Hope you folks had a fantastic Christmas. I did. It’s always a blast with the kids. Hope you folks also have a great New Years. Make money this new year. Profit. Blah, blah, blah.
Twitter Tool
Found a cool tool. For those of you who dig Social Media and are trying to make money with the effort, you should check out EverTweet. Yes, I am fully aware of the majority of folks who find Social Media a waste of time. You would prefer these type of people not to visit your site. But if you are one to embrace the new media and want a chance to diversify, this is really neat. The joy is you can accumulate followers automatically based on keywords. It also tracks who follows you and removes them if they do not follow you after a certain period of time. Think of the spam opportunities. I am.
Let’s say you have a site on the ever popular “dog training”. How are you going to get visitors? Schlep around trying to get Google ranked with links and articles? Sounds fun. What if every day you had a service like EverTweet that would search out Tweets that had the words “dog”, dog training” and “poop machine”. How cool would it be if it automatically tried to set up a follow connection with those people? Up to 2,000 a day. Think maybe those people might have an interest in Tweets on that topic from you in the future? Maybe that Tweet links to a Crapbank product. Or an Amazon product. Or a new article you wrote. Or a blog post.
From the site:
Choose a keyword or phrase, select how many people to follow each day, choose when to drop lame friends, and you’re done. A week from now you will have hundreds if not thousands of new followers – and it never has to stop.
I have no idea if you will make money with it. It’s just another tool. You’ll have to figure out how best to use it to accomplish anything. Check it out for free.
Web Hosting
I spent an hour and fully dumped Lunarpages from hosting any WordPress blogs. That is one shitty host. Had the fun of getting those blogs transferred to Hostgator. I will be using Hostgator and the free hosting I get from Affilorama from now on.
Sell Out
And finally: Guess what? I’m a sell out. I got an iPhone. We got my daughter one and it seemed pretty cool. They day after Christmas we got my bill for Sirius radio. Paying a stupid annual fee for the privilege. Looked around and discovered that I can get any music/news I want for free with Flycast, Pandora, last.fm, etc. Called Sirius and canceled. Will use the money saved for the monthly fee for iPhone data charge. We have a family rate so it wasn’t that much more. So there. I have a stupid iPhone that my youngest daughter has been glued to since we bought it. But it will be nice to have a means of getting on the web at work without having to deal with the censorship.
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Hi Splork,
Nice move on Hostgator.
I haven’t commented for ages, and I still don’t have anything constructive to add. But as one of the original (and current) eight readers
I just wanted to say Happy New Year and mention that I still read this dross, as I obviously have nothing better to do.
Keep mindlessly pimping, bro.
I’m pretty sure I’m down to 6 readers. It’s all good though. I never was much for attention anyway. Happy New Year’s to you as well. Let’s kick some ass this year.
I know this is kinda off topic, but how did you get your Wordpress blogs transferred to another host? Does Wordpress allow backing up your site to your computer and then upload it to another host?
I go into cpanel. Go to PHPmyadmin. Figure out which db is the right one. Export it. You’ll see a tab at the top that says “Export”. I don’t click anything in options. I click all in structure. I leave data alone. Click save as file and change it to a name and save as zip.
Download all the plugins and themes from your old host/blog.
Install WP on new host, this assumes DNS is propagated. Delete the initial post, links and pages as normal. Upload the themes and plugins from the old host. Don’t forget the upload folder too.
Activate your old theme otherwise you’ll get a big fat blank page when y0u install. Activate plugins. Do all your other configs to your liking. Make sure in misc under settings that you adjust the upload folder as needed otherwise you won’t see your photos, videos, etc.
Log into the new cpanel. PhPmyadmin. Import. simply browse to the folder on your computer.
That’s how I do do it. Doesn’t make it right or better. Just successful.
I think WP lets you export the blog in the admin interface, then when you set up the new installation at the new host you can import the WP export file. You still have to FTP your theme and plugins like normal and reconfigure them.
Uh-oh, I use LunarPages for all my stuff! What kind of plan with them did you have and what did you hate?!
I guess it’s now called the Basic Plan. I had hosted with them for a few years now. I’ve had trouble with Wordpress, specifically database utilization. Plus some of my scripts won’t work and they work fine on Hostgator. So I host all my static sites on Lunarpages until my plan expires in the summer.
Hey Splork,
And a Happy (and hopefully) Prosperous New Year to you & your family too.
I’m a big fan of Hostgator too – even from outside the US. It’s just so simple with them.
Am happy to count myself one of the above 6 or 7 or 8. Keep on keeping on!
Cheers
Thanks for reading Paul. Happy New Year’s to you as well.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the find on EverTweet today – gave you a plug on my new/old site that got blown out of the water (my own bad!) few days ago. Been reading Lost Ball for several years, now this rebuild gives me a chance to clean up my act and use a bit of what I’ve learned here.
Cheers, Steve
Thanks for reading Steve. Glad you found some use with EverTweet. I like it.
Hi Splork,
Happy New Year to you and your family. I have enjoyed reading your brutally honest and funny posts for several years now. I have a question which is definately off the topic but I saught help from the Blogger Help Forum and the Warrior Forum without any resonse. Since I know that you are an expert on bloggging issues and will give me a straight answer, I am seeking your help.
Here is my question: How do I post a Power Point Presentation document saved in My Documents on to my blog whereby my readers can see that presentation? Your advice will be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Sam
Hey Dr. Sam. Happy New Years. Thanks for reading.
The only way that I know to do that is to make the presentation into a You Tube video. Do a search on “powerpoint to video” in your favorite search engine. It’s easy enough to convert it to an .avi or other type of video.
Hi Splork,
I knew that you will have some solution.
I will search for a software tonight.
Thank you for your time and advice.
Best regards,
Sam
Howdy folks – thanks for the mention on EverTweet : )
Let me know what I can do better with it – hopefully it will be useful to ya; I know it has been for me.
It’s going slow as a one-man job, but I got some nifty things coming out here shortly. Will be able to target all of Tony Robbin’s followers who live in Denton, Texas, USA who are within 50 miles of your house, who don’t have a default twitter profile, who have been on twitter for more than 6 months and who have between 5,000 and 100,000 friends and followers, who only speak english, who don’t say any bad words (of your choosing, like ‘porn’), and that fit your friend to follower ratio.
Wew. Yea it could get pretty useful for finding just the people who want to buy your stuff. Unfortunately Twitter doesn’t like targeted @mentions or @replys or else I would leave it in there (already built the darn thing).
I like what you have going on in this blog; very humorous : )
- John (creator of EverTweet)
Hey John. Pretty cool product. Interesting thing happening as I get more and more followers: they are re-tweeting my stuff. Which is getting me more visitors and subsequent clicks.
Folks like to say that the social traffic is not targeted but I’m finding the opposite to be true. I’m tweeting on my niche, to people found talking about the topic using Evertweet, and they are visiting my sites and clicking Adsense or whatever.