Myspace Proxy Web Blog

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). Get your friend numbers up – Without any friends on these social networking sites, who are you going to promote to? And how will the viral marketing effect take place? Increase your friends, and increase your exposure, simple!

(2). Increase traffic through Blogs – Blogs are one more great way to spread the word, most blogs allow you to post nameless comments. I use these blogs to post a comment then I include a link to one of my sites. I achieve a free back link for simply commenting on a story.

(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). Pimp your profile page – don’t stick with the dull and boring stock standard profile pages provided to you… make it snazzy! Interlink your other social networking and social bookmarking sites, add a banner or two if the site allows, add your blog RSS feed for relevant and fresh content, etc… as you can see the possibilities are endless. All you need to do is give your profile page some “character”.

(5). Bulletin boards are great – This goes hand in hand with having many friends, because the more friends you have, then the more prospective people you have viewing your bulletins. Don’t become spammy and post every 5 minutes, once a day is fine! You might like to post at different times of the day to get different people online to view your message… and don’t be afraid to send a new message each time round.

(6). Increase traffic through Content – Nothing is more important than content. If you are a good writer and you write about interesting topics, you are going to do well on the social networking sites. People seem to like top 10 lists, top 20 lists, etc. I suggest that you look at digg.com to see what gets the most diggs. I have failed multiple times on getting a post digged or stumbled, even when I thought that it was the best article ever. You don’t always win.

(7). Increase traffic through clipart and screensavers – If you have some skills in this direction then try creating clipart and screensavers. Offering these for free is also a good way to get more traffic.

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.