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You’ll find all kinds of stuff posted at my blog, so keep checking back. You’ll find a lot of information related to social networking, Facebook, Twitter, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), just cool internet tools and technologies.
Bio:
Name: Steve Hart
Job: Interactive Development Director for a large media communications company.
Interest: Everything Social Networks, SEO, Blogs, and Media Publishing.
LiveKick.com Concert Tracking Site
I came across this new site that helps you track concert dates, provides concerts recommendations and has an artist search engine.
www.Livekick.com helps you find all the live concerts and tickets for your favorite artists playing in your area.
After registering, you can select that artists you want to track concert dates. You can either search by artist or select a recommended artists. Once it picks up your tastes, it will start recommending bands and artist. They do a good job of finding ‘like’ artists.
You can also import your iTunes library and they will set up concert tracking for all artists in you iTunes library. they also support importing music from services such as MySpace Music, Last.fm, Pandora, iLike or Rhapsody.
Once you have your artists and bands selected, you can have their service notify by email of up coming concert dates. They also have some great API’s to embed your selection into your site.
Once you’ve found a concert you like, Livekick helps you find the best and the cheapest available tickets online from many ticketing web sites.
Under the hood, Livekick has developed a robust live concerts search engine that continuously searches large ticket web sites such as Ticketmaster, Livenation, Stubhub, Tickets.com and eBay as well as user-generated content sites such as MySpace Music.
- Steve Hart
Bored with the Internet – Comic
I came across this great comic from the team over at http://xkcd.com.
- Steve Hart
Tags: Comic, Entertainment, funny, life
How to drive traffic to your WordPress.com blog
In response to a recent comment I received from Alex Hwang at http://thetechadvisors.wordpress.com, here’s my suggestions on increasing traffic on your www.wordpress.com blog. While I don’t claim to be an expert in this area, I have seen some recent success with these techniques on this blog. There are many more ideas to drive traffic, but they require a personal install of WordPress.
Here are my suggestions:
- Submit sitemap to Google – WordPress XML Sitemaps Submittal to Google
- Have a Twitter, Facebook, and Delicious accounts
- Distribute your posts to various social sites:
- Focus on Twitter, Facebook, and Delicious or other sites within your industry
- Check out My Social Network Publishing Model
- Brand your microblog post with your site name – see www.twitterfeed.com
- Create a Twitter direct mail auto response to new followers
- Check out Twitter Follower Auto-Responding Email Message
- Brand your blog in the direct message
- Fully utilize the WordPress SEO fields
- Become part of the community – Post comments on other sites with references to your blog. They will in turn post on your blog
- Check your site out at www.googleRankings.com Website Diagnostics Panel
- Cross site linking is key – find other sites that will link to your site and return the favor
- Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.
- Review your sites stats to see what posts are driving traffic, and focus on those topics
- Blog on a consistent periodic basis so your readers know when to check back
- Create a “Rap up” post reviewing the post from the past week or month depending on your post frequency
- Promote your posts on Digg and StumpleUpon. Unfortunately these are manual processes
- Make sure you tag your posts!
- Create great content
- Ensure you blog has a purpose
- Create hyper links to other sites within your posts
- Link Building Tricks for Search Engine Optimization SEO
- Use graphics/photos – pay attention to meta tags (Alt tag, description, link url) .
- Ask your readers for their opinions and or suggestions
- Focus on hot topics and keywords
- Post titles should contain relevant keywords. Use catchy headlines
Remember, driving traffic takes time. If your blog is new, don’t expect lots of traffic. Stick to it and keep blogging. If your content is good, readers will find you following the steps above.
If you have other suggestoins, I like to hear from you.
- Steve Hart
Tags: Blog, driving traffic, increasing traffic, Page views, SEO, wordpress blog
Free Business Cards From Google
For a limited time, Google is giving away free business cards.
Here’s the catch…you only get 25 business cards and they’re based on your free Google profile page.
Not a bad deal…they’re free.
To get your free business cards, go to http://www.google.com/profiles/me and set up a profile. Add as much information as you can. Once saved, you should see the “Freed Business Cards” offer at the top of the page. Walk yourself through the iprint.com process and your cards will be shipped free of charge.
Update: 5/11/09 – here are the cards I received:
- Steve Hart
Sell Your Twitter Name
Have a great Twitter account name? Think someone would want to buy it? Tweexchange thinks so too.
Here’s the latest in entrepreneurial social networking money making schemes. Post your twitter account and price and let the money roll in. Now Twitter has a policy about not selling names, but I don’t know how they’ll enforce it.
- Steve Hart
Random Free Stuff From eBay – Policeman Statue
What the heck? The best part of this is “Start a village people collection” comment.
It just goes to show you, you can find anything on the web. I once bought a used 1997 Dodge Neon red (matched my son’s car) gas door lid for $8 bucks on eBay. Why would someone think of putting this crap online for someone to buy? It worked out for me…
Tags: craigslist, ebay, funny, wierd
Get Your Own Google Profile URL While They Last
Google profiles has recently added the feature to “roll your own” URL cap. So instead of Google.com/profiles/12345, you can now use www.google.com/profiles/stevekhart. This is a big step for Google. The catch is you get one shot at choosing your URL cap.
If you’re a Google user, head over to the link below and edit your profile. You can use your Google profile page for search engine purposed (so people can find you) or just another crazy profile page.
- Steve Hart
Tags: Custom URL, Google, Google Profile, URL, URLs
Xobni Launching V1.7 – No more beta!
After almost one year of beta testing Xobni, today we launch Xobni 1.7, which is the first version of Xobni without the beta label. Version 1.7 dramatically improves the performance and reliability of Xobni. Users will observe the following improvements:
- Outlook now starts 31% faster*
- Xobni Profiles now load 42% faster*
- Users can control how often and how much data xobni indexes
- Users can control when Xobni is running
* Users with large inboxes will experience more dramatic improvements. We made these improvements for you!
Here’s my original post on xobni.
I’ve installed the latest release and the perfomance is extremely better!
- Steve Hart
Completely Unscientific Pie Chart Of Who Uses Twitter/Facebook And Why
The folks over at brainz.org came up with these amusing pie charts to explain who’s using Facebook and Twitter
Check out the rest of the charts here.
- Steve Hart
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- Steve Hart
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