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August 15, 2011 Leave a Comment

Get a shorter Google Plus Profile Link

One of the current shortcomings of Google Plus is a long and ugly profile URL. If you’re looking to pass along a shorter more attractive URL to your friends or colleagues I would recommend trying the gplus.to service, which turns your default profile into gplus.to/yournick. They give you the option of choosing your preferred nickname. [...]

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August 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

WordPress Social Bookmarking Websites

Everyone loves a free social bookmarking service, especially ones that get decent traffic and covers your niche topic. Below is four free social bookmarking websites geared towards WordPress and Blogging topics. All you have to do is register, submit your articles and start voting. 1. WPVote Most likely the most well-know WordPress Social Bookmarking service, [...]

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August 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

Google Plus Widget For Bloggers

If you’re a blogger and you’re not already using Google Plus I suggest you do so as soon as possible. Even though you might think it’s just another social network, it’s never a bad idea to get yourself and your blog/blogs on as many social media platforms as possible, because, simply put, that’s where everything [...]

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August 10, 2011 4 Comments

Google Plus User Statistics

SocialStatistics is a new web service that allows you to track user statistics over the Google + network. It also offers you the chance to track your own profile statistics, such as your followers and how your profile grows over time. You can login with your Google account or simply add your Google profile ID. [...]

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October 11, 2010

Start your own Twitter (Microblog)

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So, it’s as clear as day by now that Microblogging isn’t just another fad. It’s something that can be very valuable to any business, individual or in my case, blog owner. But apart from just using the available services such as Twitter, you can also start your own for free. You will find plenty of [...]

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February 15, 2010

South African Bloggers Network

I recently noticed a lot of South African bloggers mentioning a Ning powered Blogging Social Network, located at http://sabloggers.ning.com . It seems, however, that the site was closed down. I decided to setup a new Ning powered community at the same adress. So, if you’re a South African blogger who would like to share and [...]

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August 7, 2009

Twitter DDoS Attack

If you don’t know yet Facebook, LiveJournal and Twitter received a little wake-up call yesterday (6th August) in the form a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Facebook slowed down, LiveJournal had a few hiccups, but Twitter on the other hand, went down for a lengthy 2 hours. The DDoS attack managed to create enough [...]

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August 1, 2009

Free Twitter Buttons

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            A really great way to increase your Twitter followers is to add a “Follow Me” button to your blog sidebar, or under your posts etc. You will notice the Follow Me button in my widget bar on the right. I really liked to site which provide these buttons and [...]

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August 1, 2009

More Twitter Followers

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I’ve been using Twitter Tools for a long time to send an update of all my new posts directly to my Twitter account. I unfortunately never focused on increasing my Twitter Followers. I went Google searching and found a site called Fastfollowers.com. The site works like this : You Sign Up and connect your Twitter account. [...]

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