Keeping a calendar of events updated can be a real pain. There are all sorts of plugins and widgets that let you add one to your site, but they often require duplicate entry and can be difficult to maintain. If you use Google Calendar for your personal or business calendars (and even if you don’t), adding a calendar of events to your blog or website (and maintaining it!) is fairly easy. Here’s how…
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WordStream Helps Advertisers Generate More Qualified Traffic with New Tools
Most PPC (pay-per-click) software is focused on helping advertisers manage bids on keywords, WordStream’s new AdWords Quality Score Management Tools are designed to boost quality scores in Google AdWords campaigns while driving costs down. These tools are now incorporated into WordStream’s flagship PPC product and should make it much easier for AdWords advertisers to develop more cost-efficient and effective campaigns.
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The Most Effective Time to Tweet
I crunched some numbers on my Twitter account to see what the most effective time is to tweet (at least for me). I took a look at the number of clicks on tweets by what time of day and what day of the week for a 2 month time period (August and September) and then averaged them to remove discrepancies due to the number of tweets. Tweets included links to articles by others, my own blog posts, a few promotions and retweets. I took out a couple of retweets that had huge click numbers since I had retweeted a very influential person and clicks were most likely due to their influence. I tweet about a fairly wide range of topics, but the results are interesting….
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