August 13, 2009

Problems new bloggers have with big social media sites, and how to overcome them

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Often when you are at the beginning, so many things appear new and unknown to you. The same applies to blogging, and more importantly to blog promotion. One of the most important aspects of promoting a new blog is the overwhelming presence on different social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Digg. But often these sites tend to shove aside new and inexperienced bloggers, and seem to love the well known social tycoons.

Why submitting your articles on Digg isn’t the best idea

A while ago it was very cool, you could get instant SEO exposure to you blog post because of the do-follow link Digg was providing. Now, the url opens in a frame inside the Digg website, and that is not helping new blogs. The best time to submit to Digg is when you got alternative locations for exposing your links. These include do-follow social media websites.

How can you be aware of a social media site that is not treating you right

Often when I tend to submit my newly created blog post to a social media website, I check the URL that it is providing to see if I can get some link exposure on that website. You can check it to by selecting a random submitted story on the front page, right-click it and “View selection source” (if you are using Firefox) or “View page source” (if you are IExplorer) and see if the link has a rel=”no-follow” attribute. The rel=”nofollow” attribute tells google not to crawl that link, so it`s kinda bad for you.

Social media snobs, and how you can prove them wrong

Often big users with a lot of friends, power, authority and followers are not interested in you and rather ignore a very very good story written by you. This is a problem small and new bloggers have on social media websites. My solution is to start from bottom to top. Tend to join small social sites, where you can get noticed, voted and appreciated for a good story. After your blog gains authority, readers and followers it is good to join other resources.

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