SeoMktSearch Engine Optimization Marketing

There’s many ways to market and promote our selves in this ever growing social networking society. The methods for marketing and promoting our blogs has grown vastly and continues to grow daily at an even bigger rate. I think the main concern is telling the difference between good and the bad. As an example how good is 10,000 hits if you get zero comments on your blog? I would much rather prefer that one hit which turned out to be an awesome comment. Also that one hit wont waste my bandwidth and decrease my cost per click on ads.

I don’t really use digg, stumble upon or any of the major networking websites personally but I will digg or stumble upon a friend’s article when asked to. I try to focus on other marketing and promotion activities such as Search Engine Optimization and Link Exchanges. I’m also a very big fan of forum marketing as you probably know from reading al my posts. It wasn’t too long ago when I wrote an awesome article regarding the Top Webmaster forums on the net and if you have a sec and are a blogger please have a read.

Even if I wanted to keep up with all the available marketing and promotional websites these days I couldn’t and if I did I wouldn’t have time to even blog. Without blogging we have nothing to promote correct? So at the end of the day you must sit back and observe the result from your marketing efforts and determine what communities you’re going to continue using. Sure I use blogengage but I’m bias seeing I’m the owner of the site but blogengage might not be the right median for your marketing and promotional needs.

Maybe your blog is about money and you need tons of hits for a little bit id clicks. If this was the case I would suggest larger websites like the ones mentioned earlier. Sites like dig and stumble upon will most likely get your ads clicked and maybe even make you a few bucks.

Overall I use many methods of promotion and so should you! Don’t stop looking for that new idea or new way to get the word out about your blog! Continue marketing and promoting and create the brand name you deserve.

Recommend Social Networking Websites

http://www.blogengage.com
http://www.entrecard.com
http://www.digg.com
http://www.blogcatalog.com
http://www.mybloglog.com

Enjoy and don’t forget to join our groups!

If you live pretty much anywhere in North America you will notice like the majority of companies your sales are down. The automotive industry, the retail industry and more, it doesn’t matter where you turn it’s literally a global affect sales are down.

It wasn’t even a year ago the housing industry was in a boom and money was good! People had food on their tables and gas in their cars. Today the market has taken a dive for the worse. The large caps in North America all a sudden don’t seem so large and many families are applying for bankruptcy as we speak.

Diversification is very important to remember if you’re a business owner. Some would say the meaning of diversification is not putting all your eggs in one basket and as simple as this definition is its 100% correct.

How do I ensure I have diversification in my company’s products and services?

To ensure your company will manage and survive during the storm you have to set aside your target market and see if you have additional resources you can use to generate extra income. So if you’re in the apparel industry maybe you can also look at selling more items in that specific market. So let’s say currently you only carry a line of t-shirts and pants. This leaves potential opportunity from selling other items such as socks, hats, briefs, underwear and more. You could even go as far as to start selling shoes and accessories.

If your manufacturing options are limited you can simply become a wholesaler and start reselling other companies products. You can do this b2c or b2b either way it opens up more potential market share in these desperate times.

Expanding your available product lines can help increase your overall profits and in the long run it might be just enough to keep the company a float!

Best of luck marketers!

I know I don’t blog too much here at SEO Marketing but I really am a pretty busy guy. I work full time in Sales and marketing which doesn’t leave me too much personal time. I’m currently in a long term relationship which I also have to dedicate time to. In my free time when I have the opportunity to blog I also have other online obligation to tend to such as Blog Engage

This is a big time consumer for me because I have to moderate not only the main Social Networking Website but I have to moderate the blog forums as well. I’m not too sure if anyone has put 2 and 2 together but yes I’m the owner of blog engage and I love it!

