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Blogging Made Easy with Posterous and Google Reader

socializ1ng — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:55:35 +0000

One of the big issues of running a blog is keeping the blog up to date with new content! It takes time.

So blogging shortcuts are always very useful.

Our strategy is to use Posterous and Google Reader (in conjunction with Google News and Google Alerts).

We use their RSS feeds in Google Reader after setting up searches for the appropriate news/ content in Google News and Google Alerts. So every day we have plenty of content to parse for ideas. Google Reader also allows you post content directly to Posterous – see the Send To link at the bottom of the Reader content.

We setup a number of accounts with Posterous for various topical blogs, and then use original content in the Posterous sites to link back to our main sites and external reference sites. Google appreciates this: A good mix of content and useful hyperlinks. The best feature of Posterous is the ease with which we can email a post to our Posterous site. Tip – we use Gmail and have installed an add-on to allow adding images into the post (use Flickr for images: http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/ – and choose search within Creative Commons-licensed content).

We can create posts with minutes using this strategy. Good content and interesting posts with photos.

Here are some of our sample sites:

http://socialising.posterous.com/
http://1stforfrenchproperty.posterous.com/

How to Get Muscles

socializ1ng — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:31:35 +0000

Like this site, MusclesMagic.com, a lot. Has good extensive articles with videos and great tips. It is a WordPress Blog with an excellent variation on the Flexibility template. For example, How to Get Muscles.

Extract: How to get muscles fast? Some great advice on how to get big muscles fast.

The bodybuilding movement has grown over the last few years and with its growth there is a huge amount of information given out in magazines and on the Internet. But with all this information, how can you tell which ones build big muscles fast and which strategies are unreliable? The best way to get long term results from lifting weights is to simply follow the fundamentals.

Check out this video ….

Also this article: Stomach Muscles is very informative.

What do you think? Looks good and quality information.

Real Estate SEO Guidelines

socializ1ng — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:38:55 +0000

If you have real estate business online, you definitely want to make sure that you will be having a successful business. You can achieve such, if you start real estate SEO. Real estate SEO is the way of enhancing your real estate website for a greater search engine visibility. This article will focus on real estate SEO, so read on.

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If success is what you really want to achieve, then you have to bear this lesson in mind, readers always comes first and search engines the second.

Optimizing your website content is very important. When creating your page content, you have to make sure to create something that is valuable to your readers. You have to do content that is helpful, well-made content that is related to your products and services or subtopics. You can win half of the battle if you focus on giving our readers an appropriate and significant content.

It is also helpful on your search engines visibility if other websites will be linking with your website. As more and more websites link with your website the better, because if there are lot of websites who link with your website, there will be an increase with your link popularity.

When creating your content, do not put all of your key phrases on any set page, because that could be too much, the search engines will unable to determine the primary focus of your page. For greater results, it would be advisable that each page should have primary focus that will support the overall topic of your website.

Like for instance, if you’re overall topic of your real estate website is Florida real estate, then one of your pages should focus on buying condos in Florida real estate. If condo is one of your website specialties then you have to focus on that specific topic on one of your website pages. You can create content about it and can create a page title: ‘Buying Condos in Florida Real Estate’.

If you want to come up with topic ideas for your pages, all you have to do is revisit your list of key phrases. You have to choose your key phrases wisely, they will speak the content that you should do for your website. Then you have to make content to support each key phrase you have. You have to add articles to the pages of your real estate website. Article with about 300-500 words will allow you to combine your key phrases in natural way.

The page content should be the direct extension of your page’s title element, because the search engines compares the content of your web pages to the titles of your pages, and definitely, these two should match.

Like for example, if you have page about real estate market in Tampa, then ‘Views about Tampa Real Estate’, would be a good title. Just make sure that the title will match the body of the content of the page. In doing so, this would be good for the readers and for the search engines.

If you want to have a successful real estate business, real estate SEO could be helpful on your part. Just take some of your time and effort in optimizing your website content, in order to have a lot of readers and you will gain greater search engines visibility.

Article Author Eliza Maledevic from http://www.Jump2top.com, a SEO Company. Know our company profile at http://seo.xon.us/

Google Loves Web 2.0 sites

socializ1ng — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:28:35 +0000

Google falls in and out of love with Web 2.0 platforms. There was a big rush by spammers to use Squidoo and Hubpages. Google devalued them and both were forced to tidy up their act. Squidoo and Hubpages seem to be back in favour with big G. We believe the key is to providing real unique content on these platforms – go easy on the links. So with all the other platforms use with caution – good quality content and don’t spam the links. Hey, be responsible.

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Wizard Marketing Tips with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Bit.ly and Ping.fm

socializ1ng — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:02:14 +0000

Guest Author: Howard Farmer 1st for French Property

In an everchanging marketing environment, it is necessary to give clients or potential every opportunity to access our French Properties. If clients want to browse our website, use newsreaders, receive property alerts by email or use Twitter then we must provide the service. So naturally we are keen to provide the service:

Of course, we are always looking for shortcuts for producing the services so we have been able to use some great tools for our Twitter solution!

Obviously we need to have a twitter account: Twitter.com/1st4FrenchProp. But then we need to have content for Twitter. Can we automate this? Yes – like many twitter accounts we use our RSS feeds. At first, we were conscious that Twitter users like “What are you doing” tweets and were concerned that Property Alerts may not have a good uptake. Well 3000 followers later we should not have worried!

Does Twitter work for us? Well – simply yes! Consistently it is in Top 10 referrers to our website.

