What Time Should I Post To Twitter & Facebook?

July 19, 2009 By Lisa Angelettie 17 Comments

Have You Ever Wondered What Is The Best Time To Post To Twitter And Facebook?

I really love social marketing, but like most of you my time is limited, I really need to maximize how much time I spend on social marketing and make sure that I am getting the most bang for time spent online. Especially on my favorite social marketing tools – Twitter and Facebook.

FIRST
I took a look at some of my friends and associates who use social media as a primary source of communication with prospective clients and customers. So I asked one of my good friends, group coaching mastery expert, Wendy Y Bailey (@WendyYBailey) who seems to really use Twitter smartly and effectively : “Hey WendyY, when are the prime times to send out tweets?”

Wendy roughly estimates that: 7-9:30 am ET or 7-10 pm ET are the prime times to post to twitter. I suppose that makes sense. People are just logging into their computers at work in the am around those times and can check email, Twitter, and Facebook before they get to work. Also, people obviously spend more time on the computer after dinner, so 7 to 10pm makes sense.

SECOND
I took a look at my website statistics to see what was the “prime time” for visitors on my blog. People were visiting my site most at around 11am EST. My visitor traffic is pretty evenly spread between both the East and West coasts of the US, so I found that time pretty interesting because I would typically post a new article on my blog much earlier at around 6:00 am EST.

So I dug a little deeper. What I found was that there was a correlation between my blog posts and when people started talking about them, sharing them, etc. on social media. In my social networks, people are engaging most with me at around 11am EST. This includes Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

TESTING
Before you can set any of your social media on autopilot and/or carve out chunks of time in your schedule to engage with folks, it’s important that you figure out your sweet spot. I just want you to be comforted in the fact that once you figure that time out, you don’t necessarily need to be online that time everyday. Some of this can be automated with autotweets using a variety of free and premium online Twitter tools. I recommend using Hootsuite or Tweetadder to do this.

BOTTOM LINE
The bottom line is that to figure out what time is best for you to post to Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn you need to vary the times you post your articles, vary the times you engage in social media, and then watch. When do the two meet? That is your sweet spot.

Does anyone else have suggestions on the best times to tweet? If so, tell us here. We’d love to know!

Make sure to follow me on Twitter: @LisaAngelettie and Facebook and LinkedIn

Article Submission: How Do I Check Where My Articles Are Published?

June 21, 2009 By Lisa Angelettie 2 Comments

Q: How do I check to see where my articles have been published once I submit them using an article submission service? They say they submitted them but don’t provide the links to the articles.

A: If you use an article submission service, and there are several good ones out there, one thing that they sometimes drop the ball on is proving where your articles have truly been submitted to AND published. This is not always their fault. Sometimes…

1. The article directory is slow and doesn’t review articles in a timely fashion

2. The article directory didn’t have the appropriate category for your article so it didn’t publish it

3. The article directory is no longer accepting submission and hasn’t notified your submission service

So the best way to check if your articles have been published is to do a simple Google or Yahoo search. That’s right – old school!

Type the title of your article and enclose it in quotes: “Title Of Article” in the search box. Return and see what your results are. If you articles were accepted and published in a high-quality directory, you should see your article on the first page or two.

Move through the next few pages to check and see if there are any other results as well. It may be that your article will show in lower ranked article directories’ deeper in the results.

If you submitted the identical article to several directories, then it may be that your article was indeed accepted and published but several of the links fell into the Google Sandbox because they were read as unimportant duplicate content.

This is called “filtering” but you will hear many call it a Google “penalty”. Whichever, you are not being banned by the search engines — it’s just that your duplicate articles are being filtered out of search results.

That’s why it may make more sense to submit unique versions of the same article so you do not fall into this filter, or else what’s the point right?

Article Marketing 101: Can I Use Previously Published Articles On New Sites?

June 18, 2009 By Lisa Angelettie Leave a Comment

Q: Can I submit an article from my blog to another site without penalty? Like an article directory or a friend’s blog?

A: Yes you can, but I highly recommend that you re-write the title and submit an older article. One that is at least 3 months old. That way it’s probably past it’s initial publishing traffic surge at the first site and can be submitted again.

Also if you want to maximize the article’s search engine potential, I highly recommend re-writing the entire article using the unique article wizard. (It’s easier than you think!) That way you will get maximum benefit as the search engines will look at the article as an entirely new article.

Remember that I strongly encourage you to reuse, repurpose and regenerate all existing articles. There is always “something else” that can be done with your old articles. Re-working and then resubmitting old articles is a great way to achieve this.

Article Marketing: How Do I Know My Articles Are Useful?

