Twitter is nothing new (it’s been around since early 2006, and has been quite mainstream since 2009), but the benefits it can bring to blogs have only truly begun to be appreciated and implemented. These days, many bloggers use Twitter not only to share micro-updates (140 characters, to be exact) of what they’re doing with the internet at large (or with friends and family only, if they choose to have their account protected and subsequently viewable to approved Twitter users only), but also to promote their blog and special events that are taking place on it.

If you want to broaden your blog’s reach, you’ll definitely want to hook up your blog with Twitter. If you use WordPress, you’ll find that there are plenty of plugins that can be used to make it easy — and even automated — for you to send notifications of new blog entries to Twitter. And the reverse is true: there are also plugins that’ll allow you to share updates that you make on Twitter, right on your blog — usually within your blog’s sidebar.

Facebook is great not only as a social network, but also as a quick booster for your blog. Did you know that Google will take into account any links leading from your Facebook page to your blog for potential SEO “juice”? No? Honestly, until recently I didn’t know that either. And just as importantly, you can drive additional traffic to your blog via Facebook — and vice versa! Here are a few tips:

• Create a Facebook page for your blog. Make sure you not only set up the initial details, but fill in the About box and Info tab, and add additional info and perhaps photos or videos.
• Link your blog to your Facebook page.
• Send notifications of new blog entries to your Facebook page via the Networked Blogs application.
• Add the Facebook page widget to your blog and encourage your readers to become a fan.

Linking your Facebook page and your blog together won’t take much of your time, and the benefits are quite numerous!

Carper Diem is a blog with a difference. The author uses it to vent their frustrations and voice their opinion. Here’s what they have to say about the blog:

By my lamenting I do not wish to inflict my opinion on others, I prefer debate as it is how opinions evolve, but I merely wish to give food for thought. As Rene Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am”. However, in reality, far too many peoples opinion tend to be a result of doing what their parents & educators told them to do & believe, and what their parents’ parents taught them and their parents before etc. And it all started with Religion but that is another topic or several on their own.

Interesting reading I thought!

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