Buttons make the world go round. The reason for using buttons is that a lot of people don’t realize they are using social bookmarking services or RSS Feeds. They just call it Twitter, Facebook or Yahoo. They know clicking on those links adds it to their page or helps them share it. That’s why a simple RSS button or no social bookmarking links won’t help our cause.

Adding RSS Feed Buttons To Your Blog

Go to http://www.totallyfreeblogtools.com

Click on RSS Feed buttons tool.

Scroll down.

You should see Choose Feed Type . Choose the appropriate option. Type in your RSS address in the box or boxes that appear. Then right down you will see a couple of buttons.

Choose the buttons you wish to appear on your Blog or Site. Subscribe , Yahoo, Google and AOL.

Click on the Get RSS Feed Buttons Code.

Select the Code and Copy it All.

Once you’ve done that, log in to your WordPress Blog‘s Admin Section.

After logging in click on Appearance.

Click on Widgets.

Add a Text Widget to the Sidebar.

Open the Text Widget to edit it.

Before pasting the code that we copied, type in <ul>

Paste the RSS Feed Buttons Code.

At the end type </ul>

You can add a Title to the Text Widget if you like.

After that Click on Done.

Then Save Changes.

And You’re done.

Adding Social Bookmarking Buttons to Your

WordPress Blog.

The easiest way to do this is to install the Plug in called Sociable. There are a few other plug ins but Sociable in my opinion is the neatest and works best.

So Log in to your Blog’s Admin Area.

Click on the Plug ins tab.

Click on Add New.

Type Sociable into the search box that appears on the page and click search plugins.

Sociable should be the first plug in that turns up. Install it.

Once Installed you should see it under the Settings Tab.

Go to Sociable Settings.

Select the Sites you want displayed.

Scroll Down to Position. Select the options you want.

When you’re done scroll down and click on Save Changes.

That’s pretty much it. That is bare minimum you should choose to do. You can mess around with the other settings if you want to. But this is all that’s required.

Hope this helps. Would love to hear your Feedback . A lot can be found through Google for FREE. I suggest using it often.

As Always

Take Care.

Have a Great Day !

Twitter is becoming popular amongst marketers. The important thing is that it works. You are in all honesty better off not ignoring it. Today’s short Blog post is about adding a “tweet this” link to your Website or Blog.

You can achieve this by copy pasting the code below and of course changing the web address and message to suit your needs.

<a href= ”http://twitter.com/home?status=Serving Niches (http://servingniches.com/testblog)”>

Tweet about Serving Niches

</a>

The end result of this above code will look like the Link below.

Tweet about Serving Niches

<a href= ”http://twitter.com/home?status=Google (http://google.com)”>

In this part you should replace the (http://google.com) with your site address or whatever you want it pointed to .

“status=Google ” Here “Google” should be replaced with the message you want displayed.

Tweet about Google

</a>

and you would want to replace “Tweet about Google” to what you want displayed there.

When a visitor clicks that code , they will taken directly to twitter.They will have your tweet and your site address in their update box. All they have to do is press the update button. You can click on it yourself and test it.

Watch out for tommorow’s post if you found this one helpful. I’ll explain how you can put up those wonderful twitter , facebook and other logos of bookmarking sites in much more detail.

As Always

Take Care .

I found this article on ArticlesBase.com . Thought it was special so i’d share it with you. ArticlesBase lets you use their articles for FREE. This is another great way to add content to your Blogs especially on those days when you’re not feeling upto it. Enjoy !

