Gain Twitter Traffic and Exposure - A post from Blab Web telling you how to optimize Twitter as a tool to get traffic onto your new blog posts. Well worth a read if you are wanting to get more traffic from Twitter or want to get more followers.

Ultimate Guide to Use Digg For Bloggers - This post from Balkhis is a must read for all bloggers that use Digg and want to get better at it. It has lots of tips and tricks to tell you how to make the most of your posts being on Digg.

Thanks for reading and that’s all my link love for this week so check back next week for more and it might be your post that is included.

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Firstly there is FTP, the way to get your files from your PC onto your server and vice versa. The best program for this I think is Transmit. The best thing about Transmit is that it allows you to open the files off your server in your chosen program of choice and when you save it, Transmit uploads it again. This saves us (the webmasters) lots of time downloading the file, editing it, then uploading it. You can do this with any file; web page, graphics and many more!

The next thing that you would want to do is edit web pages. Coda is awesome at editing web pages. It quickly and easily can open files from your server using Transmit or its own built in FTP engine. It shows you color coded code so different HTML and PHP tags will be shown in different colors to help you work out what does what. Coda is also great at handling you Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with its specially designed CSS engine. It is easy to use and fits in well on a Mac.

Using Twitter is great and what makes it even better is having an application on your Mac which can easily send and receive tweets. Well you can and the best one I think there is is Twitterific. Twitterific allows you to view your most recent tweets, easily mange direct messages and @replies. Twitterific can also be launched from the dock and/or the menu bar. Twitterific fits into the mac GUI perfectly and definitely is the best way to Twitter.

When you are downloading software, scripts, etc for your website they will often be in many different file formats such as: .zip, .rar and so on. The Unarchiver is a great free to use extraction application which can get the files you want from almost nay compressed file. It has support for password protected files and has full support for most versions of Mac OSX. It has a great GUI and best of all it is free to use!

So I don’t know what you are waiting for! Go download these great applications now!

Thanks for reading my post on Mac Software if you have any software you think should be on the list leave or comment, message me or tweet me!

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Here are the advantages then: firstly you easily get all the latest posts from all of your favorite blogs daily, waiting for you in your inbox for you to read when ever you want without you missing a post. Secondly from the blogger’s point of view he knows he has got a reader that will read mostly all of his posts as they are being delivered straight to the reader.

The disadvantages then: firstly then the blogger does not get the page views and impressions like the blogger would if you were actually on the site. Secondly it takes longer to say a comment onto the post if you want your opinion heard.

In conclusion I think that email subscriptions are worth it because if you are a reader of many blogs and don’t want to miss a post its a good idea because as all the posts are sent to your email. But if you do subscribe I would still visit the site a couple of times a week to leave comments on your favorite posts and to let the blogger know your ideas. If you only read a few to a couple of blogs a day why not just bookmark it and visit it daily as you get the post in a better layout and you can comment straight away. Better still you could make your favorite blog your homepage.

So don’t forget to sign up to my email subscription which can be found here.

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7.	FD FeedBurner: Redirects all WordPress blog feeds to a Feedburner feed
8.	Google Analytics For WordPress: This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic click out and download tracking to your WordPress blog.
9.	Google XML Sitemap: This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Google and Yahoo
10.	Lightbox 2: Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.04
11.	No Ping Wait: Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php
12.	Redirection: The best redirection manager available for WordPress.
13.	Sociable: Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. Like Digg, Technorati, Stumbleupon and many more.
14.	Technorati Incoming Links: In WordPress 2.3 (and above) the Technorati Incoming Links has been replaced with Google Blog Search, now you can add it again with this plugin
15.	WordPress Admin Bar: Creates an admin bar inspired by the one at WordPress.com. Quick and Easy access to to Admin Panel.
16.	WordPress Automatic Upgrade: WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the WordPress installation to the latest one provided by WordPress.org
17.	WP Sticky: Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog. So the post never goes off the top spot of your blog/homepage.
18.	WP PNG Fix: This plugin includes the ‘unitpngfix.js’ javascript file if the browser is IE6 or lower. In plain words, it implements the solution for the PNG transparency provided.
19.	WordPress Super Cache: Very fast caching module for WordPress. Enables quicker access and loading times.
20.	WWW Redirect: Redirects variations of identical domain requests to a consistent URI (i.e. http://ryanlineker.com to http://www.ryanlineker.com )

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Also I have now added 125px by 125px banner advertising space on my blog. This enables me to sell this advertising space to you to help me with the running costs of my blog and to help you at the same time. If you are interested in supporting me and my blog and want to purchase advertising check out my Advertising Page.

In the next couple of days you may find occasional errors while browsing my blog as I am going to be carrying out even more modifications to make the blog a better place for you and me. Future updates include CommentLuv which find your recent blog post when you leave a comment.

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To see an example of a guest post you can look at my guest post What To Look For In A Web Host. As well as getting potential subscribers through a guest post many times you can get back links from high PR and reputable websites for free!

Also for a short time you can get a guest post on my blog, all you need to do is write the post and then email it to me. Please if you are going to submit a post check the spelling and grammar so it can get live quicker. To send me an email check out my Contact Page.

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It has a nice design that works well with Windows Vista, to have a look click on the screenshot on the top right of this post. From a quick try it doesn’t seem to have a status bar at the bottom like most browsers. To download it visit the site http://www.google.com/chrome.

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Firstly look at the reputation of that affiliate network. Do they pay out? and if they do are their payments on time? Also you need to look at if they don’t ban you if you start to make good money and people’s reviews about them on other internet sites.

Secondly does that affiliate program have suitable products and offer that would suit your niche. There is no point for you signing up for a network if all the offers that they have are nothing to do with what your site is about.

Thirdly you need to see if they have high paying offers with a good conversion rate as there is no point putting up an ad which only pays you $0.50 a conversion when on other sites there could be an over that pays over twenty times more. Also you need a good conversion rate or you could not get many conversions at all.

Fourthly is their support any good? It is useless to be part of an affiliate network which pays well but you can never talk to anybody about new offers, payments on any questions in general you have about the affiliate program.

I have tried many affiliate programs in the past but the best affiliate programs that seem to work for me are MaxBounty and NeverBlueAds. So if you haven’t started using an affiliate program, consider starting with these tips kept in mind.

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