How to promote your blog using Facebook

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. There are ways to increase your blog's visibility using Facebook. I found the following ways to promote my blog using Facebook.

1. Your profile is the most visited part, related to you, on Facebook. So, don't forget to add your blog url to your profile.
2. Publish your new blog post links on your wall regularly. Try to publish the links of your best posts only instead of each and every post link.
3. There are many application on facebook that can be integrated with your profile. Use some applications that can promote your blog. NetworkedBlogs, SociaRSS, Simplaris Blogcas are a few of them.
4. Join relevant groups and pages on the topic of your blog content and share your blog links there.
5. You can make your own pages about your blog and promote them. Whenever you publish a new post, it will appear in your Facebook profile. For this to work, you have to do the following after creating the page.
1. Go to the “notes” tab at the top of the page.
2. Select “Import A Blog” in the Notes Setting section.
3. Enter the url of your blog and press “Start Importing” button.
4. Facebook will import the content of the RSS feed for you to preview. If everything looks OK, then go ahead and press the “Continue” button. Your RSS feed will now be automatically imported into your “Notes” section.
5. You can link this page to your twitter account.
6. You can advertise on Facebook with a small investment.

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How to promote your blog using Twitter

Twitter is fast becoming a great social networking site as many celebreties are posting live status updates about them. People are very interested to know what their friends and favorite personalities are saying. This would be a very great place for promoting your blog. Follow the steps below to promote your blog/website using Twitter.

1. Register your account at Twitter, if you don't have an account at Twitter.
2. Post tweets(status updates) about your blog regularly. Tweet length must not exceed 140 characters.
3. Make sure you have a compelling title for your tweet.
4. The best way to tweet is to ask a question followed by your post link.
5. Syndicate your blog posts using TweetFeed.  Twitterfeed will automatically posts updates to your Twitter account.

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How to promote your blog using Orkut

Hope you enjoyed my previous post on how you can promote your blog using social networking websites. I am going to talk about using Orkut to promote your blog.

Orkut is the most popular social networking site in Asia, especially India. It has some nice applications to promote your blog. Following are the ways you can promote your blog/website using Orkut.

1. You can keep your blog links in your profile.
2. Update your status with the links to your blog posts.
3. Post your blog links to different forums and communities on orkut which are related to the content of your website.
4. Orkut has a great application called "Promote".
1. Go to the application. You can find it at the bottom left side menu on your profile.
2. It's very easy to create a promotion for your blog here.
3. Enter the tile of your blog in the 'title' field of the application.
4. Enter some descripton along with your blog link.
5. After adding different elements to your promotion, the preview box will update to reflect your changes.
6. When you are satisfied with your promotion, click create promotion.
7. If your friends like your promotion, they can promote it to their friends and so on.
8. You can track your promotes. You can see the level it got promoted, clicks, howmany users sent it to trash. Also you can stop or delete promotion from it.

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How to Promote your Blog

After successfully creating a blog, all you need to do next is to promote your blog. Why would you want to promote? The whole purpose of your blog is to make money by promoting various affiliate products or putting some advertisements or anything else that earns you money. What good would your blog do if no one visits your blog? That's why you need to promote your blog, to get more and more visitors to your blog.

So, how can you promote your blog? Well, there are numerous ways to promote one's blog/website. One of them is social networking.

If you are not sure what these social networking sites are and how they work, these online social networking sites are like online communities. These websites give internet users an easy and safe way to come together and connect with new people especially those that you have something in common with.

There are many online social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Twitter, FriendFinder, LinkedIn and Yahoo! 360 with over many a million members with a large user base of professionals, bloggers, internet marketers etc.

As everyone who uses internet are on any of these social networking sites, I hope that you are already a member of a popular social networking website. Well, you may not be. If you are not already a member, but would like to become one, you will need to choose a social networking website from the list above to join. Add your friends to your network if they are already there or invite them to join your network. Connect with other like-minded people in the community.

