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Best Twitter Tips and Tutorials for WebSites Marketing

Nur — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:13:58 +0000

Just like Facebook, Twitter is one of the most popular social networking website. Although Twitter is not a new thing but this compiled list is for new bloggers as well business owners can get lot of information to boost their business online. All bloggers and website owners paying special attention on Twitter to promote and share stuffs with their friends.
In this list, Copyblogger have collected a fairly valuable links of killer resources along the way, which definitely help you to start marketing your business on Twitter.

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After reading the resources, hope you want to enhance the Twitter experience with your website specially if you website or blog running on WordPress. Following are the premium plugins which help you to get more traffic by using Twitter applications.

Twitter WPress Premium Plugin for WordPress

The Twitter WPress for WordPress enables you to use the power of the Twitter API , on your own WordPress blog. Integrate the Twitter connect, the signup process using Twitter. Store your users Twitter tokens and update their timeline later. Display Twitter widgets and buttons with powerfull shortcodes. Display Twitter friends and followers using the built-in widgets. Open you WordPress to the Twitter API !

Features

Enables users to connect with their Twitter account.
Enables users to create a WordPress account using their Twitter credentials.
Enables you to link a Twitter account to your WordPress first admin user.
Store the Twitter users tokens into the database.
Ability to post updates to your users Twitter timeline (even if they are logged out).
4 widgets ready to be used (one for the Twitter connect, one to display Twitter friends, one to display the Twitter followers and one to display the last connected users).
You can customize how many users are displayed in the widgets.
Ability to display the Twitter connect button wherever you want in your theme(by adding a small PHP code provided in the documentation).
Caching of Twitter API calls (set to 2 minutes).

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Twitter Mobile Web Application

This is a native Web Mobile Twitter application. It works like a Twitter client and contains all the Twitter connect functionalities. It enables the users to view their Twitter timeline, @Mentions, Tweets and favorite tweets. It also gives the ability to users to update their Twitter status without leaving the app.

Features

Powered by jQuery Mobile Framework.
Uses AJAX to load the content, without reloading the page.
Display user’s timeline, tweets, favorites and mentions.
More button to dynamically load more tweets.
Ability to update Twitter status.
Status automatic counter.
Works on major Mobile devices (including iPhone, iPad, Android).
Setup in less than 2 minutes and you get your own Twitter Mobile app.

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Twitter Widget Pro – WordPress Premium Plugin

If you own just one twitter plugin for WordPress, let it be this one! The only premium twitter plugin out right now – with support for multiple twitter users and includes a ton of premium options. This is the last Twitter plugin you’ll ever need!

The Long Awaited Premium Twitter Plugin

Ready to use out of the box
The only premium Multiple User twitter plugin
Include twitter avatars, names, times, and more in the options page!
Automatically links hashtags, twitter users, and links
Caching support, both via wp_cache_set and via database options
Graceful crashing support in case, heaven forbig, twitter goes down
In Depth Screencast and Documentation included just to be safe!
Ridiculously easy to use – install it in mere minutes (and that’s being generous!

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Twitter Feed – iOS XCode Project

Twitter Feed is an iOS XCode project which illustrates the versatility of utilizing the built in URL request objects along with the XML parsing objects to perform GET transactions against the Twitter API in order to allow for retrieval of Tweets from a user’s timeline.

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Powerful Exchange System

This script is an powerful exchange system for Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google and Web Traffic and many features!

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TweetSearch – Twitter Search Plugin for WordPress

Premium WordPress plugin for displaying Twitter search results in your posts, pages and widgets.

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Twitter Statistics Suite

Twitter Statistics Suite lists exactly who has started following or unfollowing you, and who you have started following or unfollowing in the past 24 hours. Each user is displayed with their avatar and their username, with only 1 click away from their Twitter.com profile.

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Twitter Updates Widget for WordPress

With this widget, you can show your latest tweets on your website. Create your own widget with its great customizability.

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Sociology for WordPress: Twitter/Facebook Poster

Broadcast your posts to Twitter and Facebook directly from the WordPress post page.
- Automatically post to Twitter and Facebook when you publish your post.
- Checks for already-published status.
- Select which or both social networks to post to on the post page.
- Bit.ly support with custom credentials.
- Custom Twitter and Facebook credentials.

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Send or Schedule Facebook & Twitter Status Updates

You will find in the package the WP integration package. Now you can use tuitting on WordPress, having the very same features, but completely integrated with your WordPress Theme and working with all the WordPress features!

What is tuitting?

tuitting is an extremely powerful tool, completely powered with AJAX and PHP . It gives to each member of your Website the possibility to immediately Send or Schedule Unlimited Status Updates for Unlimited Facebook Accounts, Facebook Pages and Twitter Accounts.

