BlogSense Automation Tools™

One Click Email Opt-ins.

Hudson Atwell — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:35:00 +0000

One Click Lead Capturing: Facebook, Google, and Twitter:

OptinPressor leverages the Facebook API and the Google API to collect the user’s email address, and then forward it to Aweber or whatever list management service you use… they support up to 27 different email services. You can see we are using it on this blog if you look to the right. Feel free to signup! Our newsletter runs weekly and covers aspects of the online development and marketing industry. To setup Optin pressor it takes 10 minutes and I made a video showing you what it looks like and explaining]how to install it:

(click to open video in browser)

Integratable with these Email Autoresponder Opt-in Services!

(Prices vary according to the state of the dime-sale, but I was able to get it for under 30.00)

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Why doesn’t Google provide free Geotargeting by IP to Webmasters?

Hudson Atwell — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:55:14 +0000

Google provides many service & scripts to website developers via their Google Libraries scripts .
Why not provide webmasters with a geo-location script?

Right now webmasters are using an excellent free service provided by GeoPlugin . The service is excellent and GeoPlugin is very liberal with the number of calls they permit an ip to request per hour, but I wonder… What has taken so long for Google to add this service to their Google Libraries?

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WordPress Automation – Shortcodes – [INSERT] Improvement

Hudson Atwell — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:12:49 +0000

We’ve added the ability to insert/inject content into a body of text via number of line breaks. Here’s a copy of the shortcode’s documentation explaining how it can be used:

[INSERT] Token

This token which encloses the content in [insert][/insert] tags will allow the user to insert content into the middle of the main content block. The main content block refers to the content provided by the primary source of the campaign, typically represented by the %postbody% templating variable.

example:

[insert:middle]content here[/insert]

Parameter 2:

This parameter has these options:

middle -will place content directly in middle of content.
#rn – (replace # with a numeric value) – Will place content after # occurrence of \r\n.
#p – (replace # with a numeric value) – will place content after # occurrence of
INT(Number) – Will place content after the character count provided

More Examples:

[insert:3p]content here[/insert] – places content after 3^rd paragraph.

[insert:10rn]content here[/insert] -places content after 10^th linebreak.

[insert:1000]content here[/insert] -places content after 1000^th character.

[insert:middle]content here[/insert] -places content in middle of body of text generated by post template. Our systems will attempt to not interrupt a sentence.

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WordPress Automation – Same Server Image Hosting – Automatic Alt Tag Generation now Optional

Hudson Atwell — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:01:47 +0000

BlogSense Wordpress Automation Suite provides the option to self host the images it sources through it’s content campaigns. One of the features of this self hosting image service has been to append an alt tag containing the title of the post.

Recently a customer asked that this service become optional so we have added in a setting to disable auto-alt-tag generation.

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HNH Weekly Digest – Abtests.com Compares marketing & design techniques to increase conversion rates.

Hudson Atwell — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:37:13 +0000

Hi BlogSense!

Last week I found a couple of gems, not as many as the week before though.

ABtests.com compares marketing & design techniques by measuring conversion rates. In this article the case involves a simple form input and submit process. The conclusion of the test is that by pre-populating a textbox with text you can increase your conversion rate. In this case it increased the conversion rate 5.6%.

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Good article that discusses the current WordPress commenting options.

Reviews Disqus, Livefyre, IntenseDebate, Facebook Comments, Jetpack and more.

I’m also keeping an ear out for Mike Johnson’s SocialFM, which is suposed to provide

an advanced commenting system.

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Evinar Facebook App leverages event management system for live shows.

A new startup, Evinar.com, has invented a Facebook app that leverages Facebook’s event system to help schedule, populate & broadcast live streaming events with chatrooms included.

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Sponsored:

Link Emperor is improving my rankings.

Two months into a group buy package with a friend and I’m seeing increased traffic and climbing rankings for my keywords. At the end of month three I’ll post a complete case study.

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Update!

Netflix stock seems to have bottomed out and stabled just under 75.00 and currently sits at 73.45. That is a nearly 24.00 drop since last weeks newsletter! In related news the Hatnohat Forum has a new Equity Trading Section!

The HNH Facebook group has 35+ new members! Check us out if you haven’t yet!

That’s all for this last week’s digest.

Looking forward to this one,

Hudson Atwell

Atwell Publishing, 1301 29th St South #11, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA

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WordPress Automation – XMLRPC Remote Publishing Improvement – Weighted Remote Posting

Hudson Atwell — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:58:30 +0000

In 9.9.9.6.1 we’ve added in an improvement to our remote publishing capabilities.
We have the ability to publish posts to remote blogs that are imported through BlogSense campaigns.

We can add as many remote locations as we like,
given they accept XMLRPC publishing.

Now we’ve gained the ability to throttle how many posts
a remote source can accept from an associated campaign
before remote publishing begins to be throttled.

