Using Social Networking Websites to Promote Your Blog

Using Social Networking Websites to Promote Your Blog

Do you know what the main purpose of a social networking website is? If you are an avid internet user, you likely do. Social networking websites are online communities that make it easier for internet users to meet and communicate with each other. If you are an internet user who enjoys using the internet to meet new people, there is a good chance that you already belong to a social networking website. What about an online blog? Do you have one of them? If you do, do you know that you could use your social networking website to promote your blog?

Promote your blog? Why would you want to do that? Honestly, if you have to ask yourself that question you probably shouldn't even have one. The whole purpose of a blog is to document your thoughts, views, and opinions on a particular topic, issue, or subject. What good will your blog do if no one reads it. In addition to sharing your thoughts with the rest of the world, did you know that you could also make money from your blog? You can sign up for affiliate programs or other programs like Google Adsense. If you are using your blog to make money then you will defiantly want to promote it.

When it comes to promoting blogs, there are many blog owners who decide to let the search engine do the work for them. Search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN use special techniques that reads the content on your website. That content is then used to rank your website with particular keywords. This means that you run a blog on graduating from high school in New York, there is a good chance that your blog will appear in searches done on New York high schools. Although many blogs are successfully ranked in search engines, not all are. That is why you are advised against relying solely on search engines, when it comes to promoting your blog.

As previously mentioned, if you love meeting with or talking to people online, there is a good chance that you belong to a social networking website or community. The individuals that you talk to and that are in your community are likely the individuals that you wish to target. Since most social networking websites work to connect internet users who have the same goals and common interests, there is a good chance that your online friends will enjoy reading your blog. But, before they can read your blog, you have to let them know that it exists.

When it comes to promoting your blog on social networking websites, you have a number of different options. Your first option is to include a link to your blog in your community profile or profile page. This will allow other community members to checkout your blog, only if they wish to do so. The other way is to inform your online friends of your blog through private messages. Once you join a social networking website and create or join a network of friends, you should easily be able to communicate with those friends. Sending each of your friends a private message with information and a link to your blog tends to be more effective than just placing a link in your profile or on your profile page.

Although there is a good chance that you are already a member of a popular social networking website, you may not be. If you are not already a member, but would like to become one, you will need to find a social networking website to join. This can easily be done with a standard internet search. In your search, you will likely find a number of popular network sites, such as Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, FriendFinder, Yahoo! 360, and Orkut. Before becoming a community member at one of these networking sites, you may want to first examine the website to ensure that it is everything that you want it to be.

As you can easily see, there are a number of different ways that you can go about promoting your blog on online social networking websites. You never known, but, in addition to promoting your blog, you may also make new friends along the way.

-Ian

The Demoralized Marketer

I'm going crazy and broke!!!!!!!

I have the skills and I know what to do BUT no one is buying anything I market!

Do you feel like this also?

List building is the bottom line and should be your main goal with any online marketing business.

Get your Aweber account now if you don't have one! Double op-in autorespnder is the backbone of your business no matter what you sell/market. You must build a large list of targeted members or buyers. Building your list will take time...months or more! After you have a large list you could make hundreds of sales in one day from sending one e-mail.

Join PayDotCom.com and ClickBank.com and start marketing products from you market area to you list as it grows. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make extra income without haveing to build your own products.

How do you get people to signup for your list?

Give something away that is directly related to your market area. If you market health drinks give away a healthy eating e-book. Don't give away a car repair manual expecting this group of people will buy a health drink from you next week.

How do I get Traffic to your list capture website?

This is the hard part!

Targetted Traffic = targetted signups = more sales = more money!

1) Get a domain name for your website with keywords for your market in it. If you're marketing to the health drink industy make sure your domain name has health and drink in it. Better for the search engine ratings.

2) You need to fill your website with original content so it will rate higher in the search engines.

3) Make sure you are giving free usefull information and ask people to join your e-mail list for more free info. Try giving away something if they join the list.

4) Join a few social networking sites with a new account if you can. Facebook, Twitter, and maybe MySpace. Be active and talk to poeple every day on these networks. Start a Facebook group for your market and encourage people to visit your site. As your group builds you will be building a second list of targetted members.

5) Start writing 500 word articles about your product or market. Send them to your lists telling people they can repost it if they don't change it and keep the contact/link info. Start your own blog and post your articles there as well as on your own site to build original content. After you have a few article wiritten submit them to an article website. This will cost you money!

6) Search for free forums in your market and join them, at least a few. Don't just spam them with links to your website interact with the groups and just leave your link in your signature file so it is on all your posts people will click the link especialy if you have been around for a long time.

7) Google AdWords - This will cost you a lot of money! If you are not carefull and choose keywords just right you could spend a LOT of money in a short time. If you start making money then think about using AdWords.

8) There is one more major NEW way to get traffic to your site but I will not tell you about that unless you join my e-mail list! After joining and confirming your e-mail just forward the first e-mail of my autorespnder to ian@tailgatemoney.com and I will tell you the secret NEW traffic generation system that most big marketers are keeping for themselves!

In my Trash bin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Traffic Exchanges suck unless you are marketing to people wanting to make BIG FAST money online for free. This is only good to rise your site counter number if you are not in the make money market....and even then its not so good.

-Don't use or pay for safelists. They suck! The e-mails they send out are to other people trying to market their own products...why would they buy from you if you ignore the e-mails also?

If you are building a list for people who want to make money online use a list builder were you can export your list members to your AWeber list. This is also a great money making opportunity while building your list of targetted BUYERS. Lots of good stuff with this program for newbies also!

Happy Marketing!
-Ian