A lot of times, I am sure most bloggers would love to connect more with their readers. They offer email subscriptions to their RSS feed or newsletters. Or they have plugins on their WordPress blogs like the Thank me Later plugin which allows you to send an automatic email at a later time to invite
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Web Elite Snobbery: Why It May Hurt You in Social Media
The “web elite snobbery” is really a loose term. When I mean web elite, I mean the following: 1. Those who have high standards when viewing websites and eagerly badmouth those who do not meet them 2. Those who have no idea that the Internet exists beyond their circle and this limits their topics 3.
[Continue Reading...]Social Bookmarking – How It May Help Your Site In Obtaining Traffic
Social bookmarking has been a great tool for webmasters and bloggers to push their content to the masses. There are sites that obviously weigh in on their power to help attract traffic while others are struggling. Social network sites in a way have contributed to social bookmarking in a way as live streams like Twitter
[Continue Reading...]Paid To Tweet: The Good, The Bad, And The Iffy
Paid to tweet or sponsored tweets have been something that has popped up majorly in the past year, especially since Twitter has really exploded onto the mainstream. Basically paid to tweet is as it says. Usually you will get the final say on what goes through your own social network stream and all these sites
[Continue Reading...]Social Media: Coping With Negative Responses
Recently Best Buy had one heck of a run in with a negative crowd in their Best Buy Facebook community after posting the following question: What do you think about offering Bestbuy.com in Spanish? Maggie McGary writes the article Best Buy Asks The Wrong Question On Facebook on Social Media Today and asks basically why
[Continue Reading...]Crossposting: Pros, Cons, and Etiquette
Crossposting has sometimes been dubbed as duplicate content, however, if that was so, then even social bookmarking would probably be put in the same boat sometimes. To get a better understanding, I have included a definition of crossposting: As defined by Wikipedia: Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple forums, mailing
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