Social Marketing Skills don't come cheap but this social marketing conference will bury your Christmas competition before they know what hit them but won't empty your wallet!
Chris Lang and 5 more social marketing experts will be revealing their insider social marketing secrets December 5th in San Diego for a price that is just in time to double your social networking arsenal to give you that little extra edge over your competition.
I will be doing a case study of how I took the worst site possible from no where to top Google rankings in just three weeks with my Wicked tactics.
Can even Chris Lang do this? Of course he can, Chris Lang is back.
but still trying to fly under our Googling Social radar...
Google instead of Friend Connect calls it Following on Blogger.
You can try out Friend Connect right now if you have a Google profile in the widget in the upper right hand corner of this blog under the heading "Followers" by clicking the join button. Confirm your join request and here you can enroll in Friend Connect if you do not already have a Google Social profile.
Next, click one of the avatars of those who have already joined and add the person as a friend and send them an introductory blurb.
The next screen you will see is their Google profile, links to their social networks and their Google Reader shared items. This is Google's social bookmarking application.
NOTE: All these links open in a new tab so you will not lose this page.
For those of you who do not know how to use Google Social, called Googling Social, I have instructions to create a Google profile, add friends to from Gmail and get started with Google Reader which is Google's social bookmarking application.
Currently, the links to get to the pieces of Googling Social are hard to find so the best starting point is someone elses Google profile, so here is mine with a link to my Wickedly Evil Social Marketing Blog where you can find instructions to making friends in Gmail and Google Reader.
Look in the upper right hand corner of the page, the link is "my profile" and it is right behind your gmail address.
Word of warning, the Gmail address that you are logged into will be your public Gmail address in Google Reader and how you make friends thru Gmail. So if you do not want that Gmail address to be public, choose one that you want to use.
You only get one Google profile no matter how many Gmail addresses you have, so choose wisely.
If you have any questions you can email me from my contact page on my site. Also if you want to add me as a friend in Google Reader, send me an email at chrislang[at]gmail[dot]com.
Obfuscations in the address are used to fool spam bots that harvest addresses so just replace the monikers with the appropriate email characters.
Cheers! = Chris Lang and JohnT from the driveway and the inaugural Indiggnation driveway cast.
Social bookmarking can help your blog's rankings in so many ways. But I have come to believe that so many have tried how to get more Diggs and after doing it wrong have given up.
However, think about this: If Digg has 5 million users and the average number of posts, from the Digg top 100 to the user who no longer participates is 1 post per day, that is 5 million posts.
How can you possibly expect that Google will see your 1 link in Digg in 5 million others as a backlink to your site. In fact if you submit your site to Digg and no one else Diggs it, I have come to feel that is a negative indicator in Google’s eyes. The worst thing you can do is submit your Digg posts yourself and then get no Diggs.
One of my friends on Social Marketing Central wrote an article that went hot on the Internet. He got like 1500 visitors in a few days and 80 comments. The bad news is that he only got 18 Diggs. Now tell me this: Don’t you think that Google, that has access to the popularity of posts on Digg just like we do, would not see 1500 visitors and 18 Diggs a negative indicator of this blog and the blog post itself?
I can easily get 100 to 200 Diggs for any article I want in Digg in 2 days. I do that through my own strategies and participation.
So social bookmarking if done wrong can actually hurt you. Social marketing is about being social, so be social on social bookmarking sites, don’t just submit you own content and expect that this will bring you results.
