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RSS Feed Generator Plugins Review
Sep 8th
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Each WordPress blog has one automatically built-in RSS Feed. Proper usage of your blog’s feed is another way of building backlinks, which helps your site get indexed faster, reach more people and enable them to subscribe to your blog. The more people subscribe to your blog the more value your website has for Google.
You can easily find your blog’s RSS Feed by clicking on the yellow (PC) or blue (Mac) sign on the right side of your browser.
Want your Feed to serve you well?
There are 2 powerful plugins, which will help you take full advantage of all the RSS feed’s benefits. Both of them will generate new feeds every time you write a new post and one of them will automatically send those feeds to RSS directories!
The Akismet Blog Plugin – Our Unsung Protector
Sep 7th
When setting up our blogs there is one thing we’re always told to do, and that’s to set up the Akismet plugin, but have you ever wondered just what it does?
True, it can seem like a total hassle to get up and running – though the only time consuming bit is getting the API Key through WordPress – but it will save you a whole lot of time in the future.
Akismet helps to block out all of those nasty little spammy comments that can appear on your site from people who just send them out there in the hopes of getting a few links back to the product they’re advertising. Sometimes it even works out for them. Seeing it takes them little to no time or money to do – and they’re obviously making enough money for it to be worth doing – so they’re just going to keep on doing it, but, it could take you a fair bit of time to get rid of it.
I recently checked the stats on my blog and was surprised to see that Akismet had stopped 6,084 spam comments dead in their tracks. I decided to take a look at the comments that were still in the spam queue, and wasn’t too surprised to see what sort of links they had in them.
The one thing that did make me laugh (I have a slightly warped sense of humour) was the fact that I had more links for mobile phone ring tones than I could possibly listen to in a lifetime, especially seeing I never have, and possibly never will, own a mobile phone.
The whole point of this post is this: you may not know what Akismet is, or how it works, just know that it’s in your best interest to have it up and running.
For more ramblings from Alan Paterson visit his personal blog at http://www.alandpaterson.com
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Twittollower – How Does It Work?
Sep 6th
Twitollower is a Twitter automation program that puts everything that you would normally do manually in Twitter on autopilot. The idea of it is to get you as many followers as possible in as short a period of time as possible. Getting a vast number of followers is a very time consuming task.
Twitollower not only gets you followers, but it gets you followers with the same interests as you. This is what you need if you are going to make money from it. It will get you very targetted followers specific to your niche. For you to do this manually would take a lot of your time. Once you have targeted followers, you can then go about promoting your product.
Another benefit of Twitollower, which I think is one of it’s best features, is that it guarantees you the results it promises you. You know that by the end of the month, you will have at least the number of like minded followers that it guaranteed you. That should tell you how well their program works and how confident they are.
So to get started, you sign up with them for an account, you obviously need a Twitter account open also, and basically just go about your normal business letting Twitollower do all the work for you. They show you a short video before you sign up detailing the program, their promises, guarantees of followers, Twitter statistics and the costs involved. While they are obviously trying to sell you their product, they present you will sufficient information that you can make an informed decision based on facts.
Take a look at the short video from the people at twittollower at http://www.twittermeblue.com and you decide what is best for your business and lifestyle.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gina_M_Arnott
Facebook Ads Vs Google AdWords
Sep 3rd
Yes, Facebook ads get some exposure by people clicking on them. But the question is, do they get as much attention as others ads such as on Google AdWords, probably not.
The reason Google ads get more clicks is because if someone clicks on an ad from there, they more than likely came to there to search for whatever ads they are clicking on anyway and are more serious about buying your product or service. Facebook ads are clicked maybe just because they happen to be there at the right time, not because the person is interested in spending any money.
How to Upload Video on YouTube
Sep 2nd
YouTube is a free web based service that is used by millions of people everyday. YouTube came into existence during the year February 2005, through which you can share videos freely. YouTube is used for commercial and personal purposes. Here, in this article you will learn the step by step instructions of loading videos in YouTube.
Even before you load the video, you must get the free membership from this site. Just log in to YouTube.com and do the sign up process. By becoming a member of this site you also get the opportunity to comment on other videos.
Read the rest of this step by step process for loading video in YouTube.com
3 Things You Can Do to Increase Your Internet Sales
Sep 1st
Most sales issues aren’t visible until you’ve got a healthy stream of traffic flowing to your website. It can be disheartening to see thousands of visitors every month but few or no sales, and sadly, gaining internet sales can be difficult when you are just starting out. However, there are a few simple things that anyone can do to help improve conversion rates and turn site visitors into site buyers. Here are the top three things you can do to help improve your internet sales:
1. Understand your target audience. You have to understand who buys from you and why. And more importantly, why not. For example, if you are targeting your business to the layman but your website copy is full of professional-level terms and jargon, your audience is going to be lost in a sea of confusion. And confused website visitors rarely turn into buyers. You need to understand the concerns of your target audience, and have your site prepared to address those concerns and move them towards the sale.
Networking Gets Easier the More You Do It
Aug 31st
It Gets Easier
Believe it or not, with practice, following up gets easier; it even gets to be routine and second nature. As you become more proficient, you’ll find that important contacts respect professionalism and prefer to deal with professionals because they know that they can usually rely upon professionals. So when you follow up in a well-planned, disciplined and timely fashion, important contacts might be more willing to deal with you.
Benefits from following up also spill over to other facets of your life. They teach you patience, understanding and diplomacy. They give you a better idea how to plan, position yourself, wait your turn and seize opportunities. Following up isn’t just persistence, although you must be persistent, it’s being considerate, respectful and wise. It’s treating people as you wish to be treated – - – just like networking.
Will EBooks Replace the Paper Originals?
Aug 23rd
Just yesterday, on July 20, Amazon announced that the sale of ebooks had even surpassed the sale of hardcover books. For every 100 hardcover books sold, Amazon sold around 180 ebooks during the past month. It seems everything is going electronic these days. Newspapers, snail mail, research; staples of everyday recent life have all been taken over by more efficient, electronic versions provided through the internet. Furthermore, the electronic industry seems to be poised to pounce on the book market and make paper books an obsolete thing of the past; but will they succeed?
Well, yes and no.
SEO Tips to Help Your Website
Aug 20th
When it comes to SEO it’s not an exact science, with the industry moving at the speed of light and daily developments throughout the search engines and their algorithms keeping up to date on industry tips and tricks can often seem like a daunting prospect. So here to help are the top ten SEO tips that we were given from a Bournemouth seo agency.
1. Domain
This is not always possible, especially for a website that has an old and trusted domain, but in the case of new domains trying to find one that has your keyword in the URL could have a surprising effect on your ability to rank highly in the SERP’s. But this is not always possible, and it’s important to note that as a domain grows older it becomes more trusted and authoritative in the eyes of the search engines, so don’t worry if your domain name does not contain a keyword; all is not lost.
RSS Feed – A Concise Introduction
Aug 19th
RSS stands for “really simple syndication.” An RSS feed for a website or blog is intended to make the process of syndicating new content out to interested subscribers fast and easy or simple, as the name suggests. Since the key to online business success is drawing in as much traffic as possible to websites and blogs, it only makes sense that RSS feeds would be massively popular as they are today. As you learn along the way, the correct method of using this tool, you could even improve your Google ranking of your website!
