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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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8 Best Google Alerts Alternatives For Brand Mentions And Industry News

Keyhole.co

Yes, Google Alerts is that free tool that has become the first choice for many marketers out there, especially newbies to the monitoring world. Like every free tool out there, Google Alerts lack loads of intuitive features. Why should you look for Google Alerts alternatives in the first place? Probably not!

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Google Wave for the Virtual Office

Freelance Social Media

So far document collaboration has been the only thing I’ve looked at so I can’t really comment on how to shuffle other media like video and web widgets. We also know that Google Voice will be linked to this in the near future. With the additions of extensions and widgets it will constantly gain functionality.

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

In the end, I decided to create this post as the overview of each topic and an introduction. If I really need the functionality, could I replace it with a widget or some HTML? My Related Posts widget now is just a custom HTML widget with the links to my most popular posts that I gather from Google Analytics.

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Pros And Cons Of Translating Your Blog Posts Into Other Languages

SocMed Sean

The Quick Overview: Translating your blog posts into other languages can have positive impacts on your search engine traffic. In my case, I wanted to make sure that folks who were already searching for my solution were able to read my post without having to resort to Google Translate.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

A good way to investigate this is to review the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster Tools, which shows URLs with 404, 500 and other errors that Google encountered while crawling the site. So maintain a decent selection of feeds and don’t let the impending shutdown of Google Reader move you away from RSS.

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How to use YouTube Creator Studio to Grow Your Channel

Hootsuite

A bit like Google Analytics, but for video. Here, you get a high-level overview of how your channel is performing with the latest video performance metrics, recent comments, channel violations, and YouTube news displayed as various widgets on the user-friendly interface. Where to find YouTube Creator Studio. Customization.

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