Aug 7, 2009

Top 15 Tips To Increase Twitter Traffic To Your Blog


Twitter has taken the blogging community by storm. A lot of people are now hooked to it and are now active Twitter users.

Twitter is a free service that allows people to stay in touch with each other through the exchange of quick and frequent answers to simple questions.

It is some sort of micro-blogging service that allows users to send a little 140-character messages out to “followers” and exchanging bits and pieces of information and potentially exposing that conversation to the larger grid.

A lot of practical tips are provided to potential and active twitter users or twitterers. This article has generated a list of 15 top pick tips that are essential in increasing twitter traffic to your blog.

These 15 tips revolve around major performance goals. The 15 tips shall be presented under the relevant performance goals.

BE A BRANDED TWITTERER, EXPRESS YOUR IMAGE

TIP #1
Exert effort at customizing your Twitter profile by providing it with your picture. A lot of people don’t like to send tweets to faceless twitterers. Include in the profile your blog URL and description. Most of twitterers check profile before they decide to follow you or not.

TIP #2
Generate interest and strong and positive impression by treating your tweets as your article headline. You should also avoid making your background look like some sort of an advertisement as it will definitely turn people off.

TIP #3
Monitor everything that is happening within your blog field and exert effort to be perceived as an expert twitterer on a subject related to your blog. Link to quality resources and people will surely look at you as an authority on whatever interest you are espousing in your blog.

PUT VALUE TO YOUR TWEETS

TIP #4
You should work hard to make each tweet interesting and worth reading to your target audience. Put your best foot, or rather, tweet forward and surely your followers will decide to click on and check out your profile and your blog.

TIP #5
Make your tweets an attention grabber by writing things which are interesting to the community. Be on the look out for hot topics and be ready to post the article in your blog. Members of the twitter community will be truly interested with you and what you have to say. They will soon drop by your site or blog once you have announced to the community what you have written.

TIP #6
Interesting people are great followers of other interesting people. In the twitter community you have to follow people whom you think are interesting. However, don’t follow people only because everyone else is following them.

BE A FRIENDLY TWITTERER AND EXPRESS IT

TIP #7
You should be helpful, useful and friendly member of the community. Be gracious and thank people when they follow you on twitter with a direct message. You should utilize your expertise to help fellow twitters find solutions to their requests and questions. Your intention is to gain acceptance and trust of the Twitter community and to become an authority in the area you are perceived to operate on.

TIP #8
Do not oversell your blog and your blog articles. Being a hard sell will not bring good to you, your profile and your blog. You may have gotten somebody to follow you, but if you don’t provide value to them, they can just easily unfollow you.

TIP #9
You should restrain yourself from tweeting to much as many twitterers might make your followers unfollow you. Three tweets a day would just work out fine. You can use TweetStats to learn more and analyze your tweets. However, if you can not put a cap on your tweets, it is essential that use Qwitter to get updates when someone stops following you. That way, you can learn on the reasons why people unfollow you.

BE A LEARNED TWITTERER AND PRACTISE IT

TIP #10
You can use TweetBurner in order to shorten the URLs you intend to include in your tweets. Most tweets are based on a 140 characters. This will save you valuable space for your message. You can also track the number of clicks your tweets get through the TweetBurner. It is also an effective tool to analyze which tweet structures attract your followers and what headlines work best. TweetBurner can also tell you at what time of the day your tweets get more clicks.

TIP #11
Try experimenting by repeating the same tweet twice a day with a 10-12 hour gap between similar tweets. Some regular twitterers have noticed that repeated tweets attract attention as many new people are logged on since your original tweet 10 hours earlier.

MAKE OTHER TWITTERERS FIND AND LOOK FOR YOU

TIP #12
You must work hard to get your Twitter link out to where people can find you. This means adding it to your e-mail signature file, in forum post, on your site, on your blog sidebar, in article resource boxes, and so on. People will only follow you if they find you credible. By doing this tip, it certainly adds up to your credibility score.

TIP #13
Do not try to follow everybody that follows you. Be selective of who you follow and work within your established niche, interests and hobbies. Avoid chasing the numbers to obtain the most twitter followers which most of us think is important. Twitter is not a race of numbers; it is about quality.

