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More ways to get more blog comments
I have been focusing on blog commenting for the last few posts. It started with 3 ways to get more comments and I wanted to add to that list from my own experiences and from some of the comments that were left. Doug Champigny wrote The only one I c...
Finding Blogs To Comment On
I have been discussing comments for the last few posts and today lets talk about finding blogs to comment on. Now there are lists and various posts showing you exactly which blogs are do follow and some people swear by those. If all you are looking f...
Blog Tour Information
Just finished checking the support desk for those that were looking to have me visit. I think I did a piss poor job of explaining things to those that are not familiar with what the blog tour is. The blog tour will have me visiting a blog for a week ...
Integrating blogging, Twitter and other social media
There is a huge buzz about Twitter and the various social media. You hear it on the television (think Oprah), in the newspaper (even my little local Schuykill county PA paper has an account) and just about everywhere you turn. The key is should it be...
Tweet My Blog has been upgraded
Just got an email from Soren and John that they upgraded the Tweet My Blog plugin. More on the upgrade and doing it in a minute. If you aren’t familiar with the plugin it allows you to pull your Twitter feed into your sidebar of your blog and i...
Using link bait posts
Got an email today that reminded me of something I do at times but don’t mention often enough here. Rarely do I take the time to take the extra step that she did. This person put up a great link bait post. Really should talk about that here mor...
Twitter going more main stream
Yesterday I picked up a new follower - my local newspaper. More and more the press and others are getting involved in social media. Now I don’t live in a major metropolitan area and the local paper is not covering a major metropolitan area. Mos...
Input, ideas and you
Just finished a short report on Twitter and WordPress and those that are subscribed will be getting it after it has been edited one more time. Really what I would like to know is what topics would be most helpful to be covered here. Not getting a lot...
What plugin would you like to see?
I talk a lot about Twitter and your blog but last night I got this message. @MikePaetzold Hey Robert Plank rules and Mike Paetzold sucks… just kidding… can I make a WordPress plugin just for your blog readers? So of course I said yes bu...
5 ways to use MyBlogLog for research
MyBlogLog can be a great way to do research on quite a few things including… Your social interaction Your community interactions What’s hot Blog traffic research Topic research One of the things I really like is checking my own usage of...
Two new plugins here that I am testing
Okay all done with the Twitter series for the time being. Now to what has been changed in the environment here. I have added WP-Twitip-ID plugin so that if you leave your Twitter id with your comment it will show up with a little bird image that lin...
Twitter and Blogging Wrap Up
The last couple posts have dealt with some of the ways that I use Twitter in conjunction with my blogging to improve both. First participate in ways other than just automating your blog posts. See a good tweet with information that would benefit your...
Twitter for research
Twitter can also be a great research tool. You can use the search at http://search.twitter.com to find the latest tweets on any topic you wish. This can be a great way to keep track of new things happening on any topic. Each search has a feed that yo...
Twitter Tools For Bloggers
This is the second part of a series on Twitter and blogging. The first part talked about using Twitter and using it for building relationships. Today I will discuss some of the tools I have found to improve your use of Twitter in relation to your blo...
Twitter are you using it?
Always been someone that loves to get input from others and love using blogs to do it. Unfortunately sometimes it does not work. The subject of Twitter seems to be just one. Last week I asked for input and was disappointed with the lack of it. Not a ...
Twitter and your blog - how do YOU use them?
Normally I answer questions here and you the reader get information and comment back. Today I want to turn the tables and pick your brains for a change. I have been a tweeple (is that really a word?) for a while now and have fallen in love with Twitt...
Keeping up with WordPress
First I hope you had a great new year. This is an announcement for the first of a few projects to help you with your blogging in 2009. Much more to come so stay tuned. Now I spend a lot of time gathering news, the latest plugins and much more each we...
Twitter and blogging - get great additional traffic
If you are blogging Twitter is a must. It incorporates quite well with any blog traffic strategy. Twitter is basically micro blogging. You can post as often as you want but have to keep your post to just 140 characters. It makes you get your thoughts...
