Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 |
It seems like twitter is having his momentum right now, with more and more people joining. So, here is a quick tutorial on how to use it in order to accomplish the following goals:
- Bring constant traffic to your site
- Create an interactive and dedicated community
First of all, this quick guide doesn’t apply to any of the black hat projects that you’d might have. It simply doesn’t work this way.
You will need to have a site that:
- Is community oriented: this implies one or more of the following:
- visitors can create accounts on your site
- visitors can create content on your site
- visitors can comment on the existing content
- any other way of interaction between the visitors and your site
- Is not static: this implies that you have periodically fresh content (news/articles)
Using twitter for traffic and community has 2 ways:
1. The passive way. This is pretty straight forward. Create a twitter account, announce that on your site, make a link on the homepage or on your template, add your website to your twitter profile and start using twitter. That rest will follow. Slowly but steady.
2. The active way. This is what this post is about.
- First of all, start doing the steps from the passive way.
- Than use twitter for 1-2 weeks, periodically adding content
- Identify twitter users that might be interested in your site. Do that by searching in Google for: site:twitter.com [keyword]. Where the [keyword] represents the main keywords for your website. If you do that, you’ll get as results people that have used on their twits that keyword. Some of them have used them accidentally, but most of them will have a real interest in your topics.
- Make a list of all the profiles identified. From that list eliminate all the profiles that are dead (no longer updated) and start following the remaining ones. Many of them will reciprocate.
- Start interacting with the followed profiles, try to answer any conversations.
- Make periodical announcements of new content on your website and be active in answering any feedback.
- If you have an RSS feed for your site, for your own good don’t be an idiot and add that to your twitter account. Is one of the most annoying and lame behaviors and will soon result in people following you to use the block button
Well, that’s it. happy twitting and if you will use this mini guide, feel free to post in comments any results that you will get
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 |
Elvsoft, a romanian company, has released a free DNS analysis service called IntoDNS. IntoDNS checks the health and configuration of DNS servers and mail servers. It’s designed as a tool that helps server and network administrators in day to day job, to identify and fix DNS and mail issues.
The service has also an associated blog that will let the users know all the latest development so don’t forget to subscribe to their feed.
read more | digg story
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007 |
Well, this blog has been ignored by me lately and I’ve decided to change this. The roadmap is as follows:
- Change theme - done
- Upgrade to the latest WP version
- Install the needed plugins
- and of course START POSTING again
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007 |
Amazon’s aStore is one of the newest affiliates tool provided by Amazon and one of the most successful if we take into consideration profits and the enhancements that are periodically added. Astore is (in their description):
Associates can configure an aStore in Associates Central by navigating through a forms-driven set up process. The store can be built and configured within minutes and Associates only need to copy a line of html code into their web pages. All data will be served from Amazon Web Services and therefore will always be up to date. Once set up, it does not require any maintenance from the Associate.
Recently (and very quietly in fact) they have launched 2 new features:
1. First is a small one, and is a feature that allows you to optionally add to the navigational menu an “About Us” page. Even though is not specified it allows basic HTML formatting to the text (inserting links for example). Basically I see no purpose to that, and perhaps what you could do with that is to provide descriptions to your categories and insert links to some products.
2. The great thing is the addition of “Astore Widgets”. Those are JavaScript ads based on your aStore products that can be embedded in other sites. Right now they come in 8 formats and are as customizable as Google’s Adsense for example. What do you need to know is the fact that the ads will provide products from your aStore’s homepage. If no homepage is set, than the ads will be generic Amazon Ads not related to your store. What is great about the widgets is that on most cases, discounted products are presented and that is made very clear, by that increasing the chance of creating a buy.
Best practice with Astore Widgets:
Even though Astore is great and has a pretty good conversion rate (might depend on your niche though) is not as efficient as Adsense. Because of that, I suggest you not to waste your space with the widgets, but to use it as an alternative to Adsense’s Public Ads.
In order to do that, prepare a blank page that:
1. Has the background of your Adsense Ads (as you might know by know, in general try to blend the ads in your page background)
2. Create a centered aligned div where you will place the Astore widget.
3. Upload the created page to a server and provide the link to that page when you generate your Adsense code.
4. Due to the constraint that you can display on the widgets only products from the aStore’s Homepage, make sure that you vary its content until you find the most attractive one.
An alternative to this is to use Openads, and to attach to a zone both Adsense and Astore Widgets.
By doing this you’ll have the following benefits:
1. You increase your revenue chances by removing those pesky Adsense public ads.
2. You decrease banner blindness by varying the content.
This new enhancement comes as a big hit to small companies like Blogger Kit that provided similar features through revenue sharing with the users.
Example of implementation of Astore & Astore Widgets:
Metal & Rock Videos has an attached Astore that sells metal and rock music related products (CDs, DVDs, Accessories). Astore widgets are added to all the Adsense areas. For example you can look here and if is not visible just browse through more obscure bands and you’ll have the chance to see them in action.
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007 |
Record labels have the mentality of a dinosaur and have the stupid tendency of missinterpreting the advantages of new web technologies or what is called web 2.0 and viral promotion.
Since today, most major labels promoting crap commercial music have hunted down and removed all the videos uploaded to You Tube and Google Video, untill they realised that those videos are in fact free advertising and they started uploading themselves. In all this stupid game, metal & rock labels have set an example by being the pioneers in using the viral tools to their own advantage. That untill today.
Roadrunner Records, one of the most important indie labels on the metal & rock scene has disabled embedding options on their video channel joining the ranks of corporate stupidity.
Awsome job guys. What were youthinking?
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Friday, April 27th, 2007 |
Hello guys,
there is a small blog contest in the local community here and this blog is in the Technology category.
If you can bring some votes in the next 2h I would really appreciate it.
The page is here
Check my blog and press “Voteaza”
Thanks 
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007 |
…and looks better and more powerful than ever.
See here the announcement and here a comparison with the competition.
Good job guys
Update:
Bad, BAD move guys. It seems that this is not a performancing service, but rather a tricky affiliate program for Clicky
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007 |
New Mozilla Addons redesign is going to affect new extension developers.
read more | digg story
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Friday, February 16th, 2007 |
Performancing metrics might return for free to the general public.
New York,NY — February 14th,2007 — SplashPress Media, owner of numerous sites including The Blog Herald, one of the oldest sites on the internet covering blogging news and new media, has announced it is acquiring the core assets of Performancing.com including the bloggers’ community and Performancing Metrics.
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007 |
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