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Is Social Bookmarking Worth to Invest Time

Ravi Ahuja — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:44:17 +0000

Social Bookmarking sites can send lot of visitors to your site. Social bookmarking sites are popular from long time and millions of visitors share sites, photo, videos etc. The big name Digg, Reddit , Delicious, Stumble Upon are few names in social bookmarking sites.

Many bloggers submit there post to social bookmarking sites but many of them got frustrated when they don’t receive visitors from those sites and they think it is waste of time to submit site to social bookmarking site.

If any blog receives some traffic from social bookmarking site even after that webmasters are not satisfied because bounce rate of visitors from social bookmarking site is too high. Not just that traffic to your site is not consistent one day you get 5000 visitors and next day you get 0 visitors from social bookmarking sites.

It’s true – Yes bounce rate of visitors from social bookmarking site is too high as much as 95%. You may not get regular visitors from social bookmarking. It is little time taking process to submit post to social bookmarking site.
(Bounce rate is when visitors come to your site and leave your site after landing page)

If you want to utilize the power of social bookmarking site then you have to focus on few things. Social bookmarking site can be good visitor’s source for your site and can give your site regular visitors.

How to get most from Social Bookmarking Sites?

1. Don’t expect you will always get lot of visitors from social bookmarking site.
2. Don’t try to submit your post to many social bookmarking site just submit to top 5 social bookmarking site like Digg, Reddit etc.
3. Submit your post to right category.
4. Submitting timing – This is very important if you can get information on which timing there are most visitors at social bookmarking site and submitting your site at that time can bring many visitors to your site.
5. Write good post title. When people see your listing the first impression is your post title if it is attractive they can visit your site.
6. If you don’t get visitors don’t worry at least you are getting a back link to your post.
7. If you have submitted a good post then it is not important to get visitors at same day. Many people search on social bookmarking site and they can find your post and you can get visitors for long time.
8. Make lot of friends on social bookmarking site. Those friends can rate your post and can send lot of visitors to your site.
9. Don’t just submit your site through your account else bookmarking site will think you as spammer. Submit other sites you like and your friend’s site you made on those sites.
10. There are some free services which will submit your post to many social bookmarking sites in just few clicks. Like onlywire.com

It is not important everyone can be successful on social bookmarking site but some proper time investment can bring hundreds of free visitors to your site. No problem if there is lot of bounce rate at least some of them can become your loyal visitors.

Learn Lessons from Social Media Conference

Ravi Ahuja — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:34:46 +0000

The fourth Social Media Conference held in London with over 180 delegates and speakers discussed on Social Media’s issues. Main issued covered in this conference was: “what does it mean to be social when hundreds of major brands are looking at YouTube, Twitter (there’s that word again) and Facebook as a new channels for marketing.”

If you have not attended this conference and want to learn issues covered in the conference then you can do so with free material available by Screen Events. There are various topic covered in this conference. You can access conference material in various formats like Videos, MP3, PDF files and virtual tour.

SMI 2009 AGENDA

Opening Remarks

Social Media Comes of Age…..and the Challenges Ahead

Changing Roles in a Changing Media – Advertising, journalism, PR and marketing find their place at the customer table

Enterprise 2.0 – Headshift

The legal minefield of the social media campaign

“Brand Engagement and Professional Audiences”

PR Panel – Managing Your Message and Your Reputation in the split-second age of Twitter.

Social Media Measurement – Planning Campaigns and Understanding the ROI

Conversational Marketing

You can access the material of conference by filling a simple form from Screen Events site.

Why You Need Lot of Blog Traffic?

Ravi Ahuja — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:08:14 +0000

Your blog or site is not of any use without visitors. Visitors are the most important part of your blog and are the first thing you should look for. You may have read at many blogs that good content should be the first priority, without good content your blog is of no use.

Yes it is true, but consider a very good shop of gadgets where you will find latest gadgets from iPhone to latest music system of almost all popular brand but no customer comes to that shop. So is there any use of opening a good shop filling with latest and great product. Same applies to your site with very good content but no one is there to read that post and how it will be decided that it is a very good post because visitors to your site decided which post is good.

Bring visitors to your site is the most difficult work then creating a good content. Thanks to latest web developments they have given us various ways to promote our site and bring visitors to our site. There can be various ways to bring visitors to your site. Here I am trying to tell you few ways of bring visitors to your site.

Search Engine: Search engine traffic is what all webmasters want. Why search engine traffic? Because it’s free and it can bring thousands of visitors per day which can increase your site popularity to a next level. As you know Google is the major search engine and bringing your site on Google’s first page for a keyword related to your site is a difficult task. In next posts I will try to give you the tips on how to get your site on top on Google.

Social Bookmarking: From Digg to Stumbuleupon social bookmarking sites popularity is increasing day by day. On social bookmarking site people bookmark web pages they liked and other visitors also can bookmark that page to there account or can bookmark any other page they like. This way that page get a back link and from few visitors to thousands of visitors in a day. To learn more about social bookmarking watch this video.

