2/21/2008

Advertising 2.0 : Social Networking

Ok, you have already heard of Pay-per-click, free classifieds, mailexchangers, safelists and articlewriting. Those are the common instruments of advertising online.

But in the last few years, social networking became very famous.

What is that? Well, basically places where you create your profile and most importantly share sources.

Let´s say you find a video or website you liked for certain reasons, then you can share it with other people in those communities.

S.B. is just perfect for making friends, build relations, find stuff that others liked which can help you and finally: free traffic to your website!

I will now tell you some of the biggest websites`URL´s, but please: do not go there and start spamming! This is not going to work!

Gaining traffic from this "modern" source is a project to start immediately, build consequently and giving you results in a few weeks or even months from now.

I´d recommend you to sign up with those communities and complete your profile before you do anything else. You can´t build trust when you hide yourself. I´d strongly recommend to upload a picture of you too.

Then invest, let´s say at least 30 minutes every day to participate in those communities. That can be commenting on someone´s post, enter an active discussion, or starting a discussion, whatever.

The main focus should be on getting noticed as a serious person which is helpful for the communtity.

Don´t forget to put your link in your profile.

Here are the famous places for social networking:
Facebook(Make friends)
Digg (Become an authority by submitting and rating articles or news)
Myspace (Create your profile, show others what you like, make friends)
Sumbleupon (Social bookmarking, rate websites here, submit your site (s) once i.a.while)
Friendster (make friends)
Squidoo (A funny place to hang out! Create a lense (blog-like) with a high pagerank here.)

AGAIN! Because it´s very important:

DON`T just go there, knock together an account and spam! Edit your profile honestly, participate and communicate with others, then you´ll see the most honest traffic to your website ever!

Start today and grow your audience, it will pay out!

Digg.com is a very precious tool for your google listing too.. I´ll focus on that soon!

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