Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

In this Facebook tutorial (which includes a video to help you), I want to share with you an aspect of fan pages that is often overlooked, but that can increase the exposure of your fan page if you do it correctly.

I’m talking about the facebook fan page url, also known as the facebook vanity url. This is the address of your fan page and the way in which people can find you on Facebook. Many people are unaware that you can optimise this in order to rank higher in the search engines using your page. Optimising the url also means that you can be found more easily and spread the word about your page more easily.

1. In order to set your fan page URL, you first need to log in to Facebook (like, duh?!)
2. Then, you need to type the following address into the the address bar of your browser: http://www.facebook.com/username. This will take you to the page that allows you to change your username on Facebook.
3. Once you’re there, select the page you want to change from the drop-down menu.
4. In the box on the right, type in the words that you want to appear after the facebook.com/ part of the address.
5. Once you’ve typed the words you want, click on ‘Check Availability’ and Facebook will see if that address is available. If it is, you can choose to permanently change the name of your page to your new URL.
6. Job done!

There are a few things to consider when it comes to changing the address of your fan page.

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Social bookmarking is one of those buzz phrases you may have heard around the internet, but what is social bookmarking?

Put simply, social bookmarking is simply a more public version of the bookmarking you do on your own browser. When you want to remember a page or site on the internet, you usually go to the ‘Bookmarks’ menu in your browser and click ‘Bookmark this page’, right?

Well, with social bookmarking, you simply allow other people on social bookmarking sites like Delicious and Digg to see what you’ve bookmarked and visit that site themselves. Social bookmarking sites provide you with a platform on which you can keep track of your bookmarks while sharing them with other people.

The larger and more established social bookmarking sites are very well regarded by the search engines so when you bookmark something, that bookmark becomes like a vote for that site which Google and the other search engines see and consequently they will often rank sites higher that have lots of social bookmarks.

For a full list of the social bookmarking sites I use plus those that I recommend, check out my List of Social Bookmarking Sites post.

The benefits of bookmarking in this way are fairly obvious, but I’ll break down why I think they’re such a good part of online business and blogging. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you looking for a list of social bookmarking sites, I’ve put together the following so you can see and use the full potential of social bookmarks.

The list isn’t an exhaustive list but it is split into the ones I use regularly and the others I know of as being reputable. There are 24 social bookmarking sites altogether in the list. I’ve seen other lists go into the hundreds but to be honest, if you get to the front page of even one of the sites below, you’ll see a rise in traffic. Also, many of those larger lists are outdated as many smaller services have closed down or been bought out.

Remember, there’s also social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to consider too, which although not strictly social bookmarking sites, they can serve the same purpose and drive significant traffic to your sites via social interaction.

OK, here goes:

The Social Bookmarking Sites I Use

If you reach the front page on the following 6 sites (with the possible exception of TweetMeme) you’re likely to see a large spike in traffic to your site.

• Delicious – Probably the best known social bookmarking site on the internet.
• StumbleUpon – A site where you can stumble upon stories by clicking the stumble button which will bring up random sites within your area of interest. Fun and full of authority with the search engines. Also has its own link shortener which shortens links and shares them on SU at the same time giving you more leverage. The shortener is called SU.pr.
• Digg -  A massive authority when it comes to bookmarking.
• Reddit – A bookmarking site with the emphasis on news stories, this one is a monster. News before it happens.
• Diigo
• TweetMeme

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As you’ll know if you follow my blog page on Facebook, I’ve grown that page to over 3100 mostly targeted fans in order to bring me some traffic each month. I’ve actually been working on Facebook for some time but only recently have I started to ramp up the way I use it to generate leads and income, largely inspired by people like Phil Henderson.

However, I’ve now started to branch out and grow several other pages in a number of different markets in order to expand the amount of income streams I have. Using methods I’ve learned both recently and over the time it took to grow this blog, I am growing the number of fans consistently and steadily. So, if you’re looking for how to get more fans on Facebook, then you’re in the right place.

Here I’m going to show you my top 7 ways to get more fans to your Facebook page, no matter what market or niche your page is in. I’ll break down each one so you can start applying them today.

One word of caution before we get started: Choose one or two of these methods and get good at them before you start on the others, otherwise you may find them overwhelming and hard to keep track of. If these methods are new to you, take your time to understand and apply them individually before combining those that work best for you.

So, with that said, on with the show!

