Curate, Snip, Score

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Curate, Snip, Score
Introdu
ction
Free Traffic is one of those
things that everybody wants, but very few

are exactly sure how to go about it
without spamming.
The method Im
showing you here will allow you to use the
popularity of
many famous sites and
merely add a discrete link to a link of your

choice.
It is not black
hat or spammy and is genuinely useful because you
will be
sharing great content. It
also provides people with useful information

from around the web.

Once set up, it can take up as much
or a little time as you wish around

15-20 minutes per day maximum is
fine. Apart from your time, it does not

have to take up any of your money at
all, although there are cost options

to increase your reach if you wish.

And so we begin
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Content Curation and The Art of
Sharing
Social media is a sharing
environment. People love to share snippets of

entertainment and information that
they have found elsewhere. I have

found a great way to profit from this
information sharing, using some of

the biggest sites on the web. Whats
more, what you share, others can

share as well and multiply the reach
of your findings and therefore the

links you choose to share.

I will explain the basic outline
although it can be used with almost any

news, story, curation or blog site.
Anything that provides a stream of

changing and useful information in
your chosen niche. This last bit is

important if you want to get useful
traffic from these sources.
You will
need the following
Firefox or Chrome
web browser
Snip.ly - free account

Buffer free account

optional free Hootsuite account

Scoop.it is a good curation source
but many others are usable. A free

account will do to start with.

3 or 4 social media accounts with
good followings / friends. I suggest

Facebook, Twitter at least. I havent
tried this with Pinterest or Instagram

but if Buffer and / or Hootsuite
support them, I dont see a problem

provided they allow links.

The process is quite simple. We are
going to use a curation source
(scoop.
it) to find good content. Snip.ly enables us to
shorten the link and
at the same time
add a button or text link to the bottom of the
page.
Buffer and Hootsuite allow us
to share the snip.ly link at times of our

choosing.
Heres the
detailed story.
Start by creating your
Buffer account and link up your social media

accounts to it. I could spell it out
for you, but youre an intelligent person

and you dont need me to tell you in
nauseating detail. One of the
options
if youre using Firefox or Chrome is to have the
site install apps
inside the browser.
Take these options.
Link up your
social accounts.
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Also, while youre at Buffer, set up
the timings for your posts to go out for

each of your social accounts. They
dont all have to be a t the same

times or frequencies. For instance, I
post 10 tweets per day but only 5

each to Facebook and LinkedIn.

Do the same for Hootsuite if you want
to. There is a reason you might

and I will explain later why. Again,
install the browser add-on.
Go to
snip.ly and create a free account there too. Also
install the
browser add-on (that
little S in the blue square will become your best

friend) and integrate Buffer and
Hootsuite at the same time. You may

also need to add your social accounts
into this site too.
While in youre
in snip.ly you can also set up some links, which
will be
where you want to send
traffic. I suggest squeeze pages, but there is

nothing to stop your links being to
your blog, to a CPA offer or direct to

an affiliate offer, if thats your
wish.
A free snip.ly account does
limit how your links will look, especially in the

color department. If you want red
buttons, youre going to need to have a

paid account. If you can accept the
standard blue button, youll be fine.

You can add an image and one of
yourself will engender more trust or

at least, a brand or logo. You only
have a limited space for your
message
so make good use of it. A good call to action on
the button is
also a requirement.

Finally, head on over to scoop.it and
create an account there. With a

free account you are only allowed one
keyword phrase so try to make it

niche related. Of course, if you have
other sources you wish to use then

scoop.it is optional, but its a good
place to start.
Now down to business
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The Business End of the Deal

For this to work best, you really
need a page where there is a single

article, so the page will have a
longer URL than the home page of a site.

The length of the URL is not a
problem as our first action will be to

shorten it.
When youre
on the page you require (if youre using
scoop.it, right click
the headline
and open it in a new tab to make it easy) simply
click the
snip.ly button at the top
of your browser.
This brings up the
snip.ly pop-up with the page URL already snipped
for
you and allows you to select
which CTA you want to use. By default, the

last one you used will be ready, but
you can use others or create a new

one. Click the blue SNIP button at
the bottom of the pop up to go onto

page 2.
You will now see,
at the bottom of the page, what your CTA will
look like
to people that you send to
your snipped link. You are also given the

option to copy your link and to post
it to various social sites. The

important one as far as were
concerned in the Buffer icon.
Clicking
on that icon brings up the Buffer pop up where
you can add
your snipped link to your
queue as well as selecting which of your social

sites you want the link posted to. By
default, all the sites are selected.

If you have Facebook as one of your
social accounts, you will need to

copy and paste the info from the top
box into the Facebook one or write

some additional information. You will
be reminded if the Facebook block

is empty.
Buffer will
overwrite your snip.ly link but dont worry. It
will still work OK.
And thats it.
Just repeat this for other interesting articles
that you find,
but bear in mind the
following limitations of free.
A
free snip.ly account only allows 1000 pop ups
(not clicks). If an article
you share
goes really viral, you could miss out.

A free Buffer account only lets you
queue up 10 posts at a time per

social account and 4 social accounts
(Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and

Google). This is when having the
Hootsuite account (with 3 more
account
s or the same ones) can be useful as you can now
use the
timing feature there or
select best time and let Hootsuite decide when
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to send it. You could also put up a
different set of social accounts on

Hootsuite and have more coverage
again.
A paid Buffer account will
also let you have a 100 links (so you can do 4

updates an hour, if you wish) at a
time and add an RSS feed so if you

update your blog, it will
automatically be fed into your Buffer stack.

However, using IFTTT (If This Then
That) is a better site and more

versatile as to where you can send
your blog feed.
Now occasionally, a
snip.ly link on the pop up there will be a
warning
that the site youre snipping
does not support iframes and that your snip

will work but the CTA will not show.
Whether you carry on at this point is

up to you. The snip link is still
good, but your pop up with your link on it

wont appear.
You may
well find, if you are promoting interesting
comment that your
friends/followers
list will start to grow with interested people
(my Twitter
followers went from 1500
to over 5000 in a few weeks after I started

sharing content).
Now I
wont say that the click-through rate is very
high but all this is free
apart from
10 to 20 minutes of your time each day. Once you
get used to
doing this you will be
able to fill up Buffer very quickly for a day.

If you set up Buffer to do 10 posts
over 24 hours to each of your social

media accounts, you can make this
procedure part of your daily routine.

Should you need more help, please
feel free to contact me
Steven Lucas

http//stevenlucasmarketing.com

admin_at_stevenlucasmarketing.com
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Resource Area
Buffer.com

Hootsuite.com
Snip.ly

Scoop.it
IFTTT.com
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