The world of Digg can be harsh to business owners and marketers just wanting to share their content or news with the world at large. What most fail to understand is that even though everyone knows about Digg, Digg is a world of it’s own. A world where not everyone, nor every story is appreciated. In fact Digg may not suit your business model or your marketing strategy, so I’ve put together a list of insights and tips on using Digg to help you decide – before you waste your time there.
- Spend some time exploring the Digg site before committing to a user account. Be sure you understand how Digg works.
- Pay attention to user comments, and be prepared to respond as well as become an active part of the conversation.
- Get a feel for how and why certain stories become popular. This will give you a better understanding of Digg, and also give you insight into how to make your stories and postings more popular.
- Once you sign up for an account, plan to participate daily. A sometimes-on, sometimes-off attitude will make you appear uncommitted to fellow Diggers.
- Try to accumulate as many friends as you can. Much like Twitter, you want as large of a network as possible. This way, you affect more people with your message and gain more feedback into what the Digg world wants.
- Start a buddy list. This list is designed to give you a one on one ability within Digg. It allows IM use, but try to not use this feature too much or you’ll turn people off. Read more…
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The question of “Why should a business spend resources on Web 2.0 marketing?”, has been a frequent topic of conversation between my clients and I this past year. Allow me to address and impress the importance of the matter here.
As for my clients – they are primarily real-world shop owners, small service businesses, authors and the like. You know the type, normal people with ‘real’ businesses, not internet marketers that spend their working hours connected to the world wide web. Read more…
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The time has come to share my findings, strategies, and information once again on website traffic creation using social networking websites.
I actually have quite a few topics to cover, 20+ top ranking websites, and I’ve kept quiet long enough. Read more…
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If you are already using HubPages to make sales (affiliate or your own products), pre-sell traffic to offers or increase your incoming links, this often missed technique is a two minute trick you need to know.
One marketer in my circle has said that she has used this to make fast money with affiliate products, but I couldn’t promise you the same. Finding that fast opportunity may be hit or miss, but profiting in the long term doesn’t need to be, if you do this right. This technique, at any rate, is more effective for the long term.
I’m not about to teach you how to create Hub Pages or Squidoo Lens’ – just one facet of the process that will take your pages on either site and get you more bang for your buck (whether that’s earning money, clicks, search engine positioning, or all three).
I started playing around with this and after creating a quick Squidoo lens for a new niche, I found that within just a few days I was receiving traffic to a test page from that lens as well as earning money through a low level affiliate payout program.
I set out on a mission to discover how and why it worked so fast that very day… Read more…
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