Ping: A Minutes’ Work, A World Of Traffic!

Blogging can be a very fulfilling activity: but what’s the point of laughing out loud at our own wit when no one else reads our posts? The sad reality of many blogs is that they are not read at all. So much for your hard work…

Now SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an industry for a reason: it’s too boring and complicated for anyone to be interested in pursuing it seriously except SEO experts and nerds. So let’s look for a quick and easy fix for mere mortals!

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Your Business Blog: WordPress.com or WordPress.org?

Having a company blog makes a lot of sense. Wordpress.com offers a lot of value for a free blogging service but as soon as you need any functionality beyond the considerable free resources to give your blog some professional appeal, you have to pay a fee or there are limitations in place.Installing Wordpress.org is a simple process which only takes a few minutes. Adding functionality and customizing can be quite time-consuming. There are some implications to choices you make during the process which you may not anticipate. This blog could be of help to you to make the right decision between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.

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Free Social Media Monitoring Tools

Googling the term you’re after is just not enough. If you want to know where you stand in terms of brand awareness compared to the competition, you’d better have some tools to make it easier for you.Find some in depth search tools in this article. Multi-site trackers, tools to measure Twitter and Facebook activity as well as tools for bloggers. Learn more about them and try them yourself: they’re all free.

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Why Google Wave failed / Alternatives

The problem with Google Wave is not so much on the technological side as it is in the distribution model.This month Google said it will drop the experimental service Google Wave.”Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked,” said Google senior vice president Urs Holzle in a blog post.Clearly Google Wave offers a promising combination of technologies, allowing you to chat, share, bookmark and collaborate in all kinds of other ways in a single stream of activity.Had Google taken a more open approach to the product’s introduction with many more third party plugins and options, more along the lines of Twitter’s business model, I think the product might have been a success.

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Will Google Voice Give Skype A Run For Their Money?

You probably have a Skype subscription or use some other VoiP (Voice Over IP) service. Now you have another alternative:Google Voice For GMail and Google Chat!It may very well be that this step by Google is a sign that the VoiP market for consumers is now maturing and will replace the landline and mobile infrastructures in the next few years. More cheap VoiP devices will be developed and cost of usage may be lowered even more dramatically. This will give home users and small businesses similar opportunities as have been around in the corporate market for years.Is it time to ditch your landline? Maybe (not). Learn more…

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Xing’s Beste Nieuwe Features

Een van de innovatiefste features van het nieuwe Xing heet “The Mobile Handshake”. Ook zijn krachtige nieuwe zoek- en sorteer functionaliteit, outlook integratie, meer gevanaceerde mobiele diensten, bookmark knoppen en een toolbar toegevoegd. Het nieuwe Xing is een grondige verbetering die veel waar voor zijn geld biedt in vergelijking tot sommige andere grotere sociale netwerk sites. Maar behalve de “Mobile Handshake” lijkt het alsof Xing niet bereid is grote risico’s te lopen of ver voor de troepen uit te lopen als het gaat om technologische innovatie. Lees verder….

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