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Hashtag Marketing: These Are the 245 Hashtags You Need to Be Great

October 21, 2018 by Janice Wald 35 Comments

Do you speak hashtag?

In the play “We Will Rock You,” hashtags were heavily criticized.

Yet, hashtag marketing is an effective strategy to adopt if you want to be a successful social media marketer.

This post offers advantages of using hashtags as well as hashtags to help you get your content found at Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Now that Google+ is folding, you need social media sites like Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn more than ever before.

Social media sites have great power.

They have the power to bring your blog exposure, visitors, and possibly new followers and customers.

In other words, social media translates into growth.

However, if you’re going to use social media for blog promotion, you have to speak in social media jargon.

Social media jargon is called “hashtag.”

Do you speak hashtag?

After this post, you will.

In this article you’ll discover these answers:

What are the advantages of using hashtags?
Which popular hashtags exist for all niches?
Are there free hashtag tools?
Which hashtag strategies are the most effective?

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Google+ Closes: 13 More Social Media Sites to Make You Happy

October 14, 2018 by Janice Wald 30 Comments

When I first started blogging almost 4 years ago, I enjoyed using GooglePlus.

I enjoyed the feeling of community the GooglePlus groups gave me.

I met new friends from all walks of life tied by a common thread– a love of blogging.

I promoted my posts on GooglePlus which has the potential to boost blog traffic.

My friends often promoted my posts and expert interviews in which I took part there. Their support further cemented our friendships.

Additionally, I was able to promote in GooglePlus groups which had the potential to attract targeted traffic. GooglePlus had all sorts of groups. I recall groups about technology, politics, and WordPress just to name three.

I say “recall” since I hadn’t been to GooglePlus in an extremely long time.

Apparently, neither had many people since the site announced its impending closure on October 8.

GooglePlus announced the site will close its doors come August of 2019.

Another reason actually precipitated the site’s imminent closure: a data breach involving 500,000 people.

Reactions on Twitter to the news of GooglePlus folding varied:

Google has apparently announced they are shutting down #GooglePlus leading thousands to ask the important question “Google+ was still around?”

And the main lesson for those end-users, like me, who invested thousands of hours helping to build services like Google+ and Google Reader? Never invest deeply in a platform that isn’t the primary focus of the company behind it.

So GooglePlus is dead now? #RIP #GooglePlus

The news that Google is shutting down #GooglePlus is met with immense joy and sighs of relief from Social Media Professionals all across the industry who were only publishing on or monitoring the dead platform because it was a checkbox on an executive’s social strategy.

#GooglePlus ? More like #GoogleMinus

The #GooglePlus data breach is not really a huge deal. No one uses the platform.

Google Is Shutting Down Google+ After Exposing Data Of Up To 500,000 Users. SHOCKING. Never Knew Google Plus Had 500,000 Users. #GooglePlus

At the end of this article, you will be able to promote your posts to 13 free social media sites and social bookmarking sites.

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50 Experts Share Their Best Free Social Media Apps

June 3, 2018 by Janice Wald 35 Comments

You know you need social media sites to promote your blog posts.

You don’t have the time to promote at all of them.

By using social media apps, you can promote on your phones.

You can get the promotion done and save time by promoting on your mobile phones instead of having to find a computer.

By using the best social media apps, you can save time and effectively promote your content. By using the apps on your phones, you’ll be able to promote to more places than you could on a desktop computer since you can promote “on the go.”

However, as time goes on, smartphone apps keep changing.

Which are the best social media apps in 2018?

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