May 28, 2009 By Lisa Angelettie 1 Comment

One of the most frequently asked article marketing questions that members and clients ask me is one that typically comes from a place of a lack of writing confidence and perhaps a little disconnect or lack of communication with the prospects in their niche. Perhaps this is an issue in your article marketing and article writing as well…

Question: How do I know that my articles are useful to the readers in my niche?

Answer: The best way to assure that you are writing articles that potential prospects will want to read is to get an idea of what “problems” prospects need to solve. When people are searching for something in search engines like Google or Yahoo, it usually is for an ANSWER to a question.

For example: If a prospect conducts a search for “How do I make the perfect omelette?”
The best thing to do then is to have an article written on “Making The Perfect Omelette“.

If you feel as though you don’t know what prospects in your marketplace are searching for and what those “hot button” questions are that they need answered, it’s probably because you haven’t asked! Here are a couple of tips for finding out what your prospects want the answers to a.k.a. what their source of “pain” is…

1. Ask your list. “What is your biggest question about…”
An easy way to get this done is by adding this as a question on your opt-in list sign up form OR you can create a form somewhere on your website where people can input their answers.

2. Cruise the forums. Find out what people are talking about. The kinds of questions they are asking about your topic, and then write articles that solve those questions.

3. What is your biggest competitor writing about? This isn’t stealing, this is market research. If you are aware of a very successful competitor in your market, then you need to examine what kinds of content they are providing their prospects, write on similar topics, but write something better!

4. Put yourself in their shoes. What kinds of things did you need answered about your topic when you first started out? You can pretty much guarantee that whatever were your stumbling blocks are someone else’s too.

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Article Marketing Help: I Can’t Write-Should I Use Article Marketing?

March 28, 2009 By Lisa Angelettie 1 Comment

Q: I can’t write, so should I use article marketing as a marketing strategy for my business online?

A: The biggest myth about article marketing is that you must be a seasoned writer to have this strategy work for your business. That is simply not true. In fact, one of the biggest internet millionaires online and one of my mentors is a horrible writer. I hate reading his information products! Yet the bottom line is that he knows what he is talking about and he always delivers excellent information — regardless of the sentence structure and punctuation:-)

In fact the key points that all article marketers have to worry about have little to do with actual writing:

1. Write an article that answers a question for your market
2. Publish the article somewhere credible & visible
3. Promote the article so that others know about it
4. Profit from the article by promoting your own or affiliate products

These four key points are all you need to be concerned about when launching a successful long-term article marketing campaign for your business. If you want to learn more about how to pull these four elements of article marketing together and get cranking out articles that attract qualified traffic back to your site, I recommend the Articology System. Articology is an easy article marketing training program created specifically for the new writer.

Article Marketing Help: How Do I Import Blogger Posts To WordPress?

March 25, 2009 By Lisa Angelettie 8 Comments

Q: How do I import posts from my old Blogger blog to my self-hosted WordPress blog?

A: It’s much simpler than you can imagine. Assuming you have already installed and set up WordPress in the root directory of your site, just follow these few steps…

1. Back up your Blogger blog. Most likely, your Blogger is set up to archive the entire contents of your blog by default – but double check just in case something goes wrong during the import process.

2. Login into your WordPress account.

3. Go to Import. Click on Blogger – “Import posts and comments from a Blogger account”.

4. Fill in your Blogger username and password.

5. You will see a list of all your Blogger blogs.

6. Click on the blog you want to move to WordPress.

7. Now the import process will start automatically. It’s very quick, but depends upon the size of your blog.

8. Like many applications out there, it may seem as if nothing is going on but take heed – it is! So do not stop, reload or restart the import.

9. When it is finished importing, it will tell you it is done and that you can ‘Move on”.

10. Check to see that all posts have been imported into your WordPress blog.

Article Marketing Help: How Long Does It Take To See Results With Article Marketing?

March 13, 2009 By Lisa Angelettie Leave a Comment

Q: How long does it take to see results when using article marketing in my business?

A: If you publish your articles to important, high-traffic sources you should begin to see immediate results for your website. You would have added an important backlink to your site increasing your site’s importance, and eventually that should convert into traffic (if you have written a decent resource box or bio box:). For example, if you write and submit your article to a directory such as ezine articles, you should see results as soon as they approve your article. Especially if you write in a popular niche.

Of course the REAL point of article marketing are the long-term benefits of the never-ending flow of evergreen traffic that is funneled to your site because of your articles, but immediate gratification is always nice too:)

Ready to learn more about how to put your article marketing on steroids? Learn more about the Articology Article Marketing System.