Social Networking: 9 Social Network Tips for Bloggers

 

 What should you do to have a more successful blog? The answer of this question is managing Social Network. Here is the nine social network tips for bloggers.

1) Use Social Media Sharing Icons

Make it as simple as possible for your blog readers to connect with you on various social media platforms. They shouldn’t have to hunt around to find your Twitter handle, but should be able to click on a button and be taken right to your profile. Bonus points if your social media icons reflect the overall design or feel of your blog.

 

2) Recognize Effective Social Media Sites

 There are a lot of social networking sites that are available today. It will be difficult to maintain accounts to all these sites so it is important to analyze which social networking sites is most popular to your target audience.

This way, you will be able to concentrate managing your accounts to sites where you will get greatest benefit from. Try your hand at

• Facebook with its Pages, Events & groups
• Google+ with its +Pages, help & Trending Topics
• Twitter for its hashtags & popularity
• LinkedIn for highly targeted audience
• Pinterest if your blog is more about photos

 

3) Use your blog name as your username whenever possible

Promote your personal brand by consistently using your blog’s name for your Twitter handle, StumbleUpon name, Pinterest name and so on. Then, people don’t have to wonder about your blog’s name — it’s right there. Also, people will remember you easily across platforms, which is key as you develop up your online community.

 

4) Be generous with other bloggers

Promote other bloggers’ content, and hopefully they’ll return the favor. You can’t simply blast your own content anyway — you need some variety in every social media stream. So why not check out what your fellow bloggers are posting and give them a retweet, a share or a repin whenever you can. And don’t forget to reciprocate and share content from bloggers who share yours.

 

5) Choose Quality over Quantity

Do not follow everybody on social media sites. You should follow people who will support your blog through comments and most overrated people in their own fields.

 

6) Provide an RSS Feed Icon and Stream Your RSS Feed on Social Media

A lot of people are using RSS feeds to grab articles from sites they trust so that they can stream them all in one place.  At this point, even Google+ profiles can be streamed over RSS meaning that the potential for exposure via RSS feed is extremely high.  Providing the option for an RSS feed not only allows people to stream your content, but also provides the opportunity for website owners that find value or interest in your blog to integrate your blog into their website, providing you with more exposure and even external site links to your blog.

 

7) Trade Posts with Other Blogs/Guest Blogging

Every once and a while, it's nice to throw a new voice into your blog and allow someone else to produce content for you.  Not only does it benefit you, but it benefits the guest bloggers by letting them creating a back link to their website.  It's a win, win for everyone.  You get new content, they get a link.  And the same works from the other direction.  Submit requests or email bloggers and request the chance to guest blog for them.  The more popular the blog, the better your chances that you will acquire new readers and increase your blog traffic (which for some of us means increased revenue).  If you're not willing to give away back links, you can either "no-follow" the site link to the guest blogger (which is pretty disrespectful and bad for networking well) or you can pursue guest blogging on other websites yourself.  Just remember that you're writing for someone elses blog, so you should not duplicate the content you've written for them on your own website.  The same applies to writers posting on your website, be greatful for the free content but make sure that you agree beforehand that the content must be exclusive to your blog only.

 

8) Lock Readers from Search Engines

Add a button in your blog that will allow people to connect with you via the different social media sites. Like you can add a Facebook like button for your FB Page, a +1 button for you +Page, follow button for Twitter, etc.

This will allow people coming to your blog from search engines to connect with you on your social sites so that they keep returning. Consider some social buttons like Antalya City Blog has.

9) Allow Content Sharing

Add share buttons for all major social networks on each blog post of your site, allowing readers to share content they love onto their own networks, thus attracting more audience to your blog.

This will be a big help in increasing the readership of your blog as these social networking sites has a huge audience base, so the more your posts get shared, the wider audience it will reach.

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Great Photo Locations Around Antalya

Antalya has many great locations to take a decent photograph. Antalya is one of the richest places in the world to shoot historical and modern buildings and landscapes. If you are travelling to Antalya for a few days and would like to take some shots, you should read this article. Here is the top 5 photo locations around Antalya.

1) Old Town (Kaleiçi)

The Old Town

If you've a special interest in architecture and are willing to pack a tripod and a perspective correction lens, you'll find that Antalya contains some of the world's most varied building designs. Many of the most famous sights of Antalya are spread along the Old Town.

Hıdırlık Tower

Hadrian's Gate

Old Town Marina

Karaalioğlu Park

Yivli Minaret

 

 

Roman Clock Tower

Old Town Houses

2) Konyaaltı

Antalya Bay

Konyaaltı is situated beneath the old city of Antalya extending miles toward west with various kinds of beaches from sand to shingle. There are modern underground facilities for aesthetical reasons. There are also many beautiful places you can take photos.

Antalya from Konyaaltı

Beachpark

Konyaaltı Beach

Konyaaltı

Glass Pyramid

3) Tünek Tepe (Hill)

Tünek Tepe is a hill in the west side of the city of Antalya. Its height is 618 m msl (2009 feet). On the crest is a hotel, night club, and rotating restaurant- the Döner Gazino (Rotating Nightclub). The club generally serves private parties, and features a view of the Gulf of Antalya and the mountains.

