Social media drives traffic to your blog. Period. But there’s better ways and not-so-better ways to do it. In this (late) audio post, I go over in some detail exactly how to use StumbleUpon and Twitter to drive traffic to your blog. I know that sounds a bit mercenary, but when you hear the details… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Social Media
Introducing the Remarkablogger Twitter FollowUp 1 – Get More Followers on Twitter!
UPDATE: comments are now closed. Thanks again everyone for participating! This was amazingly successful and I’ll be doing it again! Subscribe to the blog in the meantime. I’m doing it AGAIN. Oh… did you think I was done helping you increase blog traffic? No, my friends! For you see, now it is time to take… Continue Reading
How to Ask for Diggs and Actually Get Them
An online acquaintance of mine sent me a personal email, courteously asking if I would mind digging his post. Here was my reply to him: I don’t mind at all. Dugg. You know, I received all manner of automated shouts and whatnot today and I ignored every one of them. I dugg yours because you… Continue Reading
Why the Bleeding Edge of Social Media is Important for Tech Bloggers
Do you blog about technology? Feel like a drop in the ocean? I don’t blame you, it’s a pretty crowded field. One way to stand out is to live at the bleeding edge of social media. Sure, having a huge profile on Digg is great, but participating in the latest social media fad might be… Continue Reading
How Social Media Helps Grow Your Blog
Social media helps grow your blog in several important ways. With all the social media hoopla (and in some cases, backlash), I wanted to write a clear explanation for you about the relationship between social media and blogging. If you’ve just recently discovered blogging, and are still puzzled by social media, this post is for… Continue Reading
How to Use Twhirl, a Twitter Desktop Program
Note: You may want to watch this at full screen. Click on the 4 arrows in the player’s upper right corner. Twhirl is a rockin’ desktop program for Twitter, the part micro-blog/part chat web service started by the guys who created Blogger. Twitter is taking the blogosphere by storm, but using it over the web… Continue Reading
Video Tutorial: Basics of How to Use Twitter
You’ll want to watch this one full-screen — click the arrows at the upper right of the video. I’ve had some interesting conversations with clients and others who are having a difficult time really understanding how to use Twitter–even some basic things like what is all the stuff on the screen. I realized there’s some… Continue Reading
What Picture Do Your Social Media Activities Paint about You?
Sorry Sorry, but I didn’t Stumble your post, even though you asked nicely and you’re my friend. Why didn’t I? After all, it was a great post about overcoming addiction. Sorry, but I didn’t Digg your post, even though normally I would do so. But I didn’t touch your Digg submission, which was a news… Continue Reading
Eight Mistakes Bloggers Make While Using Twitter
This is a guest post by AJ Vaynerchuk. Go visit his blog when you’re done reading it and show the man some love! Twitter can be a great tool for keeping up with friends, hearing the latest news, and self-promotion. There are a ton of “big-name” bloggers using twitter, but not all of them are… Continue Reading
Twitter is Like Sex
Twitter is like sex. You can read all the stuff (or look at it) about sex all you want, but if you’ve never had it, you simply have no idea what it’s like. And once you’ve had sex, you know you could never hope to really explain it to someone else. You will sound like… Continue Reading
Is Blogging Another Form of Social Media?
Note: somehow the wrong video wound up on Viddler compared to YouTube when I first posted this. This is now the correct video. I think blogging is a form of social media. When The Cluetrain Manifesto first came out, one of its most important and enduring tenets was: markets are conversations. We use that phrase… Continue Reading
What Twitter Does for Me
Twitter must be reaching some kind of critical mass–or at least it seems that way to me. Perhaps that’s because I’ve jumped in with both feet. But I get the impression that a lot of bloggers are blogging about Twitter, lately. Some of them love it, and can’t live without it, and some folks aren’t… Continue Reading
Zuggu: Social Voting Site for Pro Bloggers and Online Money Makers
Zuggu.com is a new social story submission and voting site based on the Pligg platform. It’s for pro bloggers and online money makers. I interviewed Zuggu’s creator, Ariel, about Zuggu.com and its future.… Continue Reading
Recent Guest Blogging Links
I’ve been guest-blogging! Here’s a list of recent guest posts from blogs around the web.… Continue Reading
Where to Spend Time Online to Build Highly Qualified Traffic
Where should you spend your valuable time online in order to attract new, highly qualified visitors to your blog? Three main places: authority blogs, second degree blogs, and forums. What is highly qualified traffic? What are second degree blogs? Read to find out how to increase blog traffic.… Continue Reading
4th Key: Social Engagement – 7 Keys to Better Blogging in 7 Days
The fourth key to better blogging is social engagement. Active social engagement is the difference between a blogger talking to herself in her own echo chamber with few visitors and commentors, and a blogger participating in lively discussions with many visitors and a gratifying number of comments on each post. My own efforts at social… Continue Reading
Comment and Trackback Policy -
DoFollow Now Active
Better blogging with Michael Martine’s Comment and Trackback policy.… Continue Reading
My Face on Technorati – A Pleasant Surprise
I’m catching up on Yaro Starak’s Entrepreneur’s Journey podcast this Saturday morning, sipping my coffee, hanging out in my bathrobe (not that you really needed to know that), and just generally doing some weekend chilling. I’m looking at my Bloglines feeds (Bloglines does a great job with podcasts, embedding little flash audio players in the… Continue Reading
Why Business Blogging?
A response to a comment on another blog about the changing face of business vis a vis technology, specifically, how blogs are changing marketing and advertising.… Continue Reading