5+ Ways To Promote Your Blog via Pinterest

Started back in 2010 Pinterest got a growing prominence in the early days of 2012 as it introduced "Link To Your Facebook Timeline". This also caught the attention of bloggers and so people started to join pinterest and promote their own blogs. The first thing that you need is a pinterest account. Dont have one ? Drop your mail ID in the comments section below and you will get your invitation to join pinterest as soon as possible. And so now as a blogger I tried to find ways to promote your blog via Pinterest. I found out some of the ways to promote your blog, I decided to share it with you guys. Below are some of the tricks to follow :

1. Usage of pictures :

Pinterest is a social network that is a picture based social network and so if you wanna promote your blog via pinterest then you MUST need pictures in your blog. Reports show that people on Pinterest are not much attracted towards in-complete pictures. For example you are making a tutorial on how to start your first wordpress blog. And if you add a picture like in the below to your post. If you pin them then people would surely not be attracted towards it.

2. Your blog readers will be bored with you posting on the same topic :

Take for example you are maintaining a food blog. If you keep on posting about stuff related to food then some of your readers would be bored. And so occasionally you should post something which even common people (common people in the sense the people who dont have interested in food blogs) too would like. The best topic that you can post is about some funny stuff. Fun is something that everyone will love. Post a picture which is much funny on your blog. And also pin it. People on pinterest have much desire towards fun. Every time you pin the picture that you have used on your blog a backlink will be provided to your post. This would give you a better page rank and your blog will be much SEO optimized and ultimately you will get more traffic.

3. Blogs related to Food, Pets, Fun are much gifted :

Blogs which are related to the categories mentioned above are much gifted. Eventhough they dont get much traffic via other social media's they would surely get loads of traffic if they make good use of pictures on their blog. Make use of pictures on your blog and pin them. People on pinterest have much interest towards these. And that Pets are ranking top in the table. Dont miss it. Start pinning !

4. The Best way to Promote for tech blogs :

If you maintain a tech blog like ours it would surely be difficult for you to promote on pinterest. The best way is to manage your pin boards. Take it as in the previous example you are posting an article on how to create your own wordpress blog, create a pin board in the same name and create pictures for each and every step and pin those pictures in that pin board. Make sure that the picture conveys what you have written in your post.

5. Gain more followers :

The key thing that you need to have to promote your blog on pinterest is to have a good number of followers. People would surely follow you back if you follow them. The thing that you need to note while following people is to follow people who have the same interest as yours. If you are maintaing a music blog follow someone who has interest in music.

6. Dont Spam your followers :

As mentioned before followers are very much important on pinterest and so dont spam your followers. Dont pin the pictures that is only on your blog. Everyone hates self promotion. So post every picture which you come across and you think would impress your followers.

7. Be an active member on Pinterest :

Last but not least you should be an active member on pinterest. Promoting with pinterest would be a bit difficult but dont lose your hope. Be an active member on pinterest. Keep of pinning something. Dont leave it eventhough your blog gets promoted a lot. Keep your followers engaged and make them like your pins, comment on it and also repin it.

I hope this article would have given your bloggers an overview on how to promote your blog on pinterest and also make use of it much efficiently. Happy Pinning !

3 Crazy Ways To Get Visitors To Your Blog

Traffic is the thing that everyone in this blogging field need and they would love to have traffic to their site. The best way to attain traffic is obviously SEO optimizing your site. But that has been considered as time consuming and a bit difficult by some of the newbies. What they needed at that time was patience which they dint have. But still there is a solution for these bloggers. You can attain traffic by other ways too and I am sure that by following those tricks your blog will run good soon and they are also liked by search engine bots so that they crawl your site soon. When I surfed over the web I found some of the tricks that could help you to boost your sites visibility apart from SEO. The following are some of the ways.

1. Social Bookmarking :

This is the top way next to SEO to get traffic. All you need to have is an account in that respective social bookmarking site and you need to have some good followers. But followers dont matter in a few social bookmarking sites like that of Stumble upon. The following are a list good social bookmarking sites that you need to be a part of and a small description about each of them.

