Of course I’m not mean that we should totally ignore SEO and only focus on Social Media. Search Engine Optimization is more technical but it’s always good in keywords research, keywords targeting and attract free traffics for our website/blog. For long term advantages, we really need to look into it seriously and can’t ignore it’s importance.

Social Media on the other hand is very powerful and here’s some of my reasons:

1) Get indexed within 24 hours – Your brand new website/blog will get indexed by Google within 24 hours by using social media. See my posts:

• Power of Social Bookmarking – My Babymoon Travelling Information Guides
• Just A Casual Blogging

If you only focus on SEO and the new website may need to get up to 4 weeks or longer time to get indexed by Google.

2) Networking – I like networking and enjoy the online atmosphere. We can share ideas and goals with each others and people will also get to know you more personally. It gathers like minded people together in a community and we grow by learning from others ideas.

3) It’s kind of Viral Marketing – You can get very up to date information through social media. Twitter is a mini blogging that gives very updated information and once you put your information on to social media, it is shot to websites all over the world.

4) Broadcast – All you need to do is just to do a broadcast on all your social media sites and all your networks friends get the information you are trying to deliver. It’s a very easy way to drive traffic and without any spamming.

5) Branding – The last thing I love is social media helps in the branding. Branding is important in Internet Marketing and you don’t need to be the professional in your niche but you should be the authority in your niche. Social media is a great tool for branding.

Social media is closely related to Web 2.0 and therefore we must take note of the following when implement the social media marketing.

1. We must be a real user - Here we are not referring to get a robot to work for us. What I mean is to show your real interests and vote for your favourite or what you found interesting. If you are getting your staff to involve at social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg or Delicious, it’s important for them to focus on the topics or articles that they like so that they might not lose interest in social media.

2. Get involved in social media sites and understand them – We need to get involve ourselves in different top social media sites and to understand how the sites are working. It’s ideally to use it on a regular basis especially with the social bookmarking sites.

3. Focus on your niche – We might find some top sites like StumbleUpon or Digg drive many visitors to certain people. However, it’s always good for us to identify our niche and focus on sites that can drive correct traffic. Although focus on a niche might send fewer visitors, but those visitors will likely find the content more relevant and help to increase your conversion rate.

4. No control on them – We totally have no control on the results and also the results can’t be guaranteed. It’s just like we don’t have any control over the search engine rankings.

5. Digg is not the only social media site – Many people know the powerful of Digg and the Digg effect. However, Digg is not the only social media site and failure in Digg doesn’t mean that your website or campaign failure. We can always drive massive traffic from other social media sites.

6. Good contents not always mean good traffic – The main key is what is the social media users want at the particular site. Althought you have generate very good content but it doesn’t guarantee you the traffic and there might be very few users really picked it up.

7. No heavy pitching or selling – Many content sharing sites don’t allow advertising content and we should go light on selling or promotional messaging. Instead of writing about how great our products are, we should go for the benefits or features of the products.

8. Always offer value especially to your niche – Value means different things to different people. Same contents but always mean different value to users and we should always create content that offer value to our niche.

9. Participate personally in communities – It’s always essential for us to participate personally and engage with communities on social networks. Leaving comments on blogs and forums or joining groups on Facebook are good ways to build online presence and get people to notice about you.

10. Should also use other strategies – Don’t only rely on social media marketing. Other strategies like SEO, LSI or PPC Campaigns are also important to bring in the great results.

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Since this is a powerful strategy, why still have people who ignore the efficacy of social media? Basically there are few reasons:

1. they don’t know much about social media
2. they are interested but don’t know how to use it
3. they don’t believe social media strategy can bring values to their business

Let’s see the main benefits of social media for your website
Borrowed trust – Search engine will trust your website if your website receives a large number of natural, permanent links from trusted domains. A new website normally find it difficult to gain links from authority sites but a trusted domains make it easier for links to come in. Those trusted domains have some “certified” value and if the visitors come to your website through them, you gain the trust of search engine.

Referral traffic – Many people will claim that the social sites normally send them useless traffic because the bounce rate is high and visitors normally come to the website and click away. This is what happen normally but we shouldn’t ignore the referral traffic that social sites bring us. Referral traffic is the traffic that come to your website after they come across your content through the social sites. Since they have interested in your content at social sites, they tend to visit your website and come back to you again and again.

Why should practice Social Media Marketing?
1. It is low cost or zero cost – Compare to PPC, it is totally free if you done by yourself. If you consider to hire writers to designers to do for you, the returns still often exceed the cost.
2. Easily controlled – Social media traffic can be very easily controlled compare to search engine traffic. And the advantage is, once you have social communities, they can be a great source of web traffic.
3. Natural – The most important is you get natural links and your website is exposed to large groups of people.
4. Community specific – It’s an easy marketing method and usually community specific.

Community specific?
Social media marketing is characterized by communities and it allows users to do many or all of the following:

• Create profile
• Grow a network of friends or colleagues
• Collaborate with other community members
• Submit content
• Vote on content
• Tag content
• Comment on content

I hope by now you see the benefits of social media for your website and I’ll share with you more about social media. Subscribe to my RSS if you like my post and I invite you to join my community and grow your community as well.

Let me share with you my findings about Qassia instead of copy all the introduction and information from Qassia. From my findings, Qassia is a way to get quality backlinks, improve our blog’s traffic and earn advertising revenue.

What is Intel?
The information you submitted is referred as an Intel. You can submit your own unpublished original articles or existing content that you have published on your blog or other third-party website.

They will base on the “Qassia dollars” to determine how your website will be ranked in Qassia’s directories. That means the more Qassia dollars you have, the higher your website ranks and makes it easier for people to find it.

There are four ways to earn Qassia dollars:

1. Referring – When your friends sign up via your user page, you get credited once the user validates their email.
2. Screen Intel – Before publishing, an Intel has to be screened by 12 users. You can get $5 to $9 Qassia dollars in credit for every intel you help to screen.
3. Add Intel – You can also add your own intel. For every Intel you add, there will be a link to your website. So if you add more quality Intels, more quality backlinks you get and more traffic boost to your website.
4. Qassia Sticker – Once Qassia crawl your site and found their logo on your site, they will give you credit. They will crawl your site at least one time a month.

How to earn real money with Qassia?
Qassia will give you 100% of the advertising revenue generated by your intel page. That means they are displaying Google Adsense ads on your user page and next to your Intel using your Google Adsense account number. The more Intel you submit the more benefit you enjoy.

Hope by now you have a better understanding of how Qassia works. And you can join by click on the logo.