prospects including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, your Blog and even
your articles because people can comment on those articles on the
submission site. To start out you need to establish accounts on each
of those sites and spend 30-60 minutes a day developing relationships.
You should write and submit articles at least twice a week and post
to your Blog at least three times a week.
Are you now ready to step it up a notch? Here are three advanced tips
to increase your visibility online.
Advanced Visibility Tip #1 - Get a Facebook Fan Page or Public Profile
Page as they are now called. They were re-introduced with the last
Facebook re-design because they give businesses a place to openly
market themselves without the fear of getting banned for excessive
marketing messages. If you have any kind of online business you need
to get one of these pages.
Google indexes the Public Profile Pages so just that fact alone will
increase your visibility online! Every piece of new content you add to
your page has the possibility to go viral! There is also no limit to
the number of fans you can have on your Public Profile Page as opposed
to the 5,000 friends limit on the rest of the site.
Advanced Visibility Tip #2 - Article marketing is a fabulous way to
gain visibility online but to take it up a notch you can gain even
more by becoming a top ten author in your category on the Ezine
Article site. Ezine Articles has over 15 million unique visitors a
month so imagine the visibility you would gain by being on that top 10
page for your category.
To find out how many articles you need to write to be on the top ten
page go to the Ezine Article home page and click on your category in
the master list. This will take you to a page with all the articles in
that category. At the top towards the right is the link to the top ten
authors. Click there to find out how many articles author number 10
has written and write one more. Once you reach the top ten set a goal
to move up the list.
Advanced Visibility Tip #3 - The final tip is how to get more
visibility for your blog. Go to Google Blog Search and find some other
blogs related to your niche. Then spend some time reading and
commenting on them. If possible find Blogs that will allow you to list
your website and Twitter link. Make sure you write something
meaningful that would encourage conversation instead of the generic
"great post".
When you write a new Blog post look for another related post that you
can reference and then add that link to your post. Then you can link
to that post in the Trackback section of your dashboard. This builds
back links which will also help with visibility because it increases
your SEO. The Blog owner will be more likely to accept the trackback
if you have commented something intelligent on his post.
Would you like to learn more ways to use social media to increase your
visibility online? I invite you to head over to
http://www.timefinder4you.com and sign up for my free audio series,
"The 7 Ways to Use Social Media to Help You Market Your Business
Online". I am Lauren McMullen - Your Social Media Marketing VA and I
help coaches, consultants, speakers, authors and other
solo-entrepreneurs create a profitable and sustainable internet
business by teaching them to use Social Media to develop relationships
with people in their target market who then ultimately become clients.
