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No One Likes Your Posts? Don’t Worry, Google Plus One’s For Sale

webchicklet — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:21:28 +0000

Two segments of the internet population cheered when Google came out with Google Plus One, those that provide great content day in and day out, and those that make a (great) living selling to new markets. And the latest, greatest new market is the Google Plus One for sale market. That’s right, you can buy Google Plus one’s until your ATM tells you you can’t.

So you’ve got the big websites that put out new, unique content on a regular basis. They are happy because there thousands (millions) of daily readers, like what they read and click on the Google Plus One button. These, Google Plus One’s are, in a way, a popularity contest not unlike the Facebook like, or the Digg, etc. But Google Plus Ones are different in one big way, at least according to Google: More Google Plus Ones = higher rankings and/or traffic from the Google search engine. So it’s not wonder that web entities who put out great content are happy, as they are rewarded with increasingly higher rankings and traffic in the Google Search engine wars. Win/Win.

But what about the majority of sites out there that put out copied, rewritten, reworded, regurgitated, bad grammar, well you get the idea….CRAP content? What about them and their search engine rankings? They go to all that trouble to set up a WordPress blog, copy some material from another site, or better yet, set up an auto blog CRAP posting machine, and now suddenly Google changes the landscape on them!?

Not to worry CRAP spinners, those new market makers have swarmed to your rescue, out of the goodness of their hearts (or maybe for the money). They’ve set up shop and created thousands of Buy Google Plus One e-stores, websites, or just sell them on Fiverr.com. People are selling “real” google plus one votes for anywhere from 20 to 100 or more Plus One’s for 5 bucks. So, as expected, now the lazy crap spinners can just open their wallets and “try” to improve their rankings on Google. I say “try” because it’s not yet known whether these Plus One votes really do help your rankings or not. The only thing I’m sure of: these guys selling the Plus One votes are making a crap-load of money.

Here’s a screenshot from Fiverr.com ( a great site to find cheap freelancers) searching for Google Plus One…..note at the top there are 208 best matches:

So, what do you think about Google Plus One? Have you noticed your rankings improve? Did you buy Google Plus One’s? Have checked out any of the Google Plus One’s for sale sites? Let our readers know whether they worked for you.

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5 Social Profile Widgets

webchicklet — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:56:47 +0000

Social networks are popular, fun, and coming at us faster than we can keep up. Almost every day, I get invited to join some new (usually “in beta”) social network or micro-blogging community. I enjoy participating, really I do, but after a while, I forget what I’ve joined. To help me remember for myself, I decided to make a list for myself, and in the process I discovered that there are widgets out there designed to make this easy. Now, we can not only keep track of all our own social profiles, but we can share our profiles with the rest of the world as well. So here are 5 tools that let you create your own social profile widgets:

retaggr

retaggr generates an interactive profile card that pops up near your photos and comments on other sites, if those sites have retaggr-enabled code. The drawback at the moment, is that there are not many retaggr-enabled sites, but the plus side is that almost any social site and/or blog (like your own blogs) can be included on the profile card. So the fact that there are practically no limits to what gets included, and that it is highly interactive makes it worth having. Only time will tell if it grows in popularity or not.

Wink Widget

Wink calls itself a people search engine, that lets us find people profiles from across the Web, including social networks and other online communities. But the bit that matters to me is their Wink Widget, which creates a nice little embeddable list of my linked social profiles, that can be customized for color and style.

justaddme

JustAddMe does one thing and one thing only, but it’s that exact thing that is the focus of this post. You add your profile info and it spits out the widget code to paste into your site. It’s not customizable but the clean look should work almost anywhere.

BlogCatalog NewsFeed Widget

Although BlogCatalog is a large site that does many things, it does have an interesting social profile widget. Its NewsFeed Widget not only lets you display your social profile list, but also pulls the latest news from each of those profiles (such as your last tweet or status update). That makes it a little more interesting, since the information displayed changes over time. Available in a variety of colors.

My Social Profiles

Bad Neighborhood’s My Social Profiles generator skips the customization bit completely, but for a very good reason. What it does is create a simple unordered list (or a table, your choice) so that you can style the code via CSS to match your site perfectly. This is the best option for anyone who is the ultimate geek and wants total control over the look and feel of everything on their site.

If you know of any other social profile widgets out there, please share in the comments. Happy Socializing!

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