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Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you probably have heard of the social website with the funny name, Twitter.
Every internet marketer and his dog is using it and so should you. But, the functionality of Twitter has been limiting until recently.
Twitter allowed you to post 140 odd character notes to people you have added to your followers list. The followers list is similar to Facebooks and Myspace friends list.
Anyway, Twitter allows you as a marketer to attract followers and then chat with them via a small text interface at the top of your Twitter webpage. You can add what ever you want in the text form as long as it’s no longer than 140 characters.
Now this is fantastic! I write 140 character posts 6 times a day telling all my followers what i am up to at the time. But, you can’t put in too much details with only 140 characters.
That’s were TwitWall comes in. TwitWall allows you unlimited characters and infact you can add links, videos, images and unlike your Twitter account, you can add links to your websites in your personal profile.
This is a Godsend for us internet marketers. You would be abloody fool if you didn’t have a Twitter account and a TwitWall account. Both services are owned by the same company and can be maintained from the same profile.
Check out my Twitter account and add me as a follower and then have a look at my TwitWal as well.
As a pro-active webmaster, you should always be looking for good opportunities to get Backlinks. Backlinks being links back to your website from another, using a keyword phrase applicable to your site and those backlinks perform much, much better, if they are one way links.
Reciprocal links used to work, but in 2008, one way and three way links are the only way to go. I suppose I had better tell you what a one way and three way links are.
One way links: are links that come from another site were you are not obligated to link back to them in a two way method.
Three Way Link: is when you link as site A links to site B. Site B links to site C, while site C links back to site A
Google especially, will reward you when you use one way and three way linking straegies on your site/s. Google in it’s search for rewarding quality websites with higher rankings, has worked out that anyone can ask someone to link to them, in return for a reciprocal link. However, getting a one way link from another site in most cases meant that if someone was linking to you, it must mean that, that site thinks that your site offered something worthy for thier visitors.
I received and email this morning that made my head turn with the subject line stating that I could increase my conversions by 60% by using a small tool on a websitecalled Shrink My Link.
Basically what this website offers an alernative to the php redirect we all know and love. It takes you product affilate link and redirects it through another url, hiding the affilliate from public view. There are 2 reason why you would want to hide an affiliate link.
1. People seem to shy away from a link that shows up in the tool bar like http://www.yourclickbankid.clickbank.com The user knows right from theget go that this is an affiliate linkand we are going to try and sell them something. Having a cloaking link maybe a bit sneaky, but hey are trying to sell something, but we beleive in this product and we are helping them by telling them about it.
2. Believe it or not, but there are evil people out there. Some criminal minds will get your affiliate link and pinch any sale that comes from it. I still don’t know how they do it, but it happens all the time. So having a cloak on your affiliate links helps stops these online criminals pinching your sales.
The site is called Shrink My Link and it will take your affiliate link and redirect it through there service. thus hiding your link from the crims and secondly it takes a link that may look like http://www.myproductisforsale.andthisisthelink.com/id?affiliate=me and changes it to http://shmyl.com/nuqqson. I know which one I would prefer. Check out Shrink My Link here and the best part is it is free
As most of you already know, I am always on the lookout for scripts, bits and graphics to make my site easy to make and then easier to manage. And sometimes I come across a gem.
Sometimes you come across these little Web2.0 banners. A lot of webmasters see them everyday, especially as an RSS graphic. But you can use these lettle graphics for almost anything.
I use this graphic 
on Myspace, were as I use this graphic 
on my clients websites. You can customise them to use as link images anywere you want. Use your imagination and make them unique.
Now here is the great news! You don’t need any software to make these graphics. It’s all done online and for free. You don’t need to signup for anything either.
Head over to Antipixel and help yourself. Here is what they say about this nifty little Pixel Buttons
PixelButton is an Antipixel online generator, easy and fast to use. This little buttons created by Jeremy Hedley, become larged used expecially among bloggers, because they are nice looking, very visible and it’s easy to place theme inside a site layout. It makes possible to create buttons without the need of programs like Photoshop. The button is generated with the desired text and colors and it is converted into an HTML code with inline image, not requiring to be uploaded on the server.
The Callen brothers are famous Internet Marketers with software like Keyword Elite, Seo Elite and Article Submitter just some of their creations.
Now the brothers have brought out another fantastic tool we internet marketers can use and so far it’s free, but I’m not sure for how long.
BlinkWeb is their latest creation. As I write this I am going through the Demo process, building a salespage from all the tools, widget and video they provide.
At this stage it has limited functionality, but it already has the WOW factor. The boys have thought of everything. This is what they say about BlinkWeb
As we all know, creating a website and displaying on the internet for the world to see, is a very complicated process for the average person. The website creation process was not designed for the average, every-day person. It was designed for people that have a knack for, and understanding of geeky computer programming languages. The end result, the average, every-day person is either stuck with a very poorly designed, boring website… OR no website at all.
Enter BlinkWeb
We saw a great need to bridge the giant gap between the average person and the knowledge needed to create an attractive website, a website you can be proud of. So… we created BlinkWeb, the world’s easiest website creation tool. Not only that, but we made it free. Now, the average, every-day person can easily create a professional/pretty looking website they can proudly show off to their friends.
BlinkWeb lets you build your own website or blog “in the blink of an eye”. Enjoy!
Check it out for yourself: BlinkWeb
