Keeping Your Socia Media Accounts in Good Standing

September 7th, 2009 by admin

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If you are a heavy user of bookmarking and social buzz sites as I am– for my own work, clients and for articles I enjoy in various fields– you must maintain your social media sites in good standing.  You must be an active member of each community you join and use these sites for a variety of tasks a little bit at a time.

Take time each day to maintain your social media sites by:

1.) Completing your profile on the site. Include a picture and a little about yourself. Include your major websites, if it is allowed. This is a good way to publicize your services and products.

2.) Meet other members of the social media community and invite like-minded members to become your friend. When the feature is included in the software, invite some of your own friends and associates to join the social media site. Some sites only let you share bookmarks and comments with people who are in your friend group, so the more you’ve got, the more your sites will circulate and the more influence you’ll have in supporting other people’s work.

3.) Join a selection of the most important general social media sites, and those that make sense for your niche.  Some of the more important general sites include Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Diggo, and Folkd.  There are hundreds of social media sites, however, many directed to particular fields or countries.

4.) Check out top articles in your area of interest on these sites and bookmark the ones that you may wish to reference again. Buzz or vote up the articles that are most significant.  Make comments on those sites that allow commenting.

5.) If you do a lot of bookmarking you will probably want to find software that makes the bookmarking process more automatic. Change these up.  Don’t just use one, and particularly avoid overusing any one site.  The search engines do not like to see unnatural patterns of bookmarking.  If you do 40 or 50 sites in one day all on one or two bookmarking sites you are running the risk of being shut down on that site, particularly buy cheap Diarex online if you routinely do that.  Make sure that if you have virtual assistants doing your bookmarking for you you also set limits on the number of bookmarks that they do in one day.  A good number might be 10 or 15 to any one site in one day.

Bookmarking and commenting on sites is a necessary part of gaining page ranking and moving up in natural page order within the search engines.  Google particularly pays attention to the quality, use of natural language patterns, and the distribution of buzz about different content.  Activity that moves outside of a specific range will bring on red flags unnecessarily.

Liz Nichols
www.MyBlogBuilders.com
www.ElizabethDNichols.com

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