Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Irbtrax Offers Free Promotion for Pepsi Social Media Marketing Strategy

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Yoursite.com Announces SEO Features in Shopping Cart

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SEO – Is It As Important As It Once Was Or Is Social Media The Way to Go?

SEO (search engine optimization) is something I am continually trying to improve upon. I experiment with different approaches on both of my blogs to see what works and what doesn’t. It is a tedious process but something I am convinced I will someday master, or at least have fun trying. Sadly, I have been reading a little more and more from different blogs that SEO is not as vital to blog growth as it once was. The recent popularity of sites such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, MySpace (which is losing popularity to Twitter and Facebook),  EzineArticles, eHow and other similar sites can do more for a blog’s popularity in several days then months of great SEO work. The “viral” nature of how stories and/or videos catch on is truly mind-blowing in many cases.

I will not give up on SEO tactics. Proper search engine optimization will provide long-term benefits. Submission of my posts to social bookmarking sites, the use of Twitter and writing for ezine type sites will help but will not replace tried and true practices. Why not use both equally? I read a good post called “15 Step by Step SEO Tips For Writing Blog Posts” which I feel incorporate good tips for both practices for the modern SEO approach.

Incorporating all tactics for The Complete SEO Package

The way most see it, these practices are one in the same. Submission of posts to social media sites of any kind can help with link building, an important SEO tactic however the post or article can become viral regardless of the SEO used. You cannot go wrong when you utilize the complete package!

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Plurk – A New Social Media Endeavor for Me

Recently I have been reading a lot of other blogs and have seen “Join me on Plurk” links more and more often. So in my quest to learn more on socializing myself and my brands, I clicked on one of the links. I found that Plurk is similar to Twitter and other social media sites but it does have some distinct differences. Below are a few that I have seen only in the one day since I joined.

• Plurks (posts) are displayed in a time-line across the top of your page
• Friends are people you follow and who follow you
• Fans are people that follow you but you don’t follow them
• Karma – you gain and lose Karma points based on activity, gaining and losing friends and fans and whether or not you “spam” your Plurks

The Karma feature is great because you can gain a lot of knowledge about a person you may be thinking of “Friending” just by seeing their Karma score.

I will continue to play around and let you know how it goes. Is this going to be the “New Twitter”? I don’t know but I do know that many people said that Twitter wouldn’t amount to much and we all know how that turned out! Nobody can safely predict which new social media outlet will catch on and which one will not.

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Simple Blog Promotion Tips

Next to providing GREAT content, promoting your blog is a necessity for gaining followers. Here is a list of simple steps I have accumulated from various blog posts I have read.

• If you have a great post, ask other bloggers to link to it (use the contact page of other blogs to email the blogger privately)
• Use social bookmarking sites – Simple Delicious, Reddit, Digg and my favorite: Stumble Upon are just a few
• Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube  (Your post may go viral)
• Submit your blog and feed to directories such as: Blogged, Blogcatalog, Bloggeries, EatonWeb Blog Directory, Bloggernity, Bloghub, Blogarama, Bloggapedia, Blogoculars just to name a few.
• Ping blog services using Ping-o-matic
• Link posts within your blog
• Article marketing on sites such as: EzineArticles.com and ArticleBase.com
• Comment on other blogs
• Ask readers to subscribe either to feed or by email
• Advertise your post or blog using Google Adwords or any similar type service

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