Money From Blogging

Social Media are the social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, StumableUpon, Technoratti, Digg etc! You have noticed images shown at right side, at the end of many a post in many blog! That button is for adding that particular article in any of those social media sites! Once you place you mouse cursor over that image or click on it, a drop down menu would appear with big list of social media sites!

Social Media plugin

Social media Button

There are many WordPress plugin to integrate those Social Media submission tools. Incidentally, those Social Media submission tools have many widgets, Plain HTML, JavaScript codes to embed their tools in various blogging scripts. So it is really easy to embed those social media submission tools. I use AddToAny.

Adding article in social media is like recommending user of that social media to read the particular article as you have liked it and add in your favourite post in your profile in that social media! So as soon as you add a favourite in your profile, all your friends and visitor to your profile would come to know about your new favourite. And they may also get curious and click the link to check what is your favourite. That brings traffic to that article, added to the social media!

In order to add any article, one has to be a registered user of that social media site, as expected! One can add articles from his own blog to these social media sites, but it is not recommended or ethical! As it is always better when the praise or recommendation comes from second person!

Many social media sites do not like if the user adds articles from his own sites! I am not sure how they manage to find that out, but some media sites ban you as soon as they find out that you are submitting your own content! It happened with me once . But I am sure, you would know how to bypass this!

So here are how you can promote your article or blog ethically:-

1. Best way to promote your blog or an article in social media is to promote an article in other blog which has a link back or reviewed your blog or article. This really works! It worked for me very well!

2. You can give out some freebies on your blog and encourage visitor to add your articles in social media sites. You may give out freebies like Free WordPress theme, Free Google Voice Invite, some free E-Book etec. You may ask your readers to vote your blog in social media. For example you may ask your reader to make your favourite in technorati to get freebie.
It may be direct persuasion, but they work!

3. Twitter has really become a traffic source recently. You need to have large number of followers! Best way to gather follower is to write smart tweets and follow others with a hope get followed back!

Many people say, you do not get quality traffic from social media. That may be correct, but it will surely increase Alexa Ranking as well as visibility in the internet world!

I think StumbleUpon is one such media used by many to promote their blogs! I also get steady visitors from StumbleUpon! So, click below and start adding articles to your social media!