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Want to accumulate as many followers as possible? Then tweet a lot

But if your goal is to drive more traffic to your site, you should show a little more restraint;

It turns out that time is often the afternoons, when blogs and news sites are slower, and the weekend, when they’re all but asleep.

Use the right blogging platform.

WordPress. It’s powerful, easy to learn and has plenty of SEO plugins that increase your chances of topping the search engine results.

Own your domain.

of all shares, 60% were of links to published content. Additionally, 36% of shares were of embedded content.

A measly 4%, which is made up of URLs for brands or corporate websites.

while email still leads the pack as the top sharing vehicle for content with 93% of internet users using it, it's not ahead in the race by much. Social networks trail slightly behind at 89%, and sharing through blogs is a close third at 82%.

“The days of controlling the message are absolutely over. At best you’ll be invited in and you’ll get to co-create and participate with consumers.”

She calls this new landscape, “liquid and linked.” Liquid because every piece of marketing has to spread out to the very furthest communication point and linked because it all has to relate back to the core message.

The conversation consists of four parts, Paid, Owned, Earned and Shared.

On a busy day, Twitter gets about 170 million tweets, 1.25% means 2.125 million tweets daily link to pictures from third-party services

According to a new report from ForeSee Results, fewer than 1% of website visits came directly from a social media URL. Their report also says that 18% of site visitors reported being influenced by social media, which would mean that 17% of those folks visited the site in some way other than clicking on a social media link.

ForeSee’s initial results, after surveying nearly 300,000 consumers, is that people who were influenced by social media spend more and are more satisfied and loyal customers than those who aren’t influenced by social media.