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RSS… and WHY Its Being Considered The Newest Player In The VIRAL Marketing Game

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:29:50 +0000

I have a quick question to ask you… “Are you sick and tired of hearing about RSS(Real Simple Syndication) and how it can take your online business to New levels with VERY little effort on your part?”

If you answered ‘YES’ to the question above then stop reading this article Right Now!

If you answered ‘NO’ then your going to love what I’m about to reveal to you about RSS and WHY its being consider the newest player in the VIRAL marketing game.

But before I do I think its important you understand the mechanics of each(RSS and VIRAL marketing) and what there role is so there’s no confusion.

RSS by definition — RSS stands for ‘Real Simple syndication or Rich Site Summary’ and is used to syndicate news or information and is usually associated with Blogs because blogs use an RSS feed to distribute their content.

Next…

VIRAL Marketing by definition — is any form of advertising and/or marketing techniques that “spread” like a virus without you having to do anything.

Now that you have an idea what the two mean and the roles they each play it’s now time to tie it all together.

I have another quick question…(As you can see I like to ask questions.) “What do all website owners and portal sites need on a 24/7 basis to keep their visitors/readers coming back day after day?

If you answered ‘Content’ then give yourself a pat on the back because your absolutely Right!

And what do RSS feeds contain that update on a 24/7 basis?

CONTENT! Whether its News related or Articles.

And where do website owners and portal webmasters go to find these much needed RSS feeds?

You guessed it… ‘RSS Directories’ where hopefully You submitted your RSS feed(s) to.

The great thing about ‘RSS Directories’ is they are all categorized making it easy for whomever is looking.

And if your RSS feed catches their eye, guess what? They’ll add your feed to there website where You’ll gain all that FREE exposure at their expense.

Now, just imagine if 100 or 1000 website owners picked up your RSS feed.

Your traffic to your website would start to Explode effortlessly without you lifting a finger.

And the cool thing is all you had to do was set it up once.

The more ‘Quality’ RSS feeds you have out there the more opportunities you have of getting picked up by webmasters.

Do you see Now how RSS is being considered VIRAL? And this all happens while your sleeping.

It gets better So hold on.

Do you publish your own Content/Articles?

If you do you are also in for a real treat because guess what other directories are starting to incorporate RSS into their directories?

That’s right, ‘Article Directories’.

By submitting your articles to the TOP ‘Article Directories’ the same effect will happen as I outlined with ‘RSS Directories’.

Remember this, people come online primarily for Information that will help solve a particular problem they are dealing with.

Websites contain ‘Information’.

Website owners need Fresh ‘Information’ on a 24/7 basis to feed their readers needs.

RSS feeds deliver content, whether its News related or Articles, on a 24/7 basis or whatever frequency the website owner chooses.

How can you take advantage of this Right Now if you haven’t already?

Simply set up a Blog at Blogger.com — http://www.blogger.com — and start posting to it on a Daily basis with your Articles, Product Reviews or News related postings related to your target audience.

Then go submit your Blogs RSS feed to all the top ‘RSS Directories’.

Here’s a link to a list of Top RSS Directories that you can submit your feed(s) to.

Go to: http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Once you’ve done that you’ll want to Ping your Blog to get the Search Engines to come visit and start indexing your Blogs pages.

You can do this by using this Free service called Ping-O-Matic.

Go to: http://pingomatic.com/

Well there you have it in a nutshell.

I hope you see the true Power of RSS and more importantly… “WHY Its Being Considered The Newest Player In The VIRAL Marketing Game”.

The only thing left for you to do is… Take Action!

RSS… and WHY Its Being Considered The Newest Player In The VIRAL Marketing Game is a post from: wordpressrobot.com

Understanding RSS And Its Effect On Viral Marketing

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:29:28 +0000

RSS and Viral Marketing:
Viral marketing is one of the most creative ways of promoting a business. It can work wonders for any business although there are certain principles that play a lead role in making viral marketing for business websites so effective. Different businesses use different techniques while applying viral marketing to enhance their visibility and here are some of the best and time-proven techniques that can help your business too.
One way is to create content and share it with other publishers. RSS makes the transfer of content a lot more simple and hassle free. With this ease in sharing content make sure you have a signature in your content so that your link spreads online virally as well to boost your link popularity.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is one of the most valuable technologies available for webmasters, administrators and users. In spite of RSS being such a valuable technology only 12% of users know what RSS is while only 4% have used RSS. So let us try and understand what RSS really is and how it can help you or your business.
RSS is a type of feed that internet users can subscribe to. The RSS feeds updated on a regular basis and mostly distributed in XML format. This helps in creating custom tags. There are quite a few websites, which will have the RSS logo in orange and if you click on the icon, you will get connected to the website’s feed.
As far as the content contained in a RSS feed is concerned, it depends largely on the feed that you might be viewing. Most of the RSS feeds consist of a title and a brief portion from the article. RSS is becoming overtly popular with bloggers because in this the headline format comes in automatically.
There are many reasons why bloggers and even regular users are choosing RSS. One of the primary reasons being that using RSS can save time especially on an everyday basis. Let us take an example to understand how it saves time. If you are a technical expert and you visit at least 6 websites on a daily basis to collect information then you probably open each website on a separate browser to look for news items. So in a way, you are visiting them one by one as you can’t see all of them together.
On the other hand, if you have RSS, then all you need to do is visit a RSS feed reader or a RSS aggregator and this will help you to instantly identify the websites that have added new articles and these websites will be separated from the ones that don’t. Another salient point is that you can see all the past entries using RSS.
If you are visiting only one website but on a regular basis then there are times when you will miss a new article added on the website on one of those days when you didn’t visit the website. This is where the RSS fits perfectly. Let us for once imagine that there are 20 websites for which you want to keep tabs then RSS will prove to be truly indispensable.
In order to use the RSS, you will first have to find a feed, the one that you can use. If you are using Mozilla’s Firefox then you will be able to find out with ease if a particular website has accessible feed or not. You don’t even have to go through the entire webpage looking for an RSS icon. When you open a website on the Firefox, you will see an orange icon on the right side of the navigation/URL bar. If you see the icon then it means that the website has RSS feed.
Click on the orange RSS icon in your Firefox browser and it will ask you where you would like to save the feed. Firefox treats RSS feeds as live bookmarks. Once you have saved the feed, go to the particular folder. The folder will have an expand arrow and you can click on the arrow so that it can show all the new entries that has been added on the website in an ascending order with the latest entry on the top.
There are times when your browser may not find a particular website’s feed as not all of them have RSS feeds. This is where you will have to search through the web pages to find any items related to feed. There are some websites that have FeedBurner feed, which normally displays the current feed subscribers for that website. If you find a FeedBurner feed icon then click on it and copy the location of the link.
This is the basic information regarding RSS feeds for all those who want to use it to their benefit personally or for viral marketing purposes.

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FREE Viral Twitter Marketing Tool Review

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:41:57 +0000

Viral Twitter Marketing Phenomenon

Twitter has been exploding as of late and many marketers are trying to take advantage of this huge social networking phenomenon by building massive Twitter followings.

The thing that they don’t seem to get though is that even if they do have over 2 or 3 thousand followers, they still can generate little to no results simply because self promotion isn’t effective anymore.

If you claim that your product is the best one on the market, what makes you different from the rest? Everyone claims his products are best. There is a reason why the real Twitter masterminds never abuse Twitter and still generate insane amount of traffic, leads and sales with it.

Self Promotion = SPAM

Self promotional tweets will probably result in you looking like a spammer. No wonder, it’s not the way you do Twitter Marketing.

You can hope your tweets will go viral, but let’s face it – you’ll have to be really-really good at “Twitter Copywriting” and deliver an insane amount of value in order for someone to go the extra mile of copying, pasting and clicking the update button.

Twitter Clients

Sure, a lot of Tweeple do use clients with an option of an easy ReTweet, but one very valuable thing I have learned throughout my internet marketing career is to NEVER MAKE ASSUMPTIONS.

According to a study conducted by ReadWriteWeb.com, Over 56% of Twitter users still use Twitter.com to send out tweets. The rest 44% are using all sorts of different Twitter clients. The picture below displays the exact statistics.

Key Takeaway: Twitter.com is a good enough for the majority of Twitter users. That means that if you are relying on someone to ReTweet your content, than there is more than 50% chance that he will have to go through quite a hustle in order to do that.

Viral Twitter Software

Using Viral Twitter Software will increase your content’s chances of going viral because:

Recommended Tools

The funny thing is that ReTweetNow’s total equivalent – ViralTweets, actually costs $47 while having the exact same features as the ReTweetNow does…LOL!

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Twitter Marketing: 6 Steps to Creating a Viral Marketing Campaign with Twitter Hashtags

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:41:54 +0000

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Twitter, as a popular social networking platform, is a viral marketing strategy all on its own, especially if your followers like your tweets and retweet them to their followers. However, I’ve recently noticed another trend in Twitter usage that increases its viral marketing capabilities through the use of hashtags.

What’s a hashtag, anyway? Also called the pound sign, the hashtag (#) is added to a tweet as a way of creating trackable categories, groups, or topics that others can use to search for info using the Twitter Search feature. One of the most common uses of the hashtag is to tweet what’s happening at an event or conference. The event organizer will request all attendees use a specific hashtag, i.e. #yourevent, when tweeting about the event to your followers. So, then, someone who isn’t present at the event but wants to follow what’s happening there can simply search for #yourevent and see what’s going on and what participants are saying and sharing about the event.

