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How To Bulk Submit To Social Bookmarking Sites
Oct 26th
Social media is all the rage these days.
Anyone with a website knows they should be submitting their website pages to the various social bookmarking sites to gain better visibility on the web.
But we’re also talking about a time consuming task to do the repetitive submissions to the top social bookmarking sites like: Digg.com, Propeller, Delicious, Reddit.com, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Mixx, Twitter, Furl.net, etc.
There are completely automated tools that submit in bulk, but sometimes they can be seen as spam. The next best thing to manual hand submissions one at a time is to use a semi-automated tool. . .
SocialPoster.com allows you to set-up the basics first and then go through various filtered lists of social bookmarking sites and quick-click-thru to the posting page with the main data pre-populated for you.
Here’s a video walk-through tutorial of the process of using socialposter.com:
It won’t completely eliminate the time-consuming task of manually submitting to dozens of social bookmark sites, but it certainly will shave off a decent portion of time spent on the task. Moreover, it will help you to consistently submit to the top sites using socialposter.com’s list of sites.
99 URL Shortening Services to Make Shortcut Website Addresses
Dec 28th
TinyURL.com was the the forever favorite for URL shortening services out there largely because of first mover advantage.
I heard an podcast interview with the creator of TinyURL recently, and surprisingly he doesn’t have any business plan in place other than the Google Adwords text ads placed on the URL creation page.
But this past week, I went looking for other options for easier to remember URL shortcuts. And perhaps even shorter than the 7 characters in “tinyurl”.
Here’s 99+ services out there that give you shorter urls that you can use to forward to friends, post in blog or forum posts, and increase the odds that an URL you reference via email won’t “break” when it’s read by the recipient: Read the rest of this entry »
Google Makes Travel Easier
Jan 20th
Google upgraded their flight stats search feature recently. (Did you even know Google HAD a flight stats feature?).You can now get real time status and info on your flight immediately on the search results page. A very handy feature to know about to get the most up to date information on your flight (airline status data is from www.FlightStats.com).
Just type the name of the airline and flight number (e.g. Contintal 292, co 292) into the search box and you’ll be pleased with the information you get in return . . . Read the rest of this entry »
Another Year, More Google For You
Jan 1st
It’s another year and while that means you’re getting older and older, that also means that useful services like Google are getting better and bigger.
Unlike the bloated programs that take up more space, memory and computing power away from your computer like Microsoft Office which just seems to try and pack more and more un-used features into the program with each version, Google’s list of services grow while many of them are quite useful.
The only problem sometimes is that you need a cheatsheet to remember all the good stuff Google can do for you. . .well, perhaps that’s exactly the solution – a Google Cheatsheet!
Top 7 Social Bookmarking Sites To Register & Use
Aug 10th
2007 has been the year of social bookmarking & Web 2.0.
All that hype simply means that there is a new breed of website that harnesses the collecative power of individuals across the internet.
With bookmarking, all this time, whenever you alone discover a new website that’s worthy, you add it to your Favorites or Bookmarks. But with millions and millions of great sites out there, how can you really find the best ones all alone? You are by yourself. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Tip: See What All The Reviewer Say About The Movie You About To Watch
Jun 14th
Have you ever gone to the movies and wished that you read some of the reviews out there to give you a warning BEFORE you slapped down 12 bucks per ticket + $5 for Goobers + $5.50 for Popcorn + $3.75 for Soda?
Personally I really like Joe Morganstern’s movie reviews in the Wall Street Journal. However, another place I check is RottenTomatoes.com which aggregates movie reviews and gives it a “fresh” or “rotten” overall rating. Another great place to get a snapshot of how a movie might turn out is to go to Google.
Google has a little known service at www.Google.com/movies which provides a summary of movie reviews for any given movie.
You can read individual reviews, sort the ratings by ratings to find wha the negative reviews pointed out as flaws, or simply click through to the actual reviews used to get the “average rating” on Google.
Using this service is a quick way to find out what everyone else is thinking about the movie you’re going to watch…or perhaps not anymore after reading up on it on Google.
