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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Amazon API.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

E-mail newsletters and RSS feeds. RSS feeds are another good opportunity, both for content discovery and because users sometimes utilize them to power link modules on a blog or other site, in which case they become a direct source of links. Widgets and badges. Cross-network promotion.

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How to Get Your First 1,000 Followers on Every Major Social Network

Buffer Social

How to listen : iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS. Place follow links and widgets on your blog or website. Facebook offers a huge helping of buttons and widgets that you can add to your site. Pinterest offers five different styles of buttons and widgets that you can place on your website. Pin widget.

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

Adam Sherk

So I thought I’d take a look at some early examples of Facebook Open Graph integration on news sites. Not covered in my examples above is the fact that Open Graph protocol can also provide sites with additional reporting data. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Example: what Jeremiah Owyang did for Hitachi Data Systems. Ensure you offer the basics on your site, like an email alternative to an RSS subscription. Investigate whether your product sells better by recommendation versus education, and use either wikis and widgets to help recommend, or videos and podcasts for education.

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Search Engine Optimization: Why We Still Need Meta Tags

Bill Hartzer

For example, you might create a spreadsheet with all of this data: URL. That would then give you an RSS feed of the data and that might help with getting the pages indexed. There are plenty of things that you can do with an RSS feed, like add that RSS feed on other websites. Title (from the title tag).

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Popup Opt-in Forms: Case Studies, WordPress Plugins, and Alternatives

Kikolani

You can see it in the above examples for Convince & Convert, Content Marketing Institute, Duct Tape Marketing, and The Sales Lion. You can see it in the above examples for Chris Brogan, Pushing Social, and Lewis Howes. You can see a quick example squeeze page I created here. Customization of colors, text, and cover images.