The Price of Internet Marketing Products is Highly Exaggerated

Author: DOGRAWONG

As autumn and cold crawl their way into Canada and the sun sets before 4 p.m., this darkness and quietness bring along a time of reflection for all of us. The assessment I want to share with you is about internet marketing. Although my list of things to do seams never-ending, I am very happy to realize all I have accomplished in less than a year ( over 40 active web sites, a hypnosis for childbirth program that already got international recognition, over 100 published articles on the net, etc)  I have been in internet marketing for a little less than a year and I have attended ten internet marketing seminars in 2006. I am the kind of person who likes to get to the bottom of things. For more details go to: www.internet-marketing-word.com I want to share my findings with people who are starting, thinking of starting or even stalling in the internet marketing business.  The ten biggest pieces of wisdom I want to share with you about internet marketing I have learned are:  1) The price of Internet Marketing products is highly exaggerated. Many marketers are comfortable taking hundreds of dollars for useless e-books or software. They are able to overcharge such big money for two main reasons: their customers believe their well-written sales letter promising them to become a millionaire by working only two hours per day. The second reason is that since other people have raised the bar before them, they feel comfortable with overcharging for their products. I encourage everyone who is about to purchase any internet marketing product to take a deep breath, backing up and do an internet search. Most probably, the product or its equivalent is already available for a fraction of the price on the internet.  My opinion is that no e-book is worth that much unless it provides me with the code of the safe at the bank for this internet marketer.  2) In the internet marketing business there are dreamers and there are doers. I have repeatedly met some people at internet marketing seminars who have not taken action and just keep buying the next product promising them a fast an effortless income. My experience is that it takes work (but then again I don’t see it as work as I enjoy it very much) at least in the beginning to secure a decent income in the internet marketing business.  3) Many internet marketers made their fortunes by selling products to people who want to make a fortune in the internet marketing business. Willie Crawford draws the parallel that the people who got the richest during the gold rush were the ones selling shovels and sticks to the gold diggers.  Anyone interested in internet marketing has to ask themselves if they have just been enriching the people selling them promises to make millions in the internet business.  4) There are basically three categories of internet marketers out there: the ones who just want your money, the ones who give you a good deal for your money and the ones that genuinely care about helping you making good money by sharing their efficient tactics.  I will, of course, not name any names here and I think that deep down people know what kind of marketers they are. I can tell you that upon trying to do a mental list of the genuine, caring ones, I had enough of my ten fingers to do the complete list.  5) The real successful internet marketers are often not on stage at seminars. I have met some very successful and knowledgeable people by talking to the person sitting next to me at seminars. I highly recommend you get to know the attendees at any given seminar; you will be surprised to sometimes find out that they know more than the speaker upfront and wiling to share everything with you…for free.  6) A masterminding group is a great resource to learn and share tricks and tips about internet marketing. The rule is to be part of a group that is about (or even better, a little above) your level of knowledge and accomplishments in internet marketing.  7) Action is power. Whatever piece of gold nugget you learn is useless if you do not take action on it. Many people are eternal course takers but have yet to get their first web site up. For can visit to: www.secretly-spy-your-internet-competition.com Even the best intended internet marketer will not make a penny if he doesn’t get his product out there. I have heard numerous times the advice to put out your product and fix the fine details later. It has been a little challenging for a perfectionist like me but, honestly, it works great. Often, customer comments allow me to go back and improve my product in ways that I would have never thought of.  8) Internet marketing is a number’s game. If you put all your eggs in one basket, you might rise very fast very high and then tumble down as fast. Diversity is the foundation for a solid business.  9) There will always be new things to learn. One cannot stay in their basement and hope that the world will not change. The internet marketing world is one that changes at the speed of light and one has to keep informed of the new trends and developments.  10) The Internet is here to stay. Internet has been growing at an astonishing rate and those who got in the game will be ahead of the pack in this exciting and powerful window to the world. The possibilities are infinite.    http://www.squeeze-page-profits.com      http://www.tube-traffic.com

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/business-ideas-articles/the-price-of-internet-marketing-products-is-highly-exaggerated-730596.html

Using RSS Feeds to write posts on your WordPress Blog.

Hello. Its been ages since I last posted. For those of you wondering why that is, all I can say is Mom , India, No Internet Access, Hospital , everything’s okay. Moving on ….

This is ridiculously Easy. Don’t worry about it too much . A site filled with some original content and RSS feed content isn’t going to have any problems.

You can do this only if you have a WordPress Blog. You don’t need one that hosted somewhere. One on WordPress.com should do.

First you need to download FeedWordPress plug in.

