Thursday 29 January 2015

Widgets and Social Media Buttons

Social media Sharing

One of the easiest ways to acquire natural links back to your site is to provide social sharing options for every piece of content you produce for your website. It takes just seconds to install a social sharing plugin or code on your site and there is absolutely no reason your content should not have this option.


We live in a world that revolves around social media. If the visitors that land on your website view your content as interesting and there is an option for them to share it they will do just that. Recently, SEO isn't just the focus of webmasters, internet marketers and internet entrepreneurs anymore, SMO or social media optimization also started to take over millions to billions of internet users. Thus, SMO was hard to ignore for every internet marketers. Social media is obviously a very important channel for internet marketers to reach more and targeted visitors, viewers and customers. A lot of SEO companies are already offering social media optimization as additional web services. One of them is Blitz Web Services.

Widgets and Social Media Buttons:

Widgets and social media buttons are really very important but use of too many social media buttons and unnecessary widgets can slower your blog. Try to remove widgets that are not really necessary for your blog and use social media buttons wisely.

Create a Facebook Fanpage:

Now that you've completed some major tasks which will help you get indexed in search engines etc. Now it's time to work on social media. Social media is very important these days as a big part of Internet users are active on social media. So you should take advantage of Social media for building fans and followers.

The First thing is to Create a Facebook Fan Page of your Blog. Facebook is ranked 2 by Alexa and is one of the most used social networks, Creating a fan page on Facebook will benefit you and help you build traffic. Creating a Fan page on Facebook is very simple, All you need is a Facebook Account (If you don't have one then create it first).
Go to Facebook Create a Page and follow the on-screen Instructions. Once you've created a page make sure that you've done the following:
  • Upload a Profile Picture
  • Upload a Cover Photo
  • Add your Blog Description with a Link to Blog
  • Invite all your friends to Like that Page

Twitter:

After Facebook the next step is to create a Twitter Page of your Blog. Twitter is also one of the most used social networks with around 500 million active users generating 340 million tweets daily. So it is really important that you promote your site on twitter to take advantage of its users.
Go to Twitter and create a new account with your blog's name as username. Once you've created your account, Do the following things:

  • Upload Profile Picture (Blog Logo)
  • Add details (Blog Details)
  • Add your Blog Link
  • Invite your friends to follow you.
  • Invite your Facebook friends to follow you.

Google+:

Google+ is another Social networking site and is getting popular day by day so it is really important to stay with the flow by creating your own Google+ profile (It is not necessary to create a separate Google+ profile for your blog, you can use your existing profile)
Go to Google+ and create your account (if you don't have one). After creating Google+ account repeat the steps as given above:

  • Upload Profile Picture
  • Add details of your blog
  • Add your Blog Link
  • Invite your friends to Add you in Circles
  • Invite your Facebook / Twitter friends to join you

Technorati:

Technorati is a very popular blog directory and it is very important that you submit you blog to technorati as soon as possible after releasing your blog.
Go to Technorati and create a new account, Add all your blog details in it. After creating account, Click on Add a Site/Blog and follow the instructions (Add Keywords, Description etc). Complete the verification and you're done. Now you'll have to wait for their email (it may take 24-72 hours for Technorati to add your site). Once they add your site you'll be notified by email.

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