When it comes to promoting your blog on social networking websites, you have a number of different options. Your first option is to include a link to your blog in your community profile or profile page. This will allow other community members to checkout your blog, only if they wish to do so.  The other way is to inform your online friends of your blog through private messages. Once you join a social networking website and create or join a network of friends, you should easily be able to communicate with those friends.  Sending each of your friends a private message with information and a link to your blog tends to be more effective than just placing a link in your profile or on your profile page.

If you are using your blog to make money with advertising programs, such as affiliate programs or Google Adsense, you may need to approach social networking websites in a different matter. As you  are not focusing on  a particular product or service, you will need to approach these websites as if they were personal websites.  Let's say your blog discusses how to stay healthy, it would be a good idea to state in your profile your love and interest in being healthy. After doing so, it would be acceptable and not necessarily considered spam to add a link to your blog.  Social networking websites should help to increase the number of page views your blog receives. More page views mean more clicks which means money for you.


PS: There is one social networking website that is entirely different from the ones mentioned above. None of the above mentioned social networking sites pays you for your activities on the webiste. But SWOM does. It is a social networking website that pays you for your activites on their site. I strongly recommend SWOM as it has also a great potential for driving visitors to your blogs/website/affiliate-links. Know more about SWOM here.

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How to Make Money with SWOM

Most people spend most of their time on social networking these days. Even I do spend a lot of time on Facebook, Twitter and Orkut. These social networking sites have become so popular that more and more people are getting attracted to them. But how many social networks pay you for your activities on their sites? None of the above mentioned sites pay you. But SWOM does. SWOM stands for Super Word of Mouth.

For those of you who don't know what SWOM is, it is a social networking sites for home-businessses that gives you the tools to achieve your financial destiny. These include:

• Meet new prospects - thousands of internet marketers meet here.
• Create your own group - give exposure of your business or opportunity and meet new customers.
• Twitter link - post messages to Twitter directly from Swom - put your marketing on auto-pilot!
• Affiliate program - generous 70% payout on commissions in an advanced social networking affiliate program!

Full details here.

How can you make money with Swom?

When you join Swom, you are given a personalized referral link. You can use this to refer friends, family and colleagues to Swom and receive commissions if they subsequently upgrade. If you upgrade to SWOM GOLD membership, you can then enjoy many other benefits such as building unlimited GROUPS, getting greater exposure to other SWOM members, earning more community points that accumulate to make money for you.

Full details here.

How much can you earn?

There are 5 main ways of earning commissions:

1. $15 Instant Referral Bonuses: You will receive $15 for every new personal referral that upgrades to Gold membership, paid in the first month after they upgrade. 
2. Ongoing Residual Referral Bonuses: You continue to receive $5 every month from the second month onwards for each of your Gold referrals - every month - as long as they remain Gold! 
3. 'Gold Evangelist' Bonuses: You may connect with new or existing free members and help them upgrade to Gold membership. To qualify you must send each of them at least one personal wall post message (not email) to help them upgrade to Gold. You message must be helpful and you must take care not to spam. Your message may contain your testimonial on Swom, its benefits or just a friendly offer to help them use Swom - it must contain the word 'Gold' and must not contain any other links/URL. For every member that subsequently upgrades within 30 days of your message, you will automatically receive 10 shares in the 'Gold Evangelist' Bonus Pool!
4. Community Participation Bonuses: You can earn commissions month after month just for participating in what you love - the Swom social network! To earn shares in the Community Participation Bonus Pool, you need community points. Community points are a rough measurement of how much contribution you have made towards the Swom community. To gain community points, make new connections and interact positively with other Swom members.
5. Gaining visibility for your own opportunities: You can promote your products or affiliate products using the Biz Ops option in your profile.

Full details here.

How can you get paid?

You can request payout via Alertpay or by postal check. 

With time and dedication, you can build thousands of connections that can earn you a significant income.

  

Register today at SWOM, upgrade to GOLD membership and start earning residual income.

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