Comments on: Why Social Traffic is the Ultimate False Idol of Internet Marketing http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:06:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Efrain Scholfield http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/#comment-7000 Efrain Scholfield Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:44:48 +0000 http://thekeywordacademy.com/?p=141#comment-7000 Comfortably, the article is in reality the best on this laudable issue. My partner and i concur together with your conclusions and definitely will eagerly look forward to ones own future updates. Saying thank you won't just be ample, for the phenomenal clarity within your writing. I'll at once find your really simply syndication feed to remain abreast of every updates. Great work and much success in your business efforts! Comfortably, the article is in reality the best on this laudable issue. My partner and i concur together with your conclusions and definitely will eagerly look forward to ones own future updates. Saying thank you won’t just be ample, for the phenomenal clarity within your writing. I’ll at once find your really simply syndication feed to remain abreast of every updates. Great work and much success in your business efforts!

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]]> By: Angel http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/#comment-446 Angel Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:32:59 +0000 http://thekeywordacademy.com/?p=141#comment-446 Two great auto submissions to bookmarking sites are SocialMarker and Onlywire. They surely can build you a lot of backlinks in a short period of time. The big question is if google will value these links. Take note that in using these auto submitters, you only type one description for all the submissions in your desire to shorten the amount of time spent for this task. Now this will eventually be detected by Google and slap your rankings. If a considerable frequency is detected, might even result in deindexing. Two great auto submissions to bookmarking sites are SocialMarker and Onlywire. They surely can build you a lot of backlinks in a short period of time. The big question is if google will value these links.
Take note that in using these auto submitters, you only type one description for all the submissions in your desire to shorten the amount of time spent for this task. Now this will eventually be detected by Google and slap your rankings. If a considerable frequency is detected, might even result in deindexing.

]]> By: Alex Panait http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/#comment-383 Alex Panait Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:24:43 +0000 http://thekeywordacademy.com/?p=141#comment-383 I agree that the best source for traffic is Google, but an important factor to get traffic from Google are links, lots of links and social web sites can give you incoming links besides the traffic. I agree that the best source for traffic is Google, but an important factor to get traffic from Google are links, lots of links and social web sites can give you incoming links besides the traffic.

]]> By: Mike Volpe http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/#comment-380 Mike Volpe Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:52:09 +0000 http://thekeywordacademy.com/?p=141#comment-380 Pete is right on. To build on his comment a bit, I think that one of the things to think about is what is the nurturing process and what is the right content to use to convert social traffic. We have success converting "social" traffic into leads using a couple targeted techniques (two of which I will mention here). First, we use our groups/friends on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to promote our free webinars. We actually get a lot of signups from that social traffic to our webinars. So, its not on the first social encounter, but if our activity in social media gets people to follow us, we then get conversions later when we send future messages. Just search around in Twitter for "hubspot webinar". Second, if you have the right content / offer for your social traffic, you can get better conversion rates. We built Twitter Grader as a free tool (http://Twitter.Grader.com) which gained a lot of traffic. To convert that traffic, we have two offers, one s to follow @grader and over 21,000 peope are now doing that. The second is to download our social media marketing kit, which is pretty targeted to that audience. For the people that have not become a lead, they get notifications through @grader on Twitter over time, some of which are for lead generating offers. Pete is right on. To build on his comment a bit, I think that one of the things to think about is what is the nurturing process and what is the right content to use to convert social traffic.

We have success converting “social” traffic into leads using a couple targeted techniques (two of which I will mention here).

First, we use our groups/friends on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to promote our free webinars. We actually get a lot of signups from that social traffic to our webinars. So, its not on the first social encounter, but if our activity in social media gets people to follow us, we then get conversions later when we send future messages. Just search around in Twitter for “hubspot webinar”.

Second, if you have the right content / offer for your social traffic, you can get better conversion rates. We built Twitter Grader as a free tool (http://Twitter.Grader.com) which gained a lot of traffic. To convert that traffic, we have two offers, one s to follow @grader and over 21,000 peope are now doing that. The second is to download our social media marketing kit, which is pretty targeted to that audience. For the people that have not become a lead, they get notifications through @grader on Twitter over time, some of which are for lead generating offers.

]]> By: B. Durant http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/#comment-365 B. Durant Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:06:15 +0000 http://thekeywordacademy.com/?p=141#comment-365 It's entirely dependent on what you want to accomplish with your traffic if social media is worth the time. If you just want large numbers of visitors in order to impress potential advertisers it is great. But if you want people to actually read your blog, and become part of your community there's not much of a point in it. It’s entirely dependent on what you want to accomplish with your traffic if social media is worth the time. If you just want large numbers of visitors in order to impress potential advertisers it is great. But if you want people to actually read your blog, and become part of your community there’s not much of a point in it.

]]> By: Grizzly http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/#comment-362 Grizzly Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:23:31 +0000 http://thekeywordacademy.com/?p=141#comment-362 Thanks Mark - your a gent. :-) Thanks Mark – your a gent. :-)

]]> By: Mark http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/#comment-357 Mark Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:28:15 +0000 http://thekeywordacademy.com/?p=141#comment-357 You can download it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/ Simple enough to install and configure (if I can do it...) You can download it here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/

Simple enough to install and configure (if I can do it…)

]]> By: Grizzly http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/#comment-356 Grizzly Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:10:04 +0000 http://thekeywordacademy.com/?p=141#comment-356 very cool plugin - what's it called? very cool plugin – what’s it called?

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