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Share Your Content On Social Sites with HomePuzz
Many bloggers complain about being overwhelmed with all the social media websites that they are involved in. Chances are you are a part of Facebook and Twitter. But those are not the only services that can help you connect with others, expand your community, and drive more traffic to your website. Besides, managing your presence on these social sites could take a bit of time and effort if you tackle them one by one. HomePuzz is an exciting service that can help you organize your social media life and share content across multiple networks more effectively.
The service is pretty simple to use. Once you have signed up for the service, you can use it as you would Twitter. However, you’re going to have the option to share your posts with your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, or Buzz contacts. You are obviously sharing your posts with your HomePuzz friends. So you are hitting 4 targets in one shot.
How To Add Google Buzz To Your Blog
Google Buzz is one of the most exciting new social features added to Gmail. Google is always innovating and adding new features to its existing services. Google Buzz gives you yet another way to share your content with your friends and followers. Just like Twitter, you can attract followers and leverage them to help you get your content viral. But not everyone is going to use Google Buzz right from the start. So it’s always nice to provide them with proper call to action. That’s why you should take time to add Google Buzz button and content to your blog.
If you happen to be using Wordpress to manage your blog content, you are going to love some of the Buzz plugins that have been released to the market. My favorite plugins so far are WP Google Buzz and Google Buz ER. They allow you to add Buzz buttons and content to your blog respectively.
WP Google Buzz is not only very easy to use but is very flexible as well. For starters, you won’t have to touch your code if you don’t want to. The plugin comes with 11 buzz buttons to help you choose the one that works for your blog design. You can even avoid leaking link juice by no following Google Buzz links.
How To Add Your Blog Posts To Google Buzz
In case you missed it, Google has introduced a new social networking platform to take on Facebook and Twitter. Google Buzz which sits atop of your Gmail account allows you to connect with your followers, share content with them, and comment on their posts. Your communications happen through your Gmail account, so you won’t miss anybody’s messages ever again. While the jury is still out on Google Buzz, you certainly want to add your other web presences to your Google Buzz account to get a head-start.
Adding your YouTube, Flickr, and other social networking accounts to Google Buzz is not that difficult. You can easily choose the services you want to add to your profile from the list of connected sites available through Buzz interface. But you want to be able to go beyond that and add your blog posts to your Buzz account as well. For that, you are going to do some work. But the steps are simple, so it’s not too much work. Read more »
Enhance Your Blog with Meebo Footer Bar
A few days ago, I wrote a piece about toolbars that you can add to your blog to promote your Twitter and Facebook accounts and expand your online presences. Meebo’s social bar is one of the better ones on the market today. Meebo not only makes it easy to add a social bar to your blog, its blog toolbar is very customizable as well. So you can pick and choose what you want to promote on your blog.
The customization process is pretty straight forward. All you have to do is drag and drop the service you are looking to add to your footer bar on to your bar. You can also customize the order of your footer-bar buttons by dragging them around. Read more »
3 Powerful Social Toolbars For your Blog
In case you haven’t noticed, many bloggers are now adding social footer bars to their blogs to let their visitors communicate and connect with them more effectively. Whether you have a Facebook fan page or just a Twitter account that you want your blog visitors to take notice of, social app bars can help you get more people to pay attention to your other online presences. Social toolbars have been around for a while. I was never a big fan of them as I found to be detrimental to my sites’ usability. But the latest wave of blog toolbars are much more user-friendly and don’t slow sites down either.
If you have multiple social profiles that you want to promote on your blog (in your footer section), here are 3 blog toolbars you should consider:
Wibiya: Wibiya is my favorite social media toolbar. It’s not only very easy to install no matter what platform you are using to run your blog, it also comes with a ton of apps that you can use to promote almost anything on your blog. Read more »
Social Follow: Social Media Buttons For Your Profiles
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just write your blog posts and rely on your readers to spread the word about it on top social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook and connect with you on those sites? You can always use your blog to promote your social media profiles. In order to do that you will need to have proper call to actions on your blog to make sure your visitors do what you need them to do. If your content is top notch, people will have no problem connecting with you and following you. But don’t expect them to go out of their ways to do it. That’s why you need social media buttons on your blog. Social Follow is a simple service that lets you create your social media buttons and add them to your blog to give your visitors an easy way to connect with you on Twitter, Facebook, and other top social networking websites.
