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LinkedIn has always been the best source of Traffic and visitors. It has also been the most special and the largest social networking service which was started in USA and has been able to adapt quickly with the world. It has huge number of professionals from all over the world into its network, with most professionals seeming to be best in their areas of interest.

Via John van den Brink, SEO-Alien

Social networking sites have each a unique protocol and don’t usually provide members with practical how-to advice to help use their sites effectively. They let us figure out the how-tos on our own.

 

I share in this article my basic LinkedIn how-tos that may shorten your learning curve and save you time and frustration. They are merely suggestions, not rigid guidelines. If you have an idea or advice you find helpful, please share it with us in a comment.

 

Here are ten tips for maximizing your LinkedIn social networking success:...

Via Martin Gysler

Social Media has grown bigger to a greater extent and with the help of LinkedIn it has really grown bigger. While LinkedIn provides marketing opportunities for various people in all forms. The following infographic has really pushed me to use LinkedIn, although i never used it. So here we present a small and interesting crash course on LinkedIn Marketing Opportunities.

Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, Gerda van Doorn

I selected this piece by Patricia Redsicker for Social Media Examiner for two reasons -

 

**It's a great review of Lee Oden's new book Optimize: How to Engage Your Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing 

 

**The book is timely and relevant it's about optimizing content for customer and user experiences, rather than for search engines which is becoming increasingly important

 

Here's what caught my attention:

 

Chapter 1: Setting the Stage for an Optimized State of Mind

 

**Use words that matter most to your customers in titles, links and body copy in order to inspire your readers to take action

 

Chapter 9: Content Isn't King, It's the Kingdom - Creation vs. Curation

 

**mix curated content with original content. In fact,  curating is a great way to extend your own site, but only in addition to—not instead of—your original content

 

 

So many great tips on types of content to curate, here are just a few:

 

**Content created by influential people who are important to your target audience

 

**Aggregating the best comments from your own or others's blogs

 

**White papers, ebooks and case studies

 

**Tips, how-to's and best practices

 

Chapter 11 Social Networking Development - Don't Be Late to the Networking Party

 

**Listen, participate, create optiized content and understand the triggers that will inspire sales or referrals

 

**It's important to know which specific social networks are relevant to your customers

 

Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

 

Read full article here: [http://tinyurl.com/cycs5g4]

Via janlgordon

Via Guglielmo Cornelli, roberto toppi