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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5 Tips for Productive Tweeting

Productive Twitter marketing is one of the most successful Internet marketing strategies to gain lot of followers and improve brand image of company online.

Twitter is a social media networking site which consists of lots of millions of users who can publish their tweets which can have a maximum size of 140 characters. Most companies online use twitter to market their products.

To make new customers, they use productive tweeting which improves followers as well spread brand image across the world.

How to make use of Tweet?

A tweet consists of 140 words length of information of your tweet can be added. The tweet should be able to attract the followers with good productive content and building relationship with them in friendly manner than commercial processes.

Twitter marketing acts like a viral marketer in the form of re-tweeting. Tweets written should have valuable information which should make customers feel to spread them as they spread valuable information.

5 Tips for productive tweeting

Productive tweeting is only possible if one understands the usage of twitter. It is important to follow some valuable suggestions and comments for making productive tweeting.

1. Learning makes you expert:

Learn from the experts in tweeting. See how they utilize the tweets. Learn from the strategies they use to build good followers. There are few twitter experts who have several re-tweets for their tweets. Learn how they tweet.

2. Responding to the other follower tweets is essential:

Though social media networking sites are being used for business by increasing the number of followers it is also essential to respond to the other tweets of the followers and this builds a good relationship. But this should not be like spamming their inbox with thank you messages.

3. Your tweets should make people follow you rather than you following people:

Don’t send message with your affiliate links or sending thank you messages for following. These people follow you because they know you. Send them some information that will be useful for them. This makes them more interested for your tweets. Otherwise they simple stop following you immediately.

4. Build a potential network of followers:

This is nothing but people should be able to discuss and follow your tweets regularly hence you could be able to build a potential network of people who really interested on your tweets. Hence it is necessary for you to build potential followers than blind followers. By this you can gain a pool of customers for your products and your business.

5. Try to help other through Twitter:

You can help other twitter users by responding to their tweets. Use hash tags when tweeting which helps your readers about the tweet. This also helps people who search for similar information.

Getting Productive and creative with twitter
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Making Tweets reproductive through group tweeting

Watch this video below to get an idea how and where to find people which you can invite to your Twitter who could be interested in the things you have to offer.

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How To Make Your Blog Important For Advertisers

The best way to make you blog interesting for advertisers is to serve a targeted niche, have a large audience and steady growing traffic.

To predict that you have high traffic will not be enough! Every advertiser can check your traffic and your rank through Alexa for free.

Blogs and web site which have traffic of about one hundred visitors daily, rank between 90,000 and 120,000. And every advertiser who is savvy in this area knows this.

To help an advertiser to check your Alexa Rank you can put a free Alexa widget on you blog.

Advertisers will consider an advertisement on your blog when you have a significant number of daily visitors. There for a screenshot of your recent Google Analytics stats could be helpful to get advertisers as well.

Advertisers are looking out for blogs with a good Page Rank (PR). A minimum PR of 1 or better means the blog is important enough and many sites are linking in.
The higher the PR the more sites linking in and the better your chances as a blogger are to get paid advertising on your blog.

You can spread your blog content through Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for free and create your own community to grow your readership.

It is more helpful to produce good and remarkable content for your audience and grow your readership on a steady base.

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The Social Web Has Exploded Last Year

Many people who have been following the social media since the 90s have become very sensitive to the exponential growth in usage of the sharing web.

The data within this app is based on a wide range of social media sources and sites. The social web has exploded in the last year and here are some of the key data points.

This brings a bride range of opportunities as well.

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HELP – How To Own My Blog Space On The Internet?

Before a couple of days I discovered this discussion topic within one of the LinkedIn groups I am a member of.

“In 2010 I have decided that I want to buy and own my blog space on the internet… great idea in theory but one slight issue… I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I AM DOING!”

Here are the asked questions and my answers:

Q: Do I buy a web site or a blog (or is there a difference?

A: There is a great difference between blog based optimized marketing infrastructure and a web site.

Example: The blog content gets indexed much quicker than website content. There for ‘A blog as a website’ can be more effective. A blog as a website gives your customers and you the opportunity to get in touch by leaving comments, etc. See also the presentation below!

Q: Where do I go to buy a domain name and blog or site page?

A: Godaddy offers WordPress Blog hosting and domain name for $5 per month. The ‘Economy Plan’ should be ok for the beginning, find it here: http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/wordpress-hosting.aspx?ci=15005

Q: Is this something I can learn to do well on my own?

A: Yes. You have many great options to enhance a blog to act as great marketing hub for you. Here you can find more info about this.

Q: Would it be smarter to hire someone to do it for me?

A: In the long term it is better to learn this by your self. But if you want to shorten the learning curve and get quicker results you can also hire somebody to help you to get started and then step by step learn all of these skills when your web presence is up and running.

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