Social Networking is a brilliant marketing tool and if done right you can use these tools to promote not only your blog site but specific topics you post. The ideal is pretty basic behind Social networking websites. You take an article you wrote and submit it to a specific category and from there members of that specific site vote for you. This in return creates a new back link and has the potential to generate extra traffic and intellectual conversation to your blog. If you use Social Networking websites often you will know as well as I do it’s a great promotional and marketing tool. I would also suggest using the large Social Networking Websites such as Digg, Stumble Upon, and Reddit.

Seeing traffic generation is always the hardest thing to do when building your blog you should 100 percent use these services. The overall goal here is to increase your exposure, promotion and brand awareness, yes even your have a brand.

Taking the time to increase your exposure with Social Networking Websites means more then simply submitting your blog article. You must add friends, Engage or Digg their articles. Trust me they will notice this and the majority of the time they will also Engage or Digg your articles. In its own little way this is an example of how you build relationship, create brand awareness and generate more traffic.

The drawback of using Social Networking Websites is you may find yourself at the Networking website more than your very own blog. Unless you own the Social Networking website this should happen. Be sure to maximize your time spent on these websites and don’t waste your4 time sitting around waiting for something to happen!

Social Networking Websites are great if you intend to Engage with other bloggers. You simply select the category your blog is in and start commenting on other blogger’s article that you find interesting. This will help you build relationships with other bloggers and in return generate more potential traffic. You can read more regarding commenting as a form of traffic in this article here, Simple way to generate simple traffic.

Best of luck to you all and don’t forget to leave a comment if you found this topic or article interesting.

Today I will share with you some of the Top Webmaster Forums on the net! I’m not adding any crap in this post so if it’s not here, it’s nowhere! Also I could have simply never discovered it yet as well! I’m at many forums on the net and most of them I’m sitting anywhere from 500 - 1000 posts! This is massive activity promoting all my blogs and websites! This list isn’t made in any specific order so don’t think the first added is the best because it all depends on what you’re marketing and promoting!

Top Webmaster Forums List

#1. Digital Point Forums - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/

#2. iguides - http://iguides.org/forums/

#3. Web Talk Forums - http://www.webtalkforums.com/

#4. Name Pros - http://www.namepros.com/

#5. The Admin Zone Forums - http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/

#6 UK Webmaster Forums - http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com/

Thanks and enjoy

I have some good advice I would like to share on how to develop website traffic and new users! I have a few ways and I’ll try and share them all. First you will need to ensure your forums are in perfect working order as you don’t want this new traffic to see a non working forum. Make sure you have the forums set up correctly and also in a non confusing way. Here are some ways to generate and develop new members/users.

#1- Start using Stumble Upon. This site can develop very good traffic for your website but ensure it good content as they will ban you for stumbling your forum names and not topics.

#2- Start Submitting your Forums to Link Directories. Ensure you provide enough information when submitting that you gain the interest of the reader and also ensure you add it to the correct category. Very Important!

#3- Sign up at large forums and immediately (if you can) set your forums signature with a unique tag line linking to your forums.

#4- Try and add quality posts when at other forums. I know this is hard sometimes and doesn’t have to be done all the time. Usually the more specific your answer is the better chance you have of someone actually clicking your signature links.

$5- Purchase forum signature when allowed. Many forums allow their users to sell their forums signature this can also help you develop traffic especially if they are a heavy poster.

#6- Pay for Bloggers to Blog about your site and a “web site Review” These usually cost money but are worth the 10 dollars. (Average price)

#7- Purchase Blog Roll links from Blogger when you can. This is a great form of traffic and you can really focus on your specific target market! I mean if your forums are about Sports look for a Blog site that’s about sports.

I hope this helps your forums develop and build traffic to your site. If you have any more question please feel free to ask away I’m pretty good a marketing websites!

I wanted to add some great Google search terms if you going to look for forums and blogs links to buy. just Google these simple terms

-Links Exchange

-Blog Roll links

-Free link submission

-Buy Trade or Sell Forums

-Advertising Forums

-Link Dirrectories

As you can see searching terms like these will get you access to forums that in the end will result in increase traffic and new members!

Cheers, seomkt