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The one question that every small business owner or internet marketer seem to ask is “how to leverage social networking without going insane??”  Seriously, there are so many to choose from and so little time to actively participate in all of them.  The solution is this is using a free auto-posting service called ping.fm.  This handy site allows you to submit status updates, shorter blogs and longer blogs to dozens of the top social networking websites.  This article is going to cover the primary advantages to syndicating longer blog posts using ping.fm.

Url Shortening. You can now auto-generate a ping.fm url in place of a long website.  This benefit eliminates the need to visit an additional url-shortening site like bit.ly or budurl.  One trick that many marketers exploit is putting a link to the main blog within the first few sentences.  Doing this increases the chance of that link being viewed and clicked on when appearing in an RSS feed blog summary.

Increasing Blog Title Listings. Instead of solely relying on your primary blog to get ranked, Ping.fm adds at least twenty other possible listings for your blog title.  This is important since no one knows for certain which site Google will rank highest.  It could be one, two, or even five of your blog posts.  I’d rather submit to all of the ping.fm sites than play a guessing game to tweak each individual site.   Functionally, the submission sites will act as feeders to funnel visitors to my primary blog.

Improving Blog SEO. This requires an extra minute of specialization but it’s worth it.  Create anchor text with some basic html coding like what is shown in my blog post’s Youtube video.  Choose a 1-3 word phrase that contains the most relevant keywords related to your topic and what you wish to optimize for future Google searches.  For instance, my hyperlinked anchor text was “DubLi blog”, so readers are most likely to find my blog when searching “DubLi blog”.  This affect is underscored by the fact that ping.fm’s sites not only contain high Google pageranks but most of them are ‘dofollow’.  This last point is vital since Google only considers dofollows backlinks in their ranking calculations.

Saving Time.  I hinted at this advantage above in describing its more specific benefits.  It’s undeniable the power that ping.fm affords to increase social networking productivity in the shortest time possible.  Marketers and business owners view time as money.  And up until now too many critics abandon social networking and social media due to its time consumption or intangible return.  However Ping.fm solves many of these drawbacks thus allowing more time for other marketing efforts.  Ironically, the most time consuming part of the entire service is initially establishing accounts with all the social sites.  Each subsequent post takes about three minutes tops.

Daniel D. is an avid writer on various internet marketing topics and is the founder of the Doctor DubLi Team. He creates innovative marketing tools for novice and aspiring networkers worldwide from his office in Suburban Detroit.
Learn more about his business and how his team is seeing success by integrating social networking and DubLi marketing.

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Since the beginning of recorded time, mankind has longed to be heard, to be remembered, to have their voice live on after their body is gone, in essence, to record their time on earth.  It used to be that only the rich, educated, or privileged could write, or were allowed to record their own thoughts.  Like most other things, the advent of technology, the home computer, and the internet, have made this inequity nonexistent.

The internet has allowed regular people, all over the world, to communicate with each other in ways never before thought possible.  All of a sudden, people were writing online journals, web-logs, or blogs.           

It’s hard to believe that it all started, over ten years ago, with a little web site called OpenDiary.  OpenDiary was revolutionary when it was unleashed on cyberspace in 1998. For the first time, anyone, anywhere could create their own “website” to share whatever was important to them.  It was the first blogging platform to enable commenting on posts, allowing users to collaborate, share, disagree, and discuss the current affairs of their lives. Then, in 1999, we saw the rise of the most popular blogging platform to date- Blogger.com.  Blogger brought blogging, or “web-logging”, to the masses.  Since then, we’ve had a multitude of other blogging websites, with many different formats and serving a plethora of niche markets.           

Having all of these fresh new perspectives collectively voicing their opinions can be a little daunting, though.  Even picking someone else’s blog to spend some time reading can be a tough choice.  With so many thousands of people to listen to, how do you pick just one?  Therein lies the beauty of the digital age.  No longer confined to one subscription to one newspaper, people are discovering their own news, following thirty blogs instead of one Wall Street Journal.  

So how does one actually go about creating a blog?  It is actually one of the easiest things you will do all day.  In most cases, creating a blog takes absolutely no technical knowledge of designing a website, other than maybe picking out colors or fonts. Most blogging platforms give you little control over actual layout and presentation, but simplify the process so that everybody can get in the game.  The exception to this rule is the platform called WordPress.  WordPress is open source, which means that anybody can view or change the programming code that makes the application work. Conveniently, this also means that you can add to the code, to simplify repetitive actions or, really, anything imaginable.  WordPress is the best option for people who want a lot of control over final presentation and a platform with infinite extensibility. 

Let’s not forget that thanks to the wonders of modern technology, we aren’t even limited to the written word anymore!  People all over are getting microphones and cameras that connect to the computer to either play radio-host and produce some podcasts (audio “blogs”), or turning the camera on themselves to show the world how they really feel, and creating video blogs, or “vlogs.”

All that’s left now is to find a topic that stirs emotion or passion, develop that idea, and run with it.  Be it print, or audio-visual, just express what is important to you.  Someone, somewhere will be grateful you did.

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