How To Choose A Twitter Username When Yours Is Taken

So you've decided that Twitter is the right social media network for you, and you are ready to have your account.

Fill only to find your account information...

Choose your username
Your name is already in use!

Twitter has 320 million active users, and although a little more reluctant to disclose the number of inactive accounts, their number in the millions as well.
Chances are your ideal name may be already taken.


It is frustrating when someone else has registered your name or company name, especially if you find out they do not even make use of the account

Twitter has a policy in place for trademark infringement, but if your name or company is not a registered trademark you are probably out of luck. Even celebrities have to resort to workarounds like @ TaylorSwift13 or Jennifer Love Hewitt @TheReal_Jlh.

But if you're not guaranteed thousands of followers because of your fame, using random numbers or obscure acronyms will not make for a memorable twitter name.

Below are a few other tricks that you can use instead.
Best Practices For Twitter Names
Before being taken into specific methods for coming up with a new Twitter name as yours, it is important to go over some best practices for social media usernames in general.

Your social media usernames are reflective of your brand, whether it is your personal brand, blog brand or company brand. Your username impress, whether good or bad.
Just like anything else having to do with branding, you want your user names consistent and memorable:

1. Be Consistent
It is smart to check if your desired company or blog name is available as a domain registration and user name on social media platforms. You can do this quickly with a tool called Namecheck.
(Of course, this does not help if you try to enter your personal name.)
Your domain name can be longer permitted for social media usernames, but you can always use an abbreviated version.
But using different user names on social media platforms is just asking for trouble. If your Facebook page can be found under facebook.com/chiditech, then your audience will look for you on Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest with the same username.

If you choose a different user name as "Chidi Tech" has already been taken by your competitor, guess who you're sending your audience?
If your name is already in use on a single platform, you should seriously consider changing on all platforms to be consistent.

2. Be Memorable
If you are unable to use your real name or personal brand on social media, be sure that the name you choose is memorable for it. It should be recall closely related to your brand, and easy for your audience.

3. Be Quick About
Once you start thinking about a name for your business or blog and you find that the name is available ... take it! Immediately!
Do not stop and think about it, just place a reservation. You can always remove it later if you do not use the account.
(And, while this is a bit beyond the scope of this topic, you should do the same with domain names. There are shady companies will buy those domains when users search for them, just to sell them to you at a higher price. If you are looking for it and its available, go ahead and take it.)

So lets get straight to the topic of today

5 Creative Ways To Come Up With An Alternative Name Twitter
1. Shorten The Name
A twitter name is 15 characters long, so if your brand name more than that is that you can experiment with different ways to shorten. For example, for my blog ChidiTech In History, I chose the twitter name @chiditech.
For a personal name, try shortening your first name or adding a nickname (ie. joe instead of joseph, or josephine)

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2. Use Keywords
I am fortunate in having a unique name. I'm pretty sure I'm the only Lordchidy, ever!
But you would have discovered that your name is all around the world and have goodd use on social media.
If that's the case, you can use keywords to distinguish yourself. This is also a great way to broadcast what you do and what sets you apart from your namesake.

3. Add An Initial
If your name is already short enough, try adding a first such @AndyHilsonjohn, or using a first initial and writer @Ahilsonjohn

4. Add A Location
This is a great idea for local businesses, or companies with multiple locations.
You can leave your country (@HistEdSocNG = History of Education Society NG) add your state (@ProChoiceSA = NARAL Pro-Choice South Africa) or your county or city, if you can fit!

5. Use An Underscore
This tip is for the last time, because it is not ideal. Underline not just taking your precious 15 characters, but they are also hard to remember.
If your preferred username @exampleuser is taken, it may not be a good idea to use instead are @example_user. You take the risk of your followers (and potential followers) link accidentally instead @exampleuser.

Any twitter name you use, make sure it is meaningful, memorable, and unique!

So Back to you, Do you have any suggestions to add to the list? We love to hear about them in the comments below.

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How To Make Money Online Using Video Sharing Websites

If ever it comes to making money from home or making money online, we have many ways to begin. You can make money via forum posts, by writing freelance, by starting a blog, logo design, through Fiverr and many more. Many of them require that you have certain skills and in some of them you can use your Social engineering skills and earn money. Today I will share with you about video sharing websites that let you earn money. Because viral videos and images every time you get, if you are one of those who can, will add a lot of these video revenue sharing sites of great content in your passive income stream. These types of revenue sharing video sites are becoming very popular now-a-days.

This video sharing sites works on a simple model of revenue sharing or PPV. They provide places to host your videos, and in return they run ads. Now, they split share ad revenue with video publisher. If any of them work with PPV model. They will pay depends on the number of video views you are able to get.I you know how to hold a camera and create unique and engaging videos, you are on the way to monetize video sharing sites.

We have already talked about video blogging and some of the features of viral video marketing. Now, if you have a separate video producer or a video production, you can always use these video sharing sites to make money.

Here are the 5 best video sharing websites make money online by sharing videos is nothing less than pleasure.
Making Money With Video Sharing:

1.YouTube.Com

You can call it the best video sharing website where you could turn your videos into alot of money. Make sure you have an AdSense account to make money with YouTube. YouTube has endless opportunities to make money. On this site there are many categories of videos in one of which you can upload your video. Where to make money online was so easy? You can sign up and learn more about YouTube Adsense Partnership here.

From a website owner perspective, YouTube also helps them to generate traffic and you can embed affiliate links in your videos additional earning from affiliate marketing. While using Adsense Youtube videos is the easiest way to start making money through videos.

2.Break.Com

Here you can share videos, photos and even flash games. They would pay $2000 (believe it or not!) If your video makes it to the front page of this website. And your picture would earn $25 as part of the website's gallery. Method of payment is PayPal. You get your share once in a week. You can share video and license information on revenues here to get the sale.

