Friday, May 25, 2012

9 sites to post your media feeds on..

9 sites to post your media feeds
January 08, 2012 @ 12:16 PM
Most of us are active at a number of social media sites. And I bet, we all have a blog (or several blogs). You are very likely to be eager to share what you blog about with your social media friends.
This post outlines the ways to automate that sharing. Someone may frown upon the “automation” part here (after all, social media sites are all about live conversation, automation is not what we want from our social media contacts.) But in this case, this is a so-to-say “whitehat” automation: we share news from our own blogs. This news are meant for our friends and we would share it anyway, so why not make the process faster?
You are probably aware of most of these ways, but this post should serve as a checklist: be sure to drop your blog feed URL everywhere.

1. Facebook

1. RSS connect application offers to add a blog or any RSS feed to your wall or boxes tab or create a fully customizable tab dedicated to your feeds.
You will be able to :
  1. Add a box to your profile wall;
  2. Add a box to your boxes tab;
  3. Create a customizable tab for your feed.
Visibility: Visible to your Facebook friends.

2. Facebook Notes:
  • Click the Import a blog link;
  • Enter the URL of your blog (RSS) into the text box, and check the box underneath that states that you agree to our Terms of Use.
  • To complete the process, click on “Save Settings.” Once you do this, your previous posts will appear as notes and any new posts you make will automatically display.
Visibility: Visible to your Facebook friends.
Note: This way will allow your friends to keep track of your blog updates but there won’t be a link back to your actual post on your blog:

2. Facebook Fan Pages

1. Simply RSS allows to automatically update your fan page wall with your blog RSS
Visibility: visible to everyone (links are “nofollow).
2. Fan page notes: Go: “Edit page“, find “Notes” under “Application” and click “Edit“, then “Edit import settings” and at last provide your feed URL.
Visibility: visible to everyone (with no actual link back to your post).
Note: Many people prefer to share links on Facebook manually for many reasons (one mentioned in #2), here’s a well-reason post on the drawbacks of autos-sharing.

3. LinkedIn

1. Blog Link is a LinkedIn Application that imports your recent posts to your full LinkedIn profile.
Visibility: visible to LinkedIn registered users.
2. WordPress is another one for WordPress-driven blogs.
Wordpres application for LinkedIn
Visibility: visible to LinkedIn registered users.

4. LinkedIn Groups

LinkedIn allows to submit news feeds to automatically post your blog updates to the group. You can manage your feeds from your group “News” tab:
Add news feed
Visibility: visible to LinkedIn registered users.
See this page for more ways to manage your LinkedIn group.

5. Twitter

There are a few tools that automatically update your Twitter stream with links from the provided RSS feed. I’ve been traditionally using Twitter Feed.
Visibility: visible to everyone (links are “nofollow”).
Note: Make sure to take advantage of Twitterfeed “Advanced settings” (i.e. “Post content” and post prefix):
Twitterfeed settings

6. Friendfeed

While being primarily a tool for aggregating your social media life, Friendfeed can be used to share your blog updates as well. Go:
Settings -> Services add/edit -> (Miscellaneous) Custom RSS/Atom.
Visibility: visible to everyone (links are “nofollow”).
Friendfeed share rss

7. Any Ning-Powered Community

There are plenty of semi-popular websites powered by Ning (Twitter Moms and Doterati are two widely-known examples). To share your blog updates on your profile page:
When logged in, go to your profile page and in the sidebar look for “Add RSS” link (normally under the list of your friends).
Visibility: visible to everyone (links are “follow” but go to your feed posts). However if you have “Related posts” enabled in your RSS and choose “Details” when setting up your feed at Ning, you’ll end up with “follow” links to the deep pages:
Ning-community: Share RSS

8. Naymz

At your Naymz account page, scroll down and find “Add link”. Click the link and provide your blog RSS:
 
Your recent posts will appear under “Recent activity” heading:
Visibility: visible to everyone (links are “follow” but go to your feed posts). However if you have “Related posts” enabled in your RSS and choose “Details” when setting up your feed at Ning, you’ll end up with “follow” links to the deep pages:
 

9. Zimbio

Head straight to “Blogs” tab and add your blog URL. The articles will be automatically imported to Zimbio and linked back to the original.
Visibility: visible to everyone (links are “follow”).
 
Social Media Monitoring is essential as well- to measure the the impact. Any other social media sites to promote your blog feed?

Long list of my SEO links to go over in the future

Search engines to submit to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

Facebook Adverts - Dos and Don'ts
Read this story at the link found here..
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-advertising-marketer-2009-07

Webtips - Wikipedia posts
January 19, 2012 @ 07:20 AM

Wikipedia can greatly affect your website's relevancy with links. 