TIP #14
An effective way to get people to follow you is to start following them first. A number of twitterers have their accounts setup to follow all the followers, so when you follow them they will automatically follow you back. This is done within the context that you are able to develop a concrete brand and image for your twitter profile and your blog.

TIP #15
Go beyond the Twittosphete. It is the best way to build a following. Don’t forget to add a Twitter RSS feed to your Web page or Blog.

Top 10 Tips to Increase Entrecard Traffic to Your Blog

Here is a unique way to increase traffic to your blog. It is called Entrecard. It is defined as an advertising platform for blog owners that are offered for free.

Bloggers and Entrecard users place advertisement of the Entrecard ad on any blog within the Entrecard network that is good for a certain number of days. The Entrecard ad placements on any blog as paid through Entrecard credits of the blogger or website owners who make the ad placement. We can treat this Entrecard credits as some form of a currency used for ad placement within the Entrecard network.

Bloggers place their ads by dropping off their cards at their selected blogs through the Entrecard widget. This Entrecard widget appears on every Entrecard member blog in the network.

Does this new craze deserve the attention that it is getting from a lot of people? Probably, the answer is yes. Entrecard is considered as an effective tool especially for the new and beginning bloggers in generating more traffic to their blogs.

In an apparent sales pitch for Entrecard, the following are declared benefits for those who join the Entrecard network:

Another way to Earn Money
Bloggers who come to drop off cards may click the ads on your blog, which translates to additional money earned. Besides monetizing from the traffic via Entrecard network, Entrecard recently announced a credit-buy-back program where you can sell your credits back to Entrecard.
Build your followers
Entrecard is one great way of bringing more traffic to your blog. Once they visit your blog to drop off their cards, they might see something that might be of interest to them and become a regular follower of your blog.
Maximize word-of-mouth Marketing
You gain warm body endorsers once you get positive feedback from Entrecard members who visit your blog to drop off their cards. It is essential that you keep your blog as interesting as possible to visitors.
Improved Google, Alexa and search ranking
As more and more visit your blog to drop off their cards, this translates to more page views that can boost the ranking of your blog in search engines. This would in turn bring in more targeted traffic to your blog.
Increased traffic to your blog will easily attract more direct advertising opportunities. As you experience increased traffic as a direct result of being a member of the Entrecard network, your blog will become more attractive for paying advertisers. This would mean extra dollars to fill your pockets.
With these benefits of Entrecard, it is essential that you are knowledgeable of the nooks and crannies of the network to derive maximum benefit from it. Here are some practical tips to set you off as a new Entrecard member:


TIP #1 – Start with the obvious. Be an active Entrecard Member

To be a successful member of the Entrecard network, you have to internalize the system. You have to do some serious job at dropping your cards on carefully targeted blogs. You can follow a logical strategy at “dropping” your cards. First, start with what you have in your inbox. These are the Entrecard members that are visiting your blog to “drop” their cards. If they are dropping cards on your blog, then surely, they are active members of the Entrecard network. Focus your efforts on the popular Entrecard users. You can find them in the Campaign. Drop cards on the top users of every category. That way, you are able to drop cards in blogs with high traffic. You should also find the other active users by checking the Most Popular tab. Don’t forget to include the Most Recent Users. This gives an impression to them that you are an active user as well. Finally, the forum is also good source of information of active users.

TIP #2 – Advertise, Advertise and advertise

To become a successful Entrecard member, you should advertise often. If you take seriously TIP #1, you will end up with a mountain of Entrecard credits, well, figuratively. Seriously, the essence of TIP #1 is for you to end up with lots of Entrecard credits so you can advertise. As a start, you can start with 5 blogs per day. Be sure to pick the most popular users you can find and advertise on this popular blogs. The reason for this is quite obvious. Popular blogs get a big share of drops and this means more people will get to see your ad. This will be translated to increased probability of increased click-throughs and of course, exposure.

