Thursday, December 31, 2009

Why you Need to Join Twitter?

Twitter is one of the most popular social networking websites on the internet right now. The main reason for this high popularity lays down in the simplicity and easy-to-use service for anyone. On Twitter, Its all based around the staying in touch principle and you make more use of it if you stay active on it. This is not very hard, this service has a very high potential and somehow lure you to get more and more into it. I am going to show you a couple of reasons why do you need to join Twitter.

Fast and Easy
As I have sad above, Twitter is a very fast and powerful social-networking service. Because of the limits to 140 characters per Tweet, make Twitter an ultimate tool for promotion and communication between thousands of users. I have to note that Twitter doesn’t have a followers limit you can have millions of them! Compared to the Facebook which have a limit to 5.000 friends you can add on your account. Everything going up on Twitter is in the real-time. You can know the latest news and announcements through the world within a seconds, and actually be a part of it.

Great Marketing Tool
Twitter is a great tool for a bloggers and webmasters. Allowing you to connect your blog with your Twitter account and post updates directly to it. This may give you an instant readers and better crawl on the search engines. Of course, this automatically affect your blog traffic and quality of it. Also, you can post and advertise your products, sites and services through your own Twitter profile. Giving you opportunity to make Twitter as a great marketing tool completely for free.

Get Connected
Twitter makes it easy to put yourself and your own business in front of the people you want to get in touch with. Every time you post a tweet, it will be displayed on the public timeline. Allowing your followers (your potential customers) to stay in touch with you directly. This makes a good opportunity to hear some feedbacks regarding to your site, service or a product. Creating good and quality connections make your offers more quality and productive for them. Twitter is a great tool which has a huge potential for you and your own business for sure.

Stay in Touch
Twitter is not just about announcing people to know what exactly you are up to. Its also a good tool to communicate and stay in touch with similar-minded people to share experiences together. Staying in touch with other people couldn’t be easier than this its simple, fact and very productive. All you need to do when you find someone you like is to follow him/her and watch their updates and communicate between. This service open the new opportunities for you and for your business. Allowing you also to stay in touch with your loyal readers (followers) and your own potential partners. Also, it is a good way to find new friends.

Twitter allows you to do many things. No matter you use it for a promotion, fun or satisfaction, you’ll always have an opportunity to make something more with it. It’s a huge community created with the real people all around the world. It’s completely free service with no annoying advertisements, maybe that’s why it’s so popular.

If you don’t have a Twitter account, I recommend you to create one completely for free.

Why to Use Blogger or Blogspot?

You can see that I use Blogger as my primary blogging source on internet. Between many other similar and popular systems, you might ask yourself why I have choose Blogger for my blogs! On this post I will try to show you my recommendations and stats!

Why to Use Blogger to Blog ?

1.) Completely free – This is of course one of the main reasons why I use Blogger to blog! Of course, many other blogging services are free – but read what you get with Blogger in following text.

2.) Advanced Customization – Blogger allows you to customize your blog the way you want to customize it! It’s little bit complicated to customize (compared to other blogging systems), but you can do much more on Blogger definitely with your site design!

3.) Domain Hosting Support – Blogger is service that allows you to host your own domain name completely for free! Other similar systems usually charge this option – but with blogger you can get it for free.

4.) Space and Limitations – With Blogger you get completely free 1 GB image hosting and not limited bandwidth! That’s very good and enough for 99% bloggers.

5.) Scripts, Widgets and Gadgets – Blogger have collection of some good and quality widgets and gadgets that you can use! Including support for scripts and advertisement codes. Allowing you to fully customize and put on your site whatever you need.

6.) Comments, Moderation, Categories and Archives – Blogger supports comments and comment moderation as long like Categories and Archives – Everything you need to have on your blog.

7.) Secured – Blogger is free hosting service for blogs owned by mighty Google – It’s very secure and trusted service – much more secured than self-hosted systems.

8.) Collaboration Support – Blogger have very good collaboration feature that allows you to have multiple moderators that can post / edit your blog.

Conclusion
Blogger have many advantages to other free-hosting services, as well few misses that should be fixed in near future. I really don’t like blogger SEO functions. By default Blogger doesn’t have any SEO based functions and options – like Wordpress have for example.

Blogger is little more confusing than Wordpress, and it’s not quite good for absolute beginners! Template designs which comes default with Blogger are not professional and they are so oldish! I hope that Google team will fix that in our near future, because with little more improvements they can be much more comfortable and professional.

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Monetizing websites with Google's AdSense changed the web landscape

Monetizing websites with Google's AdSense changed the web landscape and allowed thousands of people to consider living offline from online income seriously. The follwoing are Google Adsense tips, links and resources.

Where should I place Google ads on my pages?
The Google "heat map" that shows the zones that they suggest perform best for Google ad placement.

Six AdSense optimization tips for forums
The Google Adsense weblog offers up "AdSense optimization tips for forums", which includes a forum-specific heat map and 5 other tips to getting the most from Adsense in your forums.

Smart pricing and your Adsense account
Jen releases some interesting information about Smart Pricing secret sauce which results in some publishers earning more money for a click while others earn less, with the result being that one poorly converting site can "smart price" an entire AdSense account.
Not having access to advertisers conversion rates, publishers are left guessing with respect to how their sites perform for advertisers. I suppose Google wants us to err on the side of caution, and remove adsense from our sites that we suspect are not converting well for the advertisers?

Inside AdSense: The facts about smart pricing
After this, Google steps up to provide a few facts about smart pricing and how to ensure you're maximizing your revenue. While it does provide some information, I'm not sure it dispells what was reported at the site linked to from above.

100% Google AdSense: Tools, Tips and Resources
A fantastic post covering heaps of tools and articles focused on helping you get the most from the ads on your site or network. If you are not familiar with the links in this article, put some time aside and get to know them and implement or use some of them and hopefully you will notice the difference in your AdSense revenue!

Track Google AdSense Clicks via Google Analytics
A little JavaScript that allows you to track Adsense clicks in Google Analytics. I'm always leery about monkeying with Adsense, and I couldn't find any official Google endorsement of this (i.e. use at your own risk), but the concept is interesting nonetheless.

Looking at Google AdSense Placement on MySpace
Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal takes the time to document the AdSense ad placement in various types of MySpace pages.
Knowing that Google and MySpace partnered to set this up, there's a good chance that the performance of these ads are tightly monitored, so this could be a study worth checking out.
Loren points out this about the ad targeting: ... I am single and have lived in Brazil and Japan. Most of the ads served to me are for Singles Sites where I can meet Brazilians and Japanese women. That’s some very tight ad targeting by Google.

Google Adsense Section Targeting
A Google Adsense optimization tip that may be worth trying out as it might help to avoid Public Service Ads and off target advertising.
Note that they say it may take up to 2 weeks before our crawlers take into account any changes you've made to your site. I'm assuming this means the addition of these tags. Strange as AdsenseBot tends to be so quick...