How To, Social Media, Tips

Social Sharing

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Social media is designed for sharing, whether you’re sharing a news story, pictures, or you’re your location, there’s a site or an app to help you do that. That’s why social media is a perfect fit for affiliate marketing where you are always sharing your opportunity. Take advantage of social media and social sharing.

Facebook Sharing

Facebook has recently unveiled a new feature that allows you to quickly share status updates, photos and links that you or someone else has posted. When you share a great post or a good link, encourage people to click that little button to share it with their friends, giving your more exposure and more traffic. Likewise, don’t be afraid to share a great post by someone else. If you see something helpful, share it!

Share Button for WordPress

You see it at the end of every single one of our blog posts: it’s the ShareThis button. This is a WordPress plugin that you can easily add allowing others to share your content. When you install the plugin, it will automatically populate the Share This button at the bottom of each of your blog posts. With ShareThis, your visitors can easily link to and share you blog post on Facebook, Twitter, through email or any number of social bookmarking sites. It makes sharing easy and takes a few minutes to install and seconds to use.

Share Videos

Video is important to affiliate marketing as we’ve talked about here and here. So why not share your video you’ve spent time making. YouTube allows you to share videos simply with their share button. You can even easily embed videos to your website, just click share and an embed link will appear. You can share any video, so if you see a great webinar you want to share with your time, simply click share to get the short link.

Q&A, Webinar

Your Webinar Questions and Answers from February 14th

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Here are answers to your questions from our February 14th webinar.

Q: You talk about creating buzz for your website or opportunity, what is buzz?

A: For our international customers, the use of some of our slang words can be a bit confusing. When we use the word “buzz” we’re referring to generating interest. Creating buzz is another way of saying you are creating interest.

Q: I am new to this, what exactly is SEO?

A: SEO stands for search engine optimization. Very simply, it refers to using certain tactics and techniques to ensure your website comes up high in search results that are related to you. Learn a few simple SEO tips at this post.

Q: Do I have to login with my user name to attend the webinar?

A: No. Once you are registered for the webinar (register here: www.register.gdiwebinars.ws) you will receive a reminder email about the webinar with a link. Click that link and you should be taken directly to the webinar and ready to go.

Q: What happens if my upline leaves GDI?
A: The downline will be compressed and you will now have your upline’s previous sponsor. Compression occurs when users cancel so that there aren’t empty levels keeping affiliates from getting paid 5 levels. You can always check Members Area>Upline to see who your upline is.

Q: I am not sure if I am still active with GDI. How can I find out?
A: You can always try to log in to your Members Area to find out; if you can’t you can call support at 760-602-3000

Q: What is an example of a .ws site built with WordPress?

A: The very site you are on right now. Our blog is built and maintained on a .ws domain using WordPress.

Q: Is there a way I can see the webinar if I am not able to attend?

A: Yes! you can view all past webinars at www.gdiwebinars.ws

Marketing

SEO Tips for Your .ws

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S-E-O are three letters we hear all the time when talking about websites, but what do they mean? How do I do it for my site? First off, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Search Engine Optimization basically means increasing the chances of your site coming up in search engines with the help of best practices. Read on for some of these best practices for your GDI Sites. These tips can apply specifically to WordPress sites or be tweaked for your site created using whichever platform you like.

Permalinks

When adding your first post to a WordPress site and after you have added text to the title box, you will see an option below it with your posts permalink. This is a link that will always take you directly to this post. There is a button to the permalink that labeled “change permalinks.” Click it. When you click this button it gives you the option to choose how your permalinks are displayed. For search engine optimization (SEO) reasons, you do not want your post permalink to be www.blog.yoursite.ws/123. This will hinder search engines from finding the post. You should select any option you like where your title will show in the permalink such as www.blog.yoursite.ws/make-money-with-gdi. You can also access the permalinks options in Settings>Permalinks.

SEO Plugins

We went over the benefits of plugins in this post, and shared that there are plugins for nearly everything you need. Well, SEO is no exception. You can search in the plugin database for SEO tools or Google “Popular WordPress SEO tools” to see some great options with user reviews. Plugins like the All in One SEO Pack have a ton of customizable options for someone who wants to take the time to optimize each post in every way. For more hands off approach, try something like SEO Smart Links that will automatically link posts with in your blog when relevant keywords are used. The more links you have to your site and within your site, the better your SEO.

Tags for SEO, Categories for Navigation

You will notice that each blog post allows you to add tags and categories. Tags are great for SEO. You want your tags to be keywords that are used often though out the post and that are great for SEO and keyword searches. Rank possible keywords against each other with the help of Google’s Keyword tool to ensure your chosen tags is popular search term. You want your keywords to be words and phrases that are searched often.

Categories are helpful for when you do get visitors from search engines. Categories should be basic descriptors for posts that can be used over and over. A category like “advice” will help someone navigate your page and keep all posts that fall into that category in one easy to navigate page.

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