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How to Use TweetDeck to Create Twitter Lists

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If you love Twitter and Facebook, chances are you know TweetDeck is an Adobe Air application for Twitter Lovers. TweetDeck gives you the ability to monitor and respond to conversations across your Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn profiles. It also has tons of features to help streamline your social marketing and networking (more in future blog posts).
The Benefits of Using TweetDeck to Rock Social Media Marketing
The more you grow you social media sphere of influence, the more you will want to organize and monitor conversations with certain friends to gain the maximum benefit from your networking. [...] Continue Reading…

Does Your Blog Have a Business Plan?

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Blog Business Plan Blog Business Plan

Are you blogging to make money? If you are, you are building a blogging business. No matter how big or small your blogging goals are, you should have a business plan outlining those goals. How else can you monitor your progress if you don’t know what your goals are, right?

I admit, I am not the best at writing down my goals, but when I do write them down and focus on the goals they get completed, and I make bigger strides towards reaching my blogging goals. The following is what I’ve learned first hand from working on 3 separate business blogs. I have not found any content online outlining a step-by-step process for creating one, so I’m using my experience to create a blogging business plan. I call it my Blogging GPS. [...] Continue Reading…

Protect Your Blog From The Bot’s

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Bot and Spam protection for your blog

Sabre: Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine

Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.

Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers?

Sabre is the solution to stop these robotized visitors! [...] Continue Reading…

2 Keywords Optimization Tools You Must Have

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Keywords Optimization Tools

Keywords Optimization Tools

Keywords are the lifeblood of getting found online. Knowing how to land on the first page of the major search engines for certain keywords is what all businesses strive for because of one simple equation:

Web Visibility = Traffic = Clients

Before you can SEO or search engine optimize your blog or website you must know the keywords that your potential clients will be typing to find you, your products and services. AKA It all starts with keyword research and keywords optimization.

There are plenty of free and paid tools that will allow you to find the keywords that your potential customer/target audience is searching for across the search engines. While this is beyond the scope of this article, you can find information on conducting keyword research here at Secrets to Web Success (Google Adwords free keyword tool in particular or simply type something in the search field on the top right).
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18 Wordpress Plugins To Ensure Web Success

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I have been promising a list of my personal *must have* plugins that I install on any new blog. Today, that promise is kept.

These are the plugins I install on every blog I create, regardless of niche or specialty. There are a few that I add to certain types of blogs that will won’t be discussed, but you can get more information on these in my book, the Ultimate Guide To Wordpress Plugins.

They are listed alphabetically, not in the order of installation.

Each of these plugins play nice with all the plugins listed here. No animals were harmed during the making of this list.

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Get Higher Search Engine Rankings with the Sen SEO Plugin

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One of the factors you can control when it comes to getting higher search engine rankings is your on page SEO.

On page SEO is everything you do on your site internally to optimize your content for the search engines.   I recently blogged about the Sen SEO plugin for firefox, which teaches you how to do just that.
Higher search engine rankings mean more readers and possibly more clients and sales.
Below you will find a video tutorial for the sen seo plugin that shows you how to:

get the plugin
read the results
improve your content’s on page seo and rankings
scope your competition

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