Social networking sites are now all the rage in the internet. Facebook recently announced that its members are now more than 500 million. Other social sites like Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla are also enjoying rapid growth.
What this means is that there are millions of people with access to these social networking sites, every single day. Looking at it on a marketer's view, these sites are gold mines.
Here are a few tricks on how to use social networking sites to generate website traffic.
First,choose the social networking sites that are better suited for the type of site you have. Just because everyone is using Twitter does not necessarily mean you will have to use it as well. Before signing with a networking site, you must ask the question: What can this site do for me, my website or my business? If you cannot get any solid answer to the question, the location is probably not the best solution for your site.
Second, sign up with just a few networking sites if free time is something you do not have. If you have too many accounts, but do not subscribe to those pages regularly, all your efforts are wasted.
Hence, focus on a few social sites that you know you can spend some time on.
Third, the key to an effective strategy for social media marketing is real participation. Don't use a social site just to generate website traffic. Use it as a marketing tool second. Build connections and trust with others before you ever think of a sales pitch.
One of the fastest and most effective ways to generate website traffic is through dropping comments on other websites and blogs. This is especially important if you are just starting out. The efforts in traffic-building are at its hardest during the first weeks and months of creating a website or blog. Comment on other websites is a way to get the ball rolling.
There are however a lot of factors that you need to take into consideration before you write your very first comment. You can't just go around the internet dropping comments on every comment box that comes your way. This is not the right or effective way to do it.
Look first at your own website and determine what your main topics are.
This is very important, because your comments are much more effective if you have comments on websites and blogs, that match the same as your own niche. The general rule here is that as much as possible, comment only on those sites that are on the same niche as yours.
The key to an effective commenting strategy is the value of your comments. If your comments consist only of "Nice." then you are not doing yourself any good. Don't just comment for the sake of commenting. See to it that the comments you leave provide value or meaning to what's already being discussed on the article you are commenting on. In a comment, use your real name or your website to give more credibility to your comments. Readers of your comments will more likely click on your name thus helping to generate website traffic in the process.
Author Resource:
Nikki Hunter, the author of the Internet Marketing Blog. Come check it out for more information on this and other subjects to maximize your Online Business. http://imforuandme.com
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