Rotating Nightclub

 

Rat Island

Rat Island

Tünek Tepe and Port of Antalya

Antalya from Tünek Tepe

4) Lara

You can take photos of the Beydağları Mountains and the Gulf of Antalya from Lara.

The Gulf of Antalya

Beydağları Mountains

Lara

Mediterranean

Taurus Mountains

Fener Lighthouse

Düden Waterfall

5) Kepez

From Kepez, you can watch Antalya and take photos.

Antalya from Kepez

Konyaaltı from Kepez

Ataturk Monument

There are many great locations for taking photos around Antalya on top of the ones mentioned above. If you know of any, let us know by writing a comment below!

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Antalya was Selected as the World's Most Reliable Tourism Destination

 

 

The Germans chose the most reliable tourism city in the world. Turkey's holiday paradise, Antalya, moved to first place in safety through the survey. 

With four thousand travel agents in Germany, a survey done by TOUREXPI. According to the results of the survey, Antalya was chosen as the most reliable holiday destination along with the islands of Mallorca by Germans. 

According to the survey, 95 percent of the elderly, 85 percent of families with children, 70 percent of young people described Antalya as the most reliable tourism city in the world. 

 

Detailed results of the survey will be announced on July 10 by TOUREXPI.

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World’s Top Tourism Destinations: Turkey climbs one place to sixth in the ranking

 

The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) published the Tourism Highlights 2012 Edition bulletin recently and Turkey climbs one place to sixth in the ranking.

UNWTO Tourism Highlights is a World Tourism Organization publication, which aims to provide an overview of international tourism trends during the year prior to its date of publication. For individual countries and territories it reflects data as reported by national or international institutions up until June
2012.

The top 10 ranking by international tourist arrivals saw only a minor change in 2011. Turkey moved up one position to sixth place (with 29 million tourists) overtaking the United Kingdom. There were no changes in the top 10 ranking by tourism receipts. 

Turkey moved up one place to sixth in arrivals and is twelfth in receipts.

International Tourist Arrivals
1) France
2) United States
3) China 

4) Spain
5) Italy
6) Turkey
7) United Kingdom
8) Germany
9) Malaysia
10) Mexico 

If you want to download the UNWTO Tourism Highlights 2012 Edition, click here..

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Exclusive Interview With GM Tourism and Management Magazine's Editor Sabriye Çay

Antalya City Blog's Surprises Continue. After Dutch Social Media Specialist Peter Langela and Austrian Business Consultant in Marketing & Advertising  Ernst Koch, Antalya City Blog Presents the Exclusive Interview with Sabriye Çay Who is the Editor of GM Tourism and Management Magazine. We Asked Her A Few Questions About Antalya and Our Blog.

1)     Can you tell us a little about yourself?  

     I was born in Antalya in 1983. I completed my elementary and high school education in Antalya. In 2003, I entered the Department of Press and Publication of Faculty of Communication Sciences of Anadolu University. I spent five years in Eskisehir for education. I was an intern in Sabah Akdeniz Newspaper during my second year at the University. Working at a magazine seems like the dream job for me when I was in the university. After university, I entered the magazine sector through Antalya High Life and Antalya Life Magazine which are the first magazines of Antalya. After two years of experience in magazine and actual magazines, since 2009, I serve successfully as the editor of GM Tourism and Management Magazine which is Turkey's first and only Tourism and Management Magazine. I am passionate about my job, I love to spend time with my family and friends. In short, I am full of life.

As the most people say in the zodiac world that Aries women are energetic, brave, hardworking and friendly. I think I am also like that.

2)    What is the meaning of Antalya for you?

Antalya is a corner of paradise for me with old town which smells history, Konyaalti Beach as its the clearest blue form, and Karain Cave which brings us to the depths of the secrets of the past. There is so much to be said for Antalya as in the words of the Great Leader Ataturk "Antalya is undoubtedly the most beautiful place in the world."

3)    What is your favorite activity in Antalya?
 

My favorite activity in Antalya is drinking a cup of Turkish tea on the cliffs of Lara and watching the sun go down through the mountains. Antalya is a city so that offers many activities for anyone who wants a calm and peaceful environment to relax or anyone who wants to have fun.

4) What do you want for Antalya?

Antalya is the capital of tourism which brings together different cultures from many countries. With the pleasure of cool plateaus, deep blue sea, kayaking and rafting, you can live beauty of this city all together in four-season, of course, as there are shortcomings. For example, the Expo 2016 will be held in Antalya which will contribute to promoting cultural, commercial, architectural and many other aspects of Antalya and Turkey. However, our parliament did not make an EXPO Law for Expo 2016 Antalya. This situation makes me sad.

 

Hopefully, we get a result together as soon as possible and begin to prepare for such an organization like Expo 2016 which is important for our city to perform the best.

5)    What do you think about Antalya City Blog?

Antalya City Blog is a successful site where you can find everything you are looking about Antalya and it suits for Antalya where the capital of tourism is. In addition, Antalya City Blog completes the gap of promotion of Antalya. As an Antalian, thanks to Antalya City Blog on behalf of our people and I wish success. 

Other Great Antalya Photos by Sabriye Çay

Thanks to Sabriye Çay for taking the time to answer these questions for Antalya City Blog (Teşekkürler)

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