Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Fixed Social Plugin: Wordpress Meets Social Media
In a perfect world, your readers will take the time to remember to submit your best content to all relevant social media services around. After all, wouldn’t it be nice if you got some exposure on those sites for all the work you have done without having to lift a finger. That’s actually possible as long as your content provides unique value to your readers. You also want to have the proper tools on your blog to make it easy for your readers to submit your posts to those sites. If you are running your blog on Wordpress, you are in luck. There are plenty of plugins that make it so easy for your visitors to share your content on top social networking sites.
Fixed Social Plugin is an amazing little plugin that is worth a try for anyone who’s looking to get more exposure for his/her content on sites such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, and other top sites. This plugin is very flexible. It lets you pick and choose the style of your buttons and also the ones you want to show on your blog.
Enhance Your Blog with Meebo Footer Bar
A few days ago, I wrote a piece about toolbars that you can add to your blog to promote your Twitter and Facebook accounts and expand your online presences. Meebo’s social bar is one of the better ones on the market today. Meebo not only makes it easy to add a social bar to your blog, its blog toolbar is very customizable as well. So you can pick and choose what you want to promote on your blog.
The customization process is pretty straight forward. All you have to do is drag and drop the service you are looking to add to your footer bar on to your bar. You can also customize the order of your footer-bar buttons by dragging them around. Read more »
How To Add Delicious To Your Blog
Delicious is one of the most underrated social bookmarking services around. There are plenty of social bookmarking services that can drive traffic to your blog, but if I were to rate Delicious among these services, it’d be in the top 2. If you can get people to submit your posts to delicious and help spread the word around about your blog, there is no reason you can’t gain lots of traffic for your efforts. Of course, you need to be involved on Delicious, and your content needs to be top notch. Last but no the least, you need to tag your content properly.
You can always work hours on producing your killer content, and your readers may or may not take the time to add your content to delicious. But you can always push the issue by adding a delicious button to your blog posts to make the process easier for your visitors. I have talked about a few solutions that allow you to display Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious buttons in your posts, but you don’t really have to use a third party solution to get the job done. Delicious has already provided us with a set of free tools that your visitors can use to bookmark your blog posts fast.
One of the easiest way to add delicious to your blog is by grabbing the button code from Delicious. It’s a very simple text button that once clicked it will open up a window that lets your visitors bookmark your posts.
5 Ways To Bring The Social Media To Your Blog
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Here is a question a lot of new bloggers struggle with: how do you drive traffic to a blog? New bloggers are often less patient than the more experienced ones, but the question is very valid. Without traffic, you are not going to get the exposure you deserve for your work, and you are not going to be able to properly monetize your blog. It’d be hard to stay motivated if you work hard on your content only to see others who have much lower quality content get all the exposure and traffic you are not getting. But traffic may be nearer than you think. The social media is a great place to start if you want to significantly improve the amount of eyeballs that visit your pages. Websites such as Digg, Twitter, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are all very effective traffic drivers in their own ways, so you do want to make sure your content is being shared on those networks.
You can always add your content to the top social networking sites by yourself. But a better way to approach this is by giving your audience the tools it needs to spread the word about your content. You’d be surprised how effective this tactic can be. With that in mind, here are 5 methods to bring the social media to your blog:
Digg Digg: one of the best social media plugins for Wordpress platform. It’s very flexible and designed to enable your readers to add your content to their favorite networks fast. Read more »
Make Your Blog Social Media Friendy with Boostpost
In the past few weeks, I have talked about how you can optimize your blog for the search engines and making it future proof. One of the best ways to do that is by optimizing your blog for the social media by giving your readers the option to share your content on top social networking website. Whether you are writing a technical blog or one about your own life, people may find your posts interesting enough to want to share them on Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, and more. Boostpost is a cool handy service that lets you give you users the option to do just that.
As long as you are targeting one of the more popular social media sites on the web, Boostpost should have you covered. It comes with a set of attractive button widgets that you can install on your blog to let your users share your stories and get you more exposure in the long run. Read more »
Promote Your Social Media Profiles with Hi.Im
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I don’t know about you, but I have hundreds of profiles online. Sure, we all are about our Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Friendfeed profiles. But there are plenty of smaller web 2.0 communities that are worth being a part of. If you keep building online profiles, managing and promoting all these accounts could become extremely difficult. Hi, I’m is a cool service that intends to help you organize your online profiles and promote them all from one place.
Here is how Hi, I’m works. All you have to do is create your account and add your social media profiles to it. The service will create your very own URL for you and displays the sites that you have linked with your Hi.Im account on your exclusive page.
There are plenty of services to choose from, and you’ll have a lot of options when it comes to optimizing your Hi, I’m page. You can also change your page’s appearance from the back-end. Here is how your profile would look like (I have not added my picture or all my links as this is just a demo page): Read more »
Blog Link Building 101 – Part 2: Social Bookmarking
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Social bookmarking sites are yet another source of links for bloggers and search engine optimizers. Web services such as Delicious and Mixx can bring you lots of targeted SEO traffic. As long as your listings become popular on delicious, there is no reason you can drive a ton of traffic to your website. Considering that delicious is now closely linked to Twitter, your traffic can multiply in a fairly short period of time. One of the best ways to build traffic through social bookmarking sites such as Digg is by participating in the community and making friends. There are a lot of people who will return you the favor if you help their content go viral. Besides, the more people you know on these sites, the better shot your content gets at going viral.
