You want to build a huge vault of backlinks to your precious Triond articles. What better than to clip web text and post to your personal blogs?
All of us want a surging traffic to our Triond articles — after all, revenues that accrue to us through advertisements on the site depend on the volume of traffic. One of the methods we have been told again and again is to build up backlinks from our personal blogs and other social networking sites where our friends and networks follow the links to the articles. One of the parameters the search engines use in their algorithms is the keyword density. So when we write a blog that links back to any of the Triond article, the anchor text (a single word, group of words or a paragraph) that link the two should contain keywords.
All this demands work that is at once formidable and distinctly unappealing. We need tools that can help us to write a quick blog 365 days a year.
Fortunately, there are easy-to-use tools that help you clip text, pictures or audio files and comment on them and post them to your blogs. Many of us reproduce the entire Triond article or write a short intro and then link back to the original article.
But there is a better way.
Say, you have written an article on how to prevent diabetes. Now you come across a journal or newspaper article that talks of a groundbreaking research that sheds some light on diabetes prevention. Now you can use the clipping tools to clip portions of the research, append some explanatory notes and a link to your article and then post it to social networking sites like Facebook or Friendfeed.
Most tools support Blogger and Wordpress blogs, and both these sites offer free membership. So let’s review some of these tools.
Sidewiki:
Sidewiki is a tool that comes with Google toolbar. You need to have Firefox 2+ (I found it had some glitches with the latest version of Firefox) or Internet Explorer 6+). Sidewiki appears as a browser sidebar when you click the Sidewiki icon, where you can read and write entries along the side of the page. Anyone can write comment on the article, and you can not only post your own comments but also others as well. The comments are public and they can carry external links. Your name carries a hyperlink to your Google profile, which in turn can carry a link to your website.
Here’s the screenshot of my article How Diabetes Affects the Kidneys and the Sidewiki entry I have written for it.
You can also write comments on it by clicking on Write An Entry (you need to have Google Toolbar installed on your browser). Google’s algorithm will decide whose comments appear on top — of course, the author’s comments will have the top slot.
After I posted the above Sidewiki entry on to my Blogger, this is what I got:
Of course, the blog doesn’t seem to make much sense, but I can go and edit my blog later. The Sidewiki Clip and Post helps one to freeze their thoughts on to their blogs immediately before they forget what and where they read a particular information.
Here are a couple of videos that explain and demonstrate the process.
The following video shows you how you can post to Blogger after writing an entry.
Amplify
Amplify is another web site that makes it easy to clip texts, images and videos and share and post comments on them. You can sync Amplify with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Friendfeed, delicious and Clipmarks.com to keep your friends updated with interesting things you Amplify from the web.
Clipmarks
Clipmark’s interface and look-and-feel is similar to Amplify, because both are powered by the same people. You can post not only to Blogger, but to LiveJournal, Movable Type and Typepad as well. Amplify offers extra options to share with social bookmarking sites, but Clipmarks has its own strength too. You can create a ClipCast, which is a slideshow of clips you have collected from the web, including your own Triond articles, and put them on Facebook (You have to install Clipmarks app).
November 11th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
great tips here. Many thanks
November 11th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Nice info.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
This sounds like some great information and I want to go back and make some notes. I just wish I had your knowledge and appreciate your efforts in trying to help us all on Triond.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
hey uma…i didn’t go through ur article but the title itself is no nice that i couldn’t stop myself…
actually that is the best part of blogging..and also if utilized well we can earn decent amount from that which i cud not manage……
thanks for sharing with us ..u r like a living.. Wikipedia
gr8 job umaji..
November 11th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Thanks for the info Uma, it’s very helpful.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
nice one…i like it
November 11th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
These are excellent tools that I will be checking out. Thank you for sharing.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
excellent! ..thanks for sharing this useful tips..
November 12th, 2009 at 12:21 am
wonderful information.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:11 am
A very interesting article. Thanks for the information.
Christine
November 12th, 2009 at 8:25 am
excellent article.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Very informative article. Well, people have different style of writing.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:02 am
This sounds great, may give it a try. Thanks!
November 12th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I do have a blog, and with the tips and advice you have shared here, guess I can maximize my blog poterntial. Thank you Uma.
November 12th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Great tips, here, Uma. I’m going to explore these applications now. Thanks.
November 12th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Great article!
November 12th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
A very informative article. Although I’m still in the process of trying to maximize the potential of Triond, which takes up 98% of my computer time, I do find articles like this very useful for keeping up with what is going on outside of Triond.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I’ll try this and see if I can manage to do so….Thanks for sharing
November 12th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
good to know all this. Thanks for posting Uma!!
November 12th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Very informative! I am going to have to bookmark this. Great write
November 13th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Cool ideas to try.
November 13th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Very informative.Do you know if it works with Wordpress?