Blogged with the Flock Browser
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Social Media Man Tells All: The Social Media Minute,What the flock
Friday, July 18, 2008
10 secrets to making a good living bloding
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else''s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that''s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.
These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips
10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn''t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don''t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that''s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you''ve done a good job!).
7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people''s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.
6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger''s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it''s sort of like your blog telling someone else''s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.
5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.
3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it''s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it''s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!
2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn''t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it''s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I''ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won''t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
Woopra
Release Candidate Available for Immediate Download
After
many weeks of development we are about ready with the next major
release of the Woopra client. This version incorporates a number of
feature enhancements, bug fixes and performance improvements. However,
before we push it out to the masses we would like to have a few
volunteers download and test it for a couple of days to make sure
nothing major pops up.
So, if you’re feeling brave and are willing to test what we believe is the next complete release of Woopra you can find it here:
- Windows Version
- Mac Version
- Unix Version (Updated)
Please, note that this build version is still 1.1.2.2, but it will be Woopra 1.2 when it rolls out next week to the public.
There is also a discussion about this release over on the forums.
Thanks in advance to all those willing to help out
FeaturesWoopra has so many features it’s difficult to share them all. Here is a short list of Woopra highlights. We invite you to sign up now and explore all Woopra has to offer. Live Tracking and Web Statistics
Most analytical and site statistics are updated once a day at the least, or several times during the day. With Woopra, you get live track of visitors coming and going and moving through your site. You get the stats now.
Woopra’s interface is designed to be flexible, with plans for future
Webmasters can respond faster to sudden influxes in traffic and help
Deep Analytic and Search Capabilities
The data is searchable. Using the Search panel, you can reach into Click-to-Chat
WordPress, vBulletin, MediaWiki and other community site plugins allow simple tracking of registered users. Real Time Notifications
Notifications can alert webmasters to specific users, IP addresses, Easy Installation and Update Notification
Plugins to activate Woopra from within various blog, CMS, and
Woopra is developed for expandability and easy customization. Woopra Hope you found this Information helpfull,If you did feel free to post a comment.I bring highly valuable information to all of my blog readers,Tell me what you would like to see.Comming in the future I will be writing a book on all that we love about the new web age and all its invaluable tools...If your one who knows any thing about the subject of internet marketing or you just want to put in your two cents on where you see the internt going let me know.Feel free to email me with any thoughts that you may have as well at jaimanlive@gmail.com |
Woopra’s
MoreBlogged with the Flock Browser
Sunday, June 29, 2008
The Social Media Minute,What the flock
Getting Started with the Flock 1.2a Browser:The Flock web browser is easily the best web browser and is endlessly customizable. Flock is the absolute best tool in everything that you do and will ever do online. Finding out more about this product is essential ,and well worth every second of research.
Good News Everyone, I have dun all the research for you.Its all right here,everything that flock has to offer at the flick of a mouse.You will be all set when using this browsing tool to operate your business or just connecting with friends online.
I personally love flock, not only for its plug and play features & ease
0f use but for its nearly endless extensions that can be added,very easily may I add.Don't take my word for it, hear what the owner has to say along with some leading marketing professionals.
Where do you see the Browser going in the next 1-3 years?
Geoffrey: I view the browser as a great facilitator of interaction. And right now we are just focusing on nailing these experiences on the PC but I would have to agreed with Ted that the browser will become more and more pervasive whether on computers or on consoles. The question is how can you make the experience consistent across all of these and using Flock on all of these devices allows for a seamless integration. I want to make sure whatever we build that we are always mindful of the fact that the intended interaction should never be subordinate to the technology delivered or consumed.
Open this link for the whole interview
http://www.centernetworks.com/audio/mp3/flockinterview.mp3
Getting Started with the Flock 1.2a Browser:
I have a new social media friend and no, I’m not talking about the tons of random friends requests you get on a daily basis. I’m talking about a piece of social networking software that can help you get your arms around the online social scene. I’m talking about Flock, the web browser that’s based off the Mozilla project.
