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It all depends on what your business is all about. Facebook has been a tough nut to crack for me, I have two fan pages, one is inching its way to a thousand likes, but it has taken a LOT of hard work and persistence, the other is not doing …

There are other social media sites that still work well, depending on your niche, like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Indulgy, Polyvor, Instagram. It all depends on what you're into! I am in a visual-rich niche, so any of these sites welcomes me with open arms.

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It really depends on what your niche is. My niche is tremendously visual. It used to be that Twitter would send me lots of traffic, but ever since photos came into the picture (pardon the pun), Pinterest has become a heavy hitter for me, followed closely by Google+. For some …

I have found that the best thing to do if you are a newbie, is to get to know your niche and then hang out, visibly but not as a pest, in all the places that are especially good for your niche. Join groups and communities that cater to your …

Let me share with you what I have noticed in my particular niche. People first have to have a blog or a website with superb content. Something that people will enjoy reading or bursting with info they really want. Then, they say, something like: "There is muchmore I could share …

This is interesting! I have oodles of new followers which I cannot follow back because twitter is holding me on a "plateau" and does not allow me to follow new people. You mean to tell me that if I buy more followers I would be liberated in order to be …

Always remember that Google has changed a whole LOT. Not all old fashioned SEO tactics work as they used to. Read up on Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird before choosing what is best for your site! Some things no longer advance you, they can even get you in trouble!

I will share what worked for me. I used to have a blog where not even the flies would land. Now it is approaching 2 million visitors, another one has had over six hundred thousand. Along the way, I've tried many things this one and that one said, usually, they …

Hi! I would like to know how to make a photo clickable to redirect people from my blog to my Facebook page. I'm not a computer science student nor do I have a heavy duty level of expertise in HTML, but I can follow simple instructions. I'd like to make …

Content is King, but distribution is Queen, and she usually wears the pants around the castle. If your king and queen don't have an army of soldiers that work hard for them, then they have no kingdom to rule over. Let me break it down for you: You need great …

I think that all social media sites have their market and their public. Facebook is an enormous magnet of people. I am certain that Google + will be too, but it's building right now. I would say it depends on what results you want, if you're looking for something relatively …

I would like to know what is the difference between these two types of marketing and why one (or the other)might be considered better. Please, give some specifics. Thank you!

Hi Everyone! I have been analysing and watching my Twitter account (the actions and activities of my followers) and I have noticed a steady decline and a massive turning away from Twitter into Pinterest, Google Plus and Instagram. I still get acitivity and traffic from Twitter, but it is by …

When I run an ad on Facebook, I am not as worried about likes as I am about the ad producing sales. My ad did not produced likes, but it produced sales, so I am happy with the results.

I got a laptop with Win 8 and they kept pressuring me to jump to 10. If 8 was so bad for me I dreaded 10, so now I have reverted to Windows 7 and am happier with that.

I use antivirus and antimalware software, but eventually something comes along that has to be removed manually, I don't know why that is, but that has always been my experience.

Hi Everyone! I need a really techie answer to this one. I have been practically shut out of my account on Google+ (I can still post but I cannot access my settings) and I cannot get into one of my blogs, simply because I won't furnish Google with a secondeary …

Never heard of Imgur before (thanks for letting me know they exist), but Pinterest has been a tremendous help to me as a blogger! The more visual your niche, the better for you. Pinners love attractive photos, so if your niche is not very visual, it might not work for …

I can tell you from a practical aspect the following. I am a member of communities or groups on both social media sites, true, they are both very active, but when I post to the public, I get an almost immediate stream of traffic from Google + while Facebook, it …

Explain to me why marketers are using mobile. I know people who recent when their minutes are used for advertising by people they don't know and are not interested in. They consider them spammers. What makes sense about that? I am not bashing, I just want an explanation.

I have been on Twitter for years and it has taken me a LONG time to build up a following. Mainly because i was very irregular posting. You have to be regular without weaving people out. One of the things that worked for me was to use Twitter Search to …

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Give people something to sink their teeth into when they visit you. Go out of your way to establish "word-of-mouth," in other words, give them something to share with their firends so that they too will visit your site!

