While blogging is fun, you need to make sure you’re blogging for a purpose. What is your niche? Why are you blogging? What goals do you have for your project? This will make your experience purpose-filled, and then you are set to develop the rest of your plan. Continue reading to find out some helpful hints for how to make sure you’re pursuing blogging correctly.
Have you paid attention to what is currently trending within your blogging niche? If not, you are losing out on capitalizing on the most popular subjects within your niche. This is what people are going to be searching for and reading about. Make sure you are taking advantage of this opportunity. You can search for news stories and current events within your niche so that you can blog about what you find. This will help you immensely later, as well, because you have to keep coming up with fresh content!
You must absolutely be using social media in order to get the attention you desire. That is one thing that is used widely to gain readership these days. You can post social media plugins on your page using the tools on your dashboard and on your social media sites. You can even allow people to register with your blog using social media options. They can post this way, and it just makes for an all-around social experience. Plus, when people share your content, you have to realize that they are automatically sharing it with all of their friends. This means you need to not only use social media, but keep up with this ever-changing platform. The possibilities are endless, and this is one way to fast-track your blog.
Do you want to attract attention to your blog? Hold a contest or a sweepstakes. Promote a special giveaway or offer free downloads of something. It can take some time to figure out exactly which option is best for your niche, but the opportunity will present itself. Especially if you’re working to monetize your blog, this can really help you gain followers and is worth it in the end.
Does your blog niche fit to where you can post about celebrities. This is just one topic right here that people love to read about. If you can blog about celebrities and relate it back to your topic in some way, it will attract attention. Think about it! You can tie a celebrity in some way to what you’re doing. Say you’re blogging about green energy. Well, certainly there are many celebrities out there speaking out about green energy. You can tie in what they have said to your blog. Plus, their names are highly searchable.
You have to approach blogging correctly if you are wanting to appeal to the general public. Also, you must be niche specific, and this takes research and practice. The tips that have been described will help you get going, and it’s time for you to put them into action.
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What Would You Major In To Do Social Media Marketing? Trying to find out what I would need to major in to do social media marketing and some good universities to go to. I have found I would like that a lot and just trying to get an idea. If it is social media marketing I apologize, google has not been too helpful.
View CommentI agree with Alan. You can also look into some classes in Public Relations. Many companies use PR firms to manage their social media presence.
View CommentHow Has Social Media Influenced The English Language? How has social media influenced the use and practise of the English language (literature etc.) I am looking for both positive and negative effects.
View CommentThanks a lot:)
It is too large an area for a single question.
But simple things like text speak … we now have children applying for jobs using this.
Traditional language skills are being replaced, but whether this is good/bad or positive/negative depends on how you view it. Traditionalists will say it is really bad. But I can also see an argument that says it doesn’t matter, what matters most is that we are able to communicate, however we do it.
New words are being introduced… blogging for example.
Also the fact that so many people can see your written word means it has a bigger effect…, the changes we make for a larger worldwide audience is going to have an effect.
Things like color instead of colour.. American terms like ‘sodder’ instead of the traditional british ‘solder’ … or Aluminum replacing Aluminium. Social media plays a large part towards introducing these changes due to their global nature.
I can see the English Language changing hugely (especially when written informally), there will remain a devout set of traditionalists, but I think they will be ignored and common usage will diverge hugely from the ‘proper’ usage.
View CommentDo You Think My New Social Media Site Will Be Able To Compete With Facebook? My new social media site will be called “Buttbook”. All photos “must” be butt photos to protect your identity. You can buy those plastic googly eyes at Wal*Mart to paste on your hiney. Whether you draw a smiley face or a frown is totally up to each individual user. However, you must use a permanent marker. The color is up to you. As far as your private information goes, I will sell it to the highest bidder.
View CommentReally?? No, your website has no chance whatsoever.
View CommentHow Useful Are Social Media Platforms For Marketing? If we wanted to market a specific person (ie to raise their celebrity status) what social media platforms (eg blogging, interactive website etc) would you suggest and why?
