How To Socialize Your Blog On The Networks!
Social Media Marketing Tips – Automatically Ping
Your Blog
Pinging your blog through FeedBurner is a great way to get the search engines to come get your tasty content and let the world know about it. WordPress has a couple plugins to help you with that,Genki Feedburner SiteStats and FeedBurner Feed Stats are both plugins you can use to keep track of your feed downloads. I use the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin on my blog to help keep track of my FeedBurner feed activity. As you can tell, you can find a lot of help for FeedBurner, which is just about the best way to keep track of how many people are reading your blog. I learned that from Jack Humphrey WAY BACK in the late part of 2006 in an interview he did with Dearl Miller of Trafficology.
Of course, if you aren’t using FeedBurner, you might still want to make it as easy as possible for people to get your RSS feed. I use a plugin called FeedWordPress to handle that on my blog in addition to the FeedSmith plugin.
Pinging In My Ears
You want to be able to spread the word on your blog, and one way is for your readers to tell the world for you.Sociable has now added support for Ping.fm so that your readers can ping their friends with your posts! Plus sociable is outstanding in the other social bookmarking locations that it allows your readers to show you love! (hint hint)
With PingPressFM your readers will know when you have posted new content because it sends out pings to the 30+ social networks that ping.fm is connected to whenever you publish a blog post. You customize the message, but the plugin does the rest! It even supports future dated posts, so that you don’t have to hang around for the post to publish…
Another plugin that does almost the same thing is WPing.FM. This one even tells your readers (if they follow you on the social networks) that you are updating your posts, saving a new post (still unpublished) or just messing around on your blog. That may end up being too verbose for most people, but you have control over how much it talks to the world!
Don’t Be A Twit!
The Twitter Tools plugin is even more powerful! This places a widget on your sidebar that allows your fans to see what you tweet right on your blog! That is not all, it also gives you a suite of tools to allow you to work with your twitter account by downloading your tweets into your posts and your blog posts into your tweets!
The Twitme plugin allows you to do the latter portion by tweeting you recent posts so that people always know when you are releasing new content!
Tracy tells you all about how to use twitter tools!
That is all the time I have for today, I have to get going to the Impact Event in Orlando. So stay tuned for more good stuff!
Tomorrow Part 4: Too Much Time To Kill Spam Comments
Traffic Python just launched and it is a really cool way to use the websites you are already promoting to give your own advertising a boost. Lets say I am promoting EasyExitSplash.com and I wanted you to click on this link to get there, I would create a special link that includes the Traffic Python script and you would see about a 1.5″ ad on the bottom of the screen for about 10 seconds. The cool part about that is that your ad will be seen on someone else’s page!
This is a free service and as long as you are showing ads, your ads are showing on other people’s pages! This is a cool new service and I recommend you take a look at the OTO, because you have a chance to get amazing numbers of credits!
Here is how you can get it: