Subscribe via RSSPing.fm - Update Your Status Across Social Media Sites
Once you start "living" in more than one social media space, the idea of updating your status across multiple Web sites gets tedious fast.
However, Ping.fm is a tool that can update your status across dozens of popular social media sites. Once you sign up for Ping.fm you'll be able to add your login credentials for a host of popular social media sites. The list keeps growing, but it includes such heavyweights as:
And a couple dozen others. It's also a great resource for you to decide which new sites to check out.
Ping.fm will automatically blast to all the social media sites you've set up, but you can include some "triggers" that will send (or refrain from sending) your updates to select sites.
The only frustration I've had using Ping.fm -- which isn't their fault -- is that LinkedIn cuts their status updates at a lot shorter than the common 140 characters. I've had more than one person alert me that I made a mistake with my last LinkedIn update.
Come on, LinkedIn, get with the program!
That small complaint aside, Ping.fm is an essential tool for any self-respecting social media marketer. Now, if I could only get something like Ping.fm to help manage my real world life.
I am getting confused as a newcomer to SEO etc and the push towards web 2.0 as it seems that the most heinous crime on Twitter for example is marketing!
A lot of people seem to believe that Twitter or any other social network deal and marketing can't go together and that any marketing is therefor Spam.
Is this comment of mine then to be considered as Spam or enthusiasm and the need to spread the word?
Here is a post I just put on another SEO blog which of course went out all over the web 2.0 sites through my Ping account and I am now worried it will appear to be spam... see what you think:
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SEO I believe has to be the key to online success as adwords are now way too expensive.
But what if you do all the SEO stuff and it works but your site conversion doesn’t work for all the traffic you now have?
Site design is such a subjective thing and how do you know if, when you decide what to use and do, it works or not really?
BUT it is so important to get it right as if you do it’s worth a fortune and if you don’t it could cost you a fortune.
I am so happy that I have discovered this web marketers tool for example and I am just so excited to have finally found a tool like this I can’t begin to tell you!
It is free for a good single site owner user and you only have to pay if you use it on more than three sites.
Without a doubt it is the absolute best tool I have ever seen or used and because of the free test I got I am now using it on everything I do.
It is so insightful I am now going to redesign my sites (with confidence!) as finally I can see what needs doing because of this tool.
I can’t say more than that except that if you have a site and you care about getting it right then you really need to consider this tool [URL removed]
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So what do you say?
My believe is that I found a product we should all know about as it is such a difference maker to REALLY know what people do when they hit your site and to have a chance at tweaking because of the evidence you see..
If that is spam then there is something wrong with the world :(
Posted by: Katie Radisson | November 16, 2008 at 01:05 PM
Katie,
Yes, I'd say that is pretty spammy. Just b/c YOU think everyone should know about it, doesn't mean they want to.
What do you know about the people who read this blog? Did you answer a question for them, or did you just promote something? I feel it's quite obvious the latter.
Social media takes time, and your post feels like you're rushing past the first date right into marriage.
Take it slow. You're talking at people, not with them.
Posted by: Rich Brooks | November 17, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Services like ping.fm just rub me the wrong way. They are a complete stranger to me, yet they want me to turn over passwords to all of my accounts.
Posted by: Tim | November 17, 2008 at 10:51 PM