View CommentIn this day in age social media impacts greatly on marketing. I suggest you use something like facebook. you are able to monitor what happens and what is said, and you have the opportunity to involve your ‘users’. Give them a certain level of ‘decision making’ power.
The important thing is to focus on building relationships with your ‘customers’ and maintaining these relationships, by doing this, they will market your business for you.
Also, if you receive any negative comments or feedback, the best way to handle it is to react quickly! and try and resolve the situation as best and honestly as you can.
Good luck
View CommentWhat Are The Best Books To Read On Social Media? I am interested in learning more about social media theories and best practices. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good books. It has been tricky to find good information since the industry is changing so rapidly. Any recommendations? Thank you!
View CommentI am referring to social media online. Thank you!
Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business by Erik Qualman is a great book. I recommend Socialnomics to anyone who would like to better understand the business implications of social media .
View Commenthttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470477237?ie=UTF8&tag=powtoorev08-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0470477237
What Will Come After The Social Media Frenzy? What will online life be like after the social media frenzy? Let me know your thoughts, and references to other smart people’s thoughts 🙂
View CommentThe social media frenzy will dissipate but not disappear. Social media is here to stay and will continue to evolve as we increase our computing power and digital infrastructure.
Social media is changing the way companies market their products. Television, radio, and even books and magazines (in digital format) will all have a social element in them. Everyone will be able to discuss, comment, learn and argue online via the social web. It is my belief that social networks will increasingly become interlinked and names like Twitter and Facebook will be different views and filters for the same social web. Online profiles will be as necessary as drivers licenses.
All good companies will recognize the importance of social media marketing and allocate appropriate resources.
The semantic web will develop and emerge as the content online becomes more understandable to computers. Online research will be able to be accomplished by a machine almost as easy as a human being.
Geo-locating social networks will mature and information online will be increasingly location specific. Imagine walking into your supermarket and getting a map of where everything is directly on your Iphone, along with a new coupon to thank you for being there four times this month (the technology already exists).
Eventually social historians will study the social web as a fantastic archive of the society we live in today. Imagine your great grandchildren reading your twitter posts in an ancestry.com like interface to find out what you were like. (The social web is currently being archived)
The future is increasingly connected and relevant information will be available easily and accurately.
View CommentSocial Media Question? If I want to go in to a career with Facebooking and Twitter, like updating social media sites for company’s, What Direction should I go in to for college? I need help
View CommentIt has nothing to do with your academics. Many successful Social Media Strategist never attended any formal degree course to get advanced in the field. To be honest it really demands you to be updated with the latest trends in Social Media.
Keep searching the giant called “Internet” for latest tips and tricks about social media. There are many aspects of it. Learn how to get Huge Followers on Twitter, How to optimize a MySpace Profile to get tons of friends, How to adopt viral marketing using Facebook (Learn how to Design and Create an Effective Fanpage).
Social Media is a Great resource to generate the Leads quickly. If you have a huge base of Followers, Friends and Connections in all your Social Networks, you earnings drive crazy. Again only Twitter and Facebook does not define Social Media there are thousands of other networks which can bring you Targeted Traffic for your Products or Services.
Coming back to your question You can go for any course you want to pursue it doesn’t matter. There is only one thing which matters: – How Much you keep yourself Updated with the Current Trends.
Remember the Words” People Never Fail At Internet Marketing – They Just Quit Before Success Happens”
Hope that Helps.
View CommentWhat Are The Social Media Tips For Blogging? Any one of you know social media tips tips for blogging
View CommentSocial Media
Much has been written about the use of social media sites to get traffic to a blog. I will therefore discuss this item more general sense of social media and share some principles for social media traffic.
1.Be an Active Participant In Social Media:
View Comment2. Learn The Rules and The Culture:
How To Drive Sales Utilizing Social Media Like Facebook, Twitter, Etc On An E-commerce Site?
