4 Tips To Traffic With Social Bookmarking
December 20, 2007 by Tom Lindstrom · 3 Comments
People call it social marketing, social bookmarking, web 2.0 or new age marketing but the fact of the matter is this - you need to be using the social marketing websites to your advantage because there’s tons of free traffic to be had from them.
In my opinion, there are 4 things to social bookmarking you must do correctly in order to receive lots of traffic by using this simple technique.
The big names like MySpace, Facebook and the rest are not only dominating news stories now and people’s minds they are starting to play a really big part in driving traffic to marketers pages online. The problem though is this …
… social sites don’t like marketers! It’s true! So you have to be careful when you are using them that you don’t get banned or caught out. The key is to adopt this simple “4 H’s” approach;
Humor
Honesty
Have fun
Help people
As long as you can inject a little piece of humor into your social marketing profile or even just a little piece of who you really are then you will start attracting lots of friends and widening your network.
Also remember to help people. The more you can help people the more they will help you in return. So add useful links and recommendations to your profiles. Point people in the right direction and answer any questions people post on your profile or contact you with.
Have fun! That’s one of the great things about social marketing is that you can have lots of fun doing it. Meeting new people, learning new stuff and making money from the traffic that you get from it all at the same time.
You also need to maintain an honest approach throughout. No point uploading photos to your profile of P Diddy or Pamela Anderson pretending they’re. People want to get to know you so be honest.
There is a valuable guide called Social Traffic Explosion is packed with information delivered in 8 different videos, which shows you step-by-step:
-how easy it is to set up profiles in MySpace,FaceBook and Twitter.
-the proper way to set up your MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter pages.
-how to get lots of traffic to your MySpace, Facebook pages.
-best way to use Twitter to bring in traffic to your sites.
-fast way to use Social Bookmarking sites to get back-links and quick traffic to your sites.
Social Traffic Explosion will show you all the proper steps you MUST take to set up and use these different Social Media sites to your advantage to get lots of traffic to your sites fast. I can’t stress this enough… If you don’t know how to use these sites properly you WILL be banned!
Click here to visit Social Traffic Explosion, it makes social marketing very easy!
Tags: Social Bookmarking, monetizing a blog, social bookmarking, social marketing guide, targeted traffic
Alternative Ways To Build Links To Your Website
December 19, 2007 by Tom Lindstrom · 9 Comments
Articles are important when it comes to building links to your website, but there are other methods you should also use because it is not wise to rely on only one way to build links and it is important that your website looks good in the eyes of the search engines. In this article I will show a few alternative methods to build links to your website that are almost as effective as writing and submitting articles.
Social Bookmarking:
This is a quite new strategy and one of the best ways to build links to your website.I wrote an article about social bookmarking some time ago.I recommend reading the article for more information about this strategy.
PPC: (Pay Per Click)
You can also buy targeted traffic to your website to increase your sales and brand exposure. Regardless of the place where people find your website,chances are that people will link to you. Pay Per Click works like this: You subscribe to a PPC program and when this is completed your link will appear at a specific time and place.
You need to pay the advertiser a pre-set amount when someone clicks on your link and goes to your site.These amounts are normally only a few cents.
Link Trading:
Reciprocal links are not as effective as they used to be, but this method works when it is done correctly and small scale.Find a relevant link partner that will send you traffic.Do not use FFA sites, link farming or paid services that claim to submit your link to 10,000 places.
Build A Squidoo Lens:
Building a Squidoo lens takes only about 20 minutes and is free.Add links to your website and you can also add your RSS feed.I recommend taking the time to build a good and informative lens. I built a Squidoo lens about my blog.Update the information on your Squidoo lens regularly.The search engines prefer fresh content and are known to index Squidoo lenses quickly.
Hubpages is another service similar to Squidoo where you build a mini-site with information of a specific topic.Hubpages is a great tool in building links back to your website and create a strong web presence.
Forum Signatures:
Sign up for online forums that are in the same niche that you are.Contribute to the discussions and add a link back to your website in the signature file.Do not spam the forums, post only when you have something to say.
Commenting On Other Blogs:
Start commenting on other peoples blogs that are relevant to your blog.A great way to build links back to your website and build a relationship with other bloggers.Be careful no to spam, comment only when you have something to say.Look for blogs that have the no follow tag removed.This will give you a link back to your site.
Commenting on all related blogs is always a good idea, even if the “no follow” is not removed.If you post relevant comments people will visit your site anyway to learn more about you and what you have to say.
Tags: Social Bookmarking, hubpages, link building strategies, links to a website, PPC, social bookmarking, squidoo
