Nowadays, Social networking sites popularity is increasing day by day like facebook, myspace, orkut, digg, etc… we can say social networking is one of the best and free ways for increase traffic on our site. Social networking is important in blogging and if you can’t do social networking then it’s a rare chance that you’ll be successful in blogging. Leaving comments and trackbacks is part of social networking. Apart from that is part of one of the popular Social news networks.
(1). Get your friend numbers up – Without any friends on these social networking sites, who are you going to promote to? And how will the viral marketing effect take place? Increase your friends, and increase your exposure, simple!
(2). Blog commenting your way to riches – I use niche related blogs to post a comment then, I include a link to one of my sites. I achieve a free back link for simply commenting on a story… and you should too! Not only are you link building, but you are establishing yourself as an expert in your niche.
(3). A picture speaks a thousand words – it’s true! Uploading your pictures to file sharing sites is a great way to get an untapped fan base that is usually more than happy to learn more about you and your business. Spammers very rarely upload images to generate traffic, so this is perfect for us decent working individuals to get more traffic and sales. After all, you are only being social by sharing your images.
(4). Give your profile page a “character” – On my profile pages at myspace.com, digg.com, linkedin.com, stumbledupon.com and yahoo.com I have links to all my social network profiles & personal projects. Another service that you might find interesting is myspacestats.net , a service that tracks and stores your social networking traffic. The service simply puts an image on your profile and counts the total amount of visitors per day, month and year. Great to see what profiles are getting the most action, so yo may focus on networking on those sites which provide to be valuable to your efforts.
(5). Have you heard of bulletin boards? – Some people use bulletins way to much and if I grasp these spammers they get deleted ASAP. Don’t become spammy and post every 5 minutes, once a day is fine! You might like to post at different times of the day to get different people online to view your message… and don’t be afraid to send a new message each time round. Bulletins use your friends list, basically the more friends you have the more views your bulletins receive. Common sense!
(6). Content is King/Queen – Fresh and interesting content is loved by friends and internet users alike. “How To”… “Top 10/20/30/etc…” lists are most popular for people to read. Go have a search on digg for the most popular stories and then create your own!
(7). clipart and screensavers – Offer free images for people to download, and make sure your website is clearly visible. This is free and very powerful advertising.
Finally your network will grow to a point where it becomes truly helpful, so make sure that you are part of a few of the more popular social networking websites. It’s free to join, so do it! As your presence grows and you become more popular, people will perceive you as more of an expert, and trust you more and more… this will create loyalty in the long term.
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