Ways to increase Traffic and PR to your blog articles

[Joshua Sloan]

You may set up your blog to automatically send your latest posts to twitter stream.

How do you do this?

[wpreality]

If you are using WordPRess for you blogging platform there are a range of plugins that will do the job. Twitter Tools is one of them.

If you are not using wordpress and have a RSS feed you may use a service such as twitterfeed.com to automatically feed your RSS to twitter and Facebook.

[Smuck]

How do you do this?

I would urge caution with this. Social networking is not social business networking. When you go to your kid's (or whatever) baseball game, are you handing out business cards?

[wpreality]

@smuck, I think that we all need to wake up and smell the coffee, huge brands such as Chevrolet, Today Show, General Motors, Honda, Southwest Airlines, Ford, Marvel , Samsung, Kodak and a bucket load of others are all using twitter for social marketing. The word "social" is no longer "what you are eating and where you are going" , it has become far more advanced supporting the big boys in the biggest industries, allowing people to connect and converse.

And Yes, You might not hand out your cards at a ball game, but I am sure that you will make sure that all your peers over there know what you do for a living one way or another.

[Smuck]

@wpreality,

True for the big boys, but for local search if you start posting your business stuff, you'll get blocked.

There are other ways to leverage social networking for business purposes. There are plenty of webinars out there on the topic of leveraging social media for business.

[wpreality]

I don't see any difference between the big boys and you and me,, if you have some value to your content and people follow you, there is a reason (other than those that follow just so that you follow back).Twitter is a new medium, like email, just without spam (almost). I do not see anything wrong with having a non personal twitter account, even sending every property that you are handling to your twitter stream automatically... and btw nor does twitter see anything wrong with this.

[Smuck]

Here an agent that is using social media effectively: http://www.denverpost.com/technology/ci_13631897

[Jeremy Pritchard]

I found a very useful site to increase traffic to your website. Maybe you'd like to try this.

75 Ways to Increase Your Site’s Traffic

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