How to add social bookmarking tags using Live Writer

Posted on April 5, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging | 1 Comment

Social bookmarking is used for storing bookmarks of useful web pages on the Net.  In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web sites they want on their own social website account.  For example, if you have a Yahoo! account, you can click the image below to add the online-tech-tips.com URL to your Yahoo! account:

It would then open your Yahoo! bookmarks page prompting you to save the link:

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You could then see the bookmark on the bookmarks.yahoo.com site:

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Zemanta - Convenient Blogging Tool

Posted on April 19, 2008 - Filed Under Blogging | 5 Comments

Looking for a good blog editor? Bloggers around the world now have a new tool that makes blogging a little bit easier. Zemanta is a newly launched tool that easily integrates into several blogging platforms. Typepad, Blogger, and Wordpress users can incorporate it into their everyday blogging needs.

It will conveniently recommend links, pictures, tags and articles that are related to your current blog postings. The reason Zemanta can make such smart recommendations is because of the proprietary language and algorithms built into it.

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Best posts on Online Tech Tips from March 2008

Posted on April 3, 2008 - Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment

So here’s the most popular posts on Online Tech Tips for the last month, March 2008 split by category in case you’re only interested in a specific one! Please remember to post comments on which articles you liked best and which you didn’t like! Thanks!

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  • How to add website shortcuts to the Windows Start Menu
    Looking for a way to add program shortcuts to the Start Menu? Ever thought about adding website (URL) shortcuts to your Start Menu? It’s actually quite useful! I personally use Firefox for my browsing needs, but I still hate having to browse through my ridiculously long list of bookmarks just to open my email (yes I could just type in gmail, but I’m too lazy to type it)!

Best posts on Online Tech Tips from Febuary 2008

Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment

It’s kind of late, I know, but I could not get time to post my list of popular posts from last month! I’m trying to make it a habit of doing this as it’s hard to remember what was good when you write 60 posts a month! It’s much nicer to get a shorter list of that you can quickly browse!

So here’s the most popular posts on Online Tech Tips for the last month, February 2008 split by category in case you’re only interested in a specific one! Please remember to post comments on which articles you liked best and which you didn’t like! Thanks!

Cover It Live - Live Blogging

Posted on February 29, 2008 - Filed Under Blogging | 2 Comments

Bloggers enjoy sharing their views and opinions with the world. Being the first to give others access to current events and discoveries will almost guarantee that their blog fame. It does not matter if it is about celebrities, sports, technology, or music. As long as you can provide the public with the news, then your blog will have a large following.

Review of PubMatic, ad optimization service, after 3 weeks of usage

Posted on January 22, 2008 - Filed Under Blogging | 5 Comments

If you’re a blogger and you have ads on your site, you probably have heard the term “ad optimization” before. Especially if you’re using an ad network like Google Adsense, you’ve probably read a hundred articles on optimizing layout, colors, size, location, etc, etc for your Adsense ads.

But most people do not bother with manually tests because it simply takes too long and it’s too tedious to sit and watch, compare, adjust and start over again. That’s why a couple of smart people come out with a way to automate the whole process of ad optimization.

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