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I write lots of detailed, in-depth posts for you at The Future Buzz about social media, marketing, PR and creating buzz on the web. In the spirit of changing things up, today I thought I’d simplify and offer you some quick tips broken into bits.
65 Bite-Sized Web Marketing Tips
1) Keep sites as simple and clean as possible.
2) Be interesting with everything you put out there.
3) Keep your site up to date and fresh, give users a legitimate reason to come back.
4) Have clear RSS and email subscriptions options on every page of your blog or website.
5) Take your time, create a plan, follow it step by step (traffic isn’t going to fall out of the sky). Continue reading...
You’ll notice at the bottom of this blog (and many others) a little icon that looks something like this:
This signifies that the work is published under a creative commons license. Click the button and you’ll be taken to the license page - which explains:
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, educators and all content producers easily mark their creative works with the freedoms they want it to carry. Everyone can use Creative Commons to change their copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.” Continue reading...
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A major aim of The Future Buzz (as seen in the tag line at the top of this blog) is helping you create buzz on the web. If you’re reading this, certainly one of your goals is to become a power user of social media or high profile blogger, and/or learn how to bend the network to your advantage.
As such, it is prudent to learn what others have done/are doing successfully at the edge. Studying how social media power users (or influencers, same thing) create and share information, ideas and trends with the world and their interactions with their carefully built networks is vital to becoming one yourself. Continue reading...
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I’ve been traveling this past week - and Thursday morning as I stepped out of my hotel room for a series of meetings, I noticed a usual sight: a copy of USA Today sitting at the steps of my door.
And, my usual response was to pull it inside my room and set it aside where it remained unopened and unread. Perhaps a better idea would be to bring it downstairs and ask them kindly to save the energy and paper and not deliver my news in this arcane format.
As I have said before, the whole idea of someone bringing you news as words printed on paper with ink in the digital age is a quaint and archaic notion. It is wasteful, harmful to the environment and pretty much irrelevant.
I enjoyed my breakfast while reading RSS feeds through my iPhone - where I am receiving exactly the information I want without ads that are of no meaning to me and without articles that don’t pertain to my world or industry. There is only a fleeting amount of time daily, there is no reason to waste time reading something that was designed for a previous era. The one-size-fits-all, shotgun approach is over. Let the age of customization begin. Continue reading...
I don’t post too many blog tips here lately because there are just so many sites devoted to that subject.
Anyway I did come across a blog search engine optimization (SEO) strategy that is a nice way to help maximize long tail traffic to a blog. This may have already been written on before, and I don’t think it’s a secret. But, it is a simple way to optimize what you’re already doing for cumulative results.
This works best assuming your blog already has a bit of trust in Google and your articles are getting at least somewhere on page one.
Here’s what to do: