This is a great article from Lisa Barone at Outspoken Media you should have a quick read about promoting your website online (or rather, promoting good content you have on your website, when you get around to adding it).Part of actually successfully promoting your brand / website online is finding conversations by tracking brand mentions – in which Lisa has provided another easy to understand “how-to”.

This sort of social media stuff is corner stone seo these days (for getting you links from real sites if not the social media sites themselves) and can make seo and linkbuilding campaigns all the more successful. Check out Shana Albert’s still great introduction to social media on the Hobo blog too if you’re new to all this.

We've recently updated our comments policy and increased the number of comments a visitor has to make to get seo friendly links in comment signatures to reward long term readers and make it a bit harder for dofollow spammers ;) - I told you dofollow spamming wasn't a long term strategy....