Two Powerful Ways WordPress Can Build Your Visibility

February 11, 2009 | Posted by Carma | Filed Under Learning Center, WordPress, social media

WordPress can be a powerful tool in helping you build your visibility and expertise status. Here are few ways and techniques you can start using today to build your online reputation and noticeability.

Post to Your Blog Regularly

This has two effects:

1) a regularly updated blog is much more likely to get ranked well in the search engines, and

2) when you build a library of articles on your website, you demonstrate that you know your stuff.

Integrate Your Blogging with Your Social Networks

Are you on both Facebook and Twitter? Here’s a great way to leverage your Wordpress blog and both of these social networks to build your visibility.

First, get your blog posting updates to your Facebook account. You can do this using the Notes application.

Second, install a Twitter plugin that posts your blog updates to your Twitter account.

Third, connect your Facebook and Twitter accounts so that whenever you post something to Twitter, it shows up in your Facebook status. There is a Facebook application that does this.

Now, whenever you post to your blog a chain reaction occurs: A note is posted to your Twitter account, which also shows up on your Facebook status. A little later, your post shows up on your Facebook account and is noted on your wall. This creates more ways for people to start noticing you and your expertise, and can drive traffic to your website.


How to Leverage Social Media with WordPress … And Save Time!

February 11, 2009 | Posted by Carma | Filed Under Learning Center, plugins, social media

There are several plugins that you can use to save yourself time when it comes to blogging and social media. Here are a few of my favorites.

Connect Your Blog with Twitter

Twitter Tools
Developed by Alex King, Twitter tools allows you to have your tweets posted on your blog and your blog posts posted to Twitter. It even makes sure you can do both while not causing an endless repetition of cross posts.

Twitter for WordPress
Developed by Ricardo Gonzalez, this plugin will display your latest tweets on your website. It can be added to your theme code or as a sidebar widget.

Tweet My Blog
This plugin is similar to Twitter for WordPress with a few more perks, including an affiliate program on a one-time offer.

Connect Your Blog to Facebook

Facebook Photos plugin for WordPress
Got photos on your Facebook account that you’d like to use on your blog? This plugin does that! After you have linked the plugin to your Facebook account, photos you upload to Facebook will automatically show up in a convenient “Photos” tab in your WordPress powered blog.

Wordbook
This plugin, developed by Robert Tsai, allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Yes, you can do this using the “Notes” feature on Facebook. But what if you have two blogs? You can put one in Notes and use this plugin with the other!

Facebook Comments
Do you get more comments on your blog posts at Facebook than you do your blog? This plugin, developed by James Low, takes care of that little issue for you! It imports comments from your Facebook notes back into your wordpress blog.

Connect Your Blog to MySpace

MySpace Crossposter
The WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposter publishes all of your WordPress blog entries to your MySpace blog at the time of publication. Each time that a new WordPress post goes live it will automatically be sent to MySpace for publication. And, you have the option of just posting a notification, thus driving traffic to your blog from MySpace!


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