Twitter, TwitterFeed, Bit.ly and Ping.fm working Together

1. Get accounts at all 4 services

2. Find the Bit.ly API login / API key on the account page.

3. At Twitterfeed setup your Feed (your rss url); choose the Bit.ly service to shorten your urls and add API login / key

4. The feed will now be automatically added to Twitter

5. For even greater distribution, set up a TwitterFeed feed to Ping.fm (you do need to setup the distribution sites at Ping.fm – plenty to choose from!)

Results

You can monitor how many clicks through you get at the TwitterFeed Dashboard – see below:

As you can see, the number of clicks are displayed. If we add 20 properties a day, that could be over 200 additional clickthrus per day.

Bit.ly Service

We like the bit.ly service as not only does it provide the url shortening service but also tracks all the clickthrus and can you give you quite a lot of additonal information.

Great marketing information and feed-back for us and another service for clients to monitor our property portfolio.

Learn a Simple Domain “Tweak” System That Made Me $21,111

socializ1ng — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:49:54 +0000

Chad Kimball’s Strategy Domain Tweak System Requires:

ZERO link arrangements

ZERO articles posted

ZERO ppc traffic

ZERO directory listings

ZERO blog posts or comments

All the work is done by others for free.

In 7 days you will have all the free traffic you want, and never submit an article to ezinearticles again!

I have perfected a system that can be applied to any website (or even to a web 2.0 article) to allow it to dominate the search engine rankings. And it can be fully running in ONLY 7 DAYS – just use my simple Domain Tweak System.

More information about the Domain Tweak System

Authority Loophole – Black Hat or what?

socializ1ng — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:33:40 +0000

“What Would Happen If You Could Easily Obtain As Many Legitimate One-Way Links As You Wanted For FREE…

The marketing claims …

1. The software finds eligible sites based on your root keyword.

2. The sites it locates all use a common web script that can be easily and – believe it or not – ethically manipulated to place your link either sitewide, on the home page or on an otherwise highly visible page of the site.

3. You follow a very simple process that takes anywhere from 1- 5 minutes on each site.

4. Your link is automatically “placed” (prominently) on an authority site that would otherwise never link to you.

5. Repeat steps 1 through 4 indefinitely.

6. Build up rankings that you’d normally only see if you had a “Fortune 500″ SEO budget – and even then, you wouldn’t get links like these if you were promoting a commercial site…

Guess what the “common script” is? Commentators plugin.

The software can be used totally white hat but it is not using the “Loophole” that accompanies the marketing splurge.

What do you think???

What do you want? More SEO tips?

socializ1ng — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:08:36 +0000

Take Our Poll

Visualisation – attraction or pants?

socializ1ng — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:57:44 +0000

Visualisation – how to make your web content attractive to users. Better visualisation – more repeat traffic.

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Visualization from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

Visual cues can help create expectations and inform passive readers, which will make them more likely to engage with your content. And remember: engaged readers link 1,266%* more often than non-engaged readers.

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Increase Blog Traffic – 20 Traffic Tips

socializ1ng — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:36:09 +0000

This is a simplified, summary of the 20 best traffic tips on the net to help you increase traffic to your blog:

1. Link to your own articles: use keyword rich labels in your articles to link to your other articles.

2. Mix blogging with social networking: make use of blog widgets on Facebook and LinkedIn, post highlights of your best articles to Digg, del.icio.us and StumbleUpon, use your blog content to answer questions on LinkedIn, Yahoo answers, forums and newsgroups.

3. Treat your blog like a publication: write compelling titles, introductions and conclusions, offer useful content, pay attention to grammar and spelling.

4. Keep track of relevant news: subscribe to RSS feeds and Google alerts for key sources of news from your industry or profession and report on anything newsworthy quickly.

5. Participate in the blogosphere: offer useful comments to blogs that cover relevant topics and include links to your articles.

6. Submit your blog to blog directories, blog aggregators and blog carnivals.

7. Submit your best articles to well ranked, reputable article directories like Ezine Articles and Article Dashboard.

8. Remember that your blog is a marketing tool: craft the look, message and language in order to establish the desired brand identity with the appropriate audience.

9. Collaborate in group writing projects.

10. Write as a guest blogger on another relevant blog.

Sidebar: Have a break – great social sites:

RedState
Your Dictionary
ExpressionEngine Community Forums
AOL Developer
TakingITGlobal
NewsTrust.net
n These Times
the albany project
Blue Mass
voip-info.org
Open Source Software, Questions, Stories and Community
DivineCaroline
Israel Policy Forum
Haiku Project
ZForums
NewEnglandFilm.com
The Scientist Community – debate. relate. collaborate.
CC Wiki
The Joyent Community

11. Write something controversial, if it can be done in a manner that would be consistent with the positioning of your brand.

12. Introduce yourself to bloggers writing about relevant topics.

13. Cover key topics in the form of a series so that all the articles in the series link to each other.

14. Create a blog roll to publicize links to your favourite blogs.

15. Link to relevant blogs in your articles.

16. Learn how to write short but valuable and interesting articles so that you can blog frequently while also offering the occasional list or comprehensive study.

17. Promote your most popular blog articles on your blog.

18. Create a newsletter and invite readers to subscribe to it.

19. Promote your blog offline: list your blog address in your autosignature, on your business card and other marketing materials.

20. Learn from your blog traffic reports and update your use of keywords accordingly.

Bekhor Management is a full service business and marketing consulting firm in Toronto, Ontario focused on Canadian professional practices and other small to mid-sized businesses. Our services include marketing, branding, strategic planning and business planning. Sandra Bekhor speaks, teaches and writes for various professional associations. For further resources, we invite you to visit Toronto Marketing Blog.

If you are considering a practice development initiative, call us at 416-969-9600 for an initial consultation without fee or obligation.