May 26, 2016 at 3:26 am

Do you add tags when you share your posts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.? Hashtags can be used on most, if not all, social networking sites. Using a #LiteracyBase hashtag could help raise awareness of the site on all these networks. We could also use hashtags for specific writing challenges, such as the “How to spend a million dollars” challenge proposed by @scheng1.

On Facebook I have found that #milliondollars is a popular search. On Twitter, there is a tag for #ifihadamilliondollars as well, and both these tags exist on Google+. I am hoping to revive these tags, and to raise awareness for LB on those networks. I hope others will use the tags when they post their links too 🙂

Feel free to use this graphic if you need an image when you Tweet your #ifihadamilliondollars posts!

May 26, 2016 at 6:03 am

Thanks for sharing

I didn’t know that we could add # at twitter and facebook.

I will add them now . Hope that I could get some views from external traffic

I share all my post url at FB, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumbr

I do get some immediate traffic as I can see there are several referred visitors in My History

Thanks again

May 26, 2016 at 5:16 pm

A very good Idea Indeed, we appreciate the Initiative.

May 26, 2016 at 5:31 pm

@ruby3881 That is new to me too.  I never know that #milliondollars and #ifihadamilliondollars are two popular tags. 

May 27, 2016 at 7:13 am

When I share on FB and Twitter, I have been trying to use hashtags based on what the article is about. I am not sure that I do the right ones, since hashtags are relatively new to me. I am far behind in these categories. I have only just begun to use Twitter and I had long ago noticed the hashtags on FB, but never really understood them. I am getting there though. I will start doing that to Google+ when I use that to share.

May 28, 2016 at 8:26 am

@scheng1 I have tried a few tools like Hastagify Me, but in the end to find good tags on any social network I often just plug in a few tags to see if anything comes up. On FB, all the popular searches are marked as such. That makes it easier to see which tags will get a bit more exposure 🙂

@morgoodie I’m still not sure how much hashtags help on G+. I’ve recently read that posts without are doing better, but I know that I like to “tag surf” sometimes, and I’ve discovered interesting content by clicking on those good old tags…

May 28, 2016 at 8:45 am

Can we use that # tag to tag keywords in our blogs so that they are clickable?

May 28, 2016 at 10:05 am

@Kyla Matton Osborne (Ruby3881) That’s a very good suggestion! Though I often share my blog posts and those of other writers on social media sites but I have not been using hashtags. I will definitely add #literacybase while sharing the posts on social media. Thanks!

May 28, 2016 at 12:04 pm

@bestwriter I don’t think the keywords are “hot” here if we use the # hashtags – though it would be much easier to find one another’s posts if they were! Perhaps we could lobby @support to add this to the wishlist?

@swalia It would also help if the admin had a regular presence on social media. If they were to use a social media management app like HootSuite or Buffer to schedule Tweets for new posts, or to add those links to the Facebook page, it would take only a few minutes to schedule new content as the posts are published and the account would then have a regular flow of content for 24 hours or more!

Buffer is great because it will pick up the featured images and add them to the FB posts and Tweets. I’ve been experimenting with just the free app for a few weeks, and I love it!

May 28, 2016 at 4:32 pm

@ruby3881 that is a good idea.

Since Literacybase is a relatively new site, it is hard for Google to rank the articles in the search result page.

It makes sense to use a tweet management app to send tweets out regularly.

May 28, 2016 at 6:56 pm

@scheng1 Social media management apps can save a lot of time for both individuals and companies. I really love using Buffer for my Tweets and posts to my Facebook author page 🙂

May 28, 2016 at 8:11 pm

Based on my experienced using tags on Bubblews and Blogjob, tags will work if the hash tags you are using are trending. Like it is trending for whole week. It will work because people are talking about it and when someone is talking about it, it will be easier to search when you are using the right hash tag. People will be flocking to research for that hashtag if everyone is busy enough researching on this one.

May 29, 2016 at 8:28 pm

@ Kyla Matton Osborne (Ruby3881)  I agree with you. I wonder why all writing sites expect only the members to promote the site. Even the site admin should be active on the social media sites. In fact, a facebook page or a twitter handle can be quite useful to share important updates especially when the site is down for maintenance.

May 29, 2016 at 9:25 pm

Yes I have to keep this in mind, after all we have to multiply that an advertisement in addition to making it an asset to us all, I think you begin to follow these instructions, especially on Facebook.