After much anticipation, a flurry of media attention, and sorted speculation, Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that Facebook has entered what he refers to as ‘Launching Season 2011’ and promises that they have many items they will be rolling out over the course of the next few weeks and months, including Live Video Chat, the new app which will be made available to users starting today. (more…)
Having begun beta testing of its virtual currency Facebook Credits in May 2009, social networking powerhouse, Facebook, begins requiring all of its game developers to accept payment solely by means of the virtual currency today. The currency, whose transactions are processed through a subsidiary known as Facebook Payments, is already accepted by the vast majority of game developers on the popular site, but not all developers are happy to use the system as their sole means of payment processing. From complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission to scathing criticism from both the mainstream press and technology insiders, is the controversial currency doomed for failure?
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You might have seen a bar on top of the Google logo. You might have thought it was nothing but then you checked it a again and it is still there. Don’t worry, it’s not just you. Everybody noticed that. It’s not just for something, it is about something big that will happen to the search engine: Google Plus (+)
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By Dim Myflos
While trying to create a money-making Internet business, your primary goal should be to optimize your website effectively for search engines. Your products or services are great, you offer the best deals in the market, but people do not know your business exists, so they will not buy from you. Just as a retail store needs to bring in traffic, so too your online business needs to generate as many visitors as possible to your site.
If done properly, this process does not have to take a lot of effort, but will provide you with a bounty of results. Any smart marketer knows there are many ways to go about doing this, however, one of the methods of getting fast results is to use the leverage of online social bookmarking sites. Here are a few tips on how your online business can gain benefits from using social bookmarks…
This is not hard to do. If you are able to get quality one way back-links and increased targeted traffic from the social bookmarking sites, you will start seeing convertible visitors to your website from both direct and indirect sources. Once these visitors come to your website, all you need to do is convert them to sales.
Understand the media and how it functions
The key to understanding the concept and its use as a marketing tool is understanding the media, how it functions, what needs it serves in the modern world and its background. However, it is important to understand that any business, no matter what level they are at, can use this marketing tool to increase the quality of traffic that visits their site and start down the path to success. You can take the example of the micro-blogging site Twitter, where you post regular updates about what’s happening in your life, and people following you get to read it.
Create a title that catches the reader’s eye
There are a few things that you need to keep in mind to make social bookmarking successful. Your title is a key factor. Remember, you are competing with lots of other information out there, so its important to create a title that catches the reader’s eye. Lots of quality articles sit online without ever being read due to the fact that their titles simply don’t attract readers. When they find the title enticing enough, the readers are forced to look at the whole content. Also, the main idea of the article or the topic is also very important. Your job is not only to get people to your site but to also make them stay. You need the entire article to be full of valuable and useful information.
Bookmark your site
Imagine if you had a following of thousands and you shot out an update about your new product/service, would that make any difference? The results can be astonishing. Of course, not everyone on your list will check out your offer, but even if about 10% of those did click through it, that’s still a high number of people hitting your offer. And it probably didn’t take a lot of time to generate that post. It likely took you less than five minutes. Therefore, just a little bit of time and effort produced wonderful results.
Take advantage of software applications
In addition to this, you can take advantage of software applications that have been designed to improve your marketing campaigns. If you are a member of various social media sites, like Twitter, it can be very difficult to build a following of thousands of people, let alone make regular update posts. For this purpose, there are free applications, as well as applications that can be purchased, that provide assistance for automating postings and developing a greater number of followers. These tools also allow you to automate many other areas that can prove to be helpful, it’s just up to you on how far you can leverage them to get the maximum benefit.
At first glance Internet marketing and social media seem to have nothing in common. However once you start using social media, you will begin to see how much it really can help your marketing efforts. It’s all about balancing these social sites with the right applications to grow your business and be ahead of your competition.
Dim Myflos is an Internet Marketer and SEO specialist. To get valuable information on Internet Business, Affiliate Marketing and SEO please visit: http://dimmyflos.com.
Article Source: Social Bookmarking Traffic – All You Need To Know
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The recent Over Capacity issues which Twitter is experiencing is gaining a marked amount of buzz in Social Media and Internet Marketing circles. So it got me to thinking about the implications.
Twitter has not seen such a problem with capacity issues since its hockey stick growth in the late spring and early summer of 2009. If you read their blog, you will see that they are going through some upgrades and making changes to their services which may be contributing to the problem. What has really caught my attention, however, is the amount of chatter this has created across the web.
I went to log in to Twitter this morning and got the fail whale once again. This prompted a text search of the term “Twitter Over Capacity” which I narrowed to the past 24 hours. This search brought up over 35,000 results!!
They do say that even bad press is good press, so Twitter is definitely getting some serious web time based on this newest capacity issue.
I’m not saaying that the best way to gain popularity (I’m thinking Twitter doesn’t need the popularity right now) is to piss off your users, but it is a good example of how people love to spread bad information much more rapidly than good.
Hopefully, they will be back to normal soon and I am looking forward to some improvements to my experience as a result. I just wanted to give a new spin on the latest issues and provide the up side!
Happy Tweeting.
