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Google Friend Connect is a social networking that I just joined. As we know, social network is a great tool for our exposure and also to grow our site’s traffic, so I get the widget at my sidebar and hope to connect with you all.
Google Friend Connect is very user friendly and it allows you to sign in with your Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account. You can interact with other visitors by making friends, sharing media, posting comments, playing games, and more. Another great thing is you may invite friends from other social networks and contact lists to join your site or blog.
Here is the video by Google
If you have joined this social site, I would like to connect with you too. Just leave me a message here and I will join yours.
After I have learned about these two topics of Social Media Marketing (SMM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO), I found that Social Media Marketing is more powerful and it is several times better than Search Engine Optimization.
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:
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.
There are some important information that we need to understand when get involved in Social Media Marketing in order for our business to success. Social Media Marketing can be a failure if you don’t know the “rules” and simply go ahead and overdo it.
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.
Let me share with you how powerful of social bookmarking using my new website “Babymoon Travelling Information Guides” as example. It get indexed by Google and has rank in first page within one day time and rank #1 after I submitted my video to youtube.
Before I go further, let me do some introduction about my new website. This is my brand new “one page only” website which the title is “Babymoon Travelling Information Guides”. Many of you know that my I named my two year old daughter “Baby Moon” and I found that “babymoon” has a wonderful meaning.
Babymoon – a vacation taken by couple that is expecting a baby in order to allow the couple to enjoy a final trip together. The main objective for Babymoon Travelling is to let parents have a relaxing and enjoyabe time while awaiting for the newborn.
I am about to finish writing a book on Babymoon Travelling, but to provide good valuable information to those who wishes to travel a babymoon holidays, I have this new website seeking your help to Share your knowledge, ideas as well as experiences you think should be in my book.
I published my website on 17th November and the next day it has get indexed by Google and ranked in first page. Last night I have submitted videos to youtube and my website get rank #1 today (22 Nov 2008).
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Keyword – Babymoon Travelling (#1 & #4)
Keyword – Babymoon Information (#14)
Keyword – Babymoon Guides (#14)
Keyword – Babymoon Singapore (#13)
Enjoy the video – The baby in the video is my Baby Moon =)
So, now you might want to know how my “one page only” website get indexed by Google within one day and what is the secret behind? I would tell you that there is no secret, what I have done is very simple – Social Bookmarking! I have only done Social Bookmarking and please do not doubt about my answer. I have submitted my website to many social bookmarking sites and this is the result.
What’s my result of get rank within #20 of organic keywords search? I think you should know the answer – TRAFFIC! I get more than 200 visitors in one day right after my babymoon travelling website was published.
I hope you like my sharing and please participate in my Babymoon Travelling Information Guides. I will send you a FREE COPY for your participation and valuable time to make this a complete and meaningful ebook.
We have discussed about the importance of building reputation online at social media and today let’s see what are the important elements that needed to build a popular social media profile. To develop a stronger online reputation, we need to put in some effort and there are some helpful characteristics that might help us.
1. Participation generic amoxil levels – Actively participate at social sites such as StumbleUpon or Digg is a good way to increase your visibility and develop your brand recognition. You can maintain high submission volume so that your profile to become more familiar to other users and broad visibility will give you lots of opportunities for networking, which helps you along the way. But please remember, only submit good stuffs and don’t spam.
2. Continuous presence – Not only you need to actively participate, you also need to continuosly presence at social media sites. It is not a good strategy to actively involve with certain site and then disappear for few weeks and then back again. You might find the other users have unfriend you. It is good if you can make it a habit to get yourself involve with the social media sites everyday.
3. Joint ventures – Normally at social sites, people often vote because of the submitter and not the story. Do you have the experience that when your friends ask you for favour and you will help? This is exactly the same at social media and you need to take the initiative doing someone a favour and ask nothing in return. It’ll come back to you because this is the unspoken rule of reciprocation. Always think further and think about how you and the other user can collaborate in mutually-beneficial ventures.
4. Conversation – Keep in mind that conversation is a big part of social media. Communicate with others and you’ll learn new things. Conversation also an integral part of building relationship and make new friends. It will help to enrich your social media experience and always make it easy for others to contact you.
5. Value leads to trust – You should provide value in order to build a successful brand through social media. By providing value, you earn trust and your attention and brand grows. It then leads to greater benefits in the future in terms of traffic, reputation or connections.
Hope the above helps in building your social media profile and your online reputation.
Social networking is a good way to build your reputation online. Your biggest responsibility at social networks is to build your reputation. Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are good sites that allow you to do so.
Tips to build your reputation
1. Always be yourself - You must be yourself and always proud of being yourself. If you are acting and being fake, people may find out after a while and as soon as they realise you are not who you say you are, your reputation is destroyed. Everyone has it’s own strong points and knowledge in particular field. So don’t worry of being yourself. When you start to share some knowledge, those want to learn from you are going to gravitate towards you.