To know more and to register with break.com and start uploading

3.Blip.tv

Blip shares achieved 50% revenue from advertisers to its users who upload videos. This website shares the revenue on a monthly basis and paid monthly via PayPal or check and you need at least $25 accumulated in your Blip author account to receive the payment.
Blip.tv has 8 PageRank and Alexa rank among the 5000 and thus the opportunity to earn is really great with this website.

Sign Up At Blip

4.FlixYa.Com

This is a popular video-sharing website. This uses the targeted advertising strategy and uses the AdSense ads. Beautiful of this website is that it allows you to make such videos also use the videos that are not yours, but not covered in the copyright domain.

Sign Up At Flixya

5.Dailymotion.Com

Dailymotion is a major player, along with YouTube and Metacafe. This website receives over 190 million visitors per month and over 190 million people if we include 3rd party websites that share the videos. Previously, her partner program was only available for the United States and France, but now it is available for the whole world uploaders. Dailymotion will pay a quarterly basis if you have at least $100 accumulated in your publisher account. Payment is made by bank transfer.

Sign Up At Dailymotion

These are just some of the popular sites that actually pay for video sharing, and there are many more. If you have idea of any other websites, please let me know via comments box..

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How To Add Keywords In Blogger Post For SEO

With Original and SEO friendly content on your blog there is no doubt that you can get high ranking in search engines.
Writing search engine optimisation friendly(SEO Friendly) blog posts isn't much hard as newbies believe. We just have to pay attention on some places where we are able to add keywords in our blog posts to make them optimized for search engines like google and yahoo.


Don’t fail to remember, optimizing blog posts for serps isn't mean to compromise with content quality. We have to add keywords in a correct way in order to make it looks normal for our readers and for engines like google too.
I will outline the ways and places where to add keywords for better optimization.

1. Starting And Ending Paragraph Of Content
When writing a new blog post always remember to add your targeted keywords in the beginning and ending paragraph of your content. Search engines looks at this aspect of your blog to determine the ranking of your blog post. You can go further by adding by adding keywords in form of phrases in your content to make it more SEO Friendly.
Note: Do not keep on repeating words again and again. Be sure to use relevant and related words. Using related words helps your blog in appear in search engines with multiple terms.

2. Title Tag, Alt Tag and Image Name
Images play a major role in explanation of your blog post. Using images it helps to optimize our blog posts. Before uploading out images we are ought to optimize them by changing the image name and place your targeted keyword in it. We can also go further to add keywords to the image title and alt tags as these tells search engine bots what your topic is all about.

3. Title Of Your Blog Posts
The title of our blog post is the top place to add our targeted keywords. Using catchy titles in the title of your blog will attract more users to your blog. When using catchy titles always remember to add your keywords there. Always make it a priority to use catchy and meaningful blog post titles as it also attract visits from search engines.

4. Post Permalink
What Is Permalink?
Permalink is simply the URL of our blog post. Its among the best location to add our targeted keywords. By default the blog post permalinks are created based on your post titles but we can use a custom permalink to add your keywords. Below is a simple guide on how to add post permalink in blogger
Before publishing your blog post on the post editor click on Permalink from the right hand side of your post editor box, choose custom and insert your targeted keywords there. E.g "Optimize-blog-post" and click on Done.
Be sure to use your targeted keywords in permalink as it helps to increase your search ranking.

5. Post Comments
Only few bloggers are aware that through posting of comment we can add some related keywords concerning our blog post. There is much benefits in blog comment and if we use them effectively we get higher chances of getting better rankings in search engines. When you reply any user comment on your blog try to add some keyword in form of phrase regarding the user comment.

Last Words!
The above strategies is how i add keywords in my blogger post and it has helped me alot in getter higher ranking in search engines. If you have any other way on how to insert keyword in blogger post you can share with me and our readers through our comment box. If this post was helpful, Don't just read alone share with your follow bloggers. Sharing is Caring!!!

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How To Add/Remove Widget In Blogger Mobile View

There are some certain widgets that does not really look cool on mobile but good on big screens such as your desktop view.

Have you ever tried to add/remove any particular widget on your blogger mobile view and you are finding it difficult? Then you are in the right place to know how to go about it.
So today am going to show you how to add/remove any widget in blogger mobile view.

Below are the step by step guide on how to add/remove any widget in blogger mobile view.
To Add/Remove any widget in blogger mobile you will get to find your widget Id.

How To Find Widget ID In Blogger
If you do not have any widget displaying on your mobile view, kindly follow the below guidelines:
Login to your blogger dashboard, click on the blog you want and navigate to Template > Layout Click on Edit button on the widget you want to show on mobile view.
Your Widget Id is towards the end of the url, now open your url bar and you will find your WidgetId just as the screenshot below:

Example of widgetId: HTML1 HTML2 HTML3 e.t.c

How To Add Any Widget To Blogger Mobile View
Move straight to your dashboard and navigate to Template > Edit HTML and search for your widget coding using the WidgetId you copied previously in the above step.
Easy Step: (You can use the "Jump To Widget" feature that is available in the template editor to easily get the code of any widget.)
When you get to your desired widget code, just add mobile='yes' in your widget code just after the locked='false'. See Screenshot below:

After that click on the "Save Template" and thats all. You can check your blog mobile view to see the widget.

How To Remove Widget In Blogger Mobile View
Goto your blogger dashboard navigate to Template > Edit HTML and search for your widget coding using the WidgetId you copied previously in the above step. When you find your desired widget code. Just add mobile='no' in your widget code just after the locked='false'. See screenshot below: After that click on the "Save Template" and thats all.
I believe the article was helpful. You can let us know anywhere you got confused through our comment box. If you encounter any problem i can also help you to solve them.

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