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Retweet Button For Wordpress
Posted by: | CommentsDon’t you just love my fancy new Twitter button? —>
This great little icon not only tells readers how many times a post has been tweeted, but offers a VERY easy way to let them retweet the post! They simply click the green “retweet” button and they are automatically redirected to their Twitter home page where they will find a RT already filled in with the post name and a link. All they have to do is hit their update button and their RT is sent out into their Twitter stream.
Awwww…. come on…. I know you want one, don’t you? Then go and grab the Tweetmeme plugin and install it to your Wordpress blog. After installation, you can decide where to put your snazzy new button. You can also use the full version like the one you see at the top of this post, or you can choose to use a smaller version.
Don’t forget to follow me @kayecee and if you like this post, please RT. *smooches*
Kayecee gives the Tweetmeme plugin a five shoe review! (5/5 Shoes)
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Automatic SEO Links
Posted by: | CommentsI do a lot of affiliating with heavy content sites like this one and one of the biggest PITA’s is to go through several posts to change links. UGH! Definitely a big waste of time. You never know when a company will change networks or a specific type of URL will become obsolete. Also, with POD For You, there are some companies, such as Printfection, that don’t have an affiliate program yet. I have several links to them throughout my blog. If Printfection ever gets an affiliate program, I’ll have a LOT of links that I will have to track down and change…. as if there isn’t enough on my To Do list already. *sigh*
So what’s a busy girl to do?
Simple… I found a great Wordpress plug in called Automatic SEO Links. This baby is wonderful! I installed it and simply entered the keyword and URL. Now, whenever I type the keyword, the plug in automatically inserts the link into the first instance of it on the page! I can even choose whether to make the link Follow or NoFollow.
If I’m doing a site about gardening and want to link the word lawnmower to a specific landing page for a certain company, I simply enter the keyword “lawnmower” with the proper URL and BAM!!!! Proper link! The company changes platforms, closes its affiliate program, or switches networks? No problem! Simply go to the Admin area and edit the keyword to change links.
Kayecee gives Automatic SEO Links a five shoe review! (5/5 Shoes)
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Blog Pinging
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photo credit: Wesley Fryer*looks around to make sure we’re alone* Psssstttt…. I need to ask you a personal question. Are you a pinger?
Wait! No! I didn’t insult you just now! I swear I didn’t! Ok…… maybe I need to explain what pinging is before you continue with that indignant little hissy fit you’re throwin’. Sheesh….. here goes…..
There are several blog search directories on the internet. Technorati, Feedburner, blo.gs, and Weblogs are just a few of the well-known ones. Blog directories pull their search results from blogs. And they’ll only pull results from the blogs they know about. That’s where pinging comes in.
Pinging is simply telling a blog search directory that you have new content. Each search directory has its own procedure to do this, but it is generally very simple… just follow the directions at each site.
The easiest way that I’ve found to ping a lot of blog search engines at once is to visit Pingomatic. Just enter your blog name, the address for your blog, and (if you know it) your blog’s RSS feed. Check off all of the directories that you would like to ping. (I ping every directory except the Specialized Services ones.) Hit the little button that says, “Send Pings!” and wait until it’s finished.
Normally, a few directory pings will fail. That’s to be expected, but you can’t go back to the front page and resubmit everything immediately. You’ll get a page that admonishes you for trying again so soon. That’s actually a good thing. The directories that accepted your first ping could penalize you for multiple attempts in a short amount of time.
If you want to make sure each one gets pinged, you can visit each directory that failed. Usually, I don’t bother. I post frequently, so I just assume that the next time I ping, the directories that failed the first time will play catch-up and grab the stuff they missed this time.
This whole process is even easier if you use a Wordpress blog. You can go to Options> Writing. Scroll down to “Update Services” and enter Pingomatic’s address to make your blog ping automatically whenever you add new content. It is supposed to be there by default anyway… just give it a quick check to make sure that it is.
So I’m gonna ask you one more time….. are you a pinger?
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