Posts tagged Social Networking

How do you prefer to have your posts promoted on Twitter? RT or Reading?

In my quest to become a better Twit, I have noticed something interesting about users who promote other people’s posts. I have seen people’s articles and tweets promoted in two different ways:

RT (ReTweet) and Reading

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The Power of Reading – The Twitter Experiment Update

I have officially begun my Twitter Experiment where I will attempt to increase blog traffic from, and by effectively using, Twitter. (read more about what prompted it here)

Last night I made my first “non-selfish” Tweet.

Reading @problogger How Listening to a Waiter can Jack your Profits up 33% – http://is.gd/MFXh

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Using Twitter to Effectively Grow Your Blog Traffic – Confessions of a Twitter Spammer

This post comes in response to two articles I have read recently: Tech blogging, missing something? at ChristopherMarkSmith.com and the other is How Not to Promote Your Blog: Top 10 Broken Blog Promotion Strategies at ProBlogger.net. In Chris’s article he makes the following point in regards to social media:

The market for using these new types of technologies is still growing and is rather fresh for most companies. Many businesses do not use the social media and web apps at all to market or make their businesses run more efficiently, mostly because no one is laying it out for them in a fun and easy way.

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How to Find Blogs to Link To

Yesterday I wrote an article titled “Increase traffic to your blog by sending people away”. It discusses the benefits of gaining readers for your blog by linking to other sites from within your posts. If you read that article, you will notice a prevalent theme of “don’t be a small fish in a big pond”. By that I meant, don’t be one of the many sites linking to a popular blog. Instead, be one of the few sites linking to a smaller blog as you are more likely to be noticed by those sites. At the end of the first paragraph I posed a question how do you find sites to link to? Today’s post is a follow-up that helps answer that question.
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27 Free Social Networking/Social Bookmarking Icons

Here is the first set of social networking badges I have designed. It includes badges for delicious, facebook, google, technorati, stubmleupon, and more. These badges were inspired by a few of the badges have on my site under the social heading below right. I decided to develop a full set of “bar shaped” badges for sharing. Download the zip file below and use these on your website or blog to link to your social networking

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