10 Tips for Using Twitter to Promote Your Site

Promoting your blog through Twitter takes persistence, but your efforts will pay off in the form of new readers. There are several things to keep in mind when promoting your blog on Twitter.

1. People care about themselves

Just as you want to be on Twitter to have people flock to your site, others are using Twitter to find solutions to their own needs. You want to offer some value to others, rather than talking about yourself.

2. Listening is valuable

If you are new to tweeting, read the tweets that others are posting. Get ideas of what tactics you'll use to do your blog promotion. Many new bloggers want to jump right into the Tweetosphere without exercising discretion.


3. Free stuff is great

Others will go to great lengths to get their hands on free stuff even if the free stuff has no value to you. Many folks will become very excited about things that they don't need if the right tone is used.

4. Content is still king

You have traveled outside of the blogosphere. Content is still king. Write compelling headlines for blog articles and use Twitter to promote them. If people are interested, they will follow you back to your blog.

5. Coupons are cool

If you sell a product, offer discounts to people who follow your tweets. You can sell more items as well as get a good handle on who is following your public tweets. This generates a lot of new business that you can capitalize on.

6. You must be present to win

If you are going to use Twitter as a viable means of promotion, you have to be paying attention to what is going on. this means that you can't show up for a day or two and then let it just happen. Set aside a time for tweeting every day and learn.

7. Whiny people suck

People don't want to be guilt tripped into going to a blog. They will feel resentment and aggravation. they won't go in the first place, or won't stay there for very long. Tweets which sound broken down or desperate get ignored.

8. Don't be a parrot

If all you do is mimic other people's content, your followers will become more prone to read that other person's work instead of yours. Retweeting some things is okay if interesting, retweeting everything leads others to believe that you really have nothing to say.

9. Spreading the word is fun

Talk about stuff other than yourself or your blog. If something interesting or entertaining is happening in your neighborhood, talk about it. There are often community events which are worth noting to the world.

10. Learn from the best

There are thousands of people out there who use their tweeting effectively. Find out more about these people by following their tweets and learn from their style. The more you learn, the more followers you can get.

Twitter is a great tool to use for long term growth of your blog. It is used to develop trust, not the immediate sale. The best rules to follow are to be yourself and have fun.

This is a post contributed by James Adams, tech writer and analyst working at an online specialist in franking machine ink cartridges based in the UK. Get his latest writing by subscribing to their blog.

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Blogger Posting Preview now in Main Page and Blogger New Video Player

Before few days, I posted about Blogger Posting review. That was only available on blogger draft. But, Blogger in Draft recently announced that it is available to everywhere. You can use this feature from blogger's main page. Now, you can freely preview your post before posting without going to blogger draft.

Well, There is another one good news for the blogger users. Blogger has changed the video player that is based on YouTube. The video player layout is is just like YouTube. Just try it by uploading video on blogger and see how it looks like.



If you want to suggest more feature to blogger, then you can head to the blogger suggestion page. Blogger is calling for your help for development :)

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Creating professional animated ad banner using photoshop

Many of us waste our money for the blog expenditure. Advertising is one of the most popular way to uplift our business. Especially, we use graphical banners in advertising platform. The most attractive, professional looking, and animated banner can impress any person that who see the banner in your website. You can make your own professional banner with out wasting your money even you are not skilled in banner designing.



We can design our banner in photo shop, it just take about 20-30 minutes. This step by step tutorial helps you to create professional, attractive and animated banner.

So, let's start with new document. We will use standard sized banner which is 468X60px. File > New. Type width 468px, height 60px and Resolution 300px.

I am creating banner for hacktutors.info So, you have to include your own site brand.

Use the text tool to create your site logo.

Now, we use Ellipse shape tools and create round shape to give a proper looks on the right hand side of the banner.

Give it some color by applying Gradient. Layer > Layer Style > Gradient Overlay.

Apply Inner shadow and Drop shadow as default option. But, you have to change both opacity in 25%.

You can also use white color gradient in background. Add the rounded corner shape tool and created a shape just below your logo for the tag line. Appliy a gradient layer style with the following colors.

