Nov
7th
By Mert Erkal in online marketing | Comments (3)
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Viral marketing is one of the most effective ways to spread the word about your blog and services. Now Widgadget makes your content viral by letting you create your own widget in three easy steps.
How To Create Your Own Widget?
- Sign up Widgadget. Note that there are three options: bloggers, business, and advertisers. By default you should select bloggers. However, you may also want to advertise your services by creating your own widget. In that case you better sign up as advertisers.
- After completing sign up process, you will notice create your widget button on the right up corner.
- Click on it, and follow the necessary steps.
- Widgadget lets you create your own widgets with your desired text color/background, and links them back to your blog.
- After finishing the design process, you are also given an option to share it with others via networks like Netvibes, Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, iGoogle, WordPress. You may also embed the widget code, and publish it on your own blog.
- I must also warn you that Widgadget is still at BETA stage. I faced with some problems while trying to share my widget on some networks. However, it is still a great viral marketing tool for bloggers. All we need is to be patient for a while.
Benefits of Having Your Own Widget
- Bloggers desperately seek for link exchange. The easiest way to have links to your blog is to persuade other bloggers on publishing your widget. The more bloggers do it, the more links you will have.
- Arrange an award or charity organization for bloggers, and create a widget. You will be amazed to see how many bloggers will be linking to your site in a very short period of time.
- Your widget is listed according to its category at Widgadget, where other members can easily find it. This can increase the viral effect.
- All in all, you can create a web or desktop widget in a few minutes, distribute it, publish it in the main social networks, and promote it in their gallery.
After you sign up, pay a visit to my widget SearchForBlogging. Maybe I can get a few backlinks too, who knows…
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Oct
23rd
By Mert Erkal in online marketing | Comments (3)
I am quite happy to see that in average 30 new blogger/Internet marketer/entrepreneur members sign up to the Bloghology Social Network every single day. This social network is very promising for the future, because it is developed by bloggers for bloggers. It aims to act as a marketplace between bloggers and advertisers/Internet marketers.
Do I Really Need to Join Just Another Social Network?
At this moment I bet you are thinking “it is just another social network, why would I need it anyway?”. Let me clarify some points.
As a pro-blogger since very long time I have been using social networking sites like Facebook. However I noticed that I spent most of my time ignoring application requests, or reading many notifications not directly related to blogging. This was waste of my time as a pro-blogger.
Also current social network sites serve as a good networking service for bloggers, but not as a good marketplace connecting bloggers and Internet marketers/sponsors. Bloggers usually spend their time posting from one forum to another just to find a banner sponsor.
As very wisely stated by social media expert Jason Falls, we don’t need more social networks, we need more purposed social networks. The Bloghology Social Network is a purposed network for bloggers and marketers. It connects bloggers to bloggers as well as Internet marketers/entrepreneurs to bloggers.
Some of the exiting features of the Bloghology Social Network include:
Personal Profile Feature: Members, especially bloggers, can describe their interests, backgrounds, and promote their knowledge and areas of expertise. Companies can similarly promote their company brand, with links to their sites, products and services.
Photo and Video Features: All members can create their own personal photo albums, which can be configured to store photos, videos, or other file types enabled by Bloghology.
Blogging Feature: This will give each member their own personal blog to provide valuable content and further promote their knowledge, products and services (in addition to an ‘update feature’ about what they are doing).
Groups Feature: This feature allows all members to create their own unique groups, which encourages greater interactivity between members, based on mutual interests and characteristics.
Events Feature: This enables members to create and publicly display events on their own personal calendar and to invite other members to join. When members receive invitations to events, they can specify an RSVP.
Live Chat Feature: Another feature to encourage interaction, with an Instant Messaging Service (IM) to chat live with other members and ‘buddies’.
Classifieds Section Feature: A feature to allow members to post classified listings to promote, or request a wide range of products and services related to blogging and marketing. Members can also search for other listings via the “browse marketplace” feature. All Classifieds are highly visible, as they appear on member’s public profile pages.
The Bloghology Social Network site is still at BETA stage. Not all mentioned features are ready yet. But they are all scheduled as major upgrades in a few months. More features will be continually added, as the community evolves and membership grows. We clearly aim to maximize the exposure and interaction of bloggers, companies, marketers and advertisers.
Limited Time Offer - Hurry Up!
We are offering the Bloghology Social Network members special advertising packages to increase their exposure in the community at an incredible rate for now. For only $25 our members will get a banner displayed on the Bloghology Social Network for a month and they have the ability to target specific page (e.g. homepage, user homepage, profile, country, city)
You may use your existing profile, and post a classifieds, But in addition, you can now receive for a limited time, banner advertising at this exclusive price, advertise any page you wish, promote and lift your profile even further or advertise your Blog. You may contact us through this form if you would like to get started! Offer expires October 25th. Hurry up!
