If I planned on posting a link to the blog every hour, that is workable. But Ben, can you do me a favour and tell me how that looks from a Facebook perspective? I currently have the two linked. @replies don’t go to FB but the hourly tweets will. Is that too much for FB?

Thanks so much for your help,
Eleanor

I totally get where you are at. I went through this same thing, but very quickly I was like, you know what it’s my site and I want people to visit.

Why not try a different post every hour? Or every 2 hours? You definately have to get your site out there, don’t think of it as your work, but bricks for the people who need it.

Spreading your content a lot is something not everyone likes, but think of it as the money boxes on every corner.
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You need to develop an update schedule through something like Twitter that you personally are comfortable with. Personally I think you update schedule, especially through Facebook is fine (James may disagree but we all do it our own way and that’s ok.)

The Social Media sites I use are Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumble Upon. When I release a post I set up my automated tweets to go over the next 48hrs. I then share the post on Facebook as well as sumbit it to Digg and Stumble Upon. That’s it. The biggest thing that seems to work for me is the engagement with other people through things like comments and places like Twitter. James does the same thing and it’s social engage he does that brings him the success.

I use a related posts plugin to highlight 3 related posts, not on the front page, at the bottom of each post. This helps me recycle posts if you know what I mean. I do also occassionally tweet out a link to an old post. Running a post hightlighting popular posts and ones that people might have missed every two months has worked well too.

Hope this helps
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I understand and am starting to implement commenting on other people’s blogs. What I’m less clear on is how to best social media.

Whilst I appreciate it works for you James, I’m not comfortable with posting blog links every 15mins or so 24/7. Equally, I understand that Ben, you promote just your latest posts via Twitter over a 48 hour period.

Is there a half way house? The site already has loads of content that no longer displays on front page. I’m biased of course but I believe it still has value. What’s the best way to promote this?

And finally, what other social media do you use and how?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Eleanor

You’re right of course – you need to go out there (after creating lots of great content) and engage with your potential customers and then add value.
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It’s honestly this simple, as you say write and promote!

Your promotion is the part that takes the most work, replying to everything and being everywhere!
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