social media

Google+ is one of the most exciting social networks around. Google has gone out of its way to create a community that could potentially challenge both Facebook and Twitter. Google+ looks and sounds more serious than Facebook. It could also lead to more engaging discussions than one could get on Twitter. If you are on [...]

No matter how much value you offer through your Twitter account, there are always going to be people who will criticize you for everything you do. Perfection is impossible on Twitter or on your blog. You are going to make mistakes, and there will be people who will bash you no matter how much value [...]

Linkedin is one of the most underrated social networking websites around. It may not be as informal as Twitter or Facebook, but it has the potential to bring you lots of traffic (especially if you spend time networking and connecting with others on that site). Many bloggers take time to add Facebook and Twitter share [...]

As a blogger, you’ll have to wear many hats. Spending time to plan your future posts, optimizing your website for the search engines, taking time to promote your posts, and engaging with your visitors are just a few things you will have to do. If you do a lot of these things by yourself, you [...]

We have been hearing about the idea of smart social search engines for a while now. The current crop of search engines do a decent job of helping you dig up data and find new content to consume. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could have a tool that would analyze all the data [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]