the Epic Change TweetLuck Project that’s using Twitter to raise funds to help expand Shepherds Junior school in Tanzania and it gave me a whole new perspective on... More...
Who Are The Top 10 Followed People on Twitter
It’s always interesting to check in from time to time and see who are the top 100 followed people on Twitter. Last time the 100 most followed people on Twitter included Barack Obama, Robert Scoble, and Kevin Rose. This time I thought it would be fun to focus on who are the top 10 followed people on Twitter. Kevin Rose is still in the top 10, but President Obama is the second most followed person... More...
Are Facebook Applications Using Multi-Level Marketing
So, do you have six bucks and three friends? You’ll need at least that much to start using the new ChatToText Facebook application. The Facebook application lets you receive chat messages from Facebook as SMS text messages. You can reply to chat message using text messaging and your replies are posted back to Facebook instantly. The service costs six dollars a month and seeks to fill the gap... More...
How To Attract Twitter Followers Using Video
Can I be honest with you? Your Twitter page is boring. Oh, I know it’s not your fault. By design there is nothing overly exciting about anyone’s default Twitter page. Even the little about me square in the upper right hand corner of the page is boring and doesn’t really offer enough space to tell prospective followers anything about you. So, wouldn’t it be great if you could... More...
Interview With A Love Kung Fu Artist
Can being a Love Kung Fu artist help you increase your customer base and make you more efficient too? Well, I can guarantee anything, but it has certainly worked for Mark Berry of LoveKungFu.com. Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark and he told me about several creative ideas he’s used to build up his online life coaching business. Using word of mouth advertising, teleconferencing... More...
Does Your Google Ranking Stink?
Here’s a great rank checker from SEOBook that will help you check your search engine ranking on Google. Sure you can do it by hand, but who has the time to do that! Be sure to checkout Aaron Wall’s SEOBook blog. He has lots of useful tools over there. Charles McKeever OpenSourceMarketer.com Read More →
How To Track Twitter Replies Using SMS
Recently I’ve been relying more and more on social networking sites like Twitter to communicate with people and get answers to questions. I’ve even learned about a some useful tools that have helped me with Internet marketing. But as great as Twitter is there are times when it’s left me hanging when it comes to tracking replies. Not everyone on Twitter replies instantly to your Tweets... More...
Two Tools For Optimizing Your Blog
After researching, writing, gathering links, and cropping images, optimizing a blog is usually the last thing a blogger thinks about. But the truth is, all that hard work could be going to waste if your blog isn’t being seen and the appropriate action isn’t being taken. Slow blog load times can discourage visitors from digging to deeply into your content. If a page doesn’t load fast... More...
Uploading Videos Once To Multiple Video Sharing Sites
Tonight I’m in San Antonio Texas for a few days of fun and sun with the family at Sea World. It’s about a five hour trip from where I live so I had some time on the road to listen to audio books and think. I took in about four chapters of The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss and I can tell you it’s worth the read, or download and listen in my case. Tim often refers to people... More...
Using A Social Browser For Social Networking
I have a new social media friend and no, I’m not talking about the tons of random friends requests you get on a daily basis. I’m talking about a piece of social networking software that can help you get your arms around the online social scene. I’m talking about Flock, the web browser that’s based off the Mozilla project. I know what your thinking. Who needs ANOTHER browser... More...
How To Automate Your Call List
If you run any type of offline events to promote your blog, and you collect phone numbers from your meeting participants, then you might want to take a look at phonevite.com. This handy service helps you automate your call list so all you have to do is record your event announcements once and then have them broadcast to your call list automatically. This would even work if you had an online membership... More...
BrightKite Improves On Twitter Style Social Networking
Online social networking is still a very young industry and because of that there is still a ton of room for new ideas that can stretch and grow the current social landscape. BrightKite is a new social networking player that’s bringing fresh ideas to the table. BrightKite combines a Twitter like social update service with mobile technologies to create a better networking experience. Through... More...
How To Fight Content Theft
Recently I came across yet another spam blog trackback in my moderated blog comments. I’ve tried to ignore these as they’ve continued to increase. But enough is enough and now I’m looking at ways to simplify the abuse reporting process. There are two simple steps you can take to hit a splogger where it hurts. You can report them to their web hosting provider, and you can report them... More...
