It’s Sunday afternoon and I am sitting at my new favorite spot to write… by our pool watching my boys having fun. It is about 95 degrees out today, so we absolutely had to get wet. We started the day by going to the movies (where there is great air conditioning) and we saw Ice Age 3 which was actually really good.
Today I am writing about what is new at Making Money Online Dot Com and to celebrate the first month anniversary of this site. It has been a pretty good first month, but we have a lot of really great stuff planned for the upcoming months, so we hope you keep coming back.
First off… this weekend we have finally joined the world of those of you who “tweet” and created a Twitter account for the site. It is http://twitter.com/mmodotcom. We wanted to get twitter.com/makingmoneyonline, but unfortunately that was too long. Please take a peek and let us know what you think of the background and let us know if there is something you think we should change.
Now for you veteran Twitterers out there, how do you guys use Twitter? Do you post what you are doing all day, just links to your blog posts, or do you do something else? Since we are new at this, we are not sure how to actually best use Twitter to our advantage while making it something worthwhile to our followers. Also, do most people have it connected to their cell phone? That seems like it would get annoying rather quickly if you receive everyone’s posts to your phone.
In regards to our Twitter account, we would love to have you follow us. We would also like to follow anyone who has some of the same interests as us. So if you have a blog or website that is in the “making money online” niche, “blogging” niche or something else you think might interest us, please leave your twitter address in the comment section below. We would love to see what you are up to, plus it will let our readers know about you as well.
Also this weekend, we expanded our “Footer” to include 3 widget boxes which now include, “Most Recent Comments” and “Who Comments Most”. We will be using the second one to start running some contests in the upcoming weeks to encourage commenting, so stay tuned!
The one section of the site that we are still behind on is the “Business Spotlight” section which will be located in the top left widget box on the homepage. We actually have several people lined up to interview, but we have not decided what the best medium is to bring that to you. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.
Since this is our one month anniversary, we thought we would list our favorite posts that you might have missed if you are brand new to the site. Here are some of the ones we really like:
- Gurus Make More Money Online and Have a Lot More Fun While Doing It!
- Buy, Test, Review, Earn Your Money Back, Profit, Use Forever, Keep Making Money… Sound Good?
- How to Come Up with Blog Post Ideas
- Sometimes it Pays to be a Nice Guy
- Hey Bloggers, Scratch Our Blog and We’ll Scratch Yours
- Making Your Blog More than Just a Blog!
Well that’s it for this post. It’s time for me to jump in the pool myself!
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Sire on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 3:41 am
Well, I hope you enjoyed the dip in the pool and I hope you moved your laptop far enough away so that you don’t get any water on it.
I am now following you on twitter, and as for how I use it? I don’t use it nearly often enough, but I do have a plugin installed on two of my blogs that automatically tweets my post. Other than that I will tweet interesting posts, such as this one
Doug Dillard on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 8:42 am
Yes Sire… I did enjoy the dip, and I am pretty good so far at keeping the laptop dry.
Thanks for following us on Twitter. Can you tell us what plugins you are using to auto-tweet posts? We would like to use something like that as well. Thanks!
Sire on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 7:57 pm
Sure, it’s called Tweet My Blog and once a member you can also promote the affiliate. I use it on Wassup and my Load of BS site, and it’s never failed to promote a post.
bbrian017 on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 9:46 am
Firstly it’s about time you joined twitter!
Secondly it’s about time I post a comment and visit your blog!
Ive seen you around at Sire’s blog and over at extreme johns etc… each time I said this Doug guys seems pretty cool I better visit his blog!
Then bang you’re commenting on my blog!
Must be nice relaxing blogging watching the kids swim! Life seems good Doug I’m glad for you!
Regarding Twitter here;s the deal ok Doug! The things you will need! This will help me and my fiends to promote your blog to our followers and keep us updated!
Twitter Counter – http://www.seomkt.com/blog-traffic-report-increase-that-blog-traffic/
You should also be adding the tweetmeme to your blog!
Hope that helps a bit!
Doug Dillard on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 4:20 pm
Thanks Brian! Yes… I know we are a little behind on the whole social networking thing, but we can catch up
Ok, I added TwitterCounter to my sidebar as well as the big black Twitter banner to the right of my logo on the top of the page. Hopefully that will help start to build my subscribers.
About Teetmeme, can I use it at the same time as Twittley?
bbrian017 on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 7:04 pm
no no the widget! get the widget!
Doug Dillard on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 7:30 pm
Can yo be more specific? I think I need my hand held for this one
bbrian017 on Tue, 21st Jul 2009 5:27 am
hehe yeah Doug! On my blog I have a sidebar widget! It shows my twitter account and all my most recent visitors that also use twitter.
If you click my name on that widget @bbrian017 it will bring you to the widget page!
Add that widget it’s really great and most of our friends use it!
Doug Dillard on Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 9:38 am
I added it to my footer. It is not a very attractive widget IMO. I hope it works well
Couple questions. For the last two days my TwitterCounter displayed I had 10 followers and it never auto-updated. As of me writing this, I have 33. I went to their site and I clicked on “Update Follower Count” and now it displays 25.
