Archive for LinkedIn
Increase Your Web Traffic Using SEO
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Too much web traffic? Never!
So, you have a blog or a website. You have your product or service ready to go. Now you just need customers. So how do you find them online? Well, a good start would be to get them to your website to see what you’re offering. And a great way to increase your web traffic is by using SEO to get your website in front of potential clients or customers.
Here’s some tips on just how to do that:
- Start with good keywords. Do some research up front. You can use tools like Wordtracker or Google Adwords to see which keywords are going to result in the most traffic to your website. Then use these keywords in your website content, blog posts, articles, etc.
- Now that you have your keywords and are using them on your website, start creating content on your site. Try to add at least 2-3 new blog posts a week, and if you can commit to it, add a new post on a daily basis. By consistently creating new content, you’ll keep the spiders coming back to your site and constantly indexing your site.
- You’ve created content, so now promote that content. Every time you put up a new blog post, talk about it. Send it to your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn account. Talk about it on any other networking sites/forums/groups you belong to. Bookmark it on the bookmarking sites you belong to.
- Interact in the social networking community. Build relationships with peers, mentors, prospects. Be a resource of information. Comment on other blog posts, with meaningful comments that add to the conversation going on or to the original post.
- Finally, submit articles. Write one article a week, remembering to integrate your keywords. Submit that article to article directories.
All of the above will lead to increased web traffic to your site/blog, increased subscriptions to your newsletter or free offer, and ultimately increased sales and increased income!
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Building Credibility on LinkedIn
Posted by: | CommentsHow do you build credibility on a social media platform like LinkedIn? You have to build the “know, like, trust” Factor. This 5th post in the 10 part series discusses ways to build up this factor using the various components of LinkedIn – such as your profile, applications, groups, answering questions. So go ahead and take a look at some ideas on how to build up trust on LinkedIn.
Part 5 of the LinkedIn Series on the Social Media Sonar Blog.
Using LinkedIn to Enhance Your Networking Efforts
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s here. Post 3 of the 10 part series on LinkedIn. This post is filled with some great information about merging your online networking efforts with your in-person networking. For example, you go to a local networking event, but you don’t have a chance to personally talk to everyone. Well, take it to your online profile. Touch base with those people you didn’t get to talk to through LinkedIn or Facebook. Let them know you were at the same event, but you didn’t get a chance to talk. Now all of those missed opportunities can turn into another chance to make a good connection.
Here’s the entire post for you to look at. Part 3 – LinkedIn Series
Read it, and then come back and let me know what you think. Have you thought about using LinkedIn like this? Do you currently use it this way? If so, how has it worked for you?
And as always, have a great day!
Part 2 of Social Networking Series
Posted by: | CommentsAs promised, here is the link to part 2 of the LinkedIn blog series “Can LinkedIn Work For You?” This second post in the series talks about defining your reason for being on LinkedIn. I think this is an absolute priority when using any form of social media, because if you don’t know where you’re headed, how on earth will you know when you’ve gotten there? Basically, this post says that your #1 reason for business should be to make money. Again, I am in total agreement, because with the limited amount of time businesspeople (and mompreneurs in particular) have available to them, you have to get clear on your purpose, focus in on it, and get it done as efficiently and effectively as possible. So get honed in very quickly on that purpose and then figure out the fastest and best way to head towards that purpose.
This latest post in the 10 part series is very good in explaining how to come to terms with what your purpose of using LinkedIn is, and then how to go about starting to accomplish that goal you’ve defined.
So enjoy the reading, and I’ll keep you posted on when part 3 of the series is posted.
Have a great day!
