Twitter: I Twink I Twove You
Today Chris Winfield published a great article on SearchEngineLand about Twitter. I was amazed to see that he was able to actually use Twitter to write an article about Twitter.
“Basically the best way to show the true power of something is to let it demonstrate it for you. That’s what I wanted to do with Twitter.” - Chris Winfield
I am always open to trying out new social communities and tools. Even though I tend to spend more time using the ones that help me business wise, I will give them all a try at least once.
Facebook was cool, but I never logged, in unless I got an email saying someone wanted to add me as a friend. MySpace was something that looked interesting, but got boring about the time I finished putting in a cool css layout.
As for real time social communities and tools, I had already jumped on Pownce, because I knew social media users had accounts. Pownce seemed more likely to have a return on my time spent using it. Twitter, on the other hand, showed no potential value to me.
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Social Link Building 3.0b SP2
Recently, I wrote an article about creating higher quality content for social media to help increase your chance of success.
I have always stated that I believe social media is by far the quickest and most effective way to link build and promote your content online today. No other place can provide you the exposure you need to get natural and authoritative links, like social media can. However, if you do not have quality content then you are not likely to get the quality links you desire, even if you do get to the front page of a top social community.
Quality content is very important, but it is also not the only factor to consider when preparing and pushing your social media campaign. You need to consider which category your submitting to, what time of day it is, and which day of the week you submit.
For instance, you almost never want to submit or push a social media campaign on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or holidays. The people who are likely to link to you or help your submission get promoted, are less likely to be online during these times. You want to submit during a time period that most people are likely to be at work.
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Social Media Profiling
Social media profiles are one of the top things other community users will evaluate you on. On sites like Digg, other users can tell a lot about you, and your intentions, just by what they see in your profile.
How To Create Compelling Social Media Profiles gives a quick overview of what you should consider when building your profile and participating in social media communities.
If you are going to participate in social media then you have to take your profile seriously. Other users will, and they can make their decision to friend you, or avoid you, based on your profile.
Social Media Voting With VOTRS.com
With so many popular social media communities, tools, and platforms out there, it is a nightmare to try to push anything across the board in social media.
No one wants to be that person who sends messages to their friends or colleagues asking them to Delicious, Sphinn, Mixx, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and possibly even hit Propeller for their recent content. Needless to say, that would make for a short lived friendship and possibly an ass kicking at your next meet up.
Luckily, Dan Zarrella has created a great social media tool at VOTRS.com that allows you make a short url with all the top social communities included, that you can send to a friend or colleague and influence the actions you desire.
Head over to http://votrs.com and follow the simple instructions, while selecting the social communities you want to include.
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About Brent Csutoras
Brent Csutoras is an Internet Marketing Consultant who specializes in Social Media, Viral and Search Engine Marketing.
Brent is a regular speaker at top search marketing conferences such as SMX and Pubcon. He has also made numerous guest appearances discussing the arts of Social Media and Search Engine Marking on highly popular internet marketing radio shows such as Good Karma, Rush Hour, and Webmaster on the Roof.
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