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Twitter Ultimate-Wordpress Plugin

Twitter Ultimate – A WordPress Plugin offer following features
Realtime Twitter Feed-Live Tweets
Shortcodes
Shortcodes which helps to embed directly into page or post
Multiple instances
You can have multiple instances of twitter ultimate feed
Multiple Query/Username Options
You can display tweets from multiple queries or usernames
Two types of search
You can either display tweets from usernames or tweets mentioning a word
Autoplay On/Off
Realtime incoming tweets can be disabled/enabled on load
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Twitter Support Tickets

Twitter Support grabs incoming tweets to your account and organises them based their status, such as ‘Active’, ‘On Hold’, ‘Spam’ and ‘Closed.’ This app is primary for those who run a Twitter support account for their business and offers a simple method of management, so that it ensures everyone gets a speedy response. When you reply to a customer’s tweet it automatically marks it as been dealt with, so you won’t have to sift through masses of tweets to make sure you’ve replied to them all.

Features:

Secure, password protected single user log in
Active tweets are refreshed every 60 seconds in the background and are added to the list, so need to to manually refresh.
Counters displaying how many tweets are in each category
Settings control. Ability to edit admin username and password, Twitter username and password without editing configuration files.
Settings control to choose to ignore ReTweets (ie: RT @twittername)
Ability to post a custom status to Twitter (without it being a reply to a customer)
Automatic link generation – Displays click-able links in each tweet.
Logout feature

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The Ultimate Guide to Twitter Marketing

Facebook, Twitter and Google +1 Traffic Pop

Nur — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:41:48 +0000

Take full advantage of these tools to get more traffic to your website. What they are saying about them:

More likes = more exposure = more traffic = more money!
More tweets = more exposure = more traffic = more money!
More +1’s = more traffic = more money!

Twitter Traffic Pop for WordPress

Instead of forcing your visitors to see popups with ads, why not ask them to Tweet instead! Tap into Twitter’s 100 million plus users with this hot new popup style marketing tactic. Make Twitter your slave with one line of code! More tweets = more exposure = more traffic = more money!

Twitter Traffic Pop Featutres

Fully customizable CSS included, looks just like a twitter.com pop-up
Optional close button
LOCKS out page functionality behind the popup!
Cookies remember users who already ‘Tweeted’ about your site
Works on all sites and big and small
Viral, Twitter styled pop-up is proven to induce more tweet traffic.
Make Twitter your slave with one line of code!
Great for PREMIUM CONTENT areas or even have your uses tweet ads for you!
Allows you to pre-populate the tweet input box!

Includes full source with documentation and well commented WordPress Plugin and jQuery plugin version of the pop up script.

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Google Traffic Pop

Take full advantage of Google’s 500 million plus user base by giving your visitors an alternative to ads that also create value for you. By clicking +1 on your content they share it with everyone and they get to view your content uninterrupted: a great alternative to those who have content they cant charge for but want added value from it. Requiring them to +1 before reading / viewing / downloading etc will add thousands of new visitors and links to your sites! More +1’s = more traffic = more money!

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Facebook Traffic Pop

Tap into Facebook’s 500 million plus users now with the hottest Facebook traffic plugin. Facebook traffic pop is a new breed of ‘popups’ that will allow you to have your users like your pages, instead of trying to get them to click ads. More likes = more exposure = more traffic = more money!

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Twitter Traffic Pop

Instead of forcing your visitors to see popups, why not ask them to Tweet instead! Tap into Twitter’s 100 million plus users with this hot new popup style marketing tactic. Make Twitter your slave with one line of code! More tweets = more exposure = more traffic = more money!

Twitter Traffic Pop Featutres

Fully customizable CSS included
Optional close button
LOCKS out page functionality behind the popup!
Cookies remember users who already ‘Tweeted’ about your site
Works on all sites and big and small
Viral, Twitter styled pop-up is proven to induce more tweet traffic.
Make Twitter your slave with one line of code!
Great for PREMIUM CONTENT areas or even have your uses tweet ads for you!

Includes full source with documentation and demo examples, and I have even included a blank template for you to build pages off with no set-up required!

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Tracking Statistics and Bringing In Visitors for Websites

Nur — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:06:57 +0000

By knowing and understanding your site visitor numbers, one can get help how to increase them. WordPress offers many tools for doing just that. Getting someone to visit your blog is half the battle; helping them get the most out of it is the other half.

You might want—and you can get—many alternatives for statistics for your blog. The built-in statistics in WordPress are probably the best quick overview you’re likely to get. If you also pay much attention to blog site statistics, though, it really does become a full-time job. That’s because increasing—let alone truly maximizing—traffic to your site is like running a rapid-response room in politics. You need to be working on an hour-by-hour basis to see what’s happening in the world, the response on blogs similar to yours, and how you can make your voice heard in the fray.

Just for your convince i have compiled a best resources, these are scripts, hacks, JQuery Plugins, WordPress Plugins, a list of Websites providing web stats included in this article. If you know any other, mention it in comment.

1. Google Analytics Extensive Tracking Analysis of Websites

I believe most of us are using Google Analytics in order to track our visitors daily. With This excellent Tool you can track and compare all your ads, email newsletters, affiliate campaigns, referrals, paid links, and keywords on Google and other search engines. Use Google Analytics to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. Make informed site design improvements, drive targeted traffic, and increase your conversions and profits.
Search Engine Journal has compilied a list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate.

