How can you drive traffic to your site using Digg, Stumble Upon and Yahoo Buzz?
Social networking sites have become the easiest path for internet marketers to drive massive amounts of traffic to their sites at zero cost. This article will teach fresh marketers how to use popular social networking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon and Yahoo Buzz to drive traffic.
There is no separate procedure for each site. You can achieve your goal of driving an impressive amount of targeted traffic to your site through any social networking site in just four steps.
Step 1: Signup
Select social networking sites that could offer highest referrers and drive quality traffic. You can select more than one social networking site, depending on how much time you can spend for promoting sites on networks.
Step 2: Profile
Face is the index of the mind. In social networking sites, your profile acts as a face by which visitors see and judge you. So make sure your profile is impressive, and reflects your business well. You can create a profile for yourself or for your brand.
Step 3: Submit content
Provide any content related to your business with a link to your site, under appropriate categories. Keep in mind, that only if people find the content useful, you will get massive amounts of traffic to your site. If it is really interesting, people will review and bookmark your site, and refer it to their friends.
Step 4: Promote site
Actively participate in the social networking site by commenting on and voting for other’s content. Don’t forget to add them to your friends list. If someone comments or votes for your post, add them to your friend list with a note thanking them for it. People generally judge you through friends list, so add as many friends as you can. With the perfect content and an impressive friends list, you can reach the home page of networking sites easily.
As you reach the homepage, the probability of getting traffic is doubled.
Dare to challenge your competitors
The power of networking sites like MySpace, digg, facebook, Friendster, etc is spreading all over the Internet, as it helps to develop a close relationship with people who want to share interests with like-minded people. Today social networking sites can also be used as a marketing tool to promote products or services without spending money. They can send tons of traffic to specific website; in an added bonus they also improve search engine rankings.
Some business networking sites enable webmasters to join specific communities and discussion groups, post blogs and participate in forums, through which webmasters can expose their business to the world. By allowing members to comment, rate and review stuff, webmaster can get feedbacks, responses and credibility for their products/services. Webmasters can take advantage of such sites for advertising their products and services through clear videos and pictures. Healthy participation in networking sites will create a very good impression among customers.
Consumers have lost trust in traditional sales, marketing and services. They need to build relationships and communities with people they trust. Online social networks allow a prospective customer to easily facilitate a real connection with individuals within an organization.
Here are some instructions that will help you in promoting your business through social media:
• Once you’ve selected a network, begin by filling out your profile page with pertinent information about yourself, your company, and your contacts.
• Make sure to include your site link.
• When you maintain a blog on social networking sites, don’t make your posts sound like advertisements, make them more like a casual conversation. Don’t forget to provide informative stuff.
• Don’t spam. Avoid sending constant messages to your online friends about your products all the time. It will annoy them and they will ignore you.
• Post clear photos and videos related to your products and/or services.
• Make as many friends as possible because it will increase your exposure on social networking websites.
• If you have colleagues or clients who are members of a network, ask them to write a recommendation for you.
• Social networking sites such as YouTube are visited by millions of users daily so make videos related to your business using a high quality camera and post them on site.
Social networking sites are free to join and all you need to do is add your profile, photos, videos, and more. If your site makes it to the front page of any social networking site, then get ready for a mind blowing amount of traffic.
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