View CommentSocial media like facebook, twitter etc can be easily used to drive sales and get more and more eyeballs for your products. Not only by creating facebook pages, twitter accounts to share updates with your fans, you can integrate social login and sharing from these ID providers and let your users login to your website with their facebook and twitter IDs but also share your products on their social networks. Social plugins from Loginradius (www.loginradius.com) for e-commerce are popular among the webstores lately, they provide social login and share funcitonality along with good analytics to get your marketing streamlined with respect to your users
View CommentSocial Media And Social Networking Sites (List)? I’m making some Social Networking (and social media) icons and I don’t know what to include… So far I have RSS Feeds, MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter, and LinkedIn… What other ones should I include in the set I’m making? (I’m making about 10 to 15 different “variations” of each icon, so I need a lot of options, but not one of those “top 250 sites” lists)
View CommentI added YouTube and WordPress, and I’m going to be adding Blogger, but I don’t know what else to add… Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 🙂 Thanks in advance.
Check out Mashable.com. Search ‘top 50 social media sites’ and see what results you get. you will probably get a decent sized list of the top social media sites by rank and unique visitors along with other site details. Here are some that i would suggest:
Video:
YouTube
DailyMotion
MetaCafe
Viddler
Revver
Vimeo
Status Updates:
Twitter
BrightKite
Identi.ca
Friend Sites:
Facebook
MySpace
Bebo
MyYearbook
Blog Sites:
Wordpress
Blogger
LiveJournal
Vox
Posterous
Xanga
Multiply
hope these help you out..
View CommentMormons Did You Feel Guilty About Using Social Networking Sites Far More Than Using Church Media Sites? This of course if you were privilaged enough to take ‘the survey’
View CommentBut that is not the case. I never use social networking sites, so every time I use Church media sites, it goes in the Church’s site’s favor………..
View CommentSome Good Effects Of Social Media In Ecommerce Industry? Some good effects of social media in ecommerce industry
View CommentSocial media helps to find new customers and to keep in touch with the existing ones which is good for any business. It’s particularly important for ecommerce because online businesses often don’t have any phisical location and they don’t meet their customers in person. Social media networks provide great opportunities for them to interact with the customers, research their needs and preferences and so on. In other words, social networks replace physical contact with customers for e-businesses. People often don’t trust to things if they can’t touch them. Social networks let ecommerce companies to be closer to their customers to get their trust.
View CommentWhat Is Public Relation , Social Media Marketing .? To know about Public relation,marketing,advertising,online social marketing,promotions
View Commentjust visit
http://www.prhub.com
Social media marketing is a recent addition to organizations’ integrated marketing communications plans. Integrated marketing communications is a principle organizations follow to connect with their targeted markets. Integrated marketing communications coordinates the elements of the promotional mix;advertising, personal selling, public relations, publicity, direct marketing, and Hertfordshire twitter marketing can also help you get idea on how to work with social networking and social media.
View CommentIs Their A Positive Side To Social Media? I’m doing a project on how social media affects people’s perceptions of themselves. Do you see any positive aspects of social media on people’s self-perception?
View CommentAlso if you could add a source to your answer that would be great! Thanks 🙂
Social media mess up people in the mind a lot. You constantly see celebrities and models that are so skinny and so many young people (especially girls) are affected by it a lot. They hurt themselves in the long run and just try to be “perfect”. Also, in magazines they tell you what you should wear and what’s in style. Watching television also f**ks up you’re mind because it’s like you’re literally getting brainwashed most of the time, companies trying to sell you things and half of it doesn’t even work. I think everything about social media is negative no matter what. It doesn’t mean anything, there cannot be an ideal image of what is beautiful or what is right. It’s all in our own minds, we should choose and do what WE think is right, not let others take control of our mind.
View CommentWhat Is Social Media? I want to know the exact meaning of social media…
View CommentAccording to Wiki:
“Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable (measurable) publishing techniques.”
(Kaplan and Hainlein: “a group of Internet based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0 and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.)”
Social media has 3 components;
1. Concept (art, information, or meme).
View Comment2. Media (physical, electronic, or verbal
3. Social interface (intimate direct, community engagementm social viral, electronic broadcast or syndicaton, or other physical media such as print).