Social media marketing is something most bloggers who want to reel in traffic and be competitive must use. Despite the fact that a lot of people, including myself mention how to promote your product and site in a way that makes it seem easy… the truth is, it is not easy. It takes work. I repeat this a lot, but I do not think people realize it.
With that said, hopefully you are still reading this article, because I am going to tell you, regardless of how experienced you are as a blogger or site owner how social media marketing is good for you.
- You get exposure for your site. Unless you pay someone good money or do it yourself, no one will know where you are or what you want them to do. This includes the search engines.
- You get exposure for yourself. The more you participate, the more people see you and might even interact with you.
- You become reputable within and outside of your niche. The great thing about being human is that you get to have as many things that you are interested in as you want. People who are even the least bit curious will find out about you if you are someone who is recommended by others regardless if they are in your niche or not.
- You learn a lot of great ways to promote your site in ways that it would have cost more using other marketing methods. There are so many tools out there that are free. Of course, there are others that cost, but you can still get ahead, be thrifty, and market your product or site successfully online.
- You can make good money if you are dedicated.
- You meet new people. Unless you like to be a hermit, I know a lot of people enjoy meeting others. Even if it is not face-to-face, exchanging conversations can really be fun.
- You can potentially reach more people online versus other media. There are a lot of people embracing social networking and with some research and work on your part, you can connect with others that you never thought were possible.
What are other reasons why bloggers should use social media marketing?
I view social marketing as important as SEO and search engine marketing because if you only focus on SEM tactics and face a sudden drop in search engine rankings you may be faced with an abandoned website. Social media is an important traffic generator which can save your site's lifeline whenever your rankings drop.
Social media marketing is definitely essential for bloggers to build their online presence and reputation. You make good points as to why it's needed.
The big hurdle is doing it. Marketing yourself socially is hard work and it takes some extra discipline to get it all done.
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It does take work and that is where a lot of people fail. They do not realize how much it takes to get ahead.
I've been fooling with twitter since 2007 and have had a bit of success. However, with so many other avenues sprouting up it's hard to stay focused on one tool to do the job of so many different avenues.
Like doing site reviews deserves one client and word of mouth type campaigns deserve a different type of voice as well.
Social media has a great impact on us and influence us in many ways. The power of social media lies in the ability to reach out and interact with millions of people across the world. Its the best way to learn from others and promote our own interests as well.
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Nice points mentioned with description.Blogging provides strong online presense and we mainly do blogging for all things that you mentioned above. However if you want to be successful blogger, there are many things you should to know and get it, working with blogging as your life and get many experience.