Image Space Media Gives WordPress Users a Revenue Boost with New Plug-in
Image Space Media, the leading provider of in-image advertising for the Internet has launched an advertising plug-in for the WordPress publishing platform, enabling users to generate revenue via its in-image advertising solution.
Internet bloggers who are seeking to generate revenue for their sites can now easily monetize images appearing on their sites through the installation of a plug-in that will automatically install the Image Space Media code into their blogs. Once installed, Image Space Media’s system will match relevant ads with images based on metadata contained in the blogger sites.
Tips for Avoiding Internet Viruses
From the Facebook addict to the Twitter newbie, everyone has a place in the social networking world today. In fact, a recent Nielsen Company report found that the time Americans spent on social networking sites in 2009 increased by 277 percent from the previous year. The high traffic and personal focus of these sites makes them the perfect place for hackers to target potential victims.
Fortunately, there are easy ways to stay safe online. Get started with these social networking safety tips from http//:www.wildbluedeals.com, the leader in high-speed satellite Internet.
The Art of SEO
Written by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, and Jessie C. Stricchiola, The Art of SEO (O’Reilly) has been voted the best SEO book of 2009 by Lee Odden’s TopRankBlog.com community, and has been ranked among the Best SEO Books of 2009 by SearchEngineLand.com editor Chris Sherman.
People who are involved in search engine optimization and internet marketing at all levels consider this SEO book invaluable – this group includes web developers, development managers, marketing executives, internet marketing consultants, and numerous key business personnel. If SEO is not your profession, the book may serve primarily as a reference – however, if you are or want to become an SEO practitioner, you will likely want to read it cover to cover.
An experienced SEO veteran will find The Art of SEO useful as an extensive reference to support ongoing SEO engagements, both internally with in-house SEO teams, and externally with outside SEO consultants.
New SEO Training Course in Ireland for Only €125
Cube Online Marketing are addressing the falling economy by helping companies take their search engine optimisation in-house and save costs on third party services. This new SEO Training Course starts on the 5th Jan 2010 and will run twice per month.
The training is an intensive one day course that will leave the participants able to optimise their own web sites. The cost for the full day is €125, which also includes a mini audit of each client’s web site.
The main difference between this training course and the others is that client will leave knowing how to research their competition, along with a list of web sites where they will be able to list their site to help it rise in the Google rankings.
This course is SEO in action, not theory; participants will leave with improved web sites, if they bring along their server login details.
MySpace Socializes Real-Time Content with New Suite of APIs
Today MySpace announced a suite of new application programming interfaces (API) that allow developers to leverage public MySpace data and create innovative applications to socialize content on and off MySpace. Opening up access to publicly available real-time data (such as status updates, music, photos, videos) MySpace reinforces its commitment to powering the real-time social Web and the development of open standards.
Mike Jones, Chief Operating Officer at MySpace, is speaking at LeWeb today to share MySpace’s real-time Web strategy and efforts to empower developers with the new APIs. Based on open standards, the new free-to-use APIs include:
- Real-Time Stream API
- Status and Mood Commenting API
- Open Search API
- Photo Upload API
- Updated Version of Post To/Share on MySpace
To encourage innovation from developers, MySpace also announced the “MySpace Developer Challenge.” The competition, which kicks off January 4, will award developers who create the most interesting use of the new APIs with cash prizes and promotion on MySpace.
Winners will be announced at the Game Developers Conference on March 10, 2010 in San Francisco. Complete contest details are available at here.
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Quench Your Thirst In “Tha Well”
The concept of creating a safe and comfortable space for persons with illnesses and disabilities is now a reality. It’s name? Tha Well – an online, social networking community with the combined features of internet giants; Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, further complimented by an unprecedented array of offline benefits. Just as water is the offering of a thriving fountain, Tha Well is an enhancement to member’s quality of life that extends social networking beyond imagining..
With 27 forums, (customized with themes and topics), story boards, and blogs, members can share both struggles and triumphs. Also included at no additional cost, are 5 Benefit Packages, two of which provide members with opportunities to hone and showcase their talents and compete for recording contracts, book publishing deals, cash, and more.
Offline benefits are equally extraordinary, one of which is The Gathering, a high-end outing hosted four times a year where members are treated to gourmet meals in top of the line restaurants and venues. Each is held in a different city/state to ensure everyone’s opportunity to attend. The Gathering includes top entertainers, guest speakers, and attendees from movie and TV celebrities, to athletes, elected officials, and medical professionals.
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Contact Button Makes It Easy To Contact and Follow
Putting out your email address on your blog is tantamount to inviting spammers to email you like crazy. Being a problogger, you naturally want to have people email you in order to communicate with them or even possibly work for them in a project, but listing your email on your blog is a big risk as you might have you email spammed. Others resort to putting a contact form but if you want to make it look snazzier, then I would suggest you try out Wikiworkbook’s Contact Button.
