Does your blog traffic decrease on the weekend? Would you like to attract more people to your blog over the weekend?
Most blogs will usually see a dip in traffic over the weekend. This is probably because there are fewer people online and at work. Here’s a discussion on Quora on blog traffic over the weekends with lots of graphs and examples. As you can see, this is a common problem. But it can be solved by attracting more visitors by taking some simple steps. Here’s how you can do it…
Content marketing has become immensely popular over the past few years. It’s not only been small businesses that have adapted and taken advantage of it, but big brands too. As with everything, some of these campaigns have failed while some have succeeded. I have listed out 10 brands that have successfully implemented content marketing and explained what they have done right that has helped them flourish…
Blogging can be a great way to spread knowledge and generate traffic to your websites. Blogging helps display your expertise and generate leads. Another advantage of running a blog is that it’s SEO friendly. Search engines normally give priority to websites which are updated on a regular basis. This could be either editing your content or adding new content. This gives blogs, which are updated on a regular basis, an opportunity to stand out in search engines and attract a lot of traffic. This traffic can be used to generate leads, increase ad revenue, etc.
It doesn’t mean that if you start a blog, you will automatically attract a lot of traffic. It doesn’t work that way. You need to make an extra effort to get good backlinks and write keyword rich content. In this post I am going to cover the key to SEO the content on your blog. I will write about backlinks in another post.
So let’s get started – Below you have 7 Ways to SEO the content on your blog.
1. Write SEO Rich content:
The content you write needs to have the right percentage of keywords. Normally a percentage of 2% to 6% is sufficient for SEO. If you go above or below it, your SEO content will not work. If you go above this percentage – search engines will label your blog as spam and abandon it and if you go below this percentage – your content will not be powerful enough. So make sure you use sufficient amount of keywords at regular intervals. For e.g. the keyword for this post is SEO the Content on your blog. I have made it a point to repeat this phrase at regular intervals.
The first thing you need to do is research the keyword using a tool like adwords. After you have performed the research, you can take a look at the most commonly typed keywords and the least competed words and optimize your content according to right keywords, you would like to compete with. [Read more...]
Facebook has over 800 million active users, Twitter has over 200 million users and Linkedin has over 100 million users. These three websites are the social media giants, with the highest number of users. A large percentage of your audience and your competitors are a part of these millions of users. It’s important that you use social media, to find out what your audience is looking for and the latest ideas, your competitors are coming up with.
Keeping updated with social media will help you market your services and products to your audience better and will help you stay ahead of your competition.
Below you will find step by step instructions, which will help you research your audience and your competition using the big three social media – Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin.
1. Facebook:-
One option is the search option. Using the search field you can find out what facebook users are communicating about.
Let’s say you want to find out some information on inbound marketing.
Just type in inbound marketing in the search field and take a look at the results… [Read more...]
Linkedin has more than a hundred million users and 80% of these users are decision makers of companies. These decision makers are looking for permanent staff, freelancers, etc. they can employ. Therefore, if you have a Linkedin profile it can increase your chances of finding a job quickly. All you need to do is update your profile regularly with your latest details and your profile will do its job of advertising you to potential employers, without you having to make an effort.
Below are 9 benefits of having a Linkedin account:-
1. Increases your exposure: Your profile, with recommendations, your CV and your work experience will be readily available on the internet. Potential employers can take a look at your experiences right away and get back to you.
2. You can look for jobs: Companies do post jobs on Linkedin too. You can search for these jobs in the search box and apply for them.
3. Meet professionals with similar interests: By joining groups you are interested in, you can meet people with similar interests and build relationships with them and help each other out.
4. Get your doubts cleared: Another advantage of groups is that there are always experts in these groups who can clear doubts. You can ask questions by starting discussions in these groups and get all your doubts cleared. You can also ask questions using Linkedin answers. [Read more...]
A facebook landing page is the basic requirement for every facebook page. There are many benefits of having a facebook page. The main benefits of having a facebook page have been listed on this post.
It might look like it’s really complicated to set up a facebook landing page, but it’s actually quite easy. It might be a little harder to create everything from scratch, but there are some readily available facebook applications which can help you set up your page quickly using iFrames. All you need is basic designing skills. These applications make it extremely simple to setup a facebook landing page after you set up your basic facebook page.
Below you will find step by step instructions which will help you set up your facebook landing page using iFrames:-
I haven’t set up the landing page for my new company Social Marketing Writing yet, so I will go with the step by step process of setting up my facebook landing page along with you. Let’s create the pages together.
1. The first thing you want to do is create an image. The image is your facebook fan page. The maximum height of a facebook fan page is 764 pixels and the width 490 pixels when you use iFrames. Using an image editor like Adobe Photoshop or something simple like Microsoft Paint create your page’s image.
A facebook page is one of the basic requirements every business that wants to generate leads from social media requires. A facebook page can be a great platform for a company to advertise themselves, as they can use it to attract the millions of facebook users and increase their fan base. They can share their content and offers with these fans and increase their sales and divert traffic to their websites and blogs. They can also use it to create brands.
Below are step by step instructions which will help you to get started with creating a basic facebook page:-
1. The first thing you need to do is login to your facebook account, if you haven’t already got an account sign up for one. After you sign in, visit an existing page that hasn’t been created by you. Below the page picture and the number of likes of the page you will have a link which says “create a page,” click on this link.
2. Choose the type of business or individual you are creating the page for and fill the category, name and the address, read the terms, agree to them and get started.
"Mitt Ray is the Founder of Social Marketing Writing. He is also the Director of imittcopy and the author of the book White Paper Marketing. He enjoys writing, cooking, football and networking. "
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