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10 Ways Bloggers Can Use Twitter

Twitter is a fun and useful way to promote your blog and drive traffic to it. While it might seem that micro-blogging through Twitter might just be a fun thing to do, you can actually use Twitter to grow your blog. Remember, building relationships is a key part of growing your blog, and Twitter is an excellent tool for building relationships.

Take a look at the suggestions below for how you can use Twitter to drive traffic to your blog.

1. Drive Traffic
Twitter has a viral marketing effect to it wherein your tweets could spread quickly across the Twitter community if they are interesting. For example, if you’re hosting a blog contest or launching a new feature on your blog, send a tweet to let your followers know. Chances are they’ll spread the word as well. As word gets out, more and more people will visit your blog to check out what all the hype is about.

2. Network with Like-Minded People
Twitter is set up inherently to act as a networking tool. People “follow” users whose tweets they enjoy or interest them. As such, you’ll be able to connect with like-minded people by using Twitter which could lead to more traffic to your blog and much more.

3. Make Business Contacts
Just as Twitter is a great networking tool for finding like-minded people, it’s also very effective with connecting users with business contacts. Whether you’re looking to hire someone to help you with your blog or business (or both), looking for a new job, or just looking to bounce ideas off your business peers, Twitter can help.

4. Establish Yourself as an Expert
Twitter can help support your efforts to establish yourself as an expert in your field or blogging niche to the online community. By communicating through tweets about subject-matter you’re knowledgeable in, answering questions via tweets, and searching out new contacts, your efforts to be viewed as an expert (which gives your blog greater credibility and appeal) will grow.

5. Get Ideas for Blog Posts
If you’re having a dry spell in terms of coming up with post ideas, Twitter can help get your creative juices flowing. Read and send some tweets and see what people are talking about. Something you read is apt to spark a post idea or two to get you through a temporary state of blogger’s block.

6. Ask Questions
Just as you might use Twitter to establish yourself as an expert in your field, other people use it for the same reason. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. You just might learn something new and find new bloggers and users to connect with!

7. Provide Live Coverage
If you’re attending a conference or meeting that you’d like to share, you can send multiple tweets real-time to share the information you learn then expound on your tweets with blog posts.

8. Ask for Diggs, Stumbles and Other Promotional Help
Twitter is a great place to ask your followers to Digg or Stumble your blog posts. You could also ask other users to blog about your post with a link back to it or spread the word to their own Twitter followers to drive more traffic to your blog.

9. Accuracy and Fact Checker
Imagine you’re writing a blog post about a recent event but don’t know how to spell the names of the people involved in the event. Send a tweet to get the information you need, and while you’re at it, give your followers a heads up about your upcoming blog post.

10. Find and Share Resources
Need a quote, interview or guest post? Want to offer your services as a source? Send a tweet!

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Directory of Blog Search Engines to Find Blogs

Finding blogs is getting easier everyday thanks to the enhanced blog search engine tools available online. This directory provides a list of blog search engines to help you find blogs.

Google Blog Search
The Google Blog Search function is an excellent way to find blogs. You search using keywords just as you would for a standard Google search, and you can sort the results by date.

Technorati
Technorati tracks over 100 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. That means Technorati provides extremely comprehensive blog search results. Users can see which blogs and blog posts are most popular in several categories at a glance and conduct a variety of searches with very current results. While Google’s Blog Search might not provide the most current information in the blogosphere, Technorati will.

Sphere
Sphere is a great blog search engine that provides users the opportunity to sort results by time and relevance and also provides links to see related content to your search. One of the best features is one that allows users to view their search history.

Ice Rocket
Ice Rocket offers some very unique and helpful features. First, you can enter your keywords then search within blogs, the web, MySpace, news or images. Second, you can view the popularity of your keyword search using the Ice Rocket Blog Trends Tool. This can certainly help with a blogger’s marketing and monetization planning.

Bloglines
Bloglines is a blog search engine and a feed reader. It provides features that allow users to search and subscribe to news feeds and blogs. Users can search for posts, feeds or citations.

Blogpulse
Blogpulse offers a wide variety of tools to help users find blogs and information including Buzz-tracker, trends search, blogger profiles, conversation tracker and more.

BlogCatalog
BlogCatalog is a social blog directory where anyone can search for information from blogs that have been submitted to the catalog.

MyBlogLog
MyBlogLog is another social blog directory where registered users can search for information from blogs that have been submitted to the directory. MyBlogLog is owned by Yahoo.

BlogHer
BlogHer is an example of a blog directory where users can find a variety of blogs on specific topics or with something in common. For BlogHer, all of the blogs in the blog directory are written by women.

source:  (susan gunelius)

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Saya Amat Berterima Kasih…

Alhamdullilah, syukur..

Saya baru sahaja pulang dari sesi perjumpaan (gathering) bersama dengan rakan-rakan sekolej dulu. Terima kasih pada yang hadir. Bob Fendi, Bob Bakhtiar, Nakib, Paksu Syahmi, Rin, Mann n melya, Enal, Apiz n rina, erma, Koyo, Abu, Maccoo dan keluarga kawan-kawan yang lain.

Sedap menu di Restoran Rasa Sayang tadi. Insya-Allah tahun depan kita buat gath lagi dan pastinya lebih ramai yang boleh hadir.

P.s: Koyo jangan lupa send gambar aku dengan wife!

Hari ini topik hujung minggu, saya nak ucapkan terima kasih kepada mereka yang telah memberi backlink dalam post-post mereka, samada diblog, forum atau dimana sahaja.

Terima kasih kerana menjadikan blog ini sebagai rujukan dan tempat persinggahan anda. Diharap kita dapat berkongsi pendapat dan pandangan. Jangan malu untuk turunkan komen-komen anda disini.