Also, apply 2px white color stroke. Layer > Layer Style > Stroke. Then, type you website tag.

Now, you banner is ready to animate. Use Type Tool and type a text for the first frame.

Now, hide that text by click on eye icon.

Again use Type Tools and write your second line. Second line must be in same line as you type in first line.

Now, banner looks like this:

It is ready to animate. Click "Switch to ImageReady" button below the left tools box. But, it is not available in Photo Shop CS4. For the CS4 users, Go to Windows > Animation.

Click the new frame icon. It is also use to duplicate the last frame.

Select the second frame and select the visible text layer and press up arrow twice. It will move the visible text 2 pixel upward.

Now, Duplicate the last frame. Move the text down about 10px. Or press 10 times down arrow. Set the layer's opacity 70%.

Duplicate the last frame. Move the text layer by 12px. Or press down arrow 12 times. Set the layer's opacity 40%.

Again, Duplicate the last frame. Now, hide the current visible text layer and make other text layer visible.

Move the text layer down at same position as other text was. And set the opacity 40%.

Again, Duplicate the last frame. Move the text by 12px upward by pressing uparrow 12 times. And set the opacity 70%.

Duplicate the last frame. Now, move the text by 6px up by pressing up arrow 6 times. Set opacity 100%.

Duplicate the last frame. Move the text by 2px down by pressing down arrow twice.

At the bottom of each frames, you will see "0 sec.", this is the time between each frame. We have set all of these to "0.05" OR "0.1", any, depends on how fast you want it.

To make it good, try to put time to "0.1" to all frames except first and last frame. You have to put "2.0" seconds in the first and last frame time. And it will looks like this:

And finally your banner is ready,

Now at last, Save it for the web with suitable banner resolution.

You can design your own banner by showing your result different from this. This is just an example for you.

So, how is it? Hope this was not so difficult. Feel free to give your suggestion and your opinion. If you are confused in any step, then you are most welcome to ask me any question via comment. You can show me your result after you have done :)

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Post High Quality Image in Blogger by using Simple Trick

When we upload picture in Blogger, it automatically resizes to the small image. It looks low quality and small that we can’t understand image properly. The image what we see is small but when you click that image, the original and big size of image will open. That means, the image source and image URL is different. Look at the following example, it is low quality image and it is not clear. Now, just click the following image.

Do you notice that, the image which open in new window is big and it have its original size? It is different because the image that you see above has different Image source and URL. It happens automatically after you post article with an image.

So, there were just different URLs. Let’s try to be closer with this confusing URL mystery of Blogger. Upload a new picture in Blogger. It will automatically resize. Now, switch to Edit Html tab in the top of the post editor. And you will have the code something like this,

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxIxkewZiIlfdwtd7AQ8Fv2zZAdlIeyrhnnHHnro40t0JrDa172kuinYrTwFc8K_PYU6uhlhDcvrztUpKLUQAw3TgDDQN46w5vAp60WFZdaUhbtrHVnrCo-n1XTkSFqsARUmm1H0V6QM/s1600/Flower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxIxkewZiIlfdwtd7AQ8Fv2zZAdlIeyrhnnHHnro40t0JrDa172kuinYrTwFc8K_PYU6uhlhDcvrztUpKLUQAw3TgDDQN46w5vAp60WFZdaUhbtrHVnrCo-n1XTkSFqsARUmm1H0V6QM/s320/Flower.jpg" />

Look at the both image source and URL. Can you find any differences? Yes, there is only one different thing that is s1600 and s320. S1600 refers to the big image and that is the URL for image link. S320 refers to the small image and that is the URL for image source. So, to post original sized picture, you have to use the same URL for image source. Copy the URL from the image URL and paste to image source. Look at the following example.

s1600/Flower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">s1600/Flower.jpg" />

In the image source, I remove s320 and replace it to s1600. Now, switch to the compose tab on the top of the post editing tools and how it looks like.

From now, you can post a high quality image in Blogger with the help of this simple tweak. Please share your opinion, feel free to share whatever in your mind. Comment is welcomed to all J

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Google Feedburner Subscribers Disappeared

Updated: I just post this article before an hour. And Feedburner reconsidered me :D Google's Feedburner already solve my problem. I recover my all kind subscribers. Look at the following graph and see how it grow up.