Method One – Make Your Fan Page Title Irresistible… Then Optimise It

One of the first keys to getting lots of fans is to come up with a title that will excite people or that they will agree with without thinking about it. When it comes to marketing online, this means that you need to find a title that has the following attributes:

• It’s engaging and perhaps even a little outrageous or opinionated
• It’s keyword rich (meaning that it contains your main keywords for that niche)
• It’s specific to your market and the people you want to connect with
• It’s funny or at least amusing (humour gets ‘likes’ like you wouldn’t believe)

I’ve added the part about humour last because it’s not essential, but it does help add an extra element of attraction to your page as people enjoy humour and will like to share that humour with the other fans as well as their friends.

In order to find a page title that checks the first three features listed above, you need to do your research.

1. First of all, choose a market and then look within that market for a niche or even micro-niche. As an example, you could start with the lifestyle market, then look into relationships then drill down to the people looking to date a specific type of person (uniform dating, religious dating, sugar daddy dating, that kind of thing).
2. Research that niche using tools like the Google Keyword Tool or Market Samurai. You’re looking for ‘Exact Match’ keywords that get at least 500 searches per month on Google.
3. Choose a relatively ‘long-tail’ keyphrase (more than 4 words long) as there will be less competition for this when it comes to optimising your page (more on this later).
4. Look at other already successful pages that exist within your niche and see what their titles are. Don’t copy them word-for-word but see if you can use the basic idea and make it better, more engaging or funnier.
5. Take your chosen keyphrase and integrate it into your title, giving it an engaging twist. For example, if we continue with the dating example, the keyphrase might be ‘best place to find hot dates’ so the page could be called ‘Hotties of the World – The Best Place To Find Hot Dates On Facebook’ (you’ll be surprised what people will like).

Remember that there are currently over 500 million people on Facebook, so you’re bound to find something that appeals to a group of say, 25,000 (remember, this is a tiny fraction of the total people using the great book of Face).

The next step is to set up the page with your catchy title. If you’re still lost for a catchy title, check out the magazines or products that cater to your niche and use their catchy headlines or sub-headlines as the title for your page, ensuring that you integrate your keywords with them.

Now the goal is to get your page up to 25 fans as quickly as possible. Once you get to 25 fans, you can choose your own page address, meaning you can get facebook.com/YourKeyphrase. For example, I recently (3 days ago) set up a page for a new comedy show on the UK channel, Channel 4. My keyphrase was the show’s title and the name of the network so I got www.facebook.com/CampusChannel4.

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When it comes to finding out how to make money with Twitter, there are a wealth of people out there purporting to be experts.

Some will tell you that in order to make some Twitter cash, you need to set up tons of accounts and then create automatic tweets in order to reach as many as possible. Others will tell you that you need to build a relationship with some core followers and grow from there.

The problem is that most of the information is either

• conflicting
• or created by people that aren’t really making much money from Twitter at all.

I was recently looking for a definitive guide to making money and building a monetised following from Twitter from people who not only know how, but are actually doing it.

True to form, I found a few products and checked them out. Most weren’t great, and some were just downright spammy.

One that I found that I really like (Twitter Cash Blueprint) was created by a young guy who’s just 15 years old. I actually met him at one of Mark Anastasi’s events in London and was impressed by how bright, intelligent and go-getting he was.

I wanted to show you exactly what Maksud has to offer so I’ve created a video review that takes you through the product, and shows you the entire thing. I’ve spent my money and time on this in order that you can see if it’s right for you. I’ve applied some of the strategies and listened to some of the interviews numerous times, and they work. They’re informative and actually contain great information about the business of internet marketing as well as Twitter marketing.

Enjoy the video. If you want to go straight to get Maksud’s product, click here.

http://www.adventuresininternetmarketing.net/upstart

It’s been a little while since my last post on here. I’ve been working on a very exciting little project which I’m going to announce on here tomorrow, but in the meantime, I wanted to share some blogs with you that I believe will help you as they’ve helped me.

The first is the blog of a great marketing thinker of our time: Seth Godin. You may have already heard his name and if you’re a fan of my blog on Facebook, then you’ll know that I recently posted a video of him speaking about blogging. Well, Seth has written a very short, simple post that sums up what you need to do to get big results. Don’t be fooled by the fact it’s short. It looks simple because it is and Seth is a master at stripping away the nonsense and going with what works. Simply click the link to read Seth’s post entitled: ‘Make Big Plans‘

One of my role models for this blog since I started it just over a year ago is a blogger called Yaro Starak. Yaro has been internet marketing for several years and has created incomes using forums, blogs and joint ventures among other things. He also has a podcast and video series that has inspired my own video channel on YouTube and podcast on iTunes. One particular post series has been very inspiring to me and I wanted to share it with you. It’s called ‘A Day In The Life Of An Internet Entrepreneur‘ and this version is the updated 2009 edition. You can also read his original 2005 version via the same link. Yaro is a great blogger and writes in a very informative style, holding nothing back. Check it out.

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