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"Ways of the Internet & Articles -
Authors SHOULD Get Credit and Recognition!"
By Susan NichoIs, Editor/Publisher

You might notice lately, that more and more article authors are not using their names with their articles. I have read that some publishers are claiming the articles as their own. Well... that bothers me! In the world of plagiarism, it surely sounds familiar for authors not to be given credit.

Personally, I am proud to publish other authors' articles and GIVE THEM CREDIT by name! I do NOT want to use someone else's hard work and make claim of it - whether in blogging or in this ezine.

On the other side of the perspective, if an author is trying to brand the name of their business instead of their name, then that is certainly okay and even something that I have done myself for years. I brand VectorCentral.com rather than my personal name.

My concern is that publishers might be using articles and claiming them as their own instead of giving proper credit to the author and/or the website/business.

If you see an article in this ezine that does not have an author's name, that is because it was not given with the article through the service from which we find many excellent resource articles. But I will always include the website URL and as much of the authors' resources as possible.

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How To Get More Traffic To Your Site
Author: ListControlSite.org

What are paid backlinks? Incoming links, to your site, are what all of the search engines use as a criteria to define whether your website is worth listing high in their results or not. So, in very basic terms, if you have a lot of backlinks, you will be ranked highly with the search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc).

A backlink is just a link from another website or web page to your website or your page. The reason that the search engines use this as a measuring tool is because they "feel" that if your site is worth being linked to by another site, then your site must be worthwhile. There is a lot more that could be said about that but again, in a nutshell, it all comes down to this: the more websites that you have linking to your website, and the better quality the links (meaning, the more relevant the links are to your website), the higher you will rank in the search engines.

But building links yourself is a tedious, long and continuous process. So, not too long ago, people were very comfortable with paying a service to provide them with a backlink. But it didn't take Google too long to figure out that this was happening and paid linking services started being penalized.

So now the rules are different. Google does allow you to buy links but they will put your links through the ringer to make sure you follow their guidelines. What this means for you is that you've got to buy links from sites that do adhere to Google's constantly changing guidelines. If you are buying backlinks just for traffic, you will be able to follow the google guidelines. But if you are buying them to increase the SEO of your sight, then you should probably hold on to your money since the search engines only allow no-follow links.

However, while paid backlinks may not be the way to go, there are a number of incoming link services that you can choose to use rather than just outright buying backlinks. These services will actually do the link-building work for you rather than just selling you the links. Different services offer different features so just make sure that you do the proper amount of research to establish those that are really working the right way and keeping one step ahead of the search engine rules and regulations.

While backlink services will not be cheap, they offer a great alternative to you spending an enormous amount of time trying to learn about backlink-building and then applying it to your business. Choosing the right service allows you to let the experts handle that aspect so that you can go on to other business building activities. There are several link-building services to choose from and the list will probably continue to grow as long as it is common knowledge that backlinks are necessary for high search engine ranking.

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10 Useful Twitter Applications To Use On A Daily Basis
Author: InternetMastermindStrategy.com

No one can be an online marketer without knowing how Twitter can help in business. At first anyone who tries out the tool would ask how a 140 character message sent through the tool can do wonders. Nothing is stranger than that but as time passes by it can bring about great results for business.

Based on experience, these seasoned online marketers came up with useful Twitter applications that would bring to power anyone who used Twitter for marketing online and who makes use of these tools, all for leveraging time.

Here they are :

Social Oomph (which used to be Tweetlater.Com) is an application that allows you to send automatic welcome messages to new Twitter followers you have. One way to abuse it is to cloak affiliate links using it. But these guys don't last long. Remember the golden rule: Social networking sites are meant for creating relationships but not intended to spam other people's accounts.

Twitter Grader is that tool that allows you to see how powerful your Twitter profile is, the number of followers you have and how powerful their profiles are as well. It shows how broad your Twitter community is and how much quality does your network has. You can get a report from this application.

TweetDeck is most often called Twitter's air traffic controller. It gives you the possibility to group your followers and organize their messages for you to easily read them. In this way, you can easily read the status on the profiles in Facebook and MySpace and extend your network in there too. You are also allowed to share videos and photos here.

TwitterCounter - This would show you the number of followers, friends, and also their recent updates at a glance that helps a lot when you compare accounts.

Twellow is also one of the most useful Twitter applications that you can use, which is helpful when you use Twitter for marketing. It is considered the yellow pages of Twitter which allows you to search for people who truly matter with the hundreds of categories and advanced search features.

You can also have extended bio profiles that include your desired links. It's now easy to follow targeted people in Twitter.

TwitPic- With this tool, you are allowed to share photos in Twitter, a cool tool to use.

Twollo - is a keyword-based application that would let the tool perform an automated process of targeting profiles related to the niche.

Twitter Karma-is an example of the useful Twitter applications that would allow you to add or remove followers you don't wish to follow. It's free and useful but just don't use it if you have several thousands of followers cause it can take forever to do it.

BubbleTweet- is a user friendly tool that lets you see a little video message to your new followers with the use of a Video Bubble Tweet, which makes it easier for you to connect with your followers in a fun and much better manner.

TwitterFriendAdder: This is another one of the useful Twitter applications that lets you add and remove followers fast and easy, regardless of how many followers you have. You can use it for hundreds of followers without too much time. Find more about this tool on this page of our site.

This is an overview of some useful Twitter applications I love to use. These tools will make it easy for you to use Twitter for marketing. The list is not what all there is to it but these 10 applications are quite good and highly practical to use.