TIP #3 – Advertise wisely 1

This is a follow-through of TIP #2. Much as we would like to maximize our exposure and click-throughs, we have to be a wise advertiser to be able to reap the full benefits of our ad. First of all, you should advertise on blogs that have higher ranking than your blog, and blogs with more readers and many RSS subscribers than you.

TIP #4 – Advertise wisely 2

Monitor your ads. Monitor the ads that work for you and buy it again even if it would mean paying more the next time.

TIP #5 – Be an Active Participant of Entrecard Forums

Don’t forget to check out the Daily stumbles and the Entrecard Updates. When you do this, you might discover some sites that you might have come across in the past. You will never know. You might hit the jackpot when you get to meet some of the interesting guys and girls in the mold of blogging4cash, ideasandmoney.info, razzball.com, YouShouldOwn.com, incomeforeveryone.info and much, much more.

TIP #6 – Keep an Eye for n00bs

Be always on the look out for n00bs or ‘newbies’ on the block and try to place your card on the sites before their rates hits the ceiling. Here are some good sites with but at the same time cheap: laughingsquid.com, idasia.org, tylercruz.com, and theprofithustler.com.

TIP #7 – Put your best foot forward in your ads

Make sure that your ad attracts your target audience. If you are not confident that you have the design experience, you can seek the help of other Entrecard users in the forum or through the Entrecard shop to help you out in designing a card that fits your image and brand.

TIP #8 – Position your Entrecard Widget Properly

Make sure that people can easily find your Entrecard widget. People will be able to advertise and drop cards in your blog only when they are able to find your widget. In short, place your widget in a strategic position.

TIP #9 – Utilize the Entrecard Mail System

Make a point to express your thanks and appreciation to those placing ads on your blog. On the same token, also thank those who let you advertise on their blogs. This is the best way to earn goodwill and extra points in terms of good image among other Entrecard users.

TIP #10 – Join in Entrecard Contests

One great way to earn extra Entrecard credits is by joining in Entrecard contests. You can do more, if you start your own contests. In order to find the available contests, you can check them out in the forums under Promotion and Events section or you can check out other blogs and check their posts for ongoing contests.

Using Wordpress in iPhone



Now you can start blogging from anywhere. The new facility of ‘WordPress for iPhone’ allows you to access this advanced blogging tool using your iPhone. WordPress for iPhone assists you in accomplishing a number of tasks. You can write posts, upload photos, edit pages, make a comment on any blog you visit and manage comments on your blog as well.

This move of WordPress offers a great experience for all those who are familiar with the functions of iPhone as well as the WordPress tools.

The ‘WordPress for iPhone’ uses an open source programming so anybody can provide his/her inputs in the development of this plugin. It is launched under GNU, the General Public License. This tool is available in 2.5.1 or higher version. If you are still not aware of this feature, you can check out Wordpress official site for the tutorials and guidelines which are important to learn this advanced tool.

Till now, many people have used this feature and gave a positive feedback. What are you waiting for? Start blogging today with the help of your iPhone.

Aug 6, 2009

What You Can Do To Prevent Getting Swine Influenza or H1N1 Flu

On June 10, 2009 the World Health Organization finally raised the level of concern about the H1N1 Flu to a level 6. H1N1 Flu has become the first 21st century flu pandemic. WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan was quoted as saying "With today's announcement, WHO moves from an emergency to a longer-term response. Based on past experience, this pandemic will be with us for some months, if not years, to come."

Now that the H!N1 flu has become an official global epidemic and claimed many lives, many people are likely to become anxious that they might catch the H1N1 flu otherwise known as the Swine Flu.

The CDC reminds us that the "WHO's decision to raise the pandemic alert level to Phase 6 is a reflection of the spread of the virus, not the severity of illness caused by the virus."

There are several very simple things one can do to prevent or minimize your chances of getting the swine flu and the regular flu.

These include finding out more about the illness from reliable sources, learning how serious swine flu is, learn what can be done prevent it, discovering what symptoms to watch for and when to seek additional treatment.

Also included is some interesting information about the history of Swine Influenza and Swine Flu as a Zoonosis or an infectious disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans.

Image Source: CDC. Swine Influenza in Pigs and People. Brochure.