Anyone can create a hashtag by putting hashtag (#) in front of anything. If you log into Twitter and look in the right-hand column, you’ll see the Trending Topics, many of which can be tracked with a hashtag. How can you use this strategy to create more viral marketing for your business on Twitter? By creating a hashtag Twitter tips campaign.

Here are 6 steps to help you create your own Twitter hashtag campaign:

1. Research. What kinds of tips would be appreciated by your target market? On what topics do you frequently receive questions from your clients? My target market is always asking questions about getting more traffic, so I decided to focus on traffic generation strategies.

2. Choose your name. Choose a short, simple name that reflects your brand and what you’re offering. Before making your final decision, you need to check your proposed name on Twitter Search (search by including the #) to ensure that no one else is using that name. Otherwise, your tweeted tips will intermingle with the other hashtag group using that name. I quickly checked and discovered that no one was using #OBUTrafficTip, so that’s what I chose.

3. Create your tips. You can easily pick your tips out of an article or blog post you’ve created. In my case, I had purchased a PLR ebook that I used as a basis for my tips. Remember that your tips need to be less than 140 characters, including the hashtag name you’ve chosen and any links you include.

4. Link to relevant info. You get the most mileage out of these tips if you link the tips to something relevant to that tip. For example, if you have a bank of articles, each tip might link to an article you’ve written that has more details about the tip. For maximum exposure, you’ll want to link to info on your site or your blog rather than to the posting of an article in an article directory.

5. Upload the tips into TweetLater.com. This type of campaign is easily managed using TweetLater.com. Simply upload your completed tips and set them to distribute once a day or (several times a week) over the upcoming weeks by postdating them into the future. In this way you put these tips on autopilot and they post themselves.

6. Let them begin to work their magic. It may take awhile for them to catch on, but eventually others will begin to retweet your tips as useful information they want their followers to access. As with most marketing strategies, consistence is the key here to your success.

It’s pretty easy to begin your own viral marketing tips campaign using the Twitter hashtag. Simply follow the steps as outlined above, and watch as your number of Twitter follows grows each day!

Twitter Marketing: 6 Steps to Creating a Viral Marketing Campaign with Twitter Hashtags is a post from: wordpressrobot.com

Project Traffic! for Your Niche Site – Relationship & Viral Marketing With Forum Participation

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:03:53 +0000

Part 2 of Traffic Project! (not an affiliate program) is a continuation of Part 1 to leverage on Forum Participation to generate long term traffic to your site.

How To Search For Relevant Forums.

Do a Google search for your related niche forums to best leverage your expertise. To find your niche forums, key in the following line into your google search box and press enter. â??allintitle: dog training filetype:html forumâ?

How To Exude Forum Etiquette & Win Hearts.

Never use profanity and foul language in Forums. Never be intrusive or offensive with words. Respect your fellow forumers as you are all there to learn and share. This is especially true when you are new in any particular forum.

Give High quality advice at your niche forums. Try to make memorable impressions and position your persona as an industry expert, adopting an advisor or mentor role.

Build and enhance your credibility with active interaction and freely provide advice, both online and offline, within forum and without. People appreciate people who wholeheartedly help them resolve their problems. When people what you do for them, they will begin to visit your site, wanting to know more about your work. This will have potential to turn viral. So keep building those relationships but be real!

How to Maintain Discipline.

Forum participation is a long term process, as in all relationship building activities. To ensure continued effect, set target for forum participation on a per day basis. Make Time for it and schedule a fixed timing daily for it. Do not participate only when you have the time to spare as this will cause procrastination. Be active in one or two niche forums which you think you could penetrate and establish a branding and expert position. Never target too broadly or too many forums, that can spread yourself too thin.

Post A New and Quality Anchor Article In The Forum.

One great tip I have to share with you is posting a quality Anchor article in your niche forum you are most active, instead of going for posting it on your own blog? In fact, tactically, high trafficked niche forums is one place which you could sufficiently impress your target niche groups with your expertise. Remember, always post quality comments in your niche forum rather than go for quantity.

Use a Simple Sign off.

There is no need to use fanciful, complicated or cluttered sign offs as they could backfire on your positioning. Most importantly, avoid breaking forum rules like including affiliate links. Worst still, never spam the forums, as this is a sure-kill for any unscrupulous former. Stay tuned and check out the more of Project Traffic! series at my site.

Project Traffic! for Your Niche Site – Relationship & Viral Marketing With Forum Participation is a post from: wordpressrobot.com