April, 2010

Blogging — 2 Comments
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Apr 10

5 Simple Ways to Improve Loading Speed of Your Blog

Nowadays, the loading speed of your blog is very important. Why? Because it is one of the factors that affects your ranking in search results page in Google; because some of the people in the internet still uses slow-speed internet connection and they may visit your site. We need to consider these people who visits our blog. It is very important to make them feel comfortable whenever they are browsing our blogs.

So here’s the 5 Simple Ways to Improve Loading Speed of Your Blog:

  1. Install Super Cache Plug-in. I’ve read so many blog posts about the best plug-ins that can improve blog’s loading speed, and I noticed that Super Cache Plug-in is always on the list. I also use this on my blogs and I can say that this really helped my blogs to load faster. Download it here.
  2. Compress Your Images. One of the heaviest things you can put in your blog is image or picture. So always remember that before you post a picture on your blog, compress it first. And I personally recommend FastStone Photo Resizer which works very well and can batch-resize your photos. Continue reading →
Social Media News — No Comments
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Apr 10

Why Social Media is Important for Your Business?

Social Media has changed the world. It turned the web to its next level. It changed the way we live, just like when mobile phones invaded our lives. Before, almost every human being has his own mobile phone. And this made business marketers think of a marketing strategy focused on mobile technology. Like in mobile phone carriers, they send advertisements (but they refer it as trivia messages or info messages) to their subscribers. And this marketing strategy has been successful. If the mobile phones invaded our lives successfully, and used it as a good marketing strategy, then social media has bigger potential to be one of the best place for your business.

Why Social Media is Important for Your Business?

  1. Popularity Boost.Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are all over the world. Millions and millions of people use these networking sites for communication purposes, to find new friends or simply just for fun. And most of these users visit social networking sites everyday and even every hour. Yes, many people are addicted to social media. And this only means that if you expose your business to social media sites, your business’s popularity would boost significantly.
  2. Customers. Social media is a very good place to attract possible customers for your business because there are so many users on it everyday. If you tried to promote your site on Facebook, expect possible customers coming over you. And it is also possible to target specific customers, like male of female, young or adult. Continue reading →
Blogging — 14 Comments
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Apr 10

Why Leaving Comments to Other Blogs is Important?

Blogging is all about communicating to other people. We, bloggers, like it when our readers put comments on our blog posts. It’s like, when you receive lots of comments on your blog posts, it would instantly boost your enthusiasm to blog more. It’s an energy juice that drives our passion on blogging. In short, bloggers like comments. So, if you want to increase the exposure of your blog and readership community, consider leaving comments to other blogs, too.

There are many ways to make your blog popular on the web. Like, buying ad spaces on other sites, or by social media. But there’s one thing that is a very nice way to increase your blog’s popularity, and that’s putting comments on other blogs. If you love bloghopping (visiting other blogs), then this technique will be very easy for you. The only thing you should remember is to comment on every blog posts you read in your bloghopping. And you’re done.

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HowTo / Social Media News — 2 Comments
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Apr 10

HowTo: Get More Followers By Simply Tweeting Specific Words

Twitter Strategies

There are different sites saying they got a great trick to boost your followers’ count. Some of them are real, but most of them are plain spams. But here in Bend the Web, we are proud to say that we found a great technique to get followers fast. Here’s how:

What you need:
1. A Twitter account
2. Knowledge in English language

The trick:

Many people today who use the Internet, love to make money online, too. And these people loves updating their status updates through Twitter. So that means, many Twitter users are interested in topics like “make money online” or “affiliate marketing” or “online marketing“. And the only thing you need to know to attract them is to tweet those words.
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Social Media News — 4 Comments
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Apr 10

10 Signs of Social Media Addiction

10 Signs of Social Media Addiction - Bend the Web

Last April 4, I published a blog post here about social media addiction. In that post, I asked you if you’re addicted to social media. I also talked about the positive and negative effects of this addiction. And if you still don’t know if you’re addicted to social media, we may help you to answer that.

Here are the 10 Signs of Social Media Addiction:

1. It’s meal time but you’re still in front of Facebook.

2. You don’t want to sleep yet even it’s already 2:00 am because you’re still playing Mafia Wars and FarmVille.

3. You love having many friends in Facebook and followers in Twitter instead if having more friends in real life.

4. You want to chat with your friends via social networking sites or IM services than just visiting them on their houses.

5. You want to adopt a pet not for your home but for your Pet Society or PetVille game.

6. You twittered your accomplishments (like you passed an exam or you got a job) long before your friends and family found out.

7. You know the headlines of your friends’ status updates but not the headlines of TV news.

8. You talk comfortably to people in your chat list even you don’t really know them.

9. In real conversations, you started saying acronyms like L-O-L and O-M-G instead of just laughing out load and saying “Oh my gosh”.

10. Your goal this summer vacation is to have a lot of friends and followers instead of having instead of having quality time with your real friends and family.

Now, ask yourself. Are you addicted to social media?

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