Chapter Four: Wire the sites together

Videos

Add to main web site While it is possible to host your Video on your own web site, you might prefer to host it on YouTube, then installing a YouTube “widget” (a few lines of HTML code) on your site to play the video there. The advantages of this include: There are no bandwidth charges [...]

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Blogs

In addition to connecting your Blog to your social networking and identity sites (egLinkedIn, Plaxo, Amazon, and Facebook).There are a number of “blog aggregator” sites that will take your Blog’s feed, repackage it, and then make it available to others. The benefit of this means that your blog will appear in many additional places, with [...]

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Social Bookmarking

There are a number of sites on the internet where people can “save” bookmarks for sites, blog entries, and other bits of content. Then, these social bookmarking sites categorize the entries, make them searchable, and allow their users to vote on the popularity of the entry. Three of the most well-known social bookmarking sites are [...]

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Newsletters

It takes a significant amount of time to write, edit, and finally send your email newsletters (ezines) to your subscribers. There are two things that you should do to leverage this effort: repurpose your ezine articles onto free article web sites, and repurpose this same content into your blog. The two key problems with ezinesare [...]

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More ideas

Power.com A relative newcomer, Power.com is hoping to help you manage/minimize the ongoing maintenance of multiple sites and identities. Power.com does this by first logging into a number of other sites (MySpace, Facebook, etc) on your behalf – you give them all your passwords. Power.com then combines all of your information into a supposedly easy-to-use [...]

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