We use a weight/percentage system to determine the throttling of each remote source.

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Evinar.com brings ticketed live streaming events to Facebook

Hudson Atwell — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:55:20 +0000

A new startup, Evinar.com, has invented a Facebook app that leverages Facebook’s event creation system to help schedule, populate & broadcast live streaming events with chatrooms included.

Viewers can participate for free or buy a ticket to participate.

So that sounds sooper cool and hopefully your future eyes are lighting, but for for those who like to be spoon fed by love you may ask… “but what can this be used for Hudson?”

Here’s a list of ways we’ll probably see this leveraged:

»Venues can super extend their scope of audience if they began broadcasting their shows live on facebook. They could offer a reduced cost ticket for attending the online stream rather the venue show.

»Podcasts and off the wall shows could be hosted on Evinar, increasing their chances of shows going viral and instantly expanding their facebook audience.

»Musicians with popularity can stage mini shows to help boost morale or just spend good time with their fans.

»Skillset trainers can host their webinars on the platform and charge access for their training or increase awareness of their Facebook presence.

»OWS broadcasters have another platform for live broadcasting and to getting their message across.

Most of this is not new technology. We see live streaming now on both Youtube & Ustream , and live webinars can be held from free services like go2meeting.com and anymeeting.com .

What this app does do is tie in an already successful event coordinating system with a live broadcasting & payment management platform all within the world’s most active and popular social network.

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WordPress Automation – Automatic Tweet Hashing with BlogSense WP

Hudson Atwell — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:53:25 +0000

BlogSense WordPress Automation – Update 9.9.9.5.4

Blogsense now provides tag-to-hashtag automatic hashing of tweets.
We can attempt to create hashtags from the title of the imported post,
as well as use tags already associated with the post content
within the WordPress system.

Hashing your tweets can result in increased exposure,
helping readers to find your content
which in turn increases your chances of gaining new followers
as well as increased the chances of other’s retweeting your tweet
which in turn increasing your overall traffic
and improves the scope of reach of your twitter account.

There is also the possibility of creating brand new
hash trends through auto hashing.

Hashing is completely optional.
We control hashing at the campaign level.
It’s very easy to auto-hash tweets imported
from one RSS feed while posts tweeted from
another feed are left unhashed.

We hope you enjoy this new BlogSense WP Update!

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Improvement on Twitter Autoposting Module allows for advanced tweet template customization.

Hudson Atwell — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:41:17 +0000

In this latest update we’ve added a default tweet construction template
so users can better control how their tweets are structured.
This feature was developed so that
when autopublishing to twitter
we have the option to append a linkback to the original article
rather than link readers to the published blog post.

I’m using this option to make sure tweets published
to twitter through BlogSense Automation are linked back to
the original source (which in this case are my google+ posts
sourced from a Google+ rss feed). I’d rather send my
traffic there than to the blog for now.

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HNH Weekly Digest – Many topics inside

Hudson Atwell — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:54:15 +0000

Hello BlogSense Industry News!

It’s the end of another week!

I hope your week was well.

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Hatnohat Facebook Group

The HNH channel now has a facebook group for information sharing and discussion. We’ll also use tothe group to pool new content for the newsletter. Check it out!

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Article highlights spam incidents occuring on Pinterest

This article review a single case of a pinterest spammer and how the individuals tactics inadvertently harmed another’s business brand.

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Matt Cutts 8 minute video on How Google Search Engine Works

In a recent video Matt Cutts explains an aspect of how the Google search engine algorithm works, pointing out that Google indexes and id’s each page on a site and when a keyword phrase is searched it compares individual word density on each site’s pages in order to determine which page contains the best combination of individual keyword densities (as well as considers backlink anchors and PR… which we all knew).

This bit of information may help you improve your on-page seo strategy… eg: for keyword phrase searches it might not be necessary to have a high keyphrase density to rank well for that keyphrase if you have a sufficiently high density for each individual keyword of the keyphrase you’re wanting to target… at least that’s what I glean from it…

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Facebook hits 901 million

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Negative review on the "Negative SEO" topic…

Negative SEO has been trending this month.

If your’re not up to date with what "Negative SEO" is, it is the phenomenon of rankings decreasing due to Google’s perceiving a large quantity of non-diversified backlinks coming into a location, which is unnatural and will either dilute or penalize the site’s ranking performance.

Now that Google has admitted this is possible the fear becomes that they have validated it as a malicious tactic that unchained gamers will use to increase their personal profit. The intel also threatens to pressure the practice into the competitive paradigm for high profit markets.

If you watch the video on the article (presented by Matt Cutts), he makes mention of a feature that may be available in the future that will allow webmasters to manually devalue incoming backlinks so they are not considered in the Ranking process, but offers no promises.

Right now the search engine marketing world must wait and watch, and for crying out loud, do not participate in negative seo.

