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Great Content Syndication Tools For Getting Traffic To Your Site

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Keith O'Brien in Blogging, Online & Direct Marketing, Social Media Magic

Lot’s of people pump out great content and if you do that long enough in our wonderfully connected small online world, you will build up a tribe of followers.  In the fast response world of social media, if you are doing something good…someone is going to tell other people about you.

Well, what if you want to speed up that process?

What if you want to aggressive build followers so you can grow your business?

Here are some fantastic tools that can support your efforts, save you time, give you a much broader audience to speak to and ultimately…build your subscriber list faster than Joey Chestnut scarf’s done hotdogs.

1. Social Oomph – Social Oomph (originally TweetLater) is a web-based program that offers a ton of great syndication and timesaving features.  The feature I enjoy the most is being able to schedule Tweets in advance.  Although I love everything about social media, I find that if I am not strategic, it can be a huge time suck, pulling me in for endless hours.

I look at what new posts I am going to write over the course of a week and anything else I may be talking about and I schedule a series of tweets to keep the conversation going.  This doesn’t replace all my tweets as I need to get engaged with people and actually have dialogue, but it provides a nice consistency without having to be tied to Twitter all day long.

The paid version of Social Oomph will also allow you to post across multiple platforms, such as Facebook, your blgo, statusnet and ping if you use those.)  Pre-scheduling FB updates is easily worth the $29/mo they charge.  It’s a lot cheaper than an assistant…even if your assistant lives in India.

There are a ton of other cool features like auto-follows/unfollows, vetting members to see who has more Twitter power, auto welcome messages, etc.

Social Oomph simplifies my life and allows me to be much more strategic and have a plan for content syndication.

2. Onlywire – This is a great little tool to help put your blog on steroids, but you won’t get banned from any awards by using it.  In fact, virtually all bloggers, especially those in the home business niche use it religiously.

One of the biggest keys to getting content syndicated by other people is that you need to make it easy for them to do so.  Wordpress plugins like Tweetmeme (another great one) have made it so simple for people to Re-Tweet your message.

Onlywire has taken that concept 26 steps forward.

Onlywire is an automatic submission tool that currently works with 26 social networking and bookmarking platforms.  Once you set your accounts up, you can syndicate your blog to all 26 platforms with a single click.

For your readers that have Onlywire accounts, they can do the same thing for you.

In one click, your new blog post goes up on Twitter & Facebook and is bookmarked on Digg, Mixx, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Tumblr and a ton more.

That’s a lot of back links, baby!

3. Automatic Article Submitter – This is a genius little program.  There are many article submitters available and unfortunately, most of them are crap.  Google ranks based primarily on three things…

Relevancy, Popularity & Originality!

In other words, is your content relevant to people who are searching, are people talking about it (social media and back links) and is it unique?

This tool let’s you create variations of the same article (to create unique content) and then automatically submit it to 200+ article directories online.  This article submitter is good…very good.  If you write 3 articles a week that gets submitted to over 200 directories…just think about how much content that is online after a year!

4. Your Tribe – okay, so this isn’t exactly a tool, it’s more of a strategy, but it’s likely the most powerful one, so I absolutely must include it.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the concept of a Tribe, it’s a term that developed from Seth Godin’s book, Tribes, and simply means a group of loyalists who like your work and have a desire to talk about it.

Strategically online, it may be a small group of like-minded entrepreneurs who create an alliance to promote each other’s posts, make comments, rate videos, Re-Tweet and syndicate for each other.

These people do not have to be in your business, you just have to build a relationship that is based on trust, mutual respect and everyone involved has to come from a place of abundance…there is enough for everyone.

What if you had 5 core people in your Tribe and each person had 2,000 Facebook friends, 5,000 Twitter followers, a blog with great content and a YouTube channel with entertaining and educational videos.

First of all, since these people are putting out great content…you WANT to share it with your followers because it is of value to them.  Secondly, when you put out a new blog post, it’s going to be syndicated to over 12,000 Facebookers, 30,000 Tweeters and bookmarked in over 150 places!

That’s some serious awesomeness!

There are many, many more great tools available to you to start building your business online.  There are far too many to count actually.

My suggestion is to find a handful that you really like that you can incorporate into a daily or weekly strategy that works for you and STAY FOCUSED.  Unless something else amazing pops up…just keep driving forward and work your plan.

One of my new personal strategies is that I get up, get a workout in and write content everyday.  I do this before I get caught up in all of the activity that the day will bring.  This way, at the end of the day, I know I put out a new piece of content to add value to people’s life and support my business growth.

What are your favorite tools?  What timesaving and traffic building tools do you use regularly with great success?

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