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14 Ways To Promote Your Company Or Brands Online – Conclusion
Jun 21st
Top Web Promotion Methods #8 – #14:
8. Bookmarking/Tagging
Social bookmarking has become a popular method to share, organize, search and manage bookmarks of web resources. Some of the most popular social bookmarking websites: Delicious, Digg, Diigo, Fark, Mixx, MyBlogLog, Newsvine, Propeller, Reddit, Slashdot.org, StumbleUpon, Yahoo!, and Buzz.
9. Discussion Forums and Boards
Participating in online forums can be a great way to market your products and services, and interact with your audience and other professionals. Engaging your audience in a niche forum can bring high value to your website and brand, too.
10. Content Aggregation
Content aggregation offers you the chance to bring all news and feeds around your online community accounts in one place. Some would argue this is the future of social media. Emerging content aggregation websites are: Bloglines, FriendFeed, Lifestream.fm, Lijit.
11. Brand Monitoring
Social networks are also offering a variety of tools that can help businesses understand the positioning of their brand. Popular examples are: Buzzlogic, Radian6, and ReputationDefender.
12. Ratings and Review Sites
Another great way to find out where your website stands, or how your brand is perceived by others, is through ratings and reviews. The two most popular are Yelp and GetSatisfaction.
13. Widgets
For those trying to promote their own brands, they can More >
14 Ways To Promote Your Company Or Brands Online
Jun 7th
There are now a wide variety of effective ways that you can promote your company, your brands, your products and services online, perhaps more than you realize.
Here’s a handy list of the 14 top categories/activities that you can use to increase your brand presence and awareness- and your revenues – on the web.
Top Web Promotion Methods #1 – #7:
1. Blogs
Blogs have become an excellent tool for social media marketing. If optimized correctly, they can be used to drive traffic to a website. A good blog will also assist in creating internal links, fresh content and non-search engine web traffic.
Some popular blogs platforms include: WordPress.com, Blog.com, Bloggers.com, Typepad and others/
2. Microblogs
Like blogs, microblogging can present huge opportunities for business endorsement, though content needs to be consistent and optimized. The most used is Twitter, as well as Posterous and other niche platforms.
3. Online Video
With the proliferation of broadband Internet, the importance of online videos has rapidly increased. This allows more opportunities to demonstrate products or better explain brands. Popular video-sharing websites include YouTube and Vimeo.
4. Photosharing
Social networks are all about sharing! And this includes photos too, so there are numerous platforms that allow photo sharing with friends or followers. Some of the More >
Write Keyword Rich Article Titles and Subject Lines
May 4th
Ask yourself a quick question, “Do I write keyword-rich article or subject titles?”
Example 1: “Home Theater”
* This article title is too short to get any hooks and the reader has to simply guess what your angle to the topic is.
Example 2: “Home Theater Components”
* This is better, yet still does not explain why someone should read the article.
Example 3: “Home Theater Audio and Video Components That Will Make Your Friends Envy You”
* Now we have picked up a 2 more keywords, “audio” and “video” and a reason why to read the article.
Example 4: “Home Theater Audio and Video Components, Speakers and Setup – 7 Tips to Amp Up Your Sound”
* Here you see multiple, high-value keywords, gave a good reason to read the article, and even used a high-value keyword as a verb, “Amp.”
Not sure what keywords to use? For good keywords to use in your article titles, use an online tool such as Google Suggest, GoodKeywords, or Wordtracker to help identify them.
Also ask yourself another question: “Do the first three or four words of my article title introduce the topic of the article?”
More tips:
1. Avoid starting your title with ‘throw away’ or ‘junk words’ and conjunctions, like “a” or More >
