Category Archives: Social Media

Do You Really Need All Those Social Bookmarking Buttons?

Do you really need 75 different buttons and icons on your website or blog for people to share your content? Look at the items that people are using to spread your content and highlight those on your site.  Not every …

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How to add a “Tweet This” Button to Your Site or Blog

When browsing some sites or blogs, you may have seen a little green button that allows you to quickly and easily send out a Tweet about a particular page.  I recently integrated this cool little feature into my blog and …

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24 Resources That Will Help You Get More Twitter Followers

One of the key components to Twitter are your followers – the people that connect with you and interact via the service. Celebrities, politicians, and major news outlets have really embraced its power – for good reason – the service is exploding and it’s where millions of people are gathering around sharing information and having conversations. Having a large Twitter following can give you a lot of influence.

Internet marketers and businesses are always trying to find the best way to get more followers on Twitter – and so I present a large collection of posts, articles and resources that will help you do just that:

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How I Know You’re A Twitter Spammer

Although I have a Twitter account, I would not consider myself a very active or engaged user. I use TwitterFeed to automatically feed my blog posts to the service, and use it to see what’s going on – my adoption has been cut short a little because it seems like there’s a ton of spam on the service.

If you start following me on Twitter and I see that you have 17,398 followers and you’re following 18,354 – to me you come across as a spammer and you’re not going to get followed unless you have stuff that I care about. It may work for some, but you can recommend the 73 products you’re trying to sell to your other thousands of followers.

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What is RSS? (Video: RSS in Plain English)

While adoption and use of RSS is quite high, many of those that use it don’t even know that they are using RSS. It seems that I am asked many times “What is RSS?” This video explains the basics of …

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