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Social Media Tips
Social Media Tips
How to Index a Page Within 24 Hours
Oct 6th
As you learn internet marketing you are about to begin to find out that not all of the articles you post on article sites or content related websites will get featured in the search engines. This is simply because search engines do not know about them AKA can’t find them. In this article you are going to learn how to help the search engines do their job and add all the articles that you submit online within a day.
I first found out about the importance of indexing articles when I was working with a client of mine. We had hired some overseas workers to submit articles to article directories and blog sites such as Hubpages and Squidoo. The overseas workers were clearly doing a decent job but it became very obvious that only about 50% of the articles and content that they posted actually were being added to the search engines and counted as beneficial links. I decided to research this trend more and discovered that we could increase the amount at which our content was being added to the search engines simply by creating more link action on our newly created articles. In order to do this we had to create some other links linking to our newly made articles.
If you want to have your links added to google each time, you must have the ability to create activity for your new articles Whenever you want. Thankfully with the internet as vast as it is there are many ways to do this.
The system that has worked the most for me is that of social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is the utilization of a lot of the internets high ranking social websites such as Digg, Linkedin and Reddit.
Social bookmarking sites typically get crawled by the search engines on a regular basis due to the amountt of content they have and action. Because of this they are the best candidate to exploit in order to get new links to our articles and the search engines adding us.
There is a downside though, social bookmarking can be Very time consuming and the large volume of bookmarks that need to be submitted make it a 40 hour job in itself.
Thankfully there is a solution to this headache for most Internet marketers Who struggle with the issue. The solution is OnlyWire! OnlyWire is a tool that has been made public to speed up the whole strategy of social marketing. OnlyWire is going to save you a lot of time and money.
Go to onlywire.Com and signup for all of the major social bookmarking sites. Once you have completed that then you will have the ability to use the submitter to with just one click syndicate your page link with a title and a description to all of the best social bookmarking websites that you registered for.
I now use OnlyWire for all of my internet marketing and internet business links.
I find that it makes the process of indexing pages really speedy, trouble-free and to this day I have not had any need to outsource social bookmarking which saves me money.
I recommend that you do the same as I have and give onlywire a try!
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Do You Know What Social Marketing Is?
Oct 5th
Social marketing is becoming much more popular because of the popular social networking websites such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. You can use a social market to get people to visit your website
It is an extension of your corporate brand. You need to have the right individuals in place to evangelize and steward your brand. It is about identifying the specific target audience segment(s), describing the benefits you will offer, and the creating interventions that will influence or support the desired behaviour change.
It is no different from the other traditional marketing methods. This does not centralize the marketer but the target audiences or the general people or society instead, to benefit them greatly.
It is not the final solution for marketing and advertising, it’s simply another channel used to help get the message across. The reason it’s raved about so much is it’s cost, usually free or cost efficient. It is all about trust. For it to be effective consumers not only have to trust the brand, but social media as whole. Social marketing is just the latest in the long line of things that are supposed to be killing e-mail marketing. Spam was first, but didn’t succeed.
It is a concept and a structured practice which started more than three decades ago. It is the new search engine optimization.
It is a shiny new toy and almost everyone is wising up and getting involved, as they should. It is whenever more than two individuals collaborate online or offline for content generation and distribution. Social marketers harness the viral power of social networks in order to grow both the frequency and the reach of conversations exponentially.
Social marketing is maturing to the point where the mainstream is now transitioning from the trial-and-error tactical phase of the learning curve to the strategic phase. Marketers are learning to begin their social marketing initiatives by researching the medium and monitoring target audiences to determine realistic objectives. It is important because users take social networks seriously.
It is a very good marketing vehicle that could lead you to being indexed by major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. It can be an enjoyable task since you get to meet a lot of people here and at the same time, you get to promote your business.
It is the future. It is a pliable approach, all the time more being used to attain and sustain activities related to a range of communal issues and topics. First, its main aim is to attain an exacting ‘social good’ (rather than marketable benefit) with exact behavioural goals clearly known and besieged. It is a process that applies marketing principles and techniques to create, communicate, and deliver value. It has become one of the most important aspects for marketing any online business.
Social Marketing is made up of many different aspects. The important thing to remember is that anyone wanting to earn money online should be prepared to invest the time and effort required to build a genuine business. It isn’t about flying solo, participate.
