Pinterest is the new social media fever. When I heard about it, my first reaction was "overwhelming". I asked to myself, "What? Yet another social media?".

Well I hate to spend time on social media. I simply don't have the time for it. I'm sure many of you bloggers are on the same boat with me.

Although I love to spend reasonable amounts of time on social media by sharing stuff and interacting with people, I cannot get the most out of social media interactions.

Well, don't get me wrong; by "making most", I don't mean making the most sales for my business. I simply can't even effectively build relationships with people.

It seems to be a lot easier with email marketing and interacting with people on my blog, than trying to do the same on social media. … [Read more...]

StumbleUpon is one of those places where bloggers go for promoting their stuff. There's usually a mixed feeling about StumbleUpon. Some bloggers absolutely want it for traffic while some other absolutely don't want it.

Mostly the latter is the case because StumbleUpon is known to create a lot of bounces on any blog. StumbleUpon is not a place where most people stop and look. It is a portal of highly busy people, or I might even call, impatient people; myself included.

With StumbleUpon, everyone is in a hurry with just a curious eye to see if something catches their attention; if nothing does, press, press and press the Stumble button, that's it!

So what does it mean to your blog in terms of bounce rate?

Bounce rate is nothing but a measure of how many people just rush out of … [Read more...]

Google has launched Google plus pages. It is a great opportunity for any business to have their own page on Google+.

Earlier Google+ was only supporting personal profiles and not any business profiles. Now just like Facebook, Google plus has also given a nice chance for its users to differentiate between a personal profile and a business page.

This way things are really going to be targeted and professional. Here's a short video tutorial on how to create a Google plus page for your blog or business.

Steps to create a Google plus page

1. Go to http://plus.google.com/pages/create.
2. Pick a category.
3. Give a name to your page (usually the name of your blog), fill in your website url, click agree to terms and press "Create".
4. Enter tag line, upload photo (a logo of your blog/website/business), click continue.
5. Click … [Read more...]

I recently wrote a post on Facebook fanpage customization where I demonstrated how to add a Twitter tab to a Facebook fanpage. The post also has a demonstration video, so don't forget to check it out.

Now its time for another Facebook fanpage tutorial. This is about adding an RSS feed tab to your Facebook fanpage.

Integrating your blog's RSS feeds to your Facebook fanpage is a nice addition and helps your fanpage visitors to know more about your blog.

Here are a couple of screenshots that show the tab in action.

Don't worry that if you dump your entire blog (as RSS) in your Facebook fanpage then visitors won't come to your blog. In fact after installing the tab on my Facebook fanpage, I found that the traffic from Facebook … [Read more...]

Social sharing buttons are everywhere. If you visit any website or a blog, you cannot escape without noticing a handful of them.

Although the most popular ones are Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and so on, there are some bloggers who jump in with excitement and throw away every possible sharing button.

Now, in this post by "social sharing buttons" I mean both social sharing buttons and social profile buttons.

• Social sharing buttons are those which are meant to share that particular page/post on a particular social media upon pressing the corresponding button.
• On the other hand profile buttons are those that lead to the blogger/website owners social profile page, so that you can follow/friend/fan him/her.

Now, we bloggers and internet marketers can't live without social networking buttons. That's an … [Read more...]

OK now that I have had my hands enough on Google plus, I wish to share a tutorial or a guide to play with many things around in Google plus. I am also getting questions everyday from my friends asking the why's and how's of using it. This tutorial is all about how to use Google+.

So lets dive in.

Sending And Accepting Invitations

It could be seriously annoying when some of your friends are already jumping around with plus, and you are not able to get in. At the moment Google plus is running in test mode and hence they are not allowing everybody to get in.

There is no "official" invite button yet. But you can still send an invitation by sharing something with your friend. This step assumes that you are already on plus, of course.

You can do this in two ways:

1. If you have lots of invites to send, you can first … [Read more...]