Music/audio is another content vertical like images and videos. People have been going online for years and years looking for music audio and music videos. And today, it still remains one of the most popular niches on the internet. If you work around music, or like sharing music videos or mp3s, you need some serious promotion to make your contributions popular. Social media networks like Facebook can only get you so far. You'll need some more powerful sharing tools working at the back-end to make your music successful. Here are 5 great sites to promote your music online.

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Google AuthorRank is among the most trending SEO topics today, and is the subject of conversation on many blogs and forums. Chances are, in the near future, it could change search rankings as we know them. A while back, we discussed at length about what AuthorRank is, and how it's different from PageRank. Google obviously is trying to get more and more people to use Google+, so that authors can be socially recognized, and then associated with a website's content. But while Google is at it, AuthorRank won't start working out of the box. You will have to make adjustments to your site too, and incorporate Authorship. That said, let's take a look at some tools that will help you get started, and improve your AuthorRank for, and when, it really starts influencing search results.

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Pinterest is the social network that connects people through images. To make it easier for people to pin photos, and find others' pins, Pinterest has now launched separate mobile apps for Android and iOS smartphones. What with the many other social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter bringing new updates, Pinterest has followed suit; and along with many other updates such as bookmarks (and bookmarklets), buttons and widgets, Pinterest seems to finally have the right toolkit for providing their users with the flexibility, functionality, and mobility that they need.

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Tweet buttons on a website allows users to tweet the link to a post or page, along with its entire meta title. But the title isn't always what you want users to tweet, since it is designed with SEO in mind, and could look unseemly and out of place on Twitter. Instead, you might want users to tweet about an interesting fact, a quote or an opinion. Wouldn't it be cool if users could simply tweet that specific quote or fact by just clicking on a link or button? Check out how to create "Click to Tweet" links for quotes within your posts or pages.

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Most people use data from Google AdWords for their keyword research. But what many don't realize is, there are a bunch of other tools out there that can be a valuable source of information as well. The more keyword research you do for your content, the likelier it is to catch up on search results. But more isn't always better. The trick is to do different types of research. For example, you might want to find out what smartphone and tablet users are searching for, because mobile search accounts for almost 15% of all global searches. Here are different alternatives to Google AdWords for effective keyword research.

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Screaming frog is a a useful SEO spider tool that can be used to crawl your website's links, images, CSS, scripts, and apps from the SEO perspective. If you didn't know about it already, then where have you been? :). It is a small desktop software that will let you crawl an entire site on demand, and will help resolve common SEO issues with your website. But crawling isn't all it's good for. It can do much, much more. In this post, we'll show you some of the most important uses of the Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool.

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If you are a CopyBlogger StudioPress Customer and uses Genesis as your Wordpress theme Framework, then you may know that playing with core genesis theme functions ain't that easy unless you know a better shortcut. In this tutorial you will learn an extremely easy way to create a sticky floating bar to show Random Headlines in your Wordpress blogs powered by Genesis. We won't be using PHP but would use JavaScript for our front-end scripting. Just like HelloBar and several other attention grabber bars, you can create a custom one for free. This long horizontal Stickybar can be added at Blog Footer or Header and is fully responsive in design.  It will display rotating Links of your most recent posts in random order on each page refresh.  A New headline will appear on every next pageview, thus giving you an extra advantage of increased Pageviews. It also contains a light toggle button to hide or show the sticky bar. I have created both Static and Dynamic versions of this bar for your convenience. Lets add this cute, light-weight stickyBar Plugin to your wordpress blogs!

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