It is using social media to actually do what you want them to do.? Statistics show that Facebook is almost as big as Google in page views. It is gaining increasing attention and popularity in all the industries as they bring about great exposure to the brands promoted. Though it is becoming a much more popular marketing strategy, not everyone knows how to make use of social marketing strategies effectively.
It is a relatively new field in the internet marketing world. This tool (used on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn) is growing exponentially daily in the online marketing field. Social Marketing is a relatively new form of online advertising and with Facebook now receiving more impressions per month than Google it may well be time for your company to make the leap into this new market. The social advertising model is fairly complex but shares many similarities with traditional online advertising models.
It is unobtrusive marketing. If you are too pushy and members begin to see you as a salesman type, they will probably remove you from their friend list. It is a process that can help in shifting the power balance by developing better informed, planned, executed and evaluated interventions and also by ensuring that all service provision is designed around the needs of citizens. It is a process by which commercial marketing techniques and principals are used to plan, implement, and evaluate programs designed to bring about change in health or social behaviours. The process can be adapted for any target audience, whether these include a community’s most needy or the individuals who serve them.
It is and should be a part of any serious businesses marketing and communications plan.
It is a complete process of creating and providing offerings, ideas, products and services that meet the needs of individuals and society. To do this social marketing uses commercial marketing principles such as the concepts of the 4Ps, market research, exchange, target audiences and segments.
Social marketing is not a new concept to building a business. Many people know it as public relations and even customer service. It is a term that seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue lately. Whether positive or negative conversation, it can’t be denied that the web is in the midst of an evolution right now. It is the next generation of marketing and it’s time for our industry to get on board! It’s time to get away from traditional marketing.
Why Social Media for Local Businesses? Lesson 1 – It Is All About Relationships
Oct 5th
As a local business, you face constant pressures from big “box” stores and other national companies that compete for your customers on price and selection. They sell things cheaper than you can buy them for, they run multi-million dollar marketing campaigns and they have more items in their stores than you could ever hope for. So how do you respond?
Most local business owners I know respond with “We provide better service.” Yes, but what does that mean? Everybody says that. I think for most it means that they know more about their clients and how to fulfill their needs than the impersonal national companies. Therefore, they are not really talking about “service” but “relationship.” So how do you build this relationship?
For years building this relationship meant taking time to get to know your clients. From learning their names, to who their family members were and knowing where they lived and worked. This took time and developed over many times of doing business together. But, what happens if someone only does business with you once? How do you build up that relationship so that they will come back? It is very difficult unless you see them regularly somewhere else like church or the county club. This is where Social media comes in and helps to solve this dilemma.
Social media not only allows you to build a relationship with those who only visit your business once, but also with those who have never been to your business. Social Media is all about relationship. It is a tool by which people can share what is happening in their life with their friends and family all at once, instead of one at a time. They can interact with each other about what is being shared, and all of this can be done from anywhere in the world. People love it and more and more are joining social media applications every day. This is communication from many people to many people for the first time in history and it is growing exponentially.
Here are 5 key ways that Social Media can help your local business build relationships with your clients and help you make money.
You can share personally with them so that they feel like they know you… the business owner. People do businesses with those they know and trust. To compete with impersonal box stores you must create “personality” in your business.
You can learn about them. You get to hear what is going on with them in their lives, interact with them from anywhere and be prepared when they are ready to do business with you.
Your clients introduce you to their friends and share their experiences with them. Social Media provides hundreds of ways for your clients to do this; writing a review, becoming a “Fan,” suggesting their friends become “Fans,” clicking on a “Like” button, “Checking-In” at your business, and the list goes on…..
You can reward your clients with specials and deals just for them. Social Media allows you to communicate with your customers and friends in real time. So rather than putting your special in the newspaper that goes to everybody, you can say “thank you” to those who are excited about your business.
Social Media helps you build your database so that you can continue the relationship into the future. When someone becomes a “Facebook Fan” or a “Twitter Follower” you now have a communication link that you can continue to use to build the relationship.
Finally, it is important to note that like any relationship Social Media takes work. You reap what you sow… but just like the tractor and the automatic seeder multiplied the planting efforts of the farmer, Social Media multiplies the sowing efforts of your local business. So whether or not you do it yourself or you hire a Social Media Manager someone has to “drive the tractor.”