Flock has extensive features but with the simple installation of extensions you can extend the functionality that much further. Check out more here
There are now new ways of approaching old problem using what flock gives you for free,I feel that flock could very well be the best of web 2.0 social media marketing.
Tell me what you think.I would love your feed back on this and any other helpful thoughts you my have
Good News Everyone, I have dun all the research for you.Its all right here,everything that flock has to offer at the flick of a mouse.You will be all set when using this browsing tool to operate your business or just connecting with friends online.
I personally love flock, not only for its plug and play features & ease
0f use but for its nearly endless extensions that can be added,very easily may I add.Don't take my word for it, hear what the owner has to say along with some leading marketing professionals.
Where do you see the Browser going in the next 1-3 years?
Geoffrey: I view the browser as a great facilitator of interaction. And right now we are just focusing on nailing these experiences on the PC but I would have to agreed with Ted that the browser will become more and more pervasive whether on computers or on consoles. The question is how can you make the experience consistent across all of these and using Flock on all of these devices allows for a seamless integration. I want to make sure whatever we build that we are always mindful of the fact that the intended interaction should never be subordinate to the technology delivered or consumed.
Open this link for the whole interview
http://www.centernetworks.com/audio/mp3/flockinterview.mp3
Getting Started with the Flock 1.2a Browser:
I have a new social media friend and no, I’m not talking about the tons of random friends requests you get on a daily basis. I’m talking about a piece of social networking software that can help you get your arms around the online social scene. I’m talking about Flock, the web browser that’s based off the Mozilla project.
I know what your thinking. Who needs ANOTHER browser when FireFox 3.0 has just been released? I think FireFox has made some great improvements, but they are improvements to an old model of consuming the Internet. Browsers like FireFox and Internet Explorer have come to power as part of the Internet land rush where the primary goal of the online website visitor was to “browse” sites looking for things to consume like text and images. But the online landscape has grown to include audio, video, and social networks. So it makes sense to have a browser that understands how to handle these additional part of the online experience.
According to the Flock website, “When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.”
As a social browser Flock helps you pull together most of the more popular social networks into one common dashboard.
For example, using Flock I can see all my friends from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter all in one sidebar. Different networks are listed under their own tabs and all the networks can be crunched down into one tab that create a single activity stream or view.
The icon of each person in my people stream has a network badge to tell me what network they are on.
A great feature of Flock is the media stream. As I select a friend in my people sidebar, I can see all the available media for that person. I instantly see their pictures, videos, and other media options. From there I can leave comments on that piece of content.
The benefit here is speed. I am just a few clicks from the networks I use and I can move between social networks and still maintain one common user experience.
Flock also helps you extract content on a page that might overlook. For example, if you load a page in Flock that has an RSS feed, Flock will ask if you want to add it to your feed sidebar.
Again, the important point here is speed. You are not wasting time looking for feed addresses when subscribing to content. You can even add additional social networks and useful links to your favorites which can show up as a sidebar to give you one click access to your most common online resources. I use mine to get to Picasa, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and Gmail.
Even though Firefox has a ton of addons that I use, I still find myself using Flock all the time now. It’s obvious to me that this is the next generation browser. Social media is here to stay and Flock offers a real solution managing the social networks.
Months ago I overlooked Flock as just another me-too browser in a noisy browser market, but today I understand that it’s a social networking tool that should be in the social toolbox of every online marketer and social butterfly. It’s the best kept secret that wont stay that way for long.
Enjoy,
Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com
Flock has extensive features but with the simple installation of extensions you can extend the functionality that much further. Check out more here
There are now new ways of approaching old problem using what flock gives you for free,I feel that flock could very well be the best of web 2.0 social media marketing.
Tell me what you think.I would love your feed back on this and any other helpful thoughts you my have
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
