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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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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8 Steps To Promote Your Blog To 60 Million For FREE

Discover eight easy steps how to use the 60 million user potential of LinkedIn to bring your free targeted traffic to your blog.

LinkedIn is a business oriented social network and it’s mainly used for professional networking. Today it was announced that LinkedIn has reached 60 million users in more than 200 countries worldwide.

What makes LinkedIn valuable for your marketing as blogger?

LinkedIn has an applications platform that allows other apps to be embedded within your member profile. For example, there is a WordPress and a TypePad application that allows you to display your latest blog entries within your profile.

Imagine how effective this can be for your exposure. You have your finger directly on 60 million potential visitors to your blog for free.

If you are still not a member of LinkedIn and have a blog about a business related niche than you should consider becoming one very quickly.

The eight easy steps to get free traffic from LinkedIn:

1. You simply signup on LinkedIn
2. Complete your profile
3. Associate your blog with one of the above mentioned apps (WordPress / TypePad)
4. Getting associate to LinkedIn Groups: As you can not invite people on LinkedIn directly, you should start by getting associated to LinkedIn Groups first. Look out for groups in your niche topic and request to be added and subscribe to their updates.
5. Get Friends on LinkedIn: After you are added to a group and subscribed to their updates, you will receive updates every time when somebody posts a discussion from the Group you are member of. Go and visit the discussion and if you have an educated comment, leave it there and invite the person you have commented on their discussion or comment themselves to connect with you.
6. Repeat these steps daily and your friends list will grow day by day.
7. Take care to be focus on quality friends not on the count!
8. Maintain your new relationships, step into (2Way) conversation.

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80%+ Of Twitter Accounts Inactive – Your Opportunity!

Twitter is one of the top most Social Community in Internet today. There are millions of twitter users from all around the world who use the services of twitter. Recent observations see that 80% of twitter accounts are inactive which brings strong point in the usage of these social communities. There are chances for developing your companies strong hold in twitter by participating actively in twitter.

In April there were comparisons of twitters where it was seen that 60% of users lost interest after registering to twitter and left their accounts dormant. These users don’t have an idea of the powerfulness of twitter and its success as one of the best social community for marketing and advertising.

Inspite of these facts, people who are using twitter started using it more effectively through various twitter tools that are in market. Even now it is possible to integrate twitter in latest mobile phones.

In fact, according to RJMetrics Twitters rate of churn is 80% and not 60% which was found by Nielsen in April. It is seen that 17% of Twitter accounts send a single tweet over the past month which brings into light about how more opportunities are available in twitter to prioritize your market chances.

But this brings into light many things. In early part of 2007, where twitter members were very less, they know the advantages of twitter and there used to be 70% of usage of twitter. But with its popularity, number of users of twitter increased and thereby leading to lesser usage of twitter as many don’t exactly know how to use it.

According to statistics of Twitter, there are around 75 million users of twitter worldwide. Around 51% of users base is from U.S 9% from Brazil 7% in U.K. Out of these 75 million users, number of users who are using twitter is around 10 to 15 million users. These users are strongly committed and use twitter effectively for their personal and business purposes.

As these accounts are mostly inactive, this has good amount of impact on increase in followers of twitter. But this is also an advantage for twitter users who are using twitter effectively to increase their twitter followers and improve their brand image in twitter.

Usage of twitter has fallen down drastically
Twitter activity at all time low
Twitter accounts inactive but core users more committed

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