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The Importance of Social media is powerful as it has a "different kind of traffic" - the people can get engaged with you and be interactive. This is itself is a supper golden rule, but I want to get in more details.

The 8 Golden Rules of Social Media Success:
Note:
I generically call it "your site", this can be: a traditional Website, a blog, a lens, a hubpage and so on.

Golden Rule #1:
Make your site and obviously your site's content easily accessible. Think about a good answer for each of those questions:
1) Can your audience easily link to your site
2) How readers be notified of updates to your site
3) How easy is it to broadcast or syndicate your site
4) How easily can readers reach your site over and over again

Rule #5: Allow others to take your idea and make
it their own. We're not talking about plagiarism,
but about collaboration. Some of the greatest
ideas can come as a result of someone taking your
idea to the next level. At the very least, your audience
will appreciate your ideas and give you some
acknowledgement. REMEMBER - community is
all about sharing.

Golden Rule #2:
Including buttons and links on your page it will make tagging and book marking easy to do.
This way your audience will have a easy way to say and express the value of your site. It makes it easier for readers to
promote and comment as well. And by the way, don't forget about the Facebook "like" buttons, they are allover now for a reason.

Golden Rule #3: Reciprocate any incoming links.
This adds a great incentive to make others wanting to link to you again and often. You can use features like trackbacks (for Wordpress blogging) or retweet in Twitter and so on..

Golden Rule #4: Make your content portable with: mp3s, pdfs, email follow-ups and more. Make it easy to link to or easy to add on their site. take the example of YouTube, it is the best example of site that do this. They provide a URL as well as an embed code that makes videos portable.
Note: Mobile marketing now can help you a lot, making content available through formats such as pdfs and mp3s, this definitely improves your
content consumption.

Rule #5: Allow others to take your idea and make
it their own. We're not talking about plagiarism,
but about collaboration. Some of the greatest
ideas can come as a result of someone taking your
idea to the next level. At the very least, your audience
will appreciate your ideas and give you some
acknowledgement. REMEMBER - community is
all about sharing.

Rule #6: Always act as a resource for your
audience even when there's no apparent benefit.
The more helpful you are, the greater your efforts
will be appreciated and these benefits will
materialize over the long term.

Rule #7: Be free with giving recognition and praise
to your audience for providing insightful and useful
comments on your site. People love to be noticed
for their contributions. Make them feel good about
you by making them feel good about themselves.

These rules provide the foundation for your search
media optimization strategy. I think if you start
incorporating these rules as a part of your site's
plan, you'll see immediate benefits and ultimately,
make you more money.

For me, you'll see more of social media work
down the road. It's TIME.

To your social media success,