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Now those of you who have been reading Blazing Minds over the years will have seen a review I did about the website dlvr.it, a site for distributing your blog on social networks etc and how you can promote your fellow bloggers to your audience of Tweeters etc, bringing them interesting blog posts that they may not usually see.

One of the things that I found interesting is the way that you can customize the URL shortener that you wish to use, not only can you opt for the “dlvr.it” or “bit.ly” but you can also use third-party shorteners for your Tweets.

As an example I’m going to show you how easy it is to set up one for Su.Pr the Stumbleupon shortener.

Setting Up Your Third Party Shortener

Log in to your dlvr.it account and click on Settings, then on Short Links, this is where you manage your shorteners and add new ones, so let’s get on with adding your Su.Pr shortener.

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Earlier today I had a tweet from @missus_emm from the blog Emm In London, which inspired me to answer her question via a blog post here on Blazing Minds and in the meantime hopefully helping out some other fellow bloggers with an answer to her question:

@BlazingMinds Hiya! Congrats on your 1000th post! You use a lot of service to promote your blogs. Do you have a list post as to most useful?

July 6, 2011 12:59 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@missus_emm

Mandy S

If you’ve just written that awe-inspiring blog post and you want to get it out in to the world then doing a bit of blog promotion will certainly help and getting people to see your latest blog post will certainly help, so please read on about just some of the methods I use myself for getting my blog posts out in to the world of the internet.
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Some of you may have noticed that the author box at the foot of the blog posts here on Blazing Minds has had a slight update and it now has several social network buttons for you to share the posts.

Why Did I Add These Buttons?

Well for starters is was a bit of an experiment on my part, sometime back I wrote a blog post about the New Twitter button and how I had tweaked it a bit to work with the Guest Bloggers here on my blog, so I thought it was about time that I implemented this into the blog and I thought adding it to the Author box was the perfect place. Also this gives room to add a couple of other button to flesh out the author box a bit more.

Being Productive When Your Blog Site is Down http://t.co/EDdPYZt via @dragonblogger

November 12, 2010 2:39 pm via Tweet ButtonReplyRetweetFavorite

@BlazingMinds

Karen

Why Have  A New Twitter Button In The Author Box?

If you have read the post I mentioned above, the tweaking of the button allows you to tweet the post to Twitter, but instead of tweeting the default Tweeter @BlazingMinds which is myself, it now tweets the post but with the Guest Bloggers Twitter name, giving them the full recognition for the post they have written, it’s only fair that they get the mention after all it’s their time spent writing and submitting the article

As you can see from the image above, I’ve not only added the Twitter button, but also StumbleUpon and BlogEngage, hopefully this will encourage readers to read the bio and then share the article.

In time I may tweak the Twitter button more to even include my own Twitter, but for now, I’m just testing this out.

So What Do You Think?

Do you think it’s a good idea to include a Twitter button that actually gives recognition to the Guest Blogger, please let me know I’d love to hear your thoughts

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You’ve probably seen them, hell, I even have them here on Blazing Minds, I’m talking about social network share buttons.

Nearly every blog you visit has them these days and though us bloggers do love to have them on our blogs for those kind enough to click on to share a bit of love and Stumble, ReTweet, Digg, Like ……….. and the list goes on.

As you will see, here on Blazing Minds I have the SexyBookmarks plugin at the bottom of the blog post where readers can share the post they are enjoying on a selection of sites for others to find and also share and though there is a choice there to choose from I was wondering what sites people use the most and which ones are worth having which are not.

So when you’ve finished reading this bloggy post, check out the buttons and use the ones you are listed with, then leave me a comment letting me know which ones you think you would remove, which ones you would like to see and why, then I can take a look to see what are more popular than others.

I have tried to add the popular ones that I use such as Twitter, BlogEngage, StumbleUpon, Digg, Ping.fm and so on, but I’d love my readers input

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Welcome to another interview in my new series, as mentioned previously each week I will be interviewing a fellow blogger who has kindly answered my blogging questions, so let’s get on with it… This week I interview Gautam Hans from Blog Godown.

Q: Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?
A: I am gautam hans, 21 years old, India. I am an engineering student from Delhi University. I am a person with varied interests, but i love blogging, internet, social media,technology and web design.

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Now recently on the advice from ExtremeJohn on his post about StumbleUpon I decided to join, downloaded the handy FireFox plugin and set on my merry way of Stumbling on sites, blogs etc that I was visiting and enjoying!

Then lo and behold the other day I had an email informing me that my account had been suspended, banned from Stumbleupon, don’t ask me why, I’ve no idea, I was clicking the “Thumbs Up”  in the Toolbar of sites I like, not doing anything wrong there surely!

I even sent StumbleUpon a message via their feedback option, as mentioned in their email, but nothing, no response at all! So if this is the way that they treat users, then as far as I’m concerned then they do indeed suck big time, I have surfed today and found several bloggers that have had similar problems, my advice to anyone wanting to use StumbleUpon is DON’T, use BlogEngage instead, where you get a response when needed, not just ignored

There you go, rant over!

What the heck am I on about?

Well to put it simply the other day I was over at blog of Extreme John and reading his post “Stumble Upon Me and I Do Follow and Stumble You” so I decided to get on over to StumbleUpon and sign up as BlazingMinds, what can I say, I’ve had loads of hits coming in from StumbleUpon.

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