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You might know Bit.ly as a tool to shorten lengthy URL’s, such as this posts’ web address from https://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/benefits-of-using-bit-ly-for-social-media/ to http://bit.ly/NbQgkw
When someone clicks on the Bit.ly shortened version, they are then redirected to the original long URL. The good news: when search engines find links to your short URL’s, they will credit those links to the long URL – a great SEO benefit for your web page. But that’s not all: Bit.ly provides valuable statistics for each of your shortened URL’s in tweets and other Social Media posts.
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More Than URL Shorts
Useful statistics (see the screenshot above) – here are examples:
- Number of times your shortened URL was clicked on
- Number of times other Bit.ly shortened versions of the same page were clicked on
- Referring sites / applications from which your shortened URL was clicked
- Country of the users who are clicking on your shortened URL
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Learn From Your Stats
This way you know how successful your tweet or post is, which site brings you the most visitors and from which country they came from. For example, if you get most referrals from Twitter, just because you tweet the most links there, and you have the most followers on Twitter, you might decide to post a bit more on Google+ and invite more people into your circles on Google+ or you might improve the number of followers on Facebook or LinkedIn.
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Tweet and Post Via Bit.ly
A marvelous reason to use Bit.ly is for me the fact, that I can post to several Twitter and Facebook accounts with ONE click. For example: I just wrote a blog post with an endless long URL, which I then copy / paste into the small window on top of the Bit.ly site. Immediately an almost perfect tweet is created in front of my eyes and I can send this tweet / post – to all the previously set-up Social Media accounts – with ONE single click!
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Sure, links can be shortened directly by Twitter, and there are other websites that shorten links, such as http://Hootsuite.com, http://Ow.ly or http://tiny.cc. But none of them offers Bit.ly’s useful advantages.
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From useful blogs and articles I found on the Internet:
iBookstore now in 17 Latin-American countries
Christian Zibreg wrote in idownloadblog.com:
“Apple has rolled out paid iBookstore content in a slew of new countries. Paid electronic books first surfaced this morning over in the New Zealand iBookstore, but subsequent reports confirmed that paid content is now live – or in the process of going live – in as much as seventeen Latin American markets such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.”
One more reason to sell your books on Apple’s iPad.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/10/22/ibookstore-paid-content-new-countires/
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Sad News: Timely.is will shut down on November 16th
Timely.is started as a fun side project back in 2010. Since then it has grown to help tens of thousands of people publish millions of Tweets and Facebook updates. Starting November 16th you will no longer be able to access your Timely.is account.
They explained:
“When we launched Timely almost 2 years ago there were no other tools that would automatically figure out the best time for a Tweet to go out. Thankfully there are some great alternatives today such as Buffer or Hootsuite.”
Well, not as conveniently and easy to use as Timely was… I will miss it.
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Book Blogger Directory
The Book Blogger Directory is a comprehensive listing of Book Blogs, separated by genre and listed alphabetically. The goal of the Book Blogger Directory is to not only to organize book blogs for users to easily find your blog, it is also there to create a link exchange for search engine optimization. Their mission: To cross promote book bloggers, provide listings by genre and increase links to increase page rank. The benefits of listing on the Book Blogger Directory: As cross promotion occurs from one blog to the next, your Google Page Rank can increase, higher Google Page Rank means higher search engine rankings! Higher keyword saturation on the Directory can have your listing show up on search engines.
Requirements to be on the Book Blogger Directory:
Your blog is primarily used to talk about books (8 out of 10 posts are book related). The Book Blogger Directory will not search out book blogs, it is up to users to enter their listings
http://bookbloggerdirectory.wordpress.com/
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Google+ (Author) Pages FREE
What more can you wish for? An authors pages that tremendously increases your Search Engine Optimization! A great tool no one should omit, at least not if you want to sell more books…
Google explains: “Differences between Google+ Pages and Google+ Profiles
http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1713824
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Posted by ebooksinternational on October 24, 2012 in Blogging, comment on posts, post to public, posting, Publishing News, Social Networks
Tags: Book Blogger Directory, Buffer, Google pages, Google+, Hootsuite, iBookstore, idownloadblog.com, plus Google