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I shocked when I see the Feedburner subscriber count of this blog. Just before this day, there were 91 RSS Feedburner subscribers. But, when I see today there are just 28 subscribers. And I immediately open my Feedburner account. My all the Email subscribers list is not present there. "Oh! Shit what to do...?" It was not my fault. I checked others blog, it is happening or not. No, it is only for me :( Look at this feed stats,

How the graph line droped directly from the top?

 I haven't checked my Feedburner account before this problem. Then, I checked Google's official Feedburner Blog. It was written there, Subscriber counts may appear lower than normal in publisher reports because of missing Google FeedFetcher reports. All subscribers are still receiving the feed, this only effects the reporting number in the publisher dashboard and the awareness API. There are no issues with feed delivery for text feeds or podcasts.

Later, I understand the problem is in them not in my blog :D The remaining 28 subscriber is from Google and other popular browsers.

You don't have to worry if you have same problem as mine. Feedburner is changing their method of calculating subscribers to use internal Google APIs between FeedBurner. So, they take time for maintenance. We have to be patience. It happens not at all.

Hope Feedburner will recover all of my previous subscriber soon. Now, that is only the thing to expect from Feedburner.

You have same problem? Let's discuss more about this. Share whatever you know. Feel free to share your opinion :)

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10 Best Social Network Sites for Business Professionals

Before the internet, entrepreneurs were left to static means of communicating with their peers. Crucial research was done through books, magazines and many hours spent at the library. Thankfully, those days are over. Business professionals are now able to communicate, share ideas and market their products through online social networking. Here are ten of the best social networking sites for the business professional.

1. LinkedIn: Stay in touch with friends, acquaintances, business partners and classmates with LinkedIn. Here you can share your profile with the world and share business opportunities with your network. You can develop links, gather introductions and take your social networking to a new level.


2. FastPitch: FastPitch is focused on business marketing. You are given the marketing and presentation tools to help your business shine above the rest. Using dynamic communication and social media, that business can grow to stellar proportions.


3. PerfectBusiness: This social networking site gives you the tools to make a perfect business. There is a vast library of articles at your disposal so you can get ideas on all aspects of your business. You can connect with peers and investors, propelling your idea into being a thriving, viable business.


4. Xing: Over 9 million people use Xing, with more signing up for free every day. You can create a public or private profile which enables you to find employees, get hired and network with other people. Xing is international, so you can get a global perspective.


5. Entrepreneur Connect: Establish meaningful business connections, advertise events, and exchange services on Entrepreneur Connect. You can create a comprehensive custom profile where you can embed videos of your products and maps. In the marketplace, you can promote your products and services.


6. Biznik: This networking site encourages its users to participate and join a collaborative community. You can focus on the city that you live in or broaden your scope to include the nationwide network. Biznik is encouraging to its users, making them feel that anything is possible and that they will be with you every step of the way.


7. eFactor: Joining the eFactor family means that you will be part of a community that has over 810,000 members. Network with others through the forums, read the articles and make your business thrive. The eFactor network has a financial request network where you can get funding and events that you can attend to make your business grow.


8. FaceBook: Facebook is a social networking site, but it is also a powerful business networking site. You can search for potential vendors, find your peers, and network with others. With the right profile, you can have others coming to you to find out about your company. The best part about Facebook is that it's free.


9. Ryze: The founders of Ryze created the site so that people who attended seminars could keep in touch with one another. From its modest beginnings, it has grown to a network of over 500,000 people. Here, you can meet quality business contacts, refer people and build up your essential business network.


10. StartupNation: StartUp Nation has a thriving community where you can share ideas, buy and sell your products, and network with your friends and peers. Articles are available to guide you through the trials and tribulations of setting up and owning your own business. It is a site that is created by entrepreneurs FOR entrepreneurs.

Social networking sites are going to become more and more important as we become a more global society. You can connect with your peers and attract the attention of a worldwide audience through the use of social networking. If you take a small amount of time each day on these sites, you will soon become a networking force to be reckoned with.