1) Do I have to go to their site and click that update button every time I want to update my display count?
2) Is that number the number of followers I have, or the number of people I am following, as I am following 25 people?
Thanks!
bbrian017 on Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 9:43 am
I think ever time you sign in like any other API for twitter it will be updated! Youc an also manually update the numbers.
These are the people following you!
See I have visited you site and the widget lets you know I was here!
if you go visit blogengage or my other blog I will see you were there. You can even send shout outs saying hey I’m here! I love it!
Doug Dillard on Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 11:08 am
Thanks for helping me with this Brian! The counter just started working correctly… yeah! Last question (I hope)… Does it show the last person to visit that has a Twitter account, or the last person to visit that has a TwitterCounter account?
Curios Little Person on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 10:41 am
Great to see that ur adding the widgets and have included the top commenters…. I noticed a growth in my comments after I installed this plugin…
Looking forward to your business spotlight section
Cheers
Sandeep
Doug Dillard on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 4:21 pm
Cool Sandeep… I am hoping that will help with growing my comments as well!
Asswass on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 1:39 pm
I’m already following you Doug. I only use Twitter to tweet my last blog post, to tweet some Hiburrito WOPS and maybe say anything that comes to mind.
Doug Dillard on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 4:25 pm
Thanks for the tip and being a follower
Tycoon Blogger on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 4:47 pm
Doug,
Great idea on the “who comments most” section and of course, great idea on Twitter. BTW, I just twitley-ed (or what ever you call it) you. I will add you on next time I am on twitter.
Doug Dillard on Tue, 21st Jul 2009 12:12 am
Much appreciated!
Extreme John on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 5:52 pm
BAM! You have a new stalker, and if you don’t follow back we are going to have to thumb wrestle.
Doug Dillard on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 7:29 pm
LOL… John, you were the 1st person I followed when I created the account!
George Serradinho on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 10:41 pm
Well done on joining Twitter and making the footer changes. I’m sure your readers will appreciate it. The site is looking great and can’t wait to see how you are going to handle the interviews on your site.
I will be following you soon on Twitter, need to log on and add you.
Doug Dillard on Tue, 21st Jul 2009 1:17 am
Thanks for the comments George. We do appreciate them
The Gooroo @ Finance Advisory Stop on Tue, 21st Jul 2009 3:19 am
Good to see you and your kids are enjoying the beautiful weather. I’m also following you on Twitter now
Btw Doug, I made a post recently regarding the idea of children moving from one place to another. Since you have kids, it may be a post that would interest you. Feel free to have a look!
TechZoomIn on Tue, 21st Jul 2009 8:55 am
I must say you’re rocking from the first month itself..Can’t believe the fact its month old blog…
Doug Dillard on Tue, 21st Jul 2009 9:02 am
Thanks… we are working hard at it! Hopefully it will payoff in the long run
bbrian017 on Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 11:13 am
hmmm… that’s a good question!
I’m going t safely assume only those with a twitter counter account!
but to be sure I sent a message to Boris at twitter!
@boris Does it show the last person to visit that has a Twitter account, or the last person to visit that has a TwitterCounter account?
I’ll let you know what he says!
Doug Dillard on Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 12:45 pm
Brian… I do have another Twitter question. Do you know why at http://twitter.com/mmodotcom/followers it only shows ExtremeJohn’s icon? Is there a setting for that?
bbrian017 on Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 12:55 pm
I spoke with the twittercounter guy and he said this about the twitter counter Last person who is logged into TwitterCounter or TwitterRemote via OAuth. So no it won’t show all your twitter visitors unless they are logged into TwitterCounter or TwitterRemote. I sent you a tweet but wanted to make sure you got it here.
I’m not sure why it’s only showing ExtremeJohn that;s very weird.
It should be showing your followers…
That6 night be a contact twitter question
Doug Dillard on Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 12:57 pm
Thanks Brian!
bbrian017 on Wed, 22nd Jul 2009 12:59 pm
jezz, look at my spelling! I have to start looking out for that…
MLDina on Thu, 23rd Jul 2009 10:31 am
Congrats on your 1 month blogoversary!
As for Twitter, I use it to follow people I admire or would like to partner with. When I post, I am either updating about recent events of interest, or something newsworthy. There are moments when I have some nonsense tangents I go on, but I try to keep it informative and interesting.
Doug Dillard on Sat, 25th Jul 2009 9:34 am
Thank-you for letting us know how you use Twitter… great advice.
Lee Ka Hoong on Sat, 25th Jul 2009 8:20 am
Congrats Doug on your first month anniversary of this blog! It’s cool to see that your blog actually is growing well even though it’s only a month old as you have a lot of followers in this blog, I’ll be one of them.
Keep it up and produce more great content Doug!
Regards,
Lee
Doug Dillard on Sat, 25th Jul 2009 9:37 am
Thanks Lee… we are really excited about how well it is doing so far, and it is a extremely motivating for us to build a really great site. Thanks for following us