Tips
Social Media Tip of the Day: Make it Easy for Others to Share Your Site
There are a number of nice tools out there that can make it painless for your readers to bookmark, email, or share your site or blog posts with others. Yes, you can add a widget from many different bookmarking and crowd-sourcing sites, but why not use one widget that will allow addition into all of […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Add Your RSS Feed to Your Email Signature
If you have burned your feed on Feedburner, you can easily generate code that will allow you to have a little mini-feed in the signature of your email messages. This is a nice way to expand your reach and encourage others to subscribe to your feed. You can find this feature on Feedburner by going […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Take the Time to Optimize Your Blog Posts
Posting a blog entry once or twice a week is a lot of work in and of itself, so taking that extra few minutes to optimize the post can make it worth the time you spent creating it.
Here are a few things you can do to optimize your blog posts:
Add them to appropriate categories.
Add tags […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Recommended Tool- Lijit.com
The Lijit.com “wijit” is an interesting approach to letting your readers search your content all over the social Web, as well as your network’s content. It is sort of like creating your own search engine for your readers, where you determine the sites that are included in the engine. Once you choose your content sources […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Tagging Your Multimedia Wisely in Flickr, YouTube, and beyond
It is amazing the kind of exposure you can get by properly tagging the images you upload to Flickr, video clips to YouTube, or any other type of multimedia you share in media communities. First of all, choose descriptive file names, using at least one good key term. Then, always take advantage of tags and […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Regularly Check the Blogosphere for References to Your Posts
Make certain you know what others are saying about you and your site. And, if appropriate, comment on their feedback. There are a number of ways to do this, but I find it easiest to use Google alerts. That way, I am informed via email and don’t have to go searching. There are also some […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Know the Difference Between a Business and Personal Profile
There is a fine line between your business profile and your personal profile in many of the social networking sites. MySpace makes it easy to build a presence specifically for your business, and as long as you keep a business look and feel about your page, there is no question. You need to be careful […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Save More than Your Own Pages on Social Bookmarking sites
When contributing to social bookmarking sites or news aggregators, contribute content that is not your own. Many people consider it spamming if you only add your own pages and posts to such a community. One way to avoid doing this is to participate regularly on only a few of your favorite sites. Also, keep their […]
Social Media Tip of the Week: Getting the most mileage out of your best content.
When you post highly informative entries on your site or blog (especially those that demonstrate your expertise), make sure you don’t just click publish and move on, try and get the most mileage from them as you can. Some ways you can do this is to bookmark them in your favorite social bookmarking sites; add […]
Social Media Tip of the Week: Don’t spread yourself thin.
Like any good networking strategy, it is best to do a lot in a few areas as opposed to a little in all of them. First, get a feel for all of the options available to you in the social media arena, then decide which of them are the best fit for you and which […]