Hi, I'm a "pinner" as Pinterest people call themselves (and are called by others), and I can tell you (as an insider) that the worst thing you can do is to go over there and begin to fill boards with things you want to sell. If you're not willing to …

Personally, I like classical music (Handel and Bach), I also like Contemporary Gospel, when it comes to music with vocals.

Make following you interesting, fun or valuable.

Who is your target audience? Finbd them wherever they are and pitch your site in a way that will not turn them off! If need be, take out ads in places where your prospects congregate. Do the same things that everybody else does to promote their sites on social media …

This is a sad thread. I wonder what a person who believes that should be done would say if they, or someone they loved, was on the receiving end of it. I think that would change their viewpoint drastically!

What about software development? Really creative new programs, not just copying what others have done.

I used to think I had to be on every site available, and I was spreading myself too think and was not really able to keep the momentum going. Then I heard a really successful person say that in social media, they were where their audience was. And I thought, …

Great poet! Seen some beautiful poems written by her. Now, I know someone who won two poetry awards and let me tell you a secret about what makes a poem good. It is two things really: the feeling it awakens and the imagery it conjures up. If the poet is …

Those are nice free methods that still work, I would also add quality backlinks. I was surprised how receiving a friendly link from another site that is very popular in my niche increased my ranking in Google overnight, so that is a good one too.

You can also do quality guest posting.

I know people who are mad at Facebook because their posts do not show up on the newsfeed as much as when they first started their accounts there, and they feel that if you do not pay for an ad or sponsor a post, nobody sees it. Therefore, they are …

One of my blogs is a cooking or recipes blog. Two of the most useful things I do is to participate in linkies (link parties)and Pinterest cooking group boards. Both yield traffic and responses.

There are many ways to obtain Facebook likes. If you know your target audience, search for groups in that same area that would target to people interested in what you have to offer, and with a lot of caution and tact (not be considered a spammer), begin to post and …

The more your online authority rises with visitors and the more quality backlinks you acquire (not just quantity links, but really good quality backlinks)the better for you with Alexa.

I don't have too many followers on Google+ (only over a thousand), but have had over 9 million views to my page and tons of traffic from my posts. The first thing you have to decide is which one do you want, numbers or action. Decide who your audience is. …

It depends on how many likes you have and how many of the people who follow you are able to see that stuff you post. It also depends a whole LOT on the response you get from them in the way of shares, comments, etc.

Do you have any subscribers and followers already? Try to mobilize them into giving you some worth of mouth with their friends. Polls have shown that people really go for what their friends suggest to them. Wish you well!

The only way you can increase your visibility is by 1- Participating on a regular basis and making "friends" online. 2- Posting things that are appealing to the target audience you are trying to reach. I just passed 10 thousand followers on Pinterest, why? I do what I advice. You …

I guess, it would haelp if you would visualize it by writing it first on paper. Be intentional. Each spoke of your wheel should have a purpose, an intended goal. This is not like hitting a pinata. What is it that you are after? More traffic? Crecibility? Authority? Deliberately map …

I am in the handmade niche, which is very compeptitive, crowded and difficult. The people in there are also extremely creative, intuitive and friendly. I appreciate them very much. I used to post only once a day. But I announced that I would post twice a day, and I post …

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I know some in my niche that are doing very well with video, even being endorsed by brands to conduct video demostrations of products, but I haven't had the time to get into it...those are impressive numbers, though...thank you for sharing!

I have read and heard a LOT of advice about growing a following on Facebook that is for the most part, the same, and quite useless, if you ask the common newbie. I did a test on one of my fanpages about "Like-gating," that is the thing where a person …

What I usually do is participate in communities that are highly regarded by search engines, make suitable comments, be helpful to others, and leave an appropriate sig.

If you're referring to the fact that most people are spending more time hanging out on social media sites than reading emails, I really think that marketers are having to create new and appealing ways to reach people who find reading emails boring and find it more interesting to watch …