People no longer have to write their email as “john (at) johnsmith.com” to stop the spammers from either automatically or manually harvesting it. On a blog, the Contact Button can fit neatly into either the Sidebar or be automatically inserted at the end of each post. Visitor’s messages go direct to the user’s regular email account.
The Contact Button has a graceful dropdown which opens on mouse rollover to reveal an email icon and their social profiles – should the user choose to provide any. If a visitor clicks the “Email Me” icon, the email form opens on the same webpage – so the visitor stays on the user’s site.
Here’s what it’ll look like:
I’ve tried it out and it also allows you to put in any social network service link you have along with your email address. It also saves a lot of space since it’s a drop down menu compared to adding all your SNS packed on top of the other. So try it out!
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Protect Your Posts!
So you just spent a couple of hours hammering away at the keys to create a great post on your blog, you publish it on your blog and wait for commenters and visits to roll in. A couple of minutes later, you find out that your post has been copied on another blog and he was claiming ownership, not even providing a link to your site. You see a lot of commenters congratulating the copier from doing a great post and subscribing to his RSS feeds. Naturally you’d be feeling angry that this copier stole your post and is earning from it.
Not only are small time probloggers a victim of this shenanigans but those who are big time as well. For example, B2B CFO is a victim of plagarism a lot of times.
In June 2009, searches for key phrases unique to B2B CFO’s Web site content resulted in a stunning discovery of dozens of other businesses plagiarizing the company’s content word-for-word on their Web sites. The problem was so widespread that this year alone B2B CFO has encountered more than 40 separate cases of plagiarism, including several competitors using B2B CFO’s registered trademark.
So how did they deal with it? B2B CFO’s Founder and CEO, Jerry L. Mills and Rick Daigle, the company’s Website Plagiarism Specialist did the following:
According to Daigle, when an offender is first identified, all relative evidence of the infringement is collected and saved. Next, Mills and Daigle send a “cease and desist” letter notifying the offender of the laws against copyright infringement as a direct violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and International Law. They give the offender 72 hours to correct the issue before turning the violators over to the firm’s law firm.
Good tip. If you’re not sure on how to do it contact a lawyer that specializes in this one.
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PR Professionals Postively Optimistic
If you’re a freelance Public Relations professional, then you’ll be glad to know that your job is starting to be more important say so Vocus’s survey. It says that 80 percent of PR people say social media will be a major focus on 2010 and 64 percent stated that planning will be rather difficult.
The survey also explored budgets and found reason for cautious optimism. Forty-two percent of PR professionals report that they expect budgets to be flat in 2010, however nearly one-third also report budgets will increase. Of those, 24 percent reported expectations for slight increases, while another five percent said budgets will increase significantly.
Other key findings from the survey include:
- Trying times. 64 percent of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that PR planning will be more difficult in 2010.
- Cautious optimism. 42 percent indicated PR budgets will remain flat in 2010, though one-third also said they anticipated their budget increasing slightly (24 percent) or significantly (5 percent).
- Innovate and invest in technology. 63 percent are planning to refine processes in 2010 while 51 percent will invest in new technology in order to do more with less.
- Social media to be a key focus in 2010. 80 percent of respondents say they will focus on social media in 2010; multimedia is not far behind with 63 percent, while measuring results, SEO and viral campaigns trail with 58, 57 and 56 percent respectively.
- PR increasingly important to marketing. 64 percent believe that PR will become increasingly important in the overall marketing mix in 2010.
Things are looking up to freelance PR professionals!
Digital Experiences Drive Customers
Businesses these days have more chances of getting exposure than ever before, and if you have one it’s better if you read this.
Having an online presence, even if your products and/or services aren’t internet related, is good for your business. Adding more social networking services tools such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. to your site will make it even easier for you and your customer to interact. To further prove this, a report from FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report says:
“The ‘connected consumer’ is hungry for engaging online brand experiences,” said Garrick Schmitt, Razorfish Group Vice President of Experience Planning and FEED editor. “Conventional wisdom says consumers don’t want brands encroaching on their social space, but according to our findings, this simply isn’t true. Consumers are actively engaging with brands online, whether that’s ‘friending’ them on Facebook or writing a review on Yelp, and these experiences are shaping their perceptions – and loyalty – to those brands.”
Although this may be a boon to most businesses, but you also need to consider that you’ll need someone to focus on this job as more and more customers interact with you through various social networking services. However, it’s a double edged sword: the more you have them, the more response you have to do. If you think you can do it alone, then it would be fine, but expect a lot of customer related problems as well such as trollers, and competition ganging up on you (just like in the real world).
Good luck!