Social BookMarking Traffic Generation Secrets Revealed Social Communities like YouTube, FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr and Twitter are growing by leaps and bound with millions of happy campers joining each year. You are able to interact with these members to build huge contact lists for relationships and/or friendships. It's no wonder so many smart online marketers are seizing the opportunity to use social networking platforms to build their networking opportunities. Members have an opportunity to build Relationships while they show off their programs and opportunities by promoting to each other. It would not be long before hundreds of these sites were filled with millions of new members marketing to each other. To keep people coming back they enable a lot of cool stuff like flash graphics, videos, and multiple groups features to keep members on their sites. Some even offer to share the revenues by allowing members to collect pennies on posts, visits or clicks. This social-business arena, however, soon created huge conflict of interests between social network marketing and members who just want to meet new people and have some fun. (1) The result was that most marketers were spending far too much time keeping up with social discussions and not much web marketing. (2) Those who promote their businesses to community members soon found out that most members would not welcome being promoted to. (3) Marketers also soon found that they have no real access to reach the thousands of people on their friends' or extended lists for any real web site promotion. This is a complex problem for the serious Online Marketers. Should you concentrate on "Real Web Promotion" like doing search engine optimization, email marketing, or article directories to get actual visitors; or continue the "time-consuming activities" that just put you "up front and center" on the community site Leader Boards? Although some networking sites provide email access to all the people on their friends' lists or down lines - there is always a system limit to contacting these people. Plus since most of the members are on each other's lists any attempt to send email messages would only result in spam complaints. Online Marketers Need Actual Visitors To Succeed On The Net: You need actual visitors to your web site and affiliate pages that want what you have to sell. And ironically, you cannot find them easily in these social-business arenas. But there are still some very good ideas to achieve a tsunami of actual visitors to your web pages from social networking communities if you use the right tools. FIRST STEP: Create A Social Circle Of Influential Friends Your social networking sites are mainly for branding your business name. To do this effectively, you have to interact with other members on a social level to keep your brand alive while you build up your following. The top sites for building your networking lists today are YouTube, FaceBook and the newcomer, Twitter. Enterprising members easily added tens of thousands of followers to their list in a very Short time. But all of this can be time consuming work, to say the least, unless you are an Information marketing guru or Celebrity. These people can sustain large lists of followers that they don't have to follow back, because their followers have an insatiable appetite for gossip, news and other trivia that suround them. STEP TWO - BookMarking Your Way To Internet Profits So, what can you do if you are not a mentor or celebrity? Well, there is a second tier of social networking called BookMarking. Using Social BookMarking allows you to even the playing field and at the same time get you actual visitors to your web sites or blogs. The web is chockful of bookmarking web sites out there for digging news, posting pictures, videos, even web site and blogs like DIGG, Deli.ci.ous, Flickr, stumpleUpon and Yahoo MyBlogLog. All of this may sound complicated to manage, but most of these sites today are connected with Apps that allow you to easily share your content with others from communities to communities. STEP THREE - Managing Your Circle Of Influence. Now, that you have all these accounts setup, what next? One of the best too around to give you absolute control over your social networking activities is FriendFeed. There's More To FriendFeed Than Meets The Eye. FeedFeed is an aggregator of social networking sites. You can post an entry on FriendFeed and it will feed into your Twitter and FaceBook accounts once you have them connected. Add some entries at DIGG or StumbleUpon and FriendFeed will also pull them into your FF posts and re-distribute them. And that's just a small portion of what you can do through FriendFeed on any given day. STEP FOUR - Blogging Your Way To The Bank If You Are Not Blogging, You Are Dead In The Cyber Space. Whether you have a website or not, but it is paramount to have a few blogs to spread your online influence. Blogging is the easiest way to brand yourself as an expert and get noticed by the major search engines - Google, Yahoo and Bing. They just can't get enough of fresh, relevant content. Two good tools to spread your blogging influence is MyBloglog and TweetMyBlog. TweetMyBlog is a Twitter plugin that will send your blog posts to Twitter where they will be picked up by FriendFeed and re-distributed. The MyBlogLog at Yahoo allows you to build communities for each of your internet properties and place their widgets on your pages to put a face on your membership connections.
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