As you know I am a big proponent of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 services such as social networking sites, blogging, video sharing sites, and social bookmarking and tagging sites.

I believe that one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is to submit individual posts to sites such as StumbleUpon, Technorati and others. Recently I have come across a website called Social Marker that allows you to submit to over 46 of these types of social bookmarking and tagging sites at one time.

They also offer a plug-in for WordPress Blogs and a drag and drop icon for your bookmarks toolbar. I haven’t installed the plug-in yet but plan to do so soon.

Here are four reasons why you should use Socialmarker.com

• It helps you get a lot of backlinks.
• It helps you increase your traffic.
• Your link gets indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.
• Best of all, it’s free!

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John Merrick & Soren Jordansen have created an amazing new system in my opinion. It is called TweetMyBlog, a new Wordpress Plugin that I have just installed.

Since a great many of us forget to post on Twitter at least on a regular basis there system automatically posts a tweet every single time you update your Wordpress blog and of course those tweets link back to your blog.

There system gets you more people following you at Twitter and those people are only those who would be generally interested in reading your tweets and blog posts.

Another component of their plugin TweetMyBlog is that it ensures that you can get paid for using Twitter both directly and from the massive amounts of extra traffic that you can generate.

Merrick and Jordansen’s plugin is more than just a flashy Twitter plugin for Wordpress. According to them it is a fully fleshed out marketing plan that will put the power of Twitter at your finger tips.

Check out TweetMyBlog today.

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Do you have at least a minimal understanding of code? If so you may be able to create your own Wordpress plug-in or plug-ins. I am a firm believer in learning as many skills as you can by the process of self-education. If you want to learn how to create your own Wordpress plug-ins there is a valuable resource page available from the creators of Wordpress.

Just visit Writing a Plugin.

It has links to many plug-in resources, and a link to a page on how to submit and promote your plug-in for other people to use.

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I have never participated in one of these joint venture giveaways as a partner but I probably should have participated in the one that I am going to mention in this blog post. The reason is that this blog is all about blogging as is the giveaway event.

The new blogging giveaway is titled the Great Blogging Giveaway   in which most of the ebooks and software  being given away by the various Join Venture partners is related to blogging, rss or social networking. Some of the titles being given away include:

RSS Feed Submitter - Automatically Submit to all Major feed directories
The A to Z About RSS
Blog Finder Pro - Offers the Easiest and Fastest Way to Locate Related Blogs in any Niche. This will Help You to Compile a List of Blogs You can Leave Comments on and Build a Ton of Backlinks Instantly! It identifies Wordpress blogs with the ‘nofollow’ tag in the comments field in ANY niche you choose It saves you time and effort from searching for blogs manually to leave comments on and building backlinks
YouTube Video Sites Generator In A Box
The Most Useful Plugins For Your Wordpress Blog

and many more titles too numerous to mention. This is not the normal giveaway with software that you will never use. If you really like to blog you will find some items in this giveaway that are useful to you. Go to the Great Blogging Giveaway today and sign up to get your gifts.

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I would like to thank Michelle Macphearson of the blog Social Marketing for providing the information that is contained in this article and to bringing these fantastic tools to my attention.

If you are wanting traffic to your Internet marketing blogs it is important to get targeted traffic. You wouldn’t advertise how to grow watermelons on an advertising site about making money online would you?

Michelle Macphearson writes an interesting post about two plugins that can help you to get targeted traffic to your Internet marketing blog(s). Her post is found at Two Braindead Simple Ways to Bring Traffic to Your Marketing Blog Today.

These plugins are associated with websites  for internet marketers, by internet marketers that have the main goal to send you targeted, quality traffic. PlugIM and Sphinn are the two websites that Michelle is referring to in her blog post.

Your first order of business is to visit PlugIM and Sphinn and create your free accounts. Next go to the download the PlugIM Wordpress Plugin. Next do the same with the Sphinn plugin.

PlugIM allows you to add your RSS feed so that your new blog posts are automatically added to their site - a neat feature that makes this process even simpler. With Sphinn, you’ll have to click your new “Sphinn It” button that shows up on your posts - you’ll be brought to the submission page and can add a brief excerpt to your story. In this way you can also categorize the post in Sphinn so that people searching for posts in a certain category can find them.

Install these plugins as you would install any other Wordpress plugins and activate them in the plugin section of your Wordpress administrative area.

These plugins will help your SEO as you will be receiving backlinks from authority sites in the marketing niche every time you submit a story.

If you need more detailed instructions on how to use these be sure to visit Michelle’s post.

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In an effort to try and evaluate even more tools and plug-ins that have to do with search engine optimization I have installed two new plug-ins. One is called Seo-title-tag and the other is called Ultimate Tag Warrior.

Seo-Title-Tag allows you to decouple post titles from title tags. If this plugin, along with a few hours of keyword research and copywriting of optimized titles, doesn’t make a significant impact on your search traffic, you’re doing something wrong! Download it here.

Ultimate Tag Warrior is described as a multi-headed hydra of a plugin. It allows you to add tags either through the Write Post page in wordpress in a tag box, on posts using an AJAXy box, and in posts using special syntax from external editors (or internally, if you’d like). Download Ultimate Tag Warrior.

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I am always looking for new tools and plugins that I can recommend, especially when these plugins or tools have to do with SEO or search engine optimization. Recently I have found another such tool in the form of a plugin by blogger Jim Westergreen. This plugin is titled Link to Me Textbox Wordpress Plugin.

You can see this plugin in action by clicking on the link to this blog post and scrolling down the page. You will see a box with code that you can post on your webpage or blog and link directly to this post.

If you would like to use such a plugin on your blog visit Link to Me Textbox WordPress Plugin.

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