Berikut adalah senarai backlinks yang saya terima untuk 1 minggu terakhir:

10 Blog Pilihan Minggu Ini

Antara Sebab Utama Menulis Blog - Program Affiliate

noorizam posted a blog entry

Kad Raya, e-Card dan SMS

MajalahIM #7 - Alang Yang Bukan Calang Calang

noorizam posted a blog entry

Nuffnang PH mo!

BAGAIMANA MAHU MENARIK TRAFFIC KE BLOG ANDA?

noorizam posted a blog entry

Olimpik Beijing 2008 bermula

Terima kasih kalian!

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5 Blog Sponsored Review Sites That Pay You to Blog

Aside from advertising and affiliate programs, another popular blog monetization method is to write blog sponsored reviews for any one of the many websites that pay you to blog. Learn about five of the most popular blog sponsored review sites that pay you to blog and start earning money from your blog.

1. PayPerPost
PayPerPost is one of the most popular blog sponsored review sites available. Blog publishers are called Posties, and those Posties join the PayPerPost publishers network and search for open opportunities that their blogs qualify for. When an opportunity is secured, the blogger writes the post based on the instructions provided and is paid based on the current PayPerPost terms.

2. ReviewMe
ReviewMe is nearly as popular as PayPerPost, however, it works quite differently from PayPerPost. When you become a ReviewMe publisher, you don’t have to search for opportunities as you would with PayPerPost. Instead, advertisers search for publishers whose blogs and websites best match their requirements then offer those publishers posting opportunities.

3. SponsoredReviews
SponsoredReviews works both ways in that publishers can search for open opportunities posted by advertisers or advertisers can search for publishers whose websites or blogs match their requirements then offer opportunities to those publishers.

4. PayU2Blog
PayU2Blog is a smaller player in the sponsored review market. As a PayU2Blog publisher, you will be given paid posting assignments on a weekly basis based on the blog profile you create.

5. SocialSpark
SocialSpark comes from Izea.com, the same company that created PayPerPost. The goal of SocialSpark is to create a “full disclosure” sponsored review system, so there is no question that the posts written as part of the program have been paid for. Additionally, SocialSpark is a social site where advertisers can handpick bloggers to help them promote their products and services through sponsored reviews or display advertising. If you’re interested in making money through sponsored reviews, but you’re concerned about losing your Google page rank or search traffic because of the penalties Google often places on blogs and websites that participate in social reviews and paid text link programs, then SocialSpark might be a good option for you.

Susan Gunelius

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What are Blog Sponsored Review and Pay You to Blog Sites?

Blog sponsored review sites and pay you to blog websites provide a place for advertisers and online publishers (such as bloggers) to find eachother. When an advertiser has a product or service to promote online, he might want to generate blogger buzz about it spread the word among blog readers. He can find a blogger who writes a blog that people who are likely to be interested in his product read, then pay the blogger to write a post about his product or service with links to his website and any other information he chooses. The blogger is paid based on the terms of the opportunity after the post is published.

The Benefits of Sponsored Reviews and Pay You to Blog Sites for Bloggers:
Sponsored reviews and pay you to blog opportunities are typically easy ways to make money. The assignments are generally simple and require only a small investment of time to complete. The pay can range from a few dollars to hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on the terms of the opportunity.

The Negatives of Sponsored Reviews and Pay You to Blog Sites for Bloggers: Sponsored reviews that aren’t related to the blog topic are useless to readers and can actually drive readers away. Additionally, sponsored reviews don’t typically pay more than a few dollars (with $25 being high) unless you have a highly trafficked blog. Finally, sponsored reviews are frowned upon by Google who might penalize you for publishing sponsored reviews. Google views posts that include links to an advertiser’s website to be a form of paid text links, which artificially inflate the advertiser’s incoming links and gives them an unfair boost in search rankings.

A Word About Disclosure, NoFollow and Google:
Advertisers and publishers could be penalized for participating in sponsored reviews. That means your blog could see a significant decline in its Google page rank or could be removed from Google search results entirely. One way around getting a paid link penalty from Google is to fully disclose your sponsored reviews as paid posts and use the “NoFollow” tag within the HTML code of your links so Google doesn’t detect those links when it crawls and indexes the web. However, advertisers are paying for those links and aren’t likely to offer opportunities for paid posts to you if you use the “NoFollow” tag.

Bottom Line:
Determine your long term goals for your blog before you being using sponsored reviews and pay you to blog sites to monetize your blog. Weigh the moneymaking benefits against the potential loss of Google page rank and search traffic before you begin publishing sponsored reviews to ensure they’re right for you, your blog and your audience. An alternative to consider is SocialSpark, which is a fairly new sponsored review site that adheres to Google’s restrictions and requires full disclosure as well as the use of the “NoFollow” tag by all publishers.

from Susan Gunelius

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Saiful Bukhari Azlan Nak Dedahkan Rahsia?

Eh.. Saiful Bukhari Azlan dah ada blog sendiri? Sejak namanya menjadi popular dengan kes liwat yang melibatkan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim,  nampaknya jejaka ini turut menggunakan blog untuk menyampaikan maklumat-maklumat yang mungkin tidak diketahui umum.

http://mohdsaifulbukhari.blogspot.com/

Itulah blog pemuda ini. Saya tidak pasti kesahihan blog ini. Adakah ia memang ditulis oleh pemuda kontroversi ini atau ada orang lain mengambil kesempatan dengan cerita-cerita sensasi ini.

Mana tahu lepas ini ranking blog ini di Alexa.com boleh naik dengan mendapat atau mungkin blog ini juga mendapat Page Rank yang baik di Google?

Selamat berblog!

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