I recommend you adopt a multi-faceted strategy to take advantage of social bookmarking sites. Sites such as Delicious, Digg, and Mixx are worth being a part of and participating in. You can also add a few niche communities to reach out to others in your niche and get more people to visit your blog. You won’t have time to be a part of every little social bookmarking community, which is why you should use a service such as Social Maximizer to get the job done. There are plenty of social bookmarking submission sites that help you submit your site automatically, but since I haven’t tried them I can’t vouch for them. Read more »
Create Your Social Networking e-Card with Card.ly
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So what is it about all these “.ly” services? Some of the most innovative social media solutions on the web use that domain extension. Card.ly is no exception. It’s a cool service that lets you share your online profiles with your friends, colleagues, and readers easily. All you have to do is sign up for a free account and fill out your information. Card.ly will automatically create your e-card that you can share with others through forums or your own blog. Here are the steps you need to take in a nutshell:
The free version of card.ly does allow you with the code you need to post on forums or your blog to embed your vCard. You get plenty of skins to choose from, and if you decide to sign up for a premium account, you are going to get a whole lot of more skins.
The premium version is much better actually. You can use your own domain name, you get a ton of skins, and you can remove nofollow from your links. You can also add unlimited RSS streams to your card, which comes very handy if you have multiple blog or twitter accounts. All in all, card.ly is a cool little web service that lets you share your profile with your readers or followers. If you have accounts on multiple social networking sites, you might as well use card.ly. The free service will do for most people, but here is what you get with a paid account:
Submit Your Blog To Social Media Sites with Social Maximizer
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So you spend a lot of time creating content to provide as much value to your readers as possible. That doesn’t mean you are going to get a lot of traffic. You still have to work on promoting your blog to make sure you get the exposure your blog deserves. One of the best ways to get more exposure for your blog and drive traffic to it is by getting involved on social bookmarking and networking website. Sure. Everybody tweets and participates on Facebook. But you need to do more if you want to maximize your social media opportunity. There are hundreds of websites that you need to be present on to keep driving traffic to your blog. These sites not only help drive traffic to your blog but some help you climb the SERPs as well.
So being involved in the social media is a no brainer. But submitting your content to hundreds of social bookmarking and networking websites can be too time consuming. As a blogger, you have got more important things to worry about. That’s why you should try outsource business processes that are not your core competency. And I can tell you social media submission is not a core competency for a blogger. That’s where Social Maximizer comes in. It’s a wonderful service that lets you submit your blogs to hundreds of social media websites, while giving you the control over your listings. It can save you a lot of time while giving your blog a chance to gain some traction and go viral.
How It Works
Working with Social Maximizer is very simple. All you have to do is figure out what pages you want to submit and what your listings are going to be about. You want to pay extra attention to your title and description. Other than that, there is no reason you can’t complete the process in less than 5 minutes.
Don’t worry. You know exactly what site you are submitting your pages to. In fact, you can pick and choose as Social Maximizer gives you control over all aspects of this process.
All in all, Social Maximizer is a wonderful service that lets you submit your blog pages to social networking and bookmarking sites without you having to go through the process by hand. You may be interested in doing the process all by yourself, but it’s better to invest your time in creating viral content. Don’t be afraid to delegate and outsource tasks. You can’t do everything, and thanks to services such as Social Maximizer you don’t have to.
Manage Your Friendfeed Account on iPhone with BuddyFeed
Twitter and Facebook may be a bit ahead of FriendFeed, but they are not that far ahead. In fact, there are a whole lot of bloggers that focus solely on Friendfeed as they find it more engaging. Whether you love or hate Friendfeed, it’s another avenue that can not only help you drive more traffic to your blog but also build new relationships and find other professionals in your niche to interact with. Friendfeed may not be Twitter, but it’s as engaging and before you know it, you are spending hours on it everyday. Now thanks to BuddyFeed 2.0, you can manage your FriendFeed account on your iPhone or iPod Touch easily when you are on the go. That means you are going to have more time to network and share and review content while you are on the go.
BuddyFeed is one powerful iPhone application. The interface is not only easy to use, but you get to post messages, images, subscribe to others’ feeds right on your phone. Setting up the application is not difficult either. You are going to need your FriendFeed API to get this to work. You can easily get that online or on your iPhone.
Posting messages and exploring rooms can’t be easier with this app. And the inline browser to view links in messages makes this app much more fun. FriendFeed can be a very addictive social networking community, and that’s where BuddyFeed comes in. Not only it makes it easy to participate in the FriendFeed community’s activities, but it also doesn’t require you to jump through hoops to post images and explore new areas.
Becoming a success story on Friendfeed is not that easy. It takes time, and you’ve got to work at it. You can’t afford to ignore your Friendfeed account for days or weeks and expect getting value out of it. If you are on FriendFeed (which you should be), you can’t afford not to use BuddyFeed. BuddyFeed not only saves you time, but it makes it easier to grow your presence on FriendFeed. It’s just a no brainer!
