Profiting From Your Social Interactions

I like to write. One of my favorite things to do in the morning is take a sip or two of Mountain Dew before I start writing in my ScribeFire editor (ScribeFire is a FireFox plug-in that lets you pre-write your articles and blog posts before uploading them). I usually do not go into my writing with any sort of plan... instead, I freestyle for a bit and find myself going in a particular direction.

Not everyone has that ability, however, so it ends up making them feel like they are not doing what they should be doing for their business if they are not writing 2 to 3 articles a day. Don't sweat it, because I don't do this all the time. I may go a week without writing anything, and suddenly get a burst of writing fever and put out a bunch of articles. But I don't give up hope, because I set up a content funnel that is constantly adding new material to my blogs.

The insidiously cool part about this is that as I write a blog post on one site, I can reuse that article on a few other sites, because the content is good and I can get the word out pretty quickly using my bookmarks and simply copying from my ScribeFire editor and pasting into the editor at each of the sites. These sites are then submitted to su.pr, a StumbleUpon link shortener that sends my content to Twitter. Once on Twitter, a plug-in on my blogs gathers my tweets daily and creates a blog post from them. Of course, the links in all of those tweets are pointing to the sites where my articles are located, giving me the link juice to help get them more traffic.

I managed to find another plug-in for Wordpress that will make all content unique, so that the fear of the duplicate content "penalty" is gone. The only thing I have to keep in mind is that I need to add a little of myself into the mix. So each day I log in to Twitter and raise a little havoc by stirring up some controversy, retweeting some key influencers and getting involved in conversations. This helps grow my following and in turn gets my blogs readership.

Your Twitter profile should be connected to Facebook and as many other social networks as possible. This helps ensure you get more interaction from various sites as people read your comments and respond to them. Without adding this little extra network of sites, you are growing, but only at a fraction of the total growth that you could be experiencing.

So when you get ready to start complaining about not having written any new content today, remember that if you have tweeted, or interacted with others on your social networks, you have created content. If you have your profiles networked correctly, that is just enough to keep your network growing, thereby keeping your name in the search engines along with some links that are pointing to your various profiles. Time for another coffee!