Visit the Wikipedia link here to learn on posting and Citation with their tutorial...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing_sources


Webtips - Adding the Like Widget to your site.. Edit Post
May 03, 2012 @ 02:29 AM
Adding the Like Widget to your site..
Here is a good site with information on adding a widget to your page

Webtips - How to Check Backlinks to Your Website

Checking backlinks (the sites that link back to your website) is a good way to see how many websites, and what kind of websites are linking back to yours. This helps you develop linking campaigns, and increase the page ranking of your website. Checking these backlinks is a very simple process, and there are several ways to do it. The easiest way is to log on to the king of search engines, Google.

For more information visit:

Video of how to create a Wikipedia Article..

Video to show how to create a Wikipedia Article.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_create_a_Wikipedia_article_-_Right_to_science_and_culture.ogv
Webtools - MetaTag Analyzer
March 22, 2012 @ 06:56 AM
Go to this site to get metaTag Analysis.  Very good and helpful site for your meta tags.
Webtips: Google Places - USE IT!
March 08, 2012 @ 08:16 AM

Get found on Google for free

97% of consumers search for local businesses online. Be there when they're looking for you with Google Places for business - a free local platform from Google.

Help your business stand out

Add photos, videos, and offers to show customers why they'll want to choose you. Highlight special promotions, post live updates, and respond to reviews from your Places for business account.

Discover insights about your business

Learn more about your customers: What keywords they’re searching for and where they’re coming from. Armed with this knowledge, you can make better business decisions.

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=lbc&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.google.com/local/add/verify?storeid%3D5833441083210930516%26mode%3Dexisting%26hl%3Den-US%26gl%3DUS&followup=http://www.google.com/local/add/verify?storeid%3D5833441083210930516%26mode%3Dexisting%26hl%3Den-US%26gl%3DUS&hl=en-US
Webmaster Tools
March 07, 2012 @ 08:37 AM
List of Great Webmaster Tools

World Wide Web Consortium
February 24, 2012 @ 02:28 AM

Check out this site if you are a webmaster...
PHP information for webdesigners
February 23, 2012 @ 02:28 AM
Information for webdesigners on PHP

Is Email Marketing right for you and your business?
February 21, 2012 @ 02:28 AM

Mail Chimp:

Once a website is up and running, it is time to start driving traffic towards it.  This can be done in a number of ways, but e-mailing campaigns are tried and true.  The only question most people have is: how do they start an e-mailing campaign?  Well, there are many ways in which one can get e-mail addresses, but those addresses will probably need to be handed over to a custom service that focuses on e-mail marketing.  MailChimp is just such a service, but are they right one?

Visit their site at:

http://www.mailchimp.com/
Sites to check out: Internet Archive
February 19, 2012 @ 02:28 AM
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Web Aps: AddThis for Mozilla
February 15, 2012 @ 02:29 AM
AddThis Ap for Mozilla for Webmasters.  The application makes adding a site of yours, or others, to be spread across multiple platforms with ease...
AddThis for Firefox is the best add-on to make sharing and bookmarking simple. Have all your favorite web 2.0 social networking, bookmarking, blogging, and e-mail services at your fingertips. Share any page, anytime, with anyone.

Pop Under Advertising Information.


http://optmd.com/

Rank Checker

Ranking is important to any business!  Google has changed the game, and keywords must be relevant.  Keyword rank checker tool to check your search engine position ranking for any keyword in the major search engines and get an advanced report including related keywords and spell check.

http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/keyword-position.html
Page Strength Frequently Asked Questions
February 07, 2012 @ 03:37 AM
1. I ran a report for my site and it contains missing or inaccurate data - what's the deal?
Page Strength scores are determined by  collecting data from external sources such as Yahoo, Alexa, and Google.  It collects this data tens of thousands of times a day -  these sources have limits to what they provide, so often times the data fails to come through.  SEOmoz is constantly working to try and improve the accuracy of the data we report.


2. I have 23,345 links to my page but the tool is reporting 22,345, what's the deal?
See #1


3. Why does the tool report I don't rank in the top 10 at Google for my title tag when I really do?
See #1

4. Why isn't it reporting my "Age of Domain" accurately? I registered my domain a long time ago.
Age of domain is determined via the Alexa "Wayback Machine" API.  Of all the sources we collect data from, Alexa has proved to be the most unreliable (and it's the only one that costs money, go figure). 