You can think of Social Follow as a profile aggregator. All you have to do is provide the service with your accounts information, and the service does the rest. Whether you are on only a few social networking sites or have presence on a dozen of them, Social Follow makes it easy to add them all to your blog fast. Read more »
Redanyway: Share and Find Ideas For Your Blog
Many new bloggers complain about their content not getting enough exposure right off the bat. Some expect people to just show up everything a new blog post goes live. That can’t be further from the truth. It’s true that if your blog is popular, your visitors are going to find out about your top and new blog posts faster. But you should always give people a way to connect with your blog and share your content. Redanyway is a cool service that lets you take your blog to the next level and build a more solid community around your blog. Best of all, it gives your blog the exposure it needs to attract and retain more traffic.
Redanyway is like Twitter for blogs. You can not only share your own blog posts with the world and get people to follow your blog, you can also discover what other bloggers have to say. You can even develop ideas by figuring out what other bloggers are talking about and what seems to be popular in your niche. Read more »
6 Ways To Create Your Avatar Fast
Whether you are on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking website, chances are you have the option to add your own avatar to your profile. Many don’t even take the time to change the default picture on their profile, but those who have come to appreciate what the social media is all about never forget to do that. One way to express yourself and your fun side is by creating an online likeness for yourself. I am not a big fan of cartoonish avatars myself, but there are plenty of marketers who have used their avatars to brand themselves. Some prefer using their real pictures. I am not going to argue which choice is better. However, if you plan on creating your own avatar and have no idea where to start, here are 6 services you should try:
urfooz: a cool service that lets you create your own online portable profile. You have a lot of options to choose from when designing your avatars. Once you are done, you can post your avatar to pop social media sites.
Face Your Manga: another avatar creation tool that lets you use your creativity to develop highly sophisticated avatars. You can then grab and share it on top social networking sites out there.
Avatar Creator: one killer iPhone app that lets you create your own avatar on your iPhone fast. It actually a decent number of customization options, which is pretty neat considering this is a mobile application. Read more »
Jotabl: Add a Twitter Shoutbox To Your Blog
Bring Twitter to your website is one of the best ways to get more traffic. One way to do that is by adding your content to Twitter from time to time. Of course, if you can get people to re-tweet your posts, your traffic is only going to grow. But there is more to Twitter than just sharing your posts on it. You can also use it to solidify your existing community and build new relationships. Jotabl is one example of a service that lets you do just that. It’s designed to help you integrate a shout-box on your website. Your visitors can use the box to give you instant feedback or share their thoughts about your posts on Twitter.
The process is pretty simple. You’ll have to have a Twitter account to take advantage of this service, but you won’t have to post to Twitter when you post an update to the shoutbox. When you are creating your shoutbox, you can filter swear words just to keep the trolls at bay.
How To Add Delicious To Your Blog
Delicious is one of the most underrated social bookmarking services around. There are plenty of social bookmarking services that can drive traffic to your blog, but if I were to rate Delicious among these services, it’d be in the top 2. If you can get people to submit your posts to delicious and help spread the word around about your blog, there is no reason you can’t gain lots of traffic for your efforts. Of course, you need to be involved on Delicious, and your content needs to be top notch. Last but no the least, you need to tag your content properly.
You can always work hours on producing your killer content, and your readers may or may not take the time to add your content to delicious. But you can always push the issue by adding a delicious button to your blog posts to make the process easier for your visitors. I have talked about a few solutions that allow you to display Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious buttons in your posts, but you don’t really have to use a third party solution to get the job done. Delicious has already provided us with a set of free tools that your visitors can use to bookmark your blog posts fast.
One of the easiest way to add delicious to your blog is by grabbing the button code from Delicious. It’s a very simple text button that once clicked it will open up a window that lets your visitors bookmark your posts.
