Twitter Advanced Search – Find those hidden gems
Twitter is a torrent of information. And those tweets just go whizzing by on your timeline! So with all the noise on Twitter, how do you find the information or people you are looking for? Well luckily for us, Twitter has provided a simple tool and some powerful tricks to help you find the exact […]
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Using Hashtags the right way on Twitter
What are those funny little symbols? You know the ones I mean. Those criss-crossed lines that I see everywhere on Twitter. I think it’s called a hash or pound sign, and everyone is using them! But what are these crazy little critters for? I mean really! If I don’t use them, does it mean I […]
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How to Convert at Ridiculous Rates with Your eBook
The following is a guest post from Greg Narayan, who blogs with passion at Dear Blogger. In this post Greg is going to blow your mind with the possibilities of eBooks and ridiculous conversion rates (and by ridiculous – he means 10-15% of people who show up on your blog!). Take it away Greg… Not too […]
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How to Help Readers “Get” Your Blog Posts
The following is a guest post by Lorraine Reguly, a writer, blogger and editor I met via the Bloggers Helping Bloggers Group on LinkedIn. Over to you Lorraine! Getting your message across to your readers is one thing; getting readers to your message is another. This post will focus on the former; you can read this […]
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Don’t lose your visitors! – Speed up your website
You have probably noticed it yourself when you are waiting for a website to load. The page is coming, and coming, and coming, and then you say to yourself – “I have better things to do!” (I use more swear words, but that is just me). After losing your patience, you leave the site! Onwards […]
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Pump up your website with a simple favicon
It’s the small things in life that often make the biggest difference. And this is never truer than with a website. Have you ever noticed those cool little icons on the tabs in the browser? Or in your favourites list? They match the site’s logo too! Well this, my friend, is a favicon. And your […]
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Blog Email Lists – Which is the best service?
I lost two thirds of my email list! Yes, that’s right. That goose the lays the golden eggs has flown the coop. The thing I worked so hard to build over the last 6 months has been decimated. How could this happen you ask? After all, it’s all in the list they will tell you. […]
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6 Ways to Reduce your Bounce Rate
As the traffic to your site increases, it is actually quite exciting. The numbers rise, the stats increase, things are looking up! Then someone mentions Bounce Rate. You take a look at yours and it is really high – NOT GOOD. But what is Bounce Rate? Let’s take a look. Definition of Bounce Rate Take […]
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Speed Up Your Website With Simple Image Improvements
Speed is everything. Ok, almost everything. We all like Ferraris right? Well maybe you can’t afford one. But you can afford to make your website faster. This is a great strategy to make your readers and customers happy. Google might even rank you higher too! What? That’s right. Page speed (load times) is measured by […]
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Spice up your Website with Free Images
Beware of Borrowing Any Image If you are just grabbing images off the web, from google image search, other blogs etc, and think that there is no copyright!! Beware. A change to the copyright act some years ago means that there is always an implicit right on images. So……..Stop it!! Read on for the solution […]
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