Did You Start Your Grog Yet?

A new service has appeared out there which wants to help you to Crowd source Your Content.

Grogger: Grogger enables you to publishing your blog content through Grogs–”group blogs” and enables you to crowd source their content.

One of the most interesting features is the ability to ‘Absorb All Your Topic’s Content’ means you can import content from your blog, Twitter or any of your RSS feeds. You can include your RSS feeds and make it an autopilot. One more place where can get seen, for free.

Moreover Grogger helps you to transform your users to publishers with easy to use publishing tools. Users can contribute and interact with you and each other. This can give your blog exposure an additional powerful boost on the web.

With Grogger you can boost your users’ engagement and publish the best content of your contributors and increase the quality and quantity of your content.

Actually Grogger is in public alpha. When you try to register you get an info that you will be emailed when more seats become available. Go for it and be an early bird, its useful and its free, so give it a try.

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One Week With Google Buzz Now

For now I am about one week in Google Buzz and like some other people I don’t think that Google Buzz goes to overtake Twitter for now. Moreover I think Google Buzz will complement the social media world in a great maybe different way.

When you have accustomed that Google Buzz is making your Gmail account a little bit messy and learned to handle it than it can become a nice place to make new friends.

I hope Google will implement some administration features in the near future to make it an easier to filter and administer messages, etc…

And an old friend named SPAM appeared very quickly on Google Buzz. I have unfriend them and now I got more good buzzes into my account.

In my opinion Google Buzz is a nice tool, no Twitter replacement for now but we will see what the future brings.

I am personally very excited about it because it opens a new channel to make connections, spread information and I am curious what Google further steps are in social media?!

Related Google Buzz post.

Happy buzzing!

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8 Tips To Get FREE Traffic For New Website

In the last days I was on some forums for entrepreneurs and I discovered a repeating question: How can I drive traffic to my new business and website?

When the website link was included in the forum post I visited the said website and went through to see how it looks like, does it has a blog, Meta Tags, Keywords, etc. Some of them had no blog; some had no Meta Tags or Keywords of great advantage. Some had a hosted blog, mostly from Blogger.

What I can say is that if you like to drive traffic to you website you need to give the people a good reason to visit your website. Furthermore it can be helpful to be found where your targeted market and user base is around.

I have put together some points which you can do for free.

1. Have a self hosted blog. I recommend WordPress. It’s easy to use and free. Get yours here http://wordpress.org/
2. Pick a great WordPress theme, also for free. Here you can find thousands of themes: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
3. Install a tweet Plugin into your WordPress blog, so Twitter users can tweet your posts.
4. Connect your blog with Twitter. There for you can get various Plugin for WordPress also for free. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
5. Choose your Keywords and Mate tags. Use Keyword phrases of three to four words, you can check popular Keyword phrases here https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Write a short and easy remind able description, include your phrases as well.
6. Connect your twitter with your facebook. The posts which you publish in your WordPress blog will be pinged to twitter and twitter pings them to facebook.
7. Build and engage your twitter followers and your facebook friends. Step into 2way communication. Don’t just broadcast!
8. Post remarkable content frequently. Start with 2-3 post per week and increase the number step by step. Write about the things which your audience is interested in.

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Traffic Through Facebook, Paid?

For a blogger who start out with their blogging career it can be a good option to think about to setup a campaign on facebook.

I know it is not free to advertise on facebook but it can be a good and helpful opportunity to generate traffic to your blog to initially make it a little more popular.

The various segmentation options in facebook can help you to laser target your potential niche very successful and you do not need to bid the highest amount per click.

When you are actually thinking about to start blogging you should consider to setup a Godaddy account. Why? Not only to self host your blog (maybe free WordPress) hence to cash in possible $50 Google AdWords Coupon and a $50 Facebook Coupon, equals in $100 of FREE traffic.

When you set your daily budget right, maybe $5 per day and set your PPC price in a good level, about $0.50 – $0.65 than you can get up to 153 visitors, for free. Not bad for the beginning!?

Take care to activate the coupons only if you have finished setup your blog and have some articles included. I suggest having about a minimum of twenty articles before start to advertise.

Furthermore you could produce a ‘Best Of’’ three to six pages PDF, of your already written content and give it away for free.
It’s on you if you like to capture leads on this or if you put it online for free download.

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Use Google Buzz NOW And Promote Your Content!

These days thousands of discussions appear online about the use of Google Buzz for marketing purposes.

I have included Google Buzz on my page the same day it was made public and I use Google Buzz to include my content like tweets, Flickr photos and video for now. We will see which features will be added in the near future which open further opportunities to spread your content through the web.

For me it looks like that this, what we actually see is only the top of the ice berg and the 70% is still under water and not visible at the moment.

Google’s interest in social media will drive the development and evolution of Google Buzz. There is doubt!

An important fact is the inclusion of social status updates into Google search results and their launch of social search and not forget to mention the Google Buzz on phone which can help to get better found online and mobile. All Gmail accounts have been updated automatically and all android phones as well.

Nobody should underestimate Google’s desire to position in social media. Social media means high quality user data for marketing and this means a lot of revenue potential.

I think this is one key point which drives the future of Google Buzz and also empowers your benefit to position you self, your products and your services where our potential customers are, directly in front of them, with the help of Google, at no cost!

Under this circumstances mentioned above I think you should step into Google Buzz to claim you position.

It is simple to do this!

1. Go to your Gmail account and setup your Google Profile
2. Add your favourite sites, RSS feeds etc….
3. Install this Google Buzz Button on your WordPress blog (this one which you can see below) to get your content Buzzed.
4. Activate Google Buzz.
5. Invite your friends, step into a 2way conversation and build your follower ship.

Happy buzzing!

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