Saturday, September 13th, 2008
There are many ways to get links from social media. One such technique is to establish profiles on various social media, and link from your profile on those sites, back to your web site. The key obviously is in knowing which social media sites permit links, and which permit DoFollow links.
To save some time, here are the list of 22 such sites:
1. Digg
2. Propeller
3. Flickr
4. Kirtsy
5. LinkedIn
6. Current
7. PostonFire
8. BloggingZoom
9. CoRank
10. Technorati
11. MyBlogLog
12. Bumpzee
13. LinkaGoGo
14. Bibsonomy
15. Mister-Wong
16. MyLinkVault
17. ClipClip
18. 9Rules
19. AssociatedContent
20. Blogoria
21. NowPublic
22. MemeStreams
23. Mixx
24. Edopter
I intend to keep updating this list over time so bookmark it now. Also, if you’re aware of any such social media site, please leave a comment and let us know. We’ll add it to the comprehensive list, and will link back to each person’s site doing so. Happy Linking!!
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
How do we integrate Plurk and Twitter ? The secret lies in RSS , that simple little protocol that is serving to glue so many websites together. You see, Plurk lets you export your Plurks as as RSS feed. You can see the hyperlink to this on your Plurk screen:
Copy this URL and head down to TwitterFeed . TwitterFeed is a little tool that lets you subscribe to an RSS feed and send updates to your Twitter account whenever there’s a new update. See where I’m going with this? You’ll need an OpenID to sign up with TwitterFeed but it’s quite easy to get one. Once you sign up, you’ll be shown a screen to set up your feed:
The options are quite straightforward and these are the things you need to fill in:
- Your Twitter credentials (you can test these are correct)
- Your Plurk RSS feed . We copied this earlier (you can test these too)
- Update Frequency . I set these to the smallest interval: 30 minutes
- Include : Set this to Titles only. If you use Titles and Description, you’ll just get the same thing repeated twice.
- Prefix each Tweet with : Set this to whatever you want. I set mine to Plurk, but I think I’ll remove it.
- Filter by keyword : I didn’t use this feature, but if you want a keyword to tell Twitterfeed which Plurks to send to Twitter and which not to, you could use this to tag your Plurks
Click Update and you’re done. Send a Plurk and wait for it to come out on Twitter.
Try Plurk, sign up here (you can not follow me coz i don’t have plurk account *LOL*. Follow me at Twitter )
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