Twitter has come a long way in the past 3 years. To start off you could tell your friends that eggs were poached that morning, you can now share links, tweet within a specified subject matter, and keyword search the latest and tweets on your selected matter. Why is this special?
Google, uses complex algorithms to sort the internet. Twitter uses people you know to tell you what is on the internet. Which is better? Time will tell…
Shop sites can promote their products through it, you can share links to worthy reads through it, and help bring traffic to your blog with Twitter.
As Blog Monies is all about blogging for money to hopefully go into business yourself and Wordpress is my favourite CMS, the following is my Top 52 list as we come to the end of 2009.
Wordpress Plugin
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Description
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| @ Reply |
Allows comments to have the Twitter @reply links to comments. |
Add Twitter Link
to Comments |
Adds twitter links and connects the comment author’s email to their twitter account. |
| Add Twitter RSS |
Adds your Twitter RSS link to the header of your blog. |
Advanced Twitter
Widget |
Choose to post the twitter updates of your/any account OR post search results. |
| BackType Connect |
Lets you show related conversations (from Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed & more) inline with your own comments. |
| CommentTweets |
Reminds the blog reader of their comment when a follow-up comment is created using an @reply to the blog reader with a link to the post thru your twitter account. |
| Digg Digg |
Button Bar - Digg Button , Reddit Me Button , Dzone Button , Yahoo Buzz Button and TweetMeme (twitter) Button into Wordpress Content. |
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What is
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Apps?
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This allows you to use a comprehensive suite of applications to run your collaborative projects. It is not only a Website, it is Email, Calendar, Chat, and Document sharing.
As the administrator of Google Apps Standard Edition (Free) you grant logins to your readers and friends, give them the ability to communicate effectively via gmail accounts, google chat, a calendar planner and the sharing of spreadsheets and word docs. As a frontend Google Sites will allow the world to see what your community efforts have amounted to. These apps have been proven to work for entire universities therefore it will work for your internet project.
You can pay for premier (read more) to get 25GB storage but I will give you a low-down on the standard edition which is free. (read more from Google on Standard apps)
I am a business and want to use this professionally:
The current Google offer (Jul 09) for premier is:
$50 per user per year after trial
In line with building the brand of your website you should have your own logo for people to remember you instantly.
The Lifemonies logo needs work but I am using the simple half S half $ logo. You only get 16×16 pixels to work with so it helps to be simple.
As the above demo shows, we will now be able to hit two birds with one stone. Logging on twice to Google’s blogging cornerstones is a thing of the past. You’ll now be able to find out exactly which pages generate what income at what time from what referrer. Tracking your users through your blog has never been so easy allowing us bloggers improved financial gain. Invites will be out soon it is now being gradually rolled out.
Will we now see only money making content on blogs with all else suffering economic cut backs? Well no. Luckily economics shows us one product swamping the market will drive down it’s monetary value allowing other niche topics back in the game. The diverse blogosphere will continue to evolve even under Google’s analytic/adsense microscope.
Why Mozy?
- It’s encrypted
- It’s quick and easy (seriously)
- You use Mozy server space
- Get a 2GB account totally free!
Use my code A29ND7 and you will get 256 MB extra for free!
Choosing a name for your blog is important. What’s in a name?
- Will readers remember?
- Can readers tell what your blog is about?
- Think ahead - is it appropriate?
- Blog name must equal domain name!
- Brainstorm and take your time
Will readers remember?
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