My Internet Marketing Experiences
Do you want your readers to know when your blog is having an anniversary? You can add a widget that shows your blog’s blogoversary! I just added one to the side menu bar. This is what it looks like below:
Get yours FREE at: http://www.blogoversary.com
Enjoy
Stefani
If you read blogs, you might already be aware of how popular Twitter can be with blog posts. More and more you are going to notice some sort of Retweet button on blogs. These buttons allow you to send out a Tweet on Twitter about the individual post you are viewing. Twitter is becoming more and more popular by the second. Even Martha Stewart is Tweeting! Up until yesterday I paid no mind to the value of my blog visitors retweeting my posts. I have retweeted things but never sat down to find a way to allow my users to retweet my posts. I just only hoped they would think the post was so awesome that they would just do it manually.
One of the ways that blog viewers can retweet your blog posts is by using TweetMeme. For those that are not familiar with Tweetmeme, it is a service that aggregates links on Twitter to help determine what links are popular. There are a few other services that are similar that you might already be familiar with such as Twitturly and Retweet.com. If you are a WordPress blogger, you can add a plugin that will automatically place the Tweetmeme Retweet buttons on your blog posts. You should be able to see one in the upper right corner of this post. Tweetmeme also has a plugin for Blogger, Typead, Joomla, Windows Live Writer, Drupal and B2Evolution. They also have a Retweet chicklet and other Retweet buttons to use if you are posting via email, on a website, etc. With the WordPress plugin, you have access to view Tweet stats which might help you see which of your Tweets are most popular. You can see how many tweets you are receiving in 24 hours. For the advanced Tweetmeme users with an App ID and App Key, you have access to a powerful analytics package too!
I have added the TweetMeme to almost all my WordPress blogs. I am hoping to see some sort of increase in my stats using it.
View the Tweetmeme site at: http://tweetmeme.com
Feel free to share your opinions about TweetMeme by posting a comment below.
Enjoy
Stefani
If you are a blogger, you probably have searched online for blog templates before. I have blogs both on WordPress and Blogger blogs. While I prefer to use WordPress, I just can’t get away from creating blogs using the Blogger platform either. Tonight I came across the site MyTemplateBox that offers free Bloggger templates, free WordPress templates and even free CSS templates. I browsed through the templates and they have some ones that I might consider using.
Here is the link: http://www.mytemplatebox.com/
Until Next Time
Stefani
I just love cute free blog templates. Since I love creating different blogs, I get excited when I come across someone who offers templates that are different from the rest. Creating this blog post is a great way to bookmark the resource to so I know I can go back and find it when I need it.
The blog Candy’s Designer Templates. Here is the link: http://candytemplates.blogspot.com
Enjoy
Stefani
For those of you that create blogs on Blogger, you probably know that the choice of blog templates is pretty boring. I have created a few “niche” blogs on there and had to pick one of the plain templates because I did not want to spend money on buying a custom template.
I found a site that offers FREE Blogger backgrounds. The site is owned by Cori who will even create a free custom header to match. The site is called Scrap-E-Blog. What a great free service she is offering!
Enjoy
Stefani
In the past, I have left blog comments in hopes of gaining some traffic and backlinks to my blogs. I had downloaded this free program called Comment Kahuna when it first came out. I used it for a while but kind of forgot about it. I also cut back on the time I spent on reading blog posts and leaving comments. The last couple days I have been researching ways to increase traffic and decided to get back into the swing of posting comments on blogs. Now, I only will post comments on blog posts that I like and have something to say. I don’t post spammy comments as I hate when I receive them on mine. I like to create posts in hopes of the blog author returning a visit back to my site. I always enjoy receiving comments from those whose blogs I left a comment on first! [Read more...]
Today I am on a mission to find various work at home blogs that use the Comment Luv plugin. I love this plugin because it helps you generate more traffic from your blog comments. I use it on a couple of my blogs and should add it to all of them. For those of you that enjoy posting to blogs that use this plugin, here are some blogs you might be interested in: [Read more...]
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