Getting traffic to your website can be a daunting task. If you host your own website you have several methods of getting reader attention and converting them to followers. Bringing new visitors can almost become a full time job is you decide to do go that route. There are several bloggers that do just that with the intent of getting more ad revenue through their site. The truth is, it works and people like John Chow (for lack of a better example off the top of my head) have been …

I recently wrote about Twitter saying “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service [SMS], instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific.” I thought I would put together a post for people to reference on everything you need to know about Twitter.

A great place to start is a video on YouTube called “Twitter in plain english.” This is a great overview for the people …

I have accounts at about a dozen social media sites. From Facebook to StumbleUpon to LinkedIn, I have tried to keep my usernames consistent just for simplicity reasons. If you are a social media junkie, a marketing professional or just a geek like me and you want to have accounts on all of them and keep the same username for all, you can go to each site individually and see if your username is available.
Check multiple Social Media Sites
I was directed to a website called Username Check that you can …

I follow a lot of people on Twitter. Other than the random update that amuses me, I really like to check the links to the sites and blogs they recommend. Twitturly let me identify just those Twitter updates with links and also shows how many times that link has been copied.
Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.The easiest way to understand how Twitturly works is, if you are familiar with digg, then you already know essentially what we …

Twitter started off as a place for geeks to communicate with others and send updates on what they were doing. Over the past year or so, Twitter really has become a professional platform for many people that work as freelancers or are deeply involved in the social media ecosphere. Twitter initially had one theme that was available and has always allowed people to upload their own images for the background. Now Twitter has 12 backgrounds available but the over achievers have taken their professional Twitter background to a new level.
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I don’t think I have to explain to anyone what Facebook is, since practically everyone is on it already - or at least it seems that way. For those who are small business owners, there are some simple ways for small business owners to market themselves on it. One of those ways is what I did this week, which is to create a page for Addicott Web.
What is my goal in doing this? Simply put, it’s just another way to help people - either in my network, or on Facebook …