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One of the easiest and fastest ways to measure your online audience’s interest in your posts, tweets or email promotions is to use a URL shortener. URL shorteners simply take a long URL and shorten it to a manageable amount of characters, rendering them easier to type, remember and look at. While handy for that alone, URL shorteners can also be used to give you an immediate insight into what subjects and keywords your readers (blog, social media, ezine, etc) are most interested in. With the advent of the social media age (especially Twitter), link shorteners have gained new importance and now offer users on-the-spot analytics.

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I just did some redecorating at my hosting and domains sales website – now it coordinates nicely with this site…. it was long overdue. To celebrate the site makeover, I’m having a holiday sale on all our best products:

All hosting plans on sale – save up to 30%: Economy hosting plans include 10GB space – only $3.99/month. Save even more on multi-year plans.

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If you are a Twitter veteran or a novice – you have probably been frustrated by the absence of user management tools within Twitter. Even a mildly enthusiastic Twitterer soon finds themselves wishing they could group users they follow, track clickthroughs, or simply make it easier to track outgoing or incoming messages. HootSuite is a web-based tool that already offered great management tools such as scheduled tweets and multiple profile management. The new HootSuite 2.0 takes Twitter management to a whole new level.

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You can automate your e-newsletter creation process using your blog’s feed and a email marketing service like AWeber that offers this capability. This approach not only saves you time, but will keep your email marketing schedule on track with no extra work on your part. Once the initial process is set up, it literally will run itself. Setting this up is not as geeked-out or difficult as you may suspect – here’s a quick overview…

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My Top-5 Website No-Nos

by Mary on July 13, 2009

The other day, I tweeted ranted against audio and/or video that automatically plays when the page loads in the browser – without user control. Much to my satisfaction, some of my fellow Twitterzens agreed!  I find that sometimes it’s necessary to talk a client down from wanting to add something to a site that while [...]

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