Today in the world of Web 2.0, Social Media sites are one of the most important sources of traffic for your online business.
Social Media sites can bring in large amounts of traffic very quickly to your sites. NOT using them correctly can KILL your business.
So what exactly is a Social Media Site? Here is a list of the 3 most important types of Social Media Sites:
1. Communities - These are sites that people go to on a regular basis and hang out. People set up profiles and make them personal by adding photos, writing blog entries on their own pages and making comments on their friends pages. Examples of communities are FaceBook and MySpace.
2. Libraries - Digg and Technorati. These sites contain information provided by their users.
3. Notice Boards - Twitter and Blogs. This is where people make recommendations about other sites or make posts on a regular basis.
So what is the proper way to use these sites?
First and most importantly you must spend some time on the site learning how others use the sites and then do the same.
If you just sign up and start posting content linking to your site, site members will probably see you as a spammer and get you banned from the site.
So sign up and take a look around and get a feel for the site. Set up your profiles like the other members and just fit in.
Let's say you sign up to Facebook. What are the others doing? They are adding photos, commenting on photos, and posting comments on their friends "Walls".
... Ah yes, friends "Walls". Before you can post on your friends "Walls", you have to first GET some friends.
FaceBook allows you to import your email address list and find contacts that are part of the FaceBook community. You can then invite these people to be your friend. There is also a search function where you can search for your friends by name.
After you have invited a friend and if they accept your invitation, then you will be able to communicate to them by posting messages on their wall as well as many other ways.
If you are trying to use FaceBook to make business contacts, then you quickly get a few hundred friends to join and you immediately start selling and making money!
This is NOT a good idea. Think about this for a moment... how would you react if you received a friend invite one day, accepted and then got bombarded with offers from this person right away?
You wouldn't like it at ALL! You probably would block this person from being your friend ASAP! You might even complain to FaceBook. If FaceBook thinks you're spamming, they will BAN you from the site.
So the trick is to spend a good amount of time in ALL of these sites, watch and then do what the other members are doing and then submit some great quality content to these sites slowly.
Say what? You don't have any extra time? You already have a huge "to-do" list that will make it difficult to spend large amounts of time at these Social Media sites.
You don't have to worry about that now because I have found this simple to follow step-by-step video guide called "Social Traffic Explosion" that will save you hours of your valuable time by explaining how to sign up and create the perfect FaceBook and MySpace profile pages.
You will also learn secret strategies that show you the only way to use FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter and other social bookmarking sites to get massive FREE traffic to your site. - 15431
Social Media sites can bring in large amounts of traffic very quickly to your sites. NOT using them correctly can KILL your business.
So what exactly is a Social Media Site? Here is a list of the 3 most important types of Social Media Sites:
1. Communities - These are sites that people go to on a regular basis and hang out. People set up profiles and make them personal by adding photos, writing blog entries on their own pages and making comments on their friends pages. Examples of communities are FaceBook and MySpace.
2. Libraries - Digg and Technorati. These sites contain information provided by their users.
3. Notice Boards - Twitter and Blogs. This is where people make recommendations about other sites or make posts on a regular basis.
So what is the proper way to use these sites?
First and most importantly you must spend some time on the site learning how others use the sites and then do the same.
If you just sign up and start posting content linking to your site, site members will probably see you as a spammer and get you banned from the site.
So sign up and take a look around and get a feel for the site. Set up your profiles like the other members and just fit in.
Let's say you sign up to Facebook. What are the others doing? They are adding photos, commenting on photos, and posting comments on their friends "Walls".
... Ah yes, friends "Walls". Before you can post on your friends "Walls", you have to first GET some friends.
FaceBook allows you to import your email address list and find contacts that are part of the FaceBook community. You can then invite these people to be your friend. There is also a search function where you can search for your friends by name.
After you have invited a friend and if they accept your invitation, then you will be able to communicate to them by posting messages on their wall as well as many other ways.
If you are trying to use FaceBook to make business contacts, then you quickly get a few hundred friends to join and you immediately start selling and making money!
This is NOT a good idea. Think about this for a moment... how would you react if you received a friend invite one day, accepted and then got bombarded with offers from this person right away?
You wouldn't like it at ALL! You probably would block this person from being your friend ASAP! You might even complain to FaceBook. If FaceBook thinks you're spamming, they will BAN you from the site.
So the trick is to spend a good amount of time in ALL of these sites, watch and then do what the other members are doing and then submit some great quality content to these sites slowly.
Say what? You don't have any extra time? You already have a huge "to-do" list that will make it difficult to spend large amounts of time at these Social Media sites.
You don't have to worry about that now because I have found this simple to follow step-by-step video guide called "Social Traffic Explosion" that will save you hours of your valuable time by explaining how to sign up and create the perfect FaceBook and MySpace profile pages.
You will also learn secret strategies that show you the only way to use FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter and other social bookmarking sites to get massive FREE traffic to your site. - 15431
About the Author:
Pete K. has written numerous articles on creating free traffic from Social Media sites. Now you can have access to an 8 video course that will help you to create a Social Traffic Explosion!
