Saturday, April 24, 2010

Enhance your blog with Apture and Zemanta tools

Image representing Zemanta as depicted in Crun...Image via CrunchBase

Adding rich multimedia content to your blog posts is a powerful way to attract more readers. Recently we have found two products known as Apture and Zemanta Balloons in the market which lets you fill pop-ups with all kinds of multimedia content in your blog. Let’s have a look at them.

Apture:

Apture will allow you to integrate third party content like text, images, videos, music, maps and references from more than 50 sources such as YouTube, Flickr, Google etc and keep your visitors on your blog, instead of sending them away. It is free and easy to install on your blog.

With Apture, you can embed high resolution videos from YouTube or upload your own content like Images, PowerPoint presentations, PDF or Word documents, or Excel Spreadsheets to your blog.

Zemanta:

Zemanta is a semantic web company that’s used by bloggers to add related links to their posts all over the web. Recently it has announced the launch of their “Balloons” service which will allow any blogger or online publisher to integrate multimedia content into their pages. It looks like an Apture word press plug-in but it is open source, semantically smart and standards-based.

With Zemanta Balloons, bloggers and publishers can access database and content from trusted sources such as YouTube, Google and MusicBrainz to allow your readers to access information without having to sign -in to the external sites.

2 comments:

DavidBrond said...

Cool posting here. please keep in continue.I don't really understand what makes a firm claim that they're the best seo company Didn't search engine optimization use to be just a smattering of keywords spread out within loosely interrelated text? I suppose not, since for example I was looking at bergstrom-seo.com, and it described their own special strategy, which made me think of a team of people running around from website to website.

But if web trafficking simply means advertising yourself all over youtube and twitter et al, I don't understand why you'd need to pay a service to do all that for you. Does that mean there are straegies of SEO that generate faster exposure to a website than what you could do yourself? I guess I don't know much about online marketing.

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