Facebook is a fantastic social networking platform, and hopefully you are using it already. It is a good idea for multiple reasons to integrate it with your blog, and fortunately this can be done easily.
Once you are logged into your facebook account, you can create a badge by visiting this page:
http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/
Once the badge is created, you just need to paste it into your blog. Your badge can display all kinds of cool things such as how many friends you have, recent posts, and so forth. To see more watch video #27 below: Read the rest of this entry
Twitter is a very popular site, and it continues to grow every day. It is a fantastic platform to be utilizing to find potential visitors for your blog. Twitter also allows you to create your own “badges” which you can then display on your blog.
Here is a great resource that walks you through creating a badge for your website:
http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15354
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WordPress creates a feed automatically for your blog, and this opens up some interesting possibilities for us. RSS stands for “really simple syndication”, and it is basically a feed that contains updated information that summarizes what is on your blog. This feed can then be submitted to other places.
Feedburner is a service that helps you make the most of your blog feed. It has all kinds of cool features that help with distribution, tracking the number of times it has been published, and more.
Best of all, it’s free! You can learn more about Feedburner and how to integrate it with your blog here: http://feedburner.com
Learn more about Feedburner in video #29 below:
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Marketing is an ongoing process, and analyzing your blog statistics is really important. Google Analytics is a fantastic free service that helps you easily understand your blog statistics.
You can sign up for a free account here: www.google.com/analytics/
Once you have an account, Google will generate a snippet of code that you will need to put on your blog. Fortunately you can use the Google Analytics plugin to do this easily.
Watch this quick video that shows you how to go through this process
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