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8 Basic Yet Necessary Tools or Plugins for your Site

Idaconcpts

There are many basic, yet overlooked, tools and plugins that you can add into your website arsenal to add functionality and intention to your business or personal site. Tools in Action. Tools in Action. First, let’s see how effective a good widget or app can be. Eight Crowd Pleasing Tools/Plugins.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

A simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. Budget: $0 (I have no budget, I need something free!).

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Spring Cleaning For Your Blog – How A Little Work Can Drive Search Engine And Social Media Traffic

SocMed Sean

7 Tips For Cleaning Up Your Blog And Improving Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Clean up those plugins – If you have been trying out new plugins or widgets for your blog, be sure to delete them if you’re not using them. Do you have too many widgets? Are those widgets slowing down your blog?

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Search Engine Optimization: 5 Keyword Research Tips

Bill Hartzer

A big key is using the correct keyword tool. Also, realize, no one tool is completely accurate, so you have to use a combination of tools, including your own analytics data to optimally select target keywords. Here are a few tools you can use. Selecting the appropriate keywords is an art. Share this on del.icio.us.

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An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

The Huffington Post The Huffington Post has added a “Hot on Facebook” module to its home page and in a sidebar on posts: I like this and think it will do a good job of encouraging user clicks, similar to the Digg widget that has worked well on news sites.

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3 Reasons Why Pinterest May Succeed Where Google+ Has Failed

SocMed Sean

Through the use of a custom browser widget, Pinterest members can capture media from any public Web site or blog and “pin” it to a virtual pinboard, usually organized around a specific topic (e.g “cool shoes”, “food I’d like to try”, or “my art”). Email this to a friend?

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12 of the Best WordPress Guides, Hacks and Plugins of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

An outstanding list of useful WordPress plugins from Andy Beal, author of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online and the brain behind the Trackur social media monitoring tool. 25 Top WordPress Plugins You Should Know About by Ask WordPress Girl. 35+ Most Essential WordPress Tricks and Hacks by Artatm.

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