2. Google Analytics API is Now Available to Developers

A Google Analytics API has long been one of our most widely anticipated features. Developers can integrate Google Analytics into their existing products and create standalone applications. For example, Polaris is a cross-platform desktop widget for Google Analytics. With 8 standard reports it’s the easiest way keep your data always instantly available. The rich interface and swift navigation make it a pleasure to use.

3. Yahoo! Web Analytics – Highly Customizable & Powerful

Yahoo! Web Analytics is a highly customizable, enterprise-level website analytics system designed to help website businesses increase sales and visitor satisfaction, reduce marketing costs and gain new insight on online customers. By storing data in raw, non-aggregated form, Yahoo! Web Analytics is more than simply a reporting tool. It is a powerful, and highly flexible, data analysis tool. Both near real-time AND historical data can be segmented instantly and even visualized with advanced graphs to help marketers and site designers answer specific business questions and find new insights to improve their business.

4. How to Create a “Who is Online” Widget

A well explained and very good Tutorial written by TutorialZine on “Who is online” widget with PHP, MySQL and jQuery. This widget display the number of visitors, their country and display it in a slide out panel.

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5. Apigee Provides Analytics, Protection and Control for APIs

Understand customers, usage patterns and app behavior with detailed analytics and alerts on API traffic, clients, errors, and data volumes. I provide Free up to 10,000 Messages per hour.

6. Open Source Web Analytics Framework in PHP

The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in support for popular web applications such as WordPress and MediaWiki.

7. GoingUp – Combines Web Analytics with SEO Tools

GoingUp’s web stats features a fully customizable desktop with easy-to-read graphs and data charts. See visitors, referring URLs and even search engine traffic! Show only the data you want to see with slick AJAX interface! Set custom tracking events to see sales, downloads and subscribes!

8. Get a Full Featured Pingdom Account for Free

Pingdom is a service that monitors websites and servers from the Internet and alerts you if there is a problem. It acts like a watchdog, making sure that your website is up and running 24/7. You handle all your settings from an online control panel. No need to install anything. You can get error alerts via both email and SMS.

9. Odometer Style Javascript Counter in Mootools

UvumiTools Odometer is an odometer style Javascript counter, where you can actually see the numbers spining. It is a Mootools plugin requires no Flash, it’s all CSS and Javascript.

10. Crowd Science

Crowd Science Demographics is a new audience measurement service that gives website publishers insight into the demographics and attitudes of their audience. Focusing on more than page views, clicks and behavior, Crowd Science Demographics builds an audience profile including age, gender, income level and other demos that provide you insight to your audience.

11. Compare Traffic with Google Trends for Websites

With Google Trends for Websites, you can get insights into the traffic and geographic visitation patterns of your favorite websites. You can compare data for up to five websites and view related sites and top searches for each one.

12. Comparing FeedBurner Subscriber Numbers

A free web application that you can use for comparing FeedBurner feeds. This tool is great for checking out your competition and noticing trends in growth.

13. W3Counter – Hosted Realtime Website Analytics Solution

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14. Woopra Realtime Web Tracking & Analytics Tool

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. We deliver the richest library of visitor statistics in the industry through our innovative desktop application. But Woopra is more than simply statistics.

15. Piwik – Open Source Web Analytics

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed real time reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more

Demo

16. Track, Monitor and Analysis Your Flash (SWF) with Mochibot

MochiBot give Flash developers an easy and effective way to track their Flash movies. Other tools in the market are either not made to track Flash content, too expensive, or just too hard to use.

Demo

17. Free Web Counter for Your Website from SiteMeter

Site Meter is a comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience.

Demo

18. Snoop Tracks Your Visitors and Events On Your Desktop

Reinvigorate measures your influence on the web in real-time. Gain up-to-the-minute insight into your audience, then adapt to meet their needs and watch your site grow.

Demo

19. StatCounter is Another Free Reliable Web Tracker

A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

20. SlimStat – Open Source Extensive Analytics Program

SlimStat is an extensible web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, browsers versions, platforms and searches can all be taken in at a glance.

WordPress Stat Plugins

1. WassUp

This is the statistic plugin that I am currently using. It gives you real-time statistics which is the part that I really like.

2. WP-Stats

This is another great WordPress plugin for finding out your statistics. This may be the most popular one among WordPress users. But don’t think that means it is the best.

3. WordPress Blog Stats

This helps you integrate the W3Counter service into your self hosted blog.

4. Official StatCounter Plugin

If you use the great service StatCounter for getting your blogs statistics, then you will likely love this plugin. This allows you to use their service in your admin area. This means that you will not have to go to their web site to get statistics.

5. CyStats

This is another great statistic plugin that I also use. It shows you a little more information about your statistics. A lot of times I like as much information as I possibly can get.

6. StatPress Reloaded

This was made to keep the Statpress plugin alive. The original creator does not keep the original updated anymore so this was created. Also one of the most popular plugins to get your statistics.