Stumble Upon :

Stumble Upon is the top social bookmarking site according to me. If your site has content related to hacking or fun or like that of movies then this site is sure to help you to get loads of traffic. What you do is just add your links to this site and you have to add tags and the appropriate category to which your post belongs to and the rest will be done by them. Earlier when I maintained a hacking site I got about 2000's of traffic from this site every day. But this would also be helpful for other category bloggers too.

Digg :

The most interesting thing about digg is the presence of Newsrooms where you can digg your post and so that it reaches millions of people in just a click. The only thing that you need to do is to digg your post in a correct newsroom and that you cant digg the same link in different newsroom. You can post them in only a single newsroom. So be wise to choose among the available newsrooms. You need to make the title so catchy so that it tends the users to visit your site.

Technorati :

This is a blog directory where you can add your blog and the rest of the work will be done by them. I donot know much about technorati but people say that it is essential for every blogger to have a technorati account to get a good sum of traffic.

Slashdot :

This is really a cool site. This is like that of an article submission site. This site can help you get loads of traffic. You need to add the entire content of your article there and you can add a link back to your article so that who visit that article on slashdot may note down your URL and may visit your site. This site would be helpful only if your article is of good quality.

2. Usage of Tumblr :

 Tumblr is the top method suggested by thousands of bloggers as the best method to get a bunch of backlinks from PR 7 and PR 6 blogs.

Usage of Tumblr to Get Backlinks from PR 7 and PR 6 blogs would be my next article. This is a bit long tutorial and so I would make it as a separate. But have damn sure that it would the most effective and easiest way to get backlinks from high PR ranking sites.

3. Blog Commenting :

Blog commenting is also an effective way to get backlinks and of course traffics from good ranking sites with good traffic. But make sure before commenting that the blog is ranking good and the most important that it is a Do  Follow blog and a blog which has comment luv enabled.

Well I hope that this was a good tutorial which would help you to get good amount of traffic and so optimize your blog for SEO. I would surely add a tutorial on how to use tumblr for getting good amount of backlinks. Happy Blogging ! :)

The 4 Best Tools for Tracking Social Media

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Most people have learned that in order to succeed in today’s market, web promotion is essential to increasing the profits from their business. First, most of us learned to create websites that used SEO to attract more traffic. Then we soon learned that analytics could be used to track tour results. Today, one of the greatest tools we have as marketers is social media both to speak with our customers and also to advertise our businesses. Now businesses need to learn to use analytic tools to track those results also.

Many of us have pondered how we can tack on this monumental task of tracking of social media results. Here are a few tools you should look into if you want to find a way to track your social media success.

1. Radian6

My very favorite program is Radian6 if you can afford it. The bots used by Radian6 seem more reliable than manyof the other programs. Users can view comments about their chosen search term in near real time. The programwill also send real time alerts and also allows users to graph the number of posts, comment count, view count,vote count, Twitter followers, inbound links, and unique sources. Over half of Fortune 500 companies use thisprogram to keep track of information on their companies and brands.

2. Media Analysis Platform by Sysomos

The great thing about Media Analysis Platform is the tools available to search by particular criteria. For example,users can search by keywords or by a particular date. Media Analysis Platform allows users to use boolean searches. This would be a better with the addition of a workflow system. Like Radian6 this can be a rather costly tool. This program can be added with Heartbeat for best results, but adds greatly to the cost.

3. TwentyFeet

The great news about this site is that it offers its service online, so there are no downloads. The pricing is very low and the user only pays for the tools they use. This system does a great job of allowing users to find many different tools and have access to them all in one place.

4. BrandWatch

Features a great drag and drop menu. The best thing about BrandWatch is its ability to find keywords based on their proximity to other words. Another great feature is that it allows users to track how influential the people making the comments are. Some of the tools on BrandWatch are not overly user friendly, meaning the program takes a while to learn but once you master it, there is a lot you can learn.

About the Guest author...

Jennifer Daly is an Internet marketer and blogger. She is also a self-confessed Twitter and Facebook addict. She writes on a variety of topics and is a contributing writer for Amazing Domains, a site which sells a variety of domains ranging from shopping and fitness to automobile and kitchen domains. She also enjoys staying up to date with the latest Internet marketing trends and tools.