Four Key Steps to Prevent Getting the H1N1 Flu

The four key things to do that will help in preventing you from getting the H1N1 Flu or Swine Flu:

1. Wash Your Hands
2. Cover Your Cough
3. Don't Touch Your Face
4. Stay Away from People Who are Sick

If you do get sick, stay home so you won't pass it on to anyone else.

Source: CDC H1N1 Flu.

Aug 5, 2009

How to Get Twitter Followers Fast

Twitter is one of the internet's newest social marketing crazes. Twitter is reshaping the way that people think about traditional marketing and is spawning a new generation of web 2.0 marketing gurus. One of the keys to marketing with Twitter is to gain a large targeted following. Learning how to get Twitter followers fast is easy if you have the right resources.

First, here are some Twitter Following Limits You Should Know.

There are some Twitter following limits you should be aware of. Twitter limits the number of people that you can follow in an attempt to reduce the spamming activity that is prevalent on Twitter. Currently I have over 3000 followers but have hit some limits along the way. Once you reach 500 followers Twitter will put a hold on your following activities and will make your followers catch up to the 500 mark. Once you catch up and now have 500 followers per 500 people that you follow, you will now have the 10% rule applied. The 10% rule will only allow you to follow 10% more people than are currently following you. You have to build your account by these rules but there are some strategies to lessen the time that it would naturally take for your followers to grow.

How to get Twitter Followers Fast - Getting Targeted Followers

Targeted followers are the key with Twitter marketing. The more people that you have on your Twitter account that are interested in the products or services that you are marketing, the more success you will have. One of the best ways to do this is to search for people that are Tweeting about the Niche that you are in. Once you find a handful of people that are tweeting about your topics, check out their bios to see if they are in your niche. If they are, look at their followers and simply follow all of those people. A lot of people now have auto followers that will automatically follow you back but to really get Twitter followers fast you will have to unfollow the people that do not follow you back. I usually give them about 3 days to follow and then I will unfollow them using a free website called Twitter Karma. Just Google it and you will find it. Regularly doing this will allow you to keep adding followers with out stalling out by the 10% rule.

How to Get Twitter Followers Fast - Marketing

There are a lot of facets to learning how to market effectively on Twitter and there is still a lot of research taking place to find the best methods. The main Cardinal rule is that you should not spam people with an endless amount of Affiliate links. Instead spend some time retweeting interesting tweets an using the @ reply feature to start conversations.

One of the best resources that I have found to date is Twitter Traffic Machine. Twitter Traffic Machine not only shows you many more tricks on how to get Twitter Followers fast, it also shows you how to effectively market to them on complete auto pilot. This program will show you how to gain 16,000 followers in about 90 days and will make you a good income in the process. One of the things that I love about this program is that it is easy enough for the total newbie to jump aboard an make money but it also teaches the advanced marketer some tricks that are not publicly on the web. In my experience I was able to make my money back with this system in less then a week. ( I got a sale at about the 500 follower mark) It is ridiculously cheap and worth every dime. Twitter Traffic Machine.
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How to Reduce Body Fat and Burn Stomach Fat at the Same Time

Would you like to know how to reduce body fat? I know how you feel. My situation was very similar, I used to squeeze my tummy in front of my friends, but always felt like they all were looking at my fat belly. I felt pregnant all the time. But believe it or not, there is a proven way to flatten stomach - and the best thing is, you can achieve great results in a couple of weeks! Just spend three minutes reading this article and I promise you will be glad you did.
Most people believe that if you want to reduce stomach fat, you need to do abdominal crunches. Don`t be one of these people, and if you are doing them, you can stop at this very moment. Abdominal muscle crunches just do not work for total body fat reduction and belly fat reduction. And this is why: they focus on your abdominal muscles. But is your goal to tone ab muscles? No, your goal is to REDUCE THE FAT layer on your abdominal area. Then, and only then, people can see your abs.
For best results, you have to focus on short and intense workouts, and do them at least 4-5 times per week. Do short exercises, and do them as fast as possible. Repeat them 4-5 times so you get a total workout of 2-3minutes. If you do that for a week, you will not only notice your stomach got flatter, but you will have great chances of losing some weight also!
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