2. Keep everything real with your audience - Let your audience learn how to trust you by sharing your things with them transparently. Always let people know what you are doing and why you are doing it. For example, I have learnt about social media and I know it’s going to help you all in internet marketing, so I blog about it and hope that you get some tips and know how to benefit from it. Recently my articles at Hubpages also doing quite well and one of it being published at the 200,000th articles. I’m sharing with you all and hope that you all have good result at article marketing too. Those are the strategies that can actually help us in internet marketing.
3. Be positive always – Always share your positive perspective and be positive and optimistic. Even though you can login you Twitter or Facebook to talk about some negative topics like how bad your day or how bad the products but by doing this, you will get negative return. And it won’t help either you or your products.
4. Be patient – Building your reputation at social networks is not going to happen over night or even over a few weeks. You must be patient and when time goes, you get more followers and a larger network of friends and peers. It might take couple of months or year for your network to grow and once it hits a tipping point, your reputation and business accelerates at a very quick pace.
5. Sharing is the most important – participate in the conversation, try to help people and let people how to do without charging them money at first. You think people will follow you if your answer to them is “You can get my answer from the eBook and go buy it”? You need to share with them and give them solutions so that the trust is developed.
How does social networking help to make money?
It doesn’t help you to make money directly and you got to have fun and build relationship. Connect with people and really help them out. Dollars will come when they become your loyal followers. So, start to have fun at social networks.
When the first time I heard about social media marketing, my reaction was “huh? what’s that?”. And later, I’ve realised that social media marketing is a poweful method that will easily give us large numbers of visitors and some of them may come back to our website again and again. This strategy will give us links, attention and massive amounts of traffic.
Since this is a powerful strategy, why still have people who ignore the efficacy of social media? Basically there are few reasons:
they don’t know much about social media
they are interested but don’t know how to use it
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.
Facebook is not a new term to you all and in case you have heard about Facebook but have not joined in as a member, now come join us. If you are already a member but inactive and seldom log in to your facebook, I invite you to come back and actively participate in this social networking site.
Why I want you to join Facebook but not other social networking site? Yes, you should join other social networking sites but you should not ignore Facebook and underestimate the power of Facebook. Here let’s see some data about Facebook.
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From here, we can see that in June 2008, web search volume for Facebook has exceeded google.
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Rising searches are searches that have experienced significant growth in given time period, with respect to the preceding time period. Data shows that Facebook has a rising searches of +220%.
Why people are on Social Networks?
Looking for friendship
Improved communications
Exchange ideas with like-minded people
Meeting new people
So, I think you have no reason not to join Facebook. Come join me there and add me as your friend! See you there!
Many of us have heard about Social networking but are not quite sure what it means.
Definition
A social network is a map of all the relevant ties between the nodes being studied. The network can also be used to determine the social capital of individual actors. These concepts are often displayed in a social network diagram, where nodes are the points and ties are the lines.
Social Network Diagram
*Definition & Social Network Program from Wikipedia
In other words, Social Networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighbourhood subdivision. Websites are commonly used in online social networking and these websites are known as social sites. Examples of social networking websites are Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Plaxo etc.
One of the fantastic thing about social networking is you could develop an online friendship with individual or groups in different countries. There is no barriers of make new friends and you might learn and share new things and cultures with your new friends.
As an online marketer, you can also utilize social networking and consider it as a platform to announce yourself and your internet business. Through social networking, you can easily meet other like-minded people sharing the same interests and join groups.
I have been looking around for online opportunity and I am honor to have met Moon. When I first saw her Mompreneur Asia Website, I was deeply inspired and very impressed. Being a full time mother and with her will to believe that making money online is possible. Being through the hard work, she has proven to many people that anyone can make money online. Her willingness on helping people like me has given me a guideline in life that decision is upon individual. So if you are looking for opportunity like me, Moon Loh should be the one you are long looking for.
Charmaine Ong
It has been my pleasure to work with Moon Loh since last year. She has consistency and integrity in her work. She shares her knowledge in internet and network marketing generously. I would definitely recommend Moon Loh without hesitation
Viviana Andrew
I have known Moon Loh since Year 2010. When I first saw her Mompreneur Asia website, I was very impressed. She is really someone I admire very much. From an ordinary housewife to becoming one of the top internet marketers in Asia, she had proven that anyone can make money online. She is also very down to earth and willing to share her knowledge and skills with others. I am glad to have the privilege to work with Moon.
Ket Sang Tai
Moon shares freely her knowledge in internet marketing to her team and patiently teach them till they understand. Her leadership is worth commending on. If you want to find someone whom you can learn and work with to succeed in Internet Network Marketing, Moon is the person you can look for.
If There's a will, There's a way! 
is my motto.
