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Blogging Best Practices: Enabling Your Readers to Subscribe to Comments

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Few realize yet how many decisions go into the best way to add every single feature to a Web site. Where you place it, whether you use text or icons, which plug-ins or widgets you select - each and every one of these factors contributes to how successful your blog, site or store will be. Here is one simple example. I requested Derek Semmler's assistance in adding a subscribe to comments function on this blog. Here are the questions he immediately asked: Do you want a simple text link or … [Read more...]

Monetizing Social Networking: Social Networking Sites are Missing the Golden Goose

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There is one obvious deficiency of almost every Social Networking site - one that, if corrected, could make all the difference in their ability to generate an income and greatly increase their usefulness. Monetizing social networking strategy is simple, but they don't seem to see it. Better targeting is what is behind the calls for better filters, too much Twitter noise and pruning followers! Social Media sites are only useful to those who can figure out how to reduce the noise and hone … [Read more...]

Create Your Own Niche at Twitter – How To Target Your Tweets By Interest or Location

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Here it is more than a month later and the TwiTip Construct Your Own Top Ten Niche Must Follow Twitter Lists is STILL getting new comments. I just added all the new submissions to the TwiTip Top Ten Niche Twitter Users list here. Every person who took the time to blog a list or add one to the comments there has picked up at least two links, potential followers and/or subscribers and who knows how many new visitors. If you don't take time to check out posts like that one - those with enormous … [Read more...]

What Sends More Traffic? Search Engines, Blogs, or Social Networking Sites?

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Back in September of this year I wrote that Search Engines are NOT as Important As Many Believe They Are Because Search Engines are no one's target audience: people are! My prediction for 2009 is that search engines will continue to decline in importance as more Internet users ask their Social Networks for recommendations and learn how to access online reviews and Local Search Directories. … [Read more...]

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