As an analyst working at Cartridge Save, James reviews products such as the HP 339 and compares their features with other supplies.

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Blogger need your help for development

Now Blogger is intending to change it's layout just like Wordpress. They are trying to get more feedback from their users to make Blogger better. They want to develop Blogger as requirement of users and need your help. Now, you can suggest for any new feature before release in Blogger.

We are also expecting from blogger to make a look blogger like wordpress. That will be little hard to take a change. That is good, blogger is taking steps to make more professional site.



Recently Blogger's official blog Blogger Buzz announced this wonderful news. They are offering to join feedback program.

Submit your idea to Blogger whatever positive in your mind. Give a little contribute that you have develop Blogger.

Don't forget to share what you have suggest to Blogger :)

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Insert the post title in a Feedburner email subject line

Most of you use Feedburner Meanwhile that is very popular RSS feed management service. Definitely, you have noticed that all the email update that has reached to the subscriber is not getting specific post title of feeds in their subject lines. It just shows the blog title on the subject line. Many of your subscribers just try to see the subject of any email and if it is interesting then they will reach to your blog. Now that can be solved. How about to change that subject line with your recent post title? If you are the subscriber of this blog, you would see the title of this post as a subject line already.



You can customize that subscription mails using some codes. Use the following tweak to show recent post the title instead of your blog title in email subject line in FeedBurner.

Customize FeedBurner Email Subscription

Login to FeedBurner. Go to Publicize > Email Subscriptions > Email Branding. Use ${latestItemTitle} to get latest title from your feed. ${latestItemTitle} refer to latest item of your blog. If you have more than one post in a day, Check "Change Subject when an email has 2 or more items" and use "${latestItemTitle} (${m})" code in the form. See the below example.

You can use the 'Hot Tips' available in every field. The code 'Hack Tutors - ${latestItemTitle}' will take the action like this,

Save your new settings and check yourself to view result. Why don't try subscribe to my blog through your email and see the example live yourself?

Enter your email address:

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Google Adsense new layouts and features

Check out your Google Adsense account. You can find huge difference than before. From Google Adsense official blog: You can now access all AdSense products from the AdSense Setup tab within your account -- edit your color palettes, get code snippets, access your channels, and more. As we add even more products and features, they'll all share a consistent style to keep AdSense easy to use. For example, try out the new AdSense for content color picker for choosing and customizing new color palettes on the fly. Explore the link unit wizard with its new live preview feature and expanded explanations of this unique advertising option. These are just a couple of the many features we're planning to offer, so keep an eye out for new options soon.



The new AdSense tab makes it easier to get started with AdSense – Overall the changes are minor, but help improve the user experience. The live preview feature is good, it can be view how it looks like.

What we get as Publisher?

Another from Google Adsense blog

We also wanted to improve the experience for new publishers, especially those who signed up through our new AdSense referrals program. These changes should help them get to their first $100 even faster, which in turn helps experienced publishers earn their referral bonuses, too.

Enjoy using the new interface, you can feedback to Google Adsense Editor to get better looks in Adsense by emailing to inside-adsense@google.com

By this new feature you can view more detailed reports with graphs and many more that you are expecting. They can include your idea in beta test by filling out form here.

And share your view about this new interface and don't forget to share how you feedback to Google Adsense?

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Guess and Vote for FIFA world cup 2010 winner, What do you expect?

FIFA world cup Begins on June 11, 2010 and on Ends July 11, 2010 in South Africa. We are waiting for this remarkable game and only 9 days to go. That we can take a Joice by just viewing it live on television channels. For this topic every individual have their own best team.

Now, many voting system is available, who will win? I just looking around on Facebook about FIFA world cup 2010. And there is voting system like this,

The maximum vote is going to Spain. About 50 thousand people voted on that page. You can also vote by visiting on this page: Vote to world cup winner.

It is not possible to make a winner to any country by your vote. It is just to uplift you favorite country.

What is your favorite and best country for this FIFA world cup 2010? And which country are you expecting to win? Share whatever in your mind about this topic. Comment is welcomed to all :)

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