Posts tagged Social media
How to Use Digg to Promote Your Blog
Nov 24th
Social bookmarking sites are a big boom today. Twitter, Orkut, Facebook, Stumbleupon are only a few to name. But one of the most promising of all these is Digg.com and it can be used in a great way to promote your blog. Why is Digg different from others and why it carries such a HUGE potential to promote your blog?
On digg, you can submit your blog posts as articles. But you can do that on many other sites such as Ezinearticles.com. So what differentiates Digg from other similar sites?
On Digg all you have to do is submit a description of your article and not the full article as required by many articles submission sites. So the reader on Digg will have to come to your blog to read the whole post. This is a HUGE bonus for bloggers and I personally feel that it is very much justified also as all the hard work is done by the blogger and he should also get a share of the fruit.
Digg also displays your blog address just below the heading of your submission. To add to it all, you can submit any post of your blog directly to Digg by adding a “Digg It” button to your posts automatically.
By placing this button, your blog readers can also submit your posts on Digg and this will attract more visitors.
So don’t waste anymore time. Register today on Digg.com and start promoting your blog.
How to make your blog more social media friendly
Oct 27th
Regardless of the niche your blog operates in, there is no doubt that social media plays a crucial role in its success. Social media sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and more recently microblogging sites like Twitter have emerged as excellent sources of free traffic for blog owners. As a blogger, ignoring such sites is a big mistake.
Most new bloggers seem to be aware of the fact that luring social media visitors to their blog is a decent way to gain traction. However, they do little to make their blog look appealing to those visitors and hence only a fraction become loyal subscribers.
To help on your quest for blogging stardom, here are a few tips that may help increase the attach rate brought with using social media. When I say attach rate, I means it has the ability to captivate social media users and gives easy options to users allowing them to share and promote articles. Also, keep in mind that these are general tips and things may vary depending upon the particular social site you are targeting (Digg users are different than Reddit users, etc.).
Design
I’m not a designer but I understand that a friendly design, social media visitor friendly to be more specific, would allow the visitor to read the content easily without annoying ads popping up in between. The design should make navigation through the site easier and ensure the lack of clutter on the site.
A good design immediately captures the attention of a social media user or any visitor for that matter and there is a good chance that he would subscribe to or bookmark the site for future reference. Hence, if you plan to include social media in your blog’s marketing strategy, then the layout of the blog should be well planned too…