Click here to download FeedWordPress Plugin for wordpress

For more detailed info on the plug in itself or the makers. Visit http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/

OR

login to your wordpress administartion area. Choose plugins and click on add new. Under the search tab in the empty field ,type feedwordpress. its the first one that turns up. install and activate the plug in. If you’re asked to Update Magpie RSS please do so.

You should now see a tab called Syndication in the administration area.

Congratulations ! You’ve successfully downloaded and activated the Plug In.

Here’s the wonderful part that not everyone knows. So we need good and useful Feeds to put on our Blog. Fret not. Finding them isn’t as hard as it sounds. These days they’re basically everywhere.

For the sake of keeping this Post short and not driving you nuts, we’re only going to discuss a few sites you can use to get RSS Feeds. You know them, you’ve already heard of them and have probably used them. Just not this way. You’ll know more than enough to do this by yourself at the end of this article on any site that provides this feature.

Example using Digg –

Digg  ( http://www.digg.com/search)

this should take you to the Digg Search Page. On the search page choose all. Search for your choice of keywords until you are happy with what you see.

What we’re going to do is save the RSS Feed of the Search result. What this does is that everytime a new result or new news item or video or article gets added to Digg, you get updated automatically.

Save the RSS feed for this search by right clicking on the orange RSS icon in the top right and click “Copy Link Location”. This link is your content specific RSS Feed.

Basically you can do this on a lot of sites. Technorati, google blog search , youtube, PRWeb, Yahoo News! etc.

We’re not done yet. So after clicking on “Copy Link Location”. Go to the Administration Area of your WordPress Blog. Click on the Syndication Tab. On the right , you should see “Add new source” . Paste the link location in the field provided and click on Syndicate. If the whole thing was successful , you should see a button saying “Use this feed” . Click on it. It should now be added under syndicated sources. Click on the box next to it and click Update Checked. You should have a few posts waiting for you.

Should you wish to review the posts before anything gets posted, click on posts under syndication. Choose the option you prefer and you should be done.

And that’s all there is to it.

Have Fun with It.

See you soon !

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Getting a faster Internet connection is definitely going to make yours and everybody else’s life much easier.

Part Two

Pictures from left to right : This site ( lol ), Mindcontrol101 Blog, Sun.com , Django official Site. Don’t think too hard about the pictures. It just happens to be where I’m spending most of my time these days online.

Ever tried maintaining websites and blogs with a Dial-up connection? Well I have and you don’t want that wonderful experience. A simple edit takes what seems like a lifetime. Painful Memories.

Lately I’ve been checking out Virtual Box and Open Solaris. Playing around with Google app engine and Django. Been having fun in a way and strangely slacking from posting.

Completely unrelated to Blogging and to better understand what I’m going on about , check this out. The link is about building an impressive web application, including a sample to work with , using Google App Engine and JQuery. Check it out even if you have not slightest Idea about programming. Quite a Few of you don’t mind programming and will enjoy this. All the resources you’ll ever need to learn this are available for FREE online.

Once again to go there click on the link below

Get started with Web application development

1) ShoZu

Upload Pictures and Videos off your Phone to various well known social networking services. Hear it used to be a pain before this came along.

www.shozu.com/portal

2) Slide

Create your own Slide shows.

www.slide.com

3) Switch a Bit

Update most of your social media websites from one spot.

www.beta.switchabit.com

4) Orgoo

Keep all of your messages in one spot, including your email. You can now combine gmail , live and hotmail accounts with just about any social network . All of us have better things to do than login to our numerous email accounts and read mail all the time. While email isn’t going away , this service will bring you closer to that dream.

www.orgoo.com

5) Go 2 Web 2.0

A directory of Web 2.0 Sites. Amazing stuff. Check it out sometime. They have a Blogging web 2.0 tools and applications. Great Links. If there’s one link in this post you absolutely must check out, its this one. Mad amounts of sub categories and great links. The ones mentioned before this are services I use often. Thought I’d share them.

www.go2web20.net

As Always

Much Love

Have Fun