Popularity: 15% [?]
Oct
22nd
By Mert Erkal in online marketing | Comments (1)
Yesterday we launched the press release for the Bloghology Social Network. You may read it from here: Launch of New Social Network for Bloggers and Marketers by IGM SRL
The new Bloghology Social Network has similar features and functions compared to today’s popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. However, the Bloghology Social Community is special, in that it provides additional features, which are ‘unique’ to bloggers and marketers. You may sign up through the link: The Bloghology Social Network
In order to increase the impact of the press release, we decided to arrange a competition amongst the Bloghology Social Network members. Four lucky members of the Bloghology Social Network will win prizes worth over $5000 by helping us spread the word.
Let’s start with the prizes :
- 1st winner will win a full page advertising on December printed issue of the Bloghology Blogging Magazine
- 2nd winner will win a full page advertising on November digital issue of the Bloghology Blogging Magazine
- 3rd winner will win a one month free banner on Bloghology.org homepage
- Runner-up will win a one month free advertising on our social network site
Haven’t heard of the Bloghology Blogging Magazine before?
This magazine is a “must have” for every blogger around the world because of the very interesting topics that will contain in every issue - blogging lessons, news, interviews, how to make money online and many more.
The printed version will be a unique magazine that will be published every three months with a run of 40 000+ copies. Annual subscription is 20 Euro for all destinations around the world. You may access the digital version of the magazine each month for by registering a free account at http://digital.bloghology.org/
Rules? Very simple:
- The top three members that bring the most members to our social network will share the prizes.
- Please note that SPAMMING will not be tolerated!
- Invite as many bloggers/Internet marketers/friends as possible to our social network using your referral link. Click on “Invite” on the top menu, and then you will see “My Referral Link”. We can not count your invitations if you do not use this link.
- Review the Bloghology Social Network on your blogs by linking back to it with your referral link
- Tweet about “Bloghology Social Network” and invite people with your referral link
How about the Runner-Up?
We decided to give a runner-up prize for the members who don’t have high traffic, and thus couldn’t possibly win the competition. In a way, this would give EVERYONE a chance, not just people who already have high profile and finds it easy to get traffic and promote.
Rules for winning the runner-up prize:
- Above listed rules are still valid
- However, the runner-up will be selected based on the quality of the blog review on the Bloghology Social Network. Write a good review, and win a one month free advertising on our social network.
Finish Line?
Our competition will be over on October 26th, Sunday. We will announce the winners on the Bloghology October digital issue. All you need is to bring as many members to the Bloghology Social Network as possible.
Good luck, and enjoy the competition!
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Oct
13th
By Mert Erkal in online marketing | Comments (4)
Since very long time I have been using social networks to promote my blog as a pro-blogger. Even though social networks like Facebook gives you the ability to reach thousands of people, as a blogger chances are you are disturbing your non-blogger friends with your non-stop profile/status updates, and notification mails from your groups. Plus you are under heavy attacks of non-blogging related topics like games, events, applications. Taking this into consideration we developed the new Bloghology Social Network, a brand new social network for bloggers.
The new Bloghology Social Network functions and looks similar in many ways, to today’s popular social networking sites such as Facebook. However, the Bloghology Community Platform is unique in that it provides additional features and functions which are special to bloggers and blogging related issues. The main areas of the community are :
- Photo section : This will give our users their own personal photo albums. These albums can be configured to store photos, videos, or any other file types we may choose to allow. Users can interact by commenting on each others photos and viewing their friends’ recent updates.
- Blogs Section : This will give each of our users their own personal blog.
- Groups Section : This will let our users create their own groups. These groups encourage interactivity between users based on mutual interests and characteristics. Users can become leaders, create private groups, invite members, browse each other’s memberships, and much more.
- Events Section :
This will let our users create events. Each user is given their own personal calendar with which they can plan events and invite other users to join. When users receive invitations to events, they can specify an RSVP. Each event will have its own main page where users can post comments and interact.
- Chat Section : An IM Messenger.
- Classifieds Section : This will allow our users to post classified listings. Our users will also be able to search for other listings via a “browse marketplace” area, and each users’ listings will appear on their profile.
The new Bloghology Social Network is still at BETA stage, yet it is not just another BETA social site. It is one that is going to take off fast. You need to get on the wagon now and be part of the growth. Join Bloghology Social Network, and witness that with your eyes.
Popularity: 12% [?]
