As basic as it is, we should never discount RSS and Blog feed submission as a syndication strategy. It may take some time, but you only have to do it once to reap the benefits for years to come.
Top RSS Aggregators and Blog Directories
SE Nuke – Jeff’s Affiliate Link
SE Nuke – Without Affiliate Link
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Hellotxt is a microblogging platform similar to Twitter, however it gives you the ability to update dozens of other social media sites automatically when you update your status on Hellotxt.
The Hellotxt Wordpress plugin integrates your blog with Hellotxt so that when you make a blog post, all of your other social media accounts are updated automatically as well.
Tags: Automatic, automatically, hello, media, microblogging, plugin, social, txt, update, Wordpress
The following video shows you how to set up the Twitter Tools plugin which gives you the ability to automatically update your Twitter page every time you make a blog post.
Tags: Automatic, Blog, plugin, post, tools, tweet, twitter, update, Wordpress
Blog broadcasting will give you the ability to notify your email subscribers automatically via email every time you post to your blog… without logging into your autoresponder and manually sending a message.
The following video covers how to set up Blog Broadcasting using aWeber. GetResponse has a similar feature called Blog Announce.
Text Messaging Video 1 – Introduction to the Textmarks SMS / Text Messaging Service
Text Messaging Video 2 – The Single Step Dual Subscribe Method
Text Messaging Video 3 – Automatically updating your SMS / Text Subscribers when you post to your blog
Just follow the steps below and in about 30 minutes you should be up and running. If you have any questions, just let me know.
1.) Set Up Your Free Textmarks Account and Textmark/Keyword
2.) Request an API Key from Textmarks.com in their “Developers Section”
3.) Add a phone field to your subscription form. I recommend using the following code… it will simplify things. (Note: If you don’t use the following code, your ‘phone field’ cannot have spaces!)
< input name=”phone” type=”text” value=”Cell Phone for Txt Msgs” >
4.) Verify that your autoresponder is passing form variables to your ‘Thank You’ page. You will know this is working when you see additional variables included in the address bar.
Example: http://www.jeffjellis.com?phone=555&name=etc…
5.) Get Your Single Step Opt-In Solution – Thank You Page Code
6.) Paste the Single Step Optin Code into your thankyou page.
7.) Change the extension of your ‘Thank You’ page to .php
Your thank you page should be named thankyou.php
8.) Test and Verify functionality with your own information.
9.) Download the Textmarks Wordpress Plugin
10.) Install and setup the Textmarks plugin
11.) Make a blog post and verify that you are receiving automatic updates.
12.) You are finished.
I just want to take a minute to clarify what the 3 Text Messaging videos are about. The following video is less than 1 minute and will help you decide if you want to incorporate text messaging into your marketing.
In this video I introduce you the Conversation Exponential (CE). Put simply the CE is a marketing strategy I use to syndicate my message/conversation across multiple channels without any effort at all. All you have to do is make a post on your blog and the post is syndicated across dozens of channels, all automatically (This goes beyond just RSS feeds).
I have prepared 6 videos addressing different methods of syndication. Please let me know if you have any questions.
1.) Text Messaging… Click Here to get started with Incorporating Text Messaging
2.) Blog Broadcasting… using aWeber or GetResponse
3.) Facebook… using a Wordpress Plugin or your blogs RSS Feed.
4.) Twitter… using a Wordpress Plugin that does more than just update your Twitter account.
5.) Hellotxt… using a Wordpress Plugin that will get your message all over the web including Google’s new Twitter competitor, FriendFeed.
6.) RSS & Blog Submission… Free and Paid methods – you only have to do this once and that is it.
