Our 3 Favorite Twitter Clients/Apps/Whatever...

If you still aren't using Twitter, boil some water, throw a pot of noodles in it, and allow your significant other to lash the hell out of you for the next 15 minutes.  Not only has it taken the internet by storm, but it has also taken the damn sports world by storm and has become a daily fixture in the life of bloggers and athletes alike.

There will be a ton of Twitter posts to come in the near future, but we thought we'd start off with the 3 Twitter applications we use throughout our, oh so busy day of spamming the Portland Trail Blazers masses.

Twitterberry 

This bad boy allows us to be mobile wannabe sports blogging moguls.  Not only does it look sexy on your phone, but athletes like Shaq have dissed the iPhone to jump onto Twitterberry.  And if that doesn't work for you, try holding up the phone extra high at the club Friday night so the ladies can see the little blue birdy tweeting around on the BB.

TwitterFox

I have a hell of a time with messaging programs or any of those all-in-one social media machines, so I use TwitterFox.  It's an add-in to Firefox that sits in the bottom corner of your browser and constantly updates so you can quickly check on the latest Twitpic's from the self-absorbed.  It runs light, updates at different intervals and overall is a nice app.

TwitterGadget

This little gadget allows me to continue tweeting throughout the day while at work without wasting text messages on my phone and getting caught by the man.  Our little friend known as iGoogle uses this Twitter app and so far remains unblocked from my religulously related healthcare internet firewall.  A must have for sure.

What Twitter apps are you using these days?
______________________________________________________
Fan of the Sports Dollar? Subscribe to our feed!

Text-Link-Ads Manual Submit

At some point, we all decided to check out the evil-text-link-stepchild, also known as Text-Link-Ads to try and snag a couple of extra dollars for our sports blog or 888 betting website.  And then right after we did that, we wondered why our website’s PageRank took an instantaneous dip towards the gutter.  Well, if you had done 1 Google search worth of research on this money making machine, you would have realized Google severely penalizes just about anyone for using the service.  Remember, Google loves limiting our income potential!

In order for Text-Link-Ads to work, you needed to install a “feed” into your site which would be populated with any inventory that TLA sold for you.  The process was automatic and there was virtually no upkeep, but the issue with Google hating you for using it remained.  So TLA is offering a new service which should help you to sell text links but also hide a little from big brother, Google. 

TLA now offers you the opportunity to manually install text links when an advertiser loves you.  This way, you can drop your ad into that “resource center” or other sneaky widget you’ve made especially for those text links. 

Here are the steps to follow in this program:

1. You will receive email notifications when an ad is purchased from your site.  To verify you are placing it on the correct page, TLA will spider immediately.
2. If you do not place the ad within 3 days, it will be automatically cancelled.  Also, if you do not approve/decline an ad 3 times, you’re inventory will be removed from the service.
3. Instructions for the ad will be included so you know exactly what is going down and whether it is a betting site something else related to your material.
   

Any questions?  Pretty simple…and it’s about damn time they started this.

_______________________________________________________________
Fan of the Sports Dollar? Subscribe to our feed!