Also, for the small guy, if you are going to play with backlinking practices… diversify your anchors text, landers. and spread your links out over mulitiple platforms! That’s another lesson Google is also teaching you… how not to shoot yourself in the foot.

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Joe Rogan Podcast Interviews ex-CIA recruit and wistleblower Michael Ruppert

I love this guy’s podcasts. His interviews are excellent and his interviewees are always interesting. Every now and then you might see me promo and review an episode.

Summary: Joe Rogan interviews Michael Ruppert, ex CIA and wistleblower on a CIA drug dealing operation, talks about his experiences as being groomed by the CIA when he was young, his experience as a New York cop, as well as one of his books where he presents a court admissible case accusing Dick Cheney of orchestrating the 911 attacks against America under the authority of the Bush Administration, as well as talks with Joe about his ideas of a shifting global-socioeconomic paradigm. Starts out funny and sour-faced and then, like always, moves into an excellent rhythm that spans the course of two hours! Excellent podcast, excellent interview.

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Great quick article on paid traffic and creating image ads.

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Google attempts to improve page load times with an Apache modification

Google provides SPDY omtegration with Apache servers in attempts to speed up the website loading process. If you run a dedicated machine you may have to request installation help:

"As part of the "Let’s make the web faster" initiative, we are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY"), an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In addition to a specification of the protocol, we have developed a SPDY-enabled Google Chrome browser and open-source web server. In lab tests, we have compared the performance of these applications over HTTP and SPDY, and have observed up to 64% reductions in page load times in SPDY. We hope to engage the open source community to contribute ideas, feedback, code, and test results, to make SPDY the next-generation application protocol for a faster web. "

http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper

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Vuru.co – In depth (and pretty) stock analysis & recommendation website.

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Netflix is trending on Google+

Neflix trended on Google+ this week because of plummeting stock prices. It looks like it closed at 101.84 but has a real market worth of 85.39, which is almost a 17.00 loss for the day. They actually performed better than walstreet expected, having reported it’s quarterly stats and showing only lose a value of 8cents per share (inconsiderate of the market betting affect).

DVD subscriptions are decreasing but online streaming is on the rise both in the US and in netflix’s foreign division.

"Previously, the company had warned that its investments in new overseas markets would take a huge bite out of earnings and make the company unprofitable for all of 2012…." (1)

"Studios are demanding that Netflix pay them more money for their content, and not all of those negotiations are working. Netflix was unable to renew its contract with Starz, a key content supplier. The Liberty Media (LMCA)-owned cable company has a large chunk of Disney (DIS, Fortune 500) movies that are now no longer in Netflix’s catalog either…." (1)

What this means to me is that I should watch the stock for signs of further falling… and then decide if I would like to make a small investment bet that I will earn interest on my money during 2013.

New Innovations may threaten Netflix’s overall market in the near future.. But… as they are saying on Google+ "Go Netflix!"… they’ve got the subscriber base and the start of a great content/profit sharing network… with a brain they can still remain the leader in the market. Somebody look to see what the congressmen are doing…

(1) http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/
23/technology/netflix-earnings/

" Pacific Crest raised its rating to "outperform" from "sector perform," Canaccord Genuity lifted its price target to $68 from $66, and Janney upped its fair value to $70 from $55. (In fairness, the two target hikes likely qualify as faint
praise, since NFLX settled Monday at $101.84.) On the other hand, Barclays and J.P. Morgan trimmed their price targets to $95 and $87, respectively. Most analysts are skeptical, at best, with NFLX sporting just three "buys" out of 30 total recommendations."-
http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/
commentary/content/blogs/
analyst+upgrades+chkp+nflx+
and+sqnm/
trading_floor_blog.aspx?sin
gle=true&blogid=110858

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Good informational article on why the Ipad is made in china.

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Jungle Jazz

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EU law requires visitor to grant site permissions to store cookies.

This is a new law in where the EU has taken an Internet-police initiative to require websites to get permission from it’s visitors in order to store browser cookies, which would add an additional step in the free-browsing process. Sites that do not comply may be subject to major fines (up to ?500,000).

Rest assured fellas this is not an attack on the small person although we are part of the game. This is a political move to challenge the power players and mitigate Google’s & Facebook’s power. Let it play out. As always do what you will.

What’s great about today’s times is that centralized Governments are very weak and invested interests in the Internet are high. The EU will persistently have a hard time manhandling corporations who have the fiscal and legal power to challenge them.

As for me, in America, no governmental power has arrogated to such a level… yet. I admit that we suffer great internal corruption, but we sure do love the Internet and what it stands for. Here it’s maritime baby. Who has the balls to try and do this in the US?

No worries mates, this is just weather. Sooner or later systems will get an upgrade. Some leader, internal or external, will help everything better.

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That’s it for this weeks newsletter!

Cheers!

Hudson Atwell

Atwell Publishing, 1301 29th St South #11, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA

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