Forum Post: There are thousands of forum on the web on various topics. People joins forum to get answers give by other forum member for there question. Join forum and giving good answers to others question will increase your popularity and build your brands. When ever in your answers you give a link to your site for related topic people trust your link and follow that link which gives you trusted visitors.

Blog Comments: Giving comments on others blog will also increase your popularity and builds a relationship with blog owner and blog owner can link back to your site on there post. On comment form there is a website field which can also bring some traffic to your site.

There are many more ways to bring visitors to your site which I will explore in future posts. This was just the overview how to bring visitors to your site.

The worth of social media to your website

Ravi Ahuja — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:05 +0000

Most of the people ask a genuine question that, what the worth of going for social media is. Are you also among such people? If your answer is yes then, there are lots of things for you to know about.

It is an inevitable fact that the reach of social media cannot be calculated in an easy fashion. It is a sophisticated source with the help of which an average person feels him or herself fully equipped to distribute content, information and ideas on a global platform. It has a direct impact on the normal human being. This is the reasons why social media and social media marketing are believed to be an exciting option for a large number of people. One of the great things which are associated with this form of services is that it offers the freedom of speech and information to a large number of people.

There is large number of social media sites available on the internet which has the ability to quickly collect the content or information from your respective blog or website and transmit the same to rest of the people. The process of social media is quite different from that of traditional media. Do you know why? Here, users submit their feedback via voting and rationally declare which content is better from rest of the contents. If more number of users vote for a specific article then that article will avail the opportunity to gather maximum amount of traffic possible.

There are numerous sites available which work on the concept of social media and promote best quality content with relevant information to the users. One such site which is in the same profession since a long period of time is Digg. If you are having the first page listing on the Digg then it is estimated that you can avail the traffic of nearby 200,000 potential visitors each day. There is another site known as Slashdot, which is known for offering similar kinds of results. These are some of the sites which perform the functions of social media and are considered to be a boon for several websites and e-businesses.

After notifying the numerous advantages offered by social media there are various steps taken to make it more convenient. There are a large number of free tools have been included to make it more easy and convenient for internet marketers and webmasters. Some of the most popular free tools include Add This and Social Bookmarker.

Do you normally get annoyed with the amount of time consumed in sign up and the process of submission to social media sites? If yes then you can go for the product called Traffic Android. It has the capability to mechanize the time taken for sign up and the submission process. This is one of the best things which can surely help social media to grow and expand in a rapid fashion.

If you are willing then you will find that the application of social media is quite vast. It is now up to you how you use it to express yourself!

The way to promote your web site with the help of social media

Ravi Ahuja — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:01:51 +0000

Social media is a word, which most of the website owners are familiar with. It is a fact that internet is considered to be the major platform for the people for sharing and interacting with each other. This is the reason why the presence of social media optimization cannot be ignored.

It is important for you to understand that social media optimization is one of the most widely applied techniques through which you can interact, share and acquire knowledge about different issues and topics. Do you know that the major advantage of social media is that you can make your site informative and helpful for others? YES, with the help of quality content with rational information you can easily enhance your natural listing among the top search engines available on internet. The methods offered by social media marketing are not limited to this only. There are some of the other methods available as well including white papers, blog writing, keyword targeted articles, press releases, RSS feeds, etc. If you have a look then you will find that these methods are common as well as most effective. For definite success you can give priority to any of these methods.

If you have a definite strategy with you then with the help of internet services currently available you can easily maintain top rank in the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Social media optimization involves direct planning and strategy lay out with the help of which websites avail good popularity and ranking in these search engines. Besides this, you can say that social media optimization is a set of methods with the help of which you can generate good amount of publicity via internet and at the same time make a link in between websites and online communities.

It is significant for you to know that social media can also make the process of bookmarking and tagging quite easy. For instance, if the content available on a site is tagged then it will be visible to other people generating a viral traffic. If you wish to comprise social media tagging on your site then you can go for various tagging links. Some of the available tagging links are Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati, etc. It is an interesting fact for you to know that these tags can be included with other pages of the site in addition to the home page. Furthermore, when the visitors click onto the tag button of your site then creating a suggestion box will be an additional benefit. This will help visitor to acquire an appropriate category and notes.

With the help of social media optimization you can certainly produce traffic onto your site. Now-a-days, it is a choice for most of the business personnel. This is because it stays ahead of all the other publicity methods available in the market. Surely, if your content is published in the form of an article, audio or video file then it will attract a large number of visitors within a short period of time.

These are all the valuable things which you can acquire from social media. Your site will not only have its own presence on internet but also ranked in top websites by all the search engines.

Social Media learn the basic

Ravi Ahuja — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:34:43 +0000

Before starting new things it is better to learn some basic on that topic. So start learning basic of social media tutorial by Common Craft.