Social Media Revolution
Do you Digg or Tweet or do you prefer to StumbleUpon your web content?
Key topics to include
· Attention grabbing headlines good for creating narrative greed within your audience also loved by the search engines for optimisation.
· Keep paragraphs short and punchy this helps your reader to skim through to find their preferred topics
· Use of bullet points images and subheadings also help with the skimming process
· Include interesting quotes and key points
· Keep your topics popular, something your readers will want to discuss and revisit on a regular basis. This is key to help build up a steady comment flow within your articles.
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon provides a downloadable toolbar that allows you to rate each website that you browse with the chance to leave a review if you so wish. With just a few votes from your friends you can generate a steady flow of traffic to your site through exposure to StumbleUpon.
Digg
Digg allows you to submit an article you may find of interest, yes you can promote your own work comments and votes are welcomed from other visitors to the site. This is another way to populate your blog articles with comments, feedback and followers. “If you build it they will come” but only if ‘they’ know it is there! The key with Dig is to have a large friendship base that can vote your articles into high ranking positions to ensure they receive a large amount of interest. With little or no circle of friends within the Digg community there is little chance of great exposure on this site.
Through short, sharp phrases you can send a steady stream of traffic to your work simply by regular posting on Twitter. There are arrays of applications that help to promote followers to your profile that will give a greater distribution to your article when posting your new work with the complimentary hyperlink to send readers to the specific piece
The article SEO and Social Media gives an initial breakdown of the various uses of social media when optimising your work. This topic is evolving continuously and will be revisited on a regular basis.
