If you’re struggling with how to encourage more tweets and retweets for your blog and website content, then I highly recommend reading these two articles, both of which were written by social media icons and veterans of the field: Twitter Share Buttons Bring 7 Times The Return. It really doesn’t matter which social sharing button you use as long as it includes a way for Twitter users to tweet your blog post and it’s visible on every blog post page on your blog. Social Media retweets tweets Twitter21 Tips To Earn Links And Tweets To Your Blog Post. MORE >>

Maybe Louis CKs little bit about Twitter and social media on Conan can be a source of inspiration. This is no joke. Funny man Louis CK has decided to abandon traditional media and deliver his own comedy routines via his website. He’s going to charge $5 per download. Is that really a good idea? There have been similar experiments before. About ten years ago Stephen King conducted his own experiment on a book download that didn’t turn out so well. No quite that long ago Radiohead performed a more successful experiment with music downloads. applaud their efforts. MORE >>

Twitter. Online marketing is getting more and more complicated every day. You have more channels for marketing your message, products, and services than you’ve ever had in your life, but which ones are the most important? When it comes to marketing online, here are a few of the channels you have at your disposal right now, today. YouTube. Facebook. LinkedIn. Google+ (still in beta, by invitation only). Your blog. The search engines – Bing and Google organic listings. Pay per click ads. Article directories (yes, they still work). Squidoo. Knol pages. HubPages. Tumblr. Groupon. MORE >>

Let’s say you have a Twitter account and you post 100 messages within 30 days. There is a concept in social media circles known as your signal-to-noise ratio. What is meant by that exactly? In social media terms, your signal-to-noise ratio is the amount of actual value that you provide relative to the nonsense you churn. Pardon the dirty speak, but that’s essentially what it is in low-brow talk. Let’s say that 50 percent of those messages are links to valuable content around the Web. Your signal-to-noise ratio is riding at 50%. Is that good? In a word, no. MORE >>

Rand Fishkin, in his Whiteboard Friday post last Friday, shared eight ways you can build links with Twitter. Only, none of these methods actually provide you with a link from Twitter. They are really ways that you can use Twitter to acquire links from other sources, which isn’t the same as saying that you are link building through Twitter. Nevertheless, these are all powerful ways to use Twitter to build some inbound links to your website. Well, you can get links directly from Twitter, but will they be do-follow or no-follow? The top X list. MORE >>