Posts Tagged ‘blog’
Ask yourself these questions before starting social media campaign
Social Media is a buzzword today; everybody is talking about twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc to promote their business. It is really very useful tool if used properly otherwise it can do harm instead of doing good. That’s why it is very necessary to do some ground work before starting your social media campaign.
Just answer the following questions and you will be in a better position to start your social media campaign:
What is the objective behind my social media campaign?
Do I really need to start a social media campaign?
How much time and money it’s going to required?
What is going to be ROI?
Shall it going to be beneficial for my products/services?
Do I need a social media expert or I am going to do it myself?
Which social media sites are best to promote my product/service?
What type of community I am looking for?
What will be the expectations of community from me?
How much I know about social media optimization?
What I need to know more about social media?
Who are my target audience?
What are their demographics?
What my competitors are doing on social media sites?
How many followers are there in my competitor’s Twitter a/c?
Do I need a blog?
Who is going to post or maintain the blog?
How I am going to monitor my campaign?
How I am going measure success of my social media campaign?
If you are able to answers these question satisfactorily then definitely it’s going to help you to start your social media campaign properly and be benefited from it
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Posted in SMO, Social Media Optimization
What is a blog or how to define a blog?
With the entire new internet marketing technique available in today’s web world, blogging remains one of the most effective ways to present yourself, your company, products or services on internet. Every internet user has a dream of having a little corner for him in this huge web world. Having a blog can fulfill your this dream.
What is a blog?
For an individual blog is a personal diary sharing with peoples on internet.
This is just one of the things that you could do with a blog. Blog can be use for all sorts of purposes you desires.
A blog can be a collection of free resource.
A blog can be a breaking-news point.
A blog can be an information center
A blog can be use to review product
A blog can be use to share photos and videos
To cut it short, a blog is what you want it to be. There is no guideline or rule set. There are millions of blogs and all are different in their presentation. Blogs are generally written by one person on a particular topic and are updated frequently. But this is also not a set rule.
What is blogging?
The process of writing or updating a blog is known as blogging.
Who is a blogger?
A person who maintains, update or write a blog is known as blogger.
Definition of a blog
Simply a blog can be defined as a type of website maintain by an individual to post article, photos, videos or whatever he likes. Posts are displayed in a reverse chronological order i.e. recent post on top and older ones thereafter. Blog is short form of web logs or weblogs.
Some other terms related to blogging are
Blog Post
Whatever you write or share on your blog is known as post or blog post.
Comments
Whatever message your blog reader or viewer left behind are known comments. Comments allow you to interact with peoples and to know their view about your blog or post.
Archives
An archive is the collection of all the blog post in an order. It does allow a reader to view all the post posted by a blogger category wise.
RSS Feed
RSS Feed commonly known as Really Simple Syndication is a type of web feed formats used to distribute frequently updated blog entries in a standardized format.
Conclusion is that a blog is a very effective way to communicate on internet not requiring much technical skills.
Posted in BLOG PROMOTION
Use twitter to drive more traffic to your website or blog.
Twitter is a great tool for driving traffic to your website. It’s a free social networking and micro-blogging service that help its users to send and receive other users’ updates known as tweets. Twitter is a very good medium to reach new prospective customer or clients. If you are already using twitter then would have certainly figured out that it is very useful tool. But there are certain tips and tricks which you can follow to make a more use of it.
Following are a few tips on how to increase your Twitter presence:
1. Incorporate some kind of Twitter/tweet button on your site or blog.
2. Make lot of followers on Twitter.
3. Use your twitter id as much you can on other social media sites.
4. Tweet more about your site and business so that people starts following you..
5. Vigorously be connected on Twitter.
6. Tweet interesting and useful resources.
7. If you sell a product or provide service, your twitter efforts should maintain the purpose.
8. Follow some celebrities on Twitter and try to get there replies.
There are other lot of others ways to increase your twitter presence but all the above tips are also going to help you to drive more traffic from Twitter.
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Posted in BLOG PROMOTION, Social Media Optimization, Website Promotion
Comment spamming can lower down your blog ranking in Google.
Comment spamming is a general practice today, some webmasters post irrelevant comments on others blog to just increase their site ranking in SERPs. But now it will be damaging to both; the website whose link is post in comment and blogs/website which allow these types of comments. Detailed information is given in a recent Google Webmaster Blog post about comment spamming.
Webmasters should do following things to maintain their site ranking
Don’t post irrelevant comments just to get a link.
Comment only when you think it can provide more information on particular topic
Comment when you want to start a new discussion
Till now if you were practicing comment spamming to increase your website ranking, you should stop immediately otherwise it will now work in reverse direction i.e. lowering down your website/blog ranking. Now start working on finding the new ways to improve the site ranking, otherwise you may find yourself in problem.
Bloggers should do following things to maintain their site ranking
Don’t allow spammy comments on your blog
Delete all the spam looking comments from your blog
Use anti spamming plug-in in your blog
Don’t allow anonymous comment posting
Prevent automated spammy comments
Always use the comment moderation option
Use “nofollow” on comments
As a blogger if you don’t consider above factors then one day you may found that in spite of all your hard work your blog rank is going down because somebody else is trying to increase his/ her blog/website ranking through comment spamming. Don’t let spammers ruin your good work.
Tags: blog, blog ranking, bloggers, Comment spamming, Google, site ranking
Posted in BLOG PROMOTION, Google