I've been trying to link my professional art website with my blogs, both my art blog and my immortality blog. Without either spending a million hours with html and without cluttering up my simple layout. I used twitters widgets and BAM! perfect. I can update my website, and have links to my blog in a hot second by simply posting on twitter.
While twitter's function for drawing people to my websites is only minimal, the ability to use their widgets on my own blogs, on my website and in other places makes it an indespensable tool. The fact that I attempted to try this out, and it took me 5 minutes to get it up and tweeked to perfection is just too darn cool.
You can go see how is worked on my art page: http://williamhessian.com/
You can add me on twitter: http://twitter.com/williamhessian
Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Friday, August 29, 2008
Link Trade for Bloggers
Part of my interest with this blog is to meet and communicate with other bloggers, preferably without blogging related blogs. I have met some really cool bloggers since I started the Blog Blog Cherry blog. I am now starting a list of my friend bloggers and will add them to my sidebar.
If you are an blogger, that has a blog to trade links with please e-mail me:
william.
hessian
@gmail.com
Send me your url, name of blog, and add me to your blog. I will return the favor and add you to my link list. I would also like to make more blogging friends on all social websites like digg, blog catalog, mybloglog, deviant, artwanted, myspace, facebook, twitter and more. If you currently own any of these networking sites, search for my name (william hessian) and add me to your friends.
To help our artist community I also write blogs about other bloggers and their work/ projects/blogs. This helps me learn more about who you are as an blogger, and helps my readers get to know new bloggers. Let's network.
If you are an blogger, that has a blog to trade links with please e-mail me:
william.
hessian
@gmail.com
Send me your url, name of blog, and add me to your blog. I will return the favor and add you to my link list. I would also like to make more blogging friends on all social websites like digg, blog catalog, mybloglog, deviant, artwanted, myspace, facebook, twitter and more. If you currently own any of these networking sites, search for my name (william hessian) and add me to your friends.
To help our artist community I also write blogs about other bloggers and their work/ projects/blogs. This helps me learn more about who you are as an blogger, and helps my readers get to know new bloggers. Let's network.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Free Social Networks your blog should be on!
I have been researching this idea for a while... free social networks and their ability to boost your blogs page rank, page views per day, and general status. For my art blog I signed up for massive amounts of free social art sites to promote my art and my blog at the same time. These cross links give you better page rank with Google and better search results. It had not occured to me to do the very same thing for this blog. My next step is to join all of these free social websites:
Bebo
Black Planet
Broadcaster
Classmates
Friendster
Imeem
Linked In
Twitter
Xanga
to add to my current:
Blog Catalog
MySpace
Facebook
Digg
Reddit
This is a process I call building portals. The goal is to create a page on each social site that will invite people to read your blog. You want to find your target audience on each site, so build your profile on each site to provide each viewer a good idea of what your blog is about and why they will want to hop over and check it out. I do not plan to be active members of these new communities, however, I may add some friends with blogging as a hobby, or type of few introductory or inviting message board posts to hopefully attract a few people. The key is to put out a bunch of feelers in places where people interested in your topic will be. If you get 5-10 people from each social network to check you out a day, that is nearly a hundred new page views per day. Plus, I suggest keeping a close eye on your page statistics and watch which of the social sites are giving you the best results, then exploit those results. You can never tell which site will be better for which topics, and sometimes it is all a crapshoot, which is why I suggest setting up portrals everywhere.
Worst case scenario, I simply have 13 extra external entry links to my blog which helps your page rank. While this will take a good week to complete, it will be worth all the hard work when the traffic starts flowing in.
Good luck setting up your own portals, and if you know of any other free social networking sites that would be beneficial to add to the list above please leave a comment.
Bebo
Black Planet
Broadcaster
Classmates
Friendster
Imeem
Linked In
Xanga
to add to my current:
Blog Catalog
MySpace
Digg
This is a process I call building portals. The goal is to create a page on each social site that will invite people to read your blog. You want to find your target audience on each site, so build your profile on each site to provide each viewer a good idea of what your blog is about and why they will want to hop over and check it out. I do not plan to be active members of these new communities, however, I may add some friends with blogging as a hobby, or type of few introductory or inviting message board posts to hopefully attract a few people. The key is to put out a bunch of feelers in places where people interested in your topic will be. If you get 5-10 people from each social network to check you out a day, that is nearly a hundred new page views per day. Plus, I suggest keeping a close eye on your page statistics and watch which of the social sites are giving you the best results, then exploit those results. You can never tell which site will be better for which topics, and sometimes it is all a crapshoot, which is why I suggest setting up portrals everywhere.
Worst case scenario, I simply have 13 extra external entry links to my blog which helps your page rank. While this will take a good week to complete, it will be worth all the hard work when the traffic starts flowing in.
Good luck setting up your own portals, and if you know of any other free social networking sites that would be beneficial to add to the list above please leave a comment.
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