Tips On How To Drive Traffic Through Social Networking Sites

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. Since the rise of facebook and twitter, social networking is a must have as part of your traffic generating arsenal. Just to clarify for you, blog commenting and trackbacks are an important part of social networking.

(1). Increase traffic through Friends - Friends are the heart of the social networking attitude, and when promoting content this can be a valuable tool in viral marketing. The more friends you have in your network, the more visibility you will have when promoting.

(2). Blogs Blogs and more Blogs - Posting comments on niche related blogs will not only increase your authority status, but it will also provide valuable backlinks to your “money site”. Everytime you post a comment, feel free to drop a link (it’s expected).

(3). Picture sharing sites - Why? Well, for one, it is known that spammers never take the time to upload a picture. Second, it is called ’social’ networking and ’social’ bookmarking sites. If you are trying to be ’social’ then you should put a face to your name.

(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). Increase traffic through bulletin - Bulletins use your friends list, basically the more friends you have the more views your bulletins receive. Common sense! Some people use bulletins way to much and if I grasp these spammers they get deleted ASAP. So my advice is to use this angle a few times a month and keep them simple, this raw move toward keeps the bulletins friendly and not to over bearing.

(6). Keep it fresh and unique - If you are a good writer and you write about interesting topics, you are going to do well on the social networking sites. “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, make sure that you are part of a few of the more popular social networking websites. These memberships will be only destined to build your own network and not of overt marketing. As your social network grows you can invite your contacts to join you on the social networking website. This should start a sequence reaction that will get them inviting their own contacts and so on. Finally your network will grow to a point where it becomes truly helpful.