If you have done any type of marketing on the Internet you understand the importance of getting traffic back to your website or blog. This can be more difficult to do than it sounds. However, if you have a blog you should be social bookmarking all of your blog posts, and we are going to talk about the easiest way to do that in this article.
When you social bookmark a blog post you are creating a back link back to your blog. In the past getting back links to your site could have been done in various ways including reciprocal linking, classified ads, article directories, ezine advertising, discussion forums, and so on.
Your goal was, and is, to get your website URL in his many different places as possible. The more back links you had the more opportunities there were for people to find you.
Now when you blog, you can social bookmark your blog article much like you were submitting an article to an article directory, except it is easier to do.
The easiest way I know to do that is to join as many social directories as you possibly can. One place you can quickly do that is on a website, at Onlywire.
There you will find over 20 directories that you can join in one location. Then you can go to your only wire account and submit your newest blog article with one click.
They then take the information that you give them and turn around and bookmark it to all of the directories for you. The great thing about the service is they do not charge anything for it.
The hardest part is joining the 20 directories, initially, and that does not take that long to do. From here on out you are now going to be getting back links to your blog URL in over 20 directories every time you submit your newest blog post to your Only Wire account.
These back links serve two purposes. First of all there is potential traffic from the social directory back to your blog.
Secondly, they serve as search engine bait for the search engines to find the newest blog post to. If a search engine likes what you are writing they can rank you high, which gives you additional traffic from them as well.
Social bookmarking your blog articles to as many directories as possible is a smart thing to do. Certainly one of the easiest ways to bookmark a blog article is Onlywire.
Entrepreneurs often invest a large amount of time and energy preparing for social networking events, and working the room during the event itself, pressing the flesh and passing out business cards like there is no tomorrow.
Then there is the time at the actual event, making the lasting impression, joining in on conversations and listening to others. A common theme, according to business experts, is for businesses to fail to follow up on the initial contact at the event. This causes potential relationship rates to plummet meaning all the time previously invested has been wasted.
However, there are a number of business experts out there who provide expert business advice on how to follow up well. One expert, Andy Lopata, suggests following up using the 24-7-30 rule. The rule requires contact 24 hours after initial introduction, further contact after 7 days and then again at 30 days. Lopata, along with other business experts, expresses the importance of using a variety of ways to touch base with your contacts. Using a different form each time (email, telephone, in person) means the contact avoids appearing, and becoming, automated. Another business expert, Keith Ferrazzi, emphasises the importance of following up by referring to it as the ?hammer and nails? in your networking tool kit.
Features Editor of yourBusinessChannel, Mark Sinclair, explains how he employs some of these tactics: ?I think it is fundamental for businesses to ensure there is ongoing connection with contacts. This builds steady relationships and guarantees time spent earlier in the relationship was not valueless. This is something business experts often discuss on business TV shows on our business television network, yourBusinessChannel?.
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