Micro blogging is a relatively new phenomenon and in 2008 in particular, it has really taken off in a big way. You know what traditional blogging is – you write regular posts about your niche. Micro blogging is similar except that the ‘posts’ you write are tiny – usually no bigger than what you could fit into a mobile phone text message, hence the name ‘micro’.
When micro blogging first started to emerge there were many contenders but one seemed to stick out above the rest – Twitter. Over the last few years Twitter has become by far the clear leader in
the field. Although there are others with more features, such as Plurk, Twitter is the one that everybody is using and what this means is that you will get more followers on Twitter than any other
service.
The terminology is different, but micro blogging really is quite similar to regular blogging. You can go to somebody’s profile and see their updates which are equivalent to blog posts though typically people tend to update many times throughout the day as it takes mere seconds rather than hours.
There are many benefits to Twitter but I’ll discuss it here in terms of the marketing aspect of blogging:
1) Traffic
You can embed URL’s in your tweets (the Twitter version of updates) which means that you can link to your latest blog posts for example. If your followers like the sound of that they’ll click your link which is traffic for you. This traffic is of course entirely dependent on the size of your following and I find that I get a few hundred Twitter visitors a month which is not much. However, Twitter traffic is highly targeted.
2) Builds Trust & Authenticity
For me I think the biggest benefit is that Twitter makes you a little more human. You can tweet about anything and although it can be somewhat mundane to be tweeting about what you had for dinner, I’ll often tweet in a more personal way than I would post on my blog.
3) Networking
In a similar way as you follow other people, over time you feel like you are getting to know them too. Twitter allows you to send a message directly to another user.
Twitter is pretty useless if you don’t have followers but these days it’s much easier and faster to build up a Twitter following than when it was when it was first released.
One of the easiest way to get Twitter followers is to start following other people. For some reason there has always been a kind of “if you follow me, I’ll follow you back” mentality with Twitter.
Now, personally, I do not advocate following everybody who follows you because it can soon become unmanageable but you can use the tactic to grow your own following. Now what you need to do here is find people to follow who will be interested in your tweets – you don’t want to just follow a bunch of random strangers.
As you can see, Twitter can be very useful as a marketing and blogging instrument. The key is that you have to use ti correctly.
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The Value Of Comments In Your Online Activity.
Unfortunately not all webmasters know the real value of comments. Every blog site like wordpress, blogger, etc offer the comments feature where the readers may leave their opinion under every post and page you publish on your blog. Comments are the great chance for the webmaster to increase the popularity of his blog, generate more readers and as a result make money working online – if this is one of the goals of the blogger.
First thing that gets the attention of the visitors when they come to your blog is the number of comments your posts have. If there are a lot of comments, the blog looks popular and the audience will want to stay on the page more and read more. They will reasize that if other readers comment a lot on this blog, it means that it is good and provides with the useful information. Comments may create a good impression of the blog in the eyes of the new readers and they may want to bookmark it or subscribe to your RSS feeds in order to continue reading. There is nothing better for a blogger than the audience who bookmark his blog and become the constant readers of its articles.
Comments also play a great role in improving your popularity among the Search Engines. Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and others like the fresh and constantly updating information, so the comments that your audience leave refresh the content of your blog’s pages. Every few new lines that your visitors submit in your blog, dedicate to its value. Be sure that you regularly check the comments to your blog’s entries approving the good and relevant ones and delete the spam.
Also comments is the great method to be in touch with your audience. You can reply on the comments that your audience leave and make them continue the discussion of theposts and of the subject raised in the related posts of your blog. Your audience will appreciate if you take your time and discuss your post with them, thus they will feel closer to the author of the articles and will like to visit your blog more and more. On the other hand, this method will make more comments appear soon on your blog that will increase the value of your blog.
If you have a popular blog, you may want to take a chance and make income with it. There are many ways to earn extra money with your blog. You can add Google Adsense ads, join affiliate programs and place their banners and links or even offer the paid advertisement on your blog. You can find numbers of different legitimate business opportunities in the internet that will let you earn good money with your blog. If you like blogging it is great, but if you also make money with it, it is excellent.
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