{"id":10597,"date":"2011-02-28T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=10597"},"modified":"2012-06-06T22:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:49:56","slug":"social-media-hopping-going-where-the-people-hang-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/social-media-hopping-going-where-the-people-hang-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Hopping: Going Where the People Hang Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Warner Carter<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>SEO may be effective at promoting and marketing your business online, but treating this process as the sole tool to your business\u2019 success is a wrong mindset. The problem with many Internet marketers is that they consider their business as an entity that\u2019s purely online. They tend to forget that their online business is an entity that may need traditional marketing methods, too. These businesses need direct promotion and need to be advertised to be known.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean that you should stop your business\u2019 SEO campaigns. Instead, use social media to support SEO processes and to establish a stronger marketing strategy. Create a blog and post a video or a podcast about your company and its products and services. Be a social media hopper, and visit sites that have millions of users. Waiting in vain for SEO\u2019s promises won\u2019t help, so you must help yourself instead. Get your business some exposure, self-promote your services, and befriend other Web users to make them aware of your business\u2019 existence. If you have the ability to hold a conference or seminar to promote your business philosophies and services, then go for it. Be imaginative and don\u2019t put limits on yourself. Think of search engines as secondary to your strategies. Promote your business first and allow people to search for you, upon knowing about your business\u2019 existence. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re obsessed about SEO and you can\u2019t live a day without checking your stats, then you\u2019re in big trouble. Being in such a condition may not do your business any good. <\/p>\n

Search engines are bridges that can help consumers locate your business. However, a search engine offers a very small possibility for your business to get searched. What if you\u2019re new to SEO and you are still on the process of making it to the top? Chances are people won\u2019t be able to get you, so they\u2019ll end up supporting your business\u2019 rivals. With social media tools like social networking sites and blogs, you will be able to disseminate information about your business while bypassing the idea of using search engines to get your website noticed. Direct promotion is what social media offers.<\/p>\n

Most Web users have accounts on Twitter and Facebook these days. With these tools\u2019 commenting and messaging features, you can interact with your prospective and existing clients easily, giving them the instant answers they need. Social media tools are perfect ways to feed exact messages, and not vague keywords, to your target market. <\/p>\n

— Warner is interested in everything online that fuels discovery. I find SEO a facinating puzzle so of course work for an SEO Reseller<\/a>, Endless Rise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Warner Carter<\/a>
\nSEO may be effective at promoting and marketing your business online, but treating this process as the sole tool to your business\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 success is a wrong mindset. The problem with many Internet marketers is that they consider their business as an entity that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s purely online. They tend to forget that their online business is an entity that may need traditional marketing methods, too. These businesses need direct promotion and need to be advertised to be known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[408],"class_list":{"0":"post-10597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"tag-twitter-marketing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}