5. What do the factors mean?
  • Links pointing to full URL - This is the number of links that are pointing to your page.  If you were viewing a report for http://www.example.com/my-page, this would be the number of incoming links to that exact URL.  This factor is an indication of link strength to your specific URL.
  • Links pointing to domain - This is the number of links that are pointing to your domain.  If you were viewing a report for http://www.example.com/my-page, this would be the number of incoming links to www.example.com.   This factor is an indication of link strength across your entire domain.
  • Position at Google for the first four words of title tag -  This is the position in the search results for the first four words of the HTML title tag on your page.  For instance, the title tag of SEOmoz's home page is "Read SEOmoz, Rank Better" and we rank #1 for that term.    This factor is a good indication of how well your page is performing at the search engines for a term that is relatively unique.  If it's not ranking it may be possible that your site is  experiencing a penalty, spidering issue, or is new and has not earned search engine "trust" yet.  We chose the first 4 words because using the entire title tag was usually too unique and would almost always report a site ranking in the top 10.  Using less than 4 words from the title tag would was too broad and most sites would typically be absent from the serps.  After a bit of research, 4 words seem to be the happy medium between the two that returned the most accurate results.
  • Age of Domain - This is a measurement of how long your domain has been registered:  the older the better.  Older sites are considered more trusted by the search engines and typically have an easier time ranking for competitive terms.  
  • Links from domains with .edu TLDs - This is the number of links to your page that are from .edu websites ( such as www.harvard.edu) .  Search engines consider these more valuable than traditional .com or .net links.
  • Links from domains with .gov TLDs -  Same as above
  • Alexa Rank  -  In short: the lower your Alexa Rank, the better.  Alexa assigns a score to every website that is an indication of popularity.  It computes this score by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users.  Although somewhat unreliable in many sectors, the Alexa rank is the most reliable when comparing websites is similar sectors.   For example: comparing the Alexa rank of a website about web design versus a site about kittens would not be an accurate comparison.  However, comparing the Alexa rank of a website about web design versus a site about web programming would be.
  • Domain name visibility - If your website is www.example.com, the domain name visibility is the number of results that are returned at Google for a search for "www.example.com." (in quotes).  Adding the quotes changes the search query to show pages across the web that have mentioned www.example.com, without quotes it would simply return a list of pages that Google has indexed from www.example.com.  This is a good measurement of how visible your domain is: are people talking about your domain?  Is it getting mentioned on forums, blogs, etc?
  • Internal link percent - This is the percent of pages on your domain that link to your target URL.  For instance,  lets suppose your target URL was www.example.com/my-page.  The internal link percent would be the percentage of links on www.example.com that point to www.example.com/my-page.  It is a way of measuring the importance of a URL on a domain.  If the URL you are fetching a Page Strength report is for the homepage of your website the internal link percent is usually 100% because almost all pages link back to the homepage.
  • Number of links according to Technorati - Technorati is a blog search engine, this is the number of sites Technorati has found that are linking to your URL.  Although weighted more toward blogs, Technorati counts links much quicker than Google and provides a better number of links initially than Google or Yahoo.
  • Number of search results for URL search at del.icio.us - del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site where users collaboratively share websites.  We use the number of people that have bookmarked your URL as an indication of popularity.
  • Listings in DMOZ (ODP) - Although it definitely doesn't pass the value it once did, links from DMOZ is still considered powerful.
  • Links found in Wikipedia - Wikipedia links are valuable - this is the number of links from Wikipedia to your target URL.
  • Google PageRank of full URL and Domain - Although inaccurate and infrequently updated, Google PageRank still offers some indication of the strength of a URL.

6. Will you be offering a Page Strength API?
We've received many emails on this subject and while we can certainly see how useful this could be, for now we do not plan to open up an API.  This is due mainly to the technical nature of how the tool works:  Page Strength is an aggregation of other APIs and scraped data sources.  Providing an API to other APIs isn't a particularly efficient or scalable way of providing Page Strength data.

7. If I become a premium member, what new features do I get in Page Strength?
You can compare factors for multiple page strength reports on a single page in tabular form.  This is great for comparing the strength of several URLs at once.    Premium members also have the ability view page strength history, where you can enter a URL and it'll show the Page Strength scores of that URL over time. 

8. I love Page Strength - How can I show my love?
In the right-hand sidebar of every Page Strength report there is some code provided that you can add to your blog or website to display a badge with your score. 

What is this XHTML junk??

What is XHTML??


Here's a good site to help you out to understand XHTML

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_xhtml.asp

Broken Link Checker

This is a helpful tool to find broken links for webmasters

http://www.iwebtool.com/broken_link_checker