tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31969655276426498512012-06-02T09:46:55.868+02:00Articles about topics ranging from technology and software to scientific research. Occasional book reviews. Topics of general interest such as lifestyle, and nutrition. Exploration of blogs and the technical side of blogging.Benjamin Auffarthhttps://profiles.google.com/118440342400845052454noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196965527642649851.post-66836182883177151322010-12-30T21:36:00.009+01:002011-01-21T14:51:43.443+01:00

Apture toolbar with branding, share buttons, and search bar. Many websites have an interactive toolbar providing social and other instruments situated often on top or on the bottom of the page. Blogger has its Navbar, Wordpress has WordPress Bar, and there are many other toolbars with different functionalities that offer integration with basically any website. This article provides a comparison

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Flattr is a relatively new social bookmarking and micropayment (or rather: microdonation) platform. After Paypal, BAC, and Visa and Mastercard bent down to political pressure, Flattr is currently one of the very few options left for people if they want to donate money to wikileaks and consequently Flattr is getting a fair share of exposure. In this post, I explain what flattr is, how you can use

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In an earlier article on the importance of comments for a blog I summarized studies about blog comments, concluding that blog comments lead to more traffic, better search engine optimization (SEO), apart from being personally rewarding to the blog writer. I worked on many optimizations for this blog to make commenting more attractive. Recently I made a major change on this blog and changed the

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I just received a mail by digg.com celebrating their 5th anniversary and I thought it was worth commemorating this event with a post. Digg is one of the biggest social bookmarking websites. Inspired by slashdot, Kevin Rose, then 27 years old, founded digg on December 4th, 2004. Since then the site overtook slashdot in popularity and spawned itself many imitations. In this post there is more on

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One of the most appealing elements on a webpage are "popular posts". There are several possibilities to get popular posts, e.g. by number of comments or visitor statistics. In this post I present 5 widgets that display your highest voted posts from social websites. These widgets can serve to increase visitor involvement and as navigational element. Some of these widgets display a vote or bookmark

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In my last post I listed 72 social websites by usefulness for traffic or search engine optimization. The more sites you submit your articles to the better. The problem is that submitting articles to many social networking sites takes a lot of time, however there are many mass submission services that offer to make article submission easier for you. One of these services is Onlywire. In this post

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Social news sites can greatly push traffic for your blog. However, it takes an effort and an investment of time to submit articles to different sites. Therefore it is necessary to prioritize. In this post I present a list of social websites with alexa rank and page rank for each site and the information whether the site is do-follow or not. In a previous article I showed how to setup a social

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Social bookmark sites can be great to find articles to read when you are at leisure or bored. They are also a great way to promote your website and attract traffic. This article is about how to promote an article at a social bookmark site. Digg is one of the most popular social news sites and it has been scientifically studied often over the last years. I looked through some articles and found

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This post is about making your site more attractive by adding social features and generating more traffic by social features by inbound links. Social networking features make it easy for people to follow your blog, contribute content, link to it, and generate publicity through social media, online communities, and community websites. Social features include feed syndication, social network

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