It is not that you have to listen to social media; you actually listen to what your target audience or potential clients have to say about you. You can make use of social media monitoring tools and find out what your clients or customers have to say about your brand, product or service. You can also use Google or Yahoo alerts and subscribe to urls or keywords. By these search engine alerts you can find out whether your blog or website is being mentioned and can be traced through search engines or not. Not only this when you are using social media tools, you need to mention your business or profession while you are sending messages to friends.

If you really don’t wants to spend your so much time on brand monitoring then you should add a alert to Google about your brand name (It can be your product, website name or your famous keyword). You should check these alerts on daily basis to identify what people are talking about your brand & industry. By adding alert you will receive an email if some one is talking about your brand or industry. If you are a B2C company then it will help a lot because people share positive & negative reviews about you products.

Monitoring Twitter list is important because even if you are mentioned in too many lists but they are not related to the service you offer, they are of no use. It might affect you negatively also. Apart from all this, you need to find out on social media what people like about your niche. It is good to analyze what people enjoy the most so that you can bring fruitful changes if necessary in your presentation. You can pick up an idea from the best one and then by giving it a different angle, present it on your blog. Then analyze the results that occur and only after that go ahead and use social media tools.

How to track twitter traffic with Google Analytic.

It is very important to find out; who is watching and what are they saying about your work. Simply participating in social media discussions is not enough. You should first listen and then participate so that you are well aware of what you should say and when. There are numerous platforms where you can involve yourself. Uses these social media monitoring tools to help you develop and succeed in your business.

If you log on to social media marketing sites only for promoting your blog, you will not get the proper response. Remember, you are the user first and you should contribute to the community. Social media is all about listening + Sharing + Promotion. Do not only submit more to your own content but also visit other people’s sites and convey your opinion on their contents.  let’s take example of twitter, If you have twitter account & you are just tweeting about your primary content then you are doing wrong. “Visit our guest post to goarticles about Twitter mass following“. It will give you more brief about what strategy you should use for your twitter account. Visit other social media sites just to be an active member and you can also contribute more on the submissions that you have there. The main intention is to show that you are not only to push your site there.

I would like to talk about one very famous social bookmarking website “Digg“. We all know if our blog post, Image or video will hit the digg front page then it can derive very massive traffic to our website & it can give us very good amount of back links but “IT IS NOT SO EASY“. If you are a digg community member then you will see thousands of stories are going to be submitted in a day & only selected stories are coming to the front page & out of that most of the stories are from most popular websites. To beat these websites you should have very well written & researched content. You should not just submit all your post to digg, here i suggest go slow submit your post which you think can hit the digg front page. You should study your digg category first that what kind of post are coming to the front page & try to create a post bit similar but add more value to it. “If you have any kind of issues & question about social bookmarking, social networking websites then just drop it on our social media forum“, we will try to find out the best answer for you.

If you are submitting your content to social media sites bear in mind the likes of that particular social media audience. Just keep in mind that the audience there want to be entertained and informed in a unique way. Also do not forget that your target is not to promote social media sites. So concentrate on one or two sites that are more useful and profitable for your business. The other members should not feel that they are being targeted for marketing purposes. Try to focus on small social media marketing sites or niche social media sites so that you get easy and more traffic generated to your site.

You have to build a network and stay connected to be successful in this field. Also pay attention to the content and share it with the social media site you are associated to. Make your blog work for you so that it helps you reach your goals and objectives. Make sure you participate regularly in both blogging and sharing your content with the social media sites. Be an active member, test everything and do your homework. Make sure you represent yourself truthfully and honestly.

Seeing the ease and quickness, people are switching towards accessing their social media sites via mobile browser. Most of the credit goes to the smartphones as they have made it easy and accessible. The study reveals the facts by only observing the pattern of users in the month of January.  In only one month the rise is up to 112%, which is just for the Facebook users. MySpace attracted almost half of the Facebook results and the outcome for Twitter users is 347% as compared to last year. These are the results evaluated taking only smartphone users and those who use their phone exclusively for this purpose, are not included here. These results are revealed from the study made by comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR).

According to Facebook, the members that are using their mobile to access are twice more active than others who are non-mobile users. Facebook’s goal is to help people stay connected wherever they go and the smartphones are really helping them achieve their target. Seeing all this, we foresee that Facebook and smartphones are going to gain prominence and they deserve the true fame. Facebook has already made a great presence on mobile platform and with the tremendous increase in people using it via mobile phones makes it clear that their strategy of making Facebook mobile is really working.

Facebook announced Monday that it has launched new “share” buttons with counters, much in the style of Digg, Tweet-meme button. Once you install that button to your blog then you will know how many times your blog has been shared with Facebook users.

Companies claimed that more then two billion pieces of content are shared every week. Previously there were not any stats to measure the Facebook share count but in this, counter & analytic has been accessible.

It is not just too difficult to install it to your website. Here is one post “Extending Facebook Share” which can help you to install button to your website.

To install Facebook share button for your wordpress check code & download plugin which can make your work easier.

Facebook is just growing these day’s with millions of users every month & with this feature it can be a big competition for twitter. In twitter the measure problem we have found that it is not easy to track twitter traffic in Google Analytic but with this Facebook button as many as share you will get, it will increase in no of traffic for your website or blog.

The above demographic details shows that every day twitter attracting more and more young adults and teens to use their site for their own social networking purpose. All users are using Twitter for their own purpose. This was up 8 percent from the 11 percent who used such services in April 2009.

The above demographic details shows that every day twitter attracting more and more young adults and teens to use their site for their own social networking purpose. All users are using Twitter for their own purpose. This was up 8 percent from the 11 percent who used such services in April 2009.

The survey has been conducted with 2,253 users, age 18 & above. Also the trend of staying in touch via status updates has led to increased usage. Twitter & other status services are very popular in between age group of 18-34. The above demographic details shows that other age group were slower to adopt Twitter use, with the age of 35-49 and 50-60 age totaling 17 percent. Yet these groups increased by 5, 6 and 2 percent respectively, since December.

People believe online communication these day’s & twitter helping them & giving them a way to communicate with each other with in 14characters limit. The Rss feed is also one of the most attractive feature to get the updates directly in to mail.

Twitter is not just going to stay here because they are trying to come up with a new list feature as well. This feature has been testing with small no of users. The main feature of this beta version is you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense. You can just link these users to your profile & other users can subscribe for this list.

So twitter is going to take over the internet world very soon where all age group members will tweets according to their interest.

Twitter?

Oh yes it is a micro-blogging service where we can share any thing with the limit of 140 characters. Every one is using twitter for their own benefits & twitter is just growing these day’s. Twitter announced a new feature in last month “Create Lists Of Several Users At Once”.

This feature has been testing with small no of users. The main feature of this beta version is you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense. You can just link this users to your profile & other users can subscribe for this list.

(Ref :- blog.twitter.com)

People are using phone for twitter just to check new tweets updates from friends.

When I first saw “Phone Calls Come to Twitter” was shocked to see. A VoIP company Jajah is going to launch a twitter calling solution by just typing @call @username. You don’t need the contact No of that person but he/she should be in your followers list & should have Jajah account. The main features are it’s FREE & you just don’t need phone no to call.

As we know that twitter is already a communication platform. After this feature the communication process will be easier.