Marketers, for Free?
Some years ago a good marketing campaign consisted of classified ads,
FFA-pages and banner exchanges. Since that time things have changed
dramatically, and this method of advertising is pretty much useless today.
Serious marketers are always looking for new sources of traffic.
Blogging has been popular for a while now, and the Net is loaded with
books teaching you how to blog for money and traffic.
There is one field of advertising where you don't get bombarded with
Manuals and ?How to? books, and that is MySpace
Thousands of people has discovered Myspace as a new and exciting
advertising media. It is free to sign up as a member, and you get your
very own webpage you can tune anyway you like.
So, what exactly is MySpace?
To put it in short; MySpace and other social networking websites
are communities with people looking for other people with the
same interest.
Social Networking has been popular for quite some time now, and
people are networking all across the Internet.
MySpace is the largest of them all; In September 2006 there are currently 106,035,400 members!
Many consider MySpace to be a playground for kids, but this is far
from the truth.
Yahoo said earlier this summer that the traffic they got from MySpace was
poor, most of the traffic was from kids without any money or credit card.
This did not prevent Google from putting $900 Billions into MySpace only
weeks later.
I guess Yahoo saw that they was going to lose the battle of getting all the
traffic from MySpace.
So, how can you use MySpace to improve your traffic and earnings?
The first step is of course to sign up as a member. This is totally free at the
moment. It could be just a matter of time before Google decide to get their
investment back. We all know Google, right?
After signing up you get your own unique URL, and you can start to add your
profile. Take a look at my link, just to get some ideas to begin with.
http://www.myspace.com/turnpoint
You will soon enough discover that there is an industry out there, with
MySpace related products, like adder programs and programs to change
the look of your page.
The key to success with MySpace is to add as many friends as possible.
There are several ways you can do this.
Use the ?Search? feature to find people with the same interests you have.
You can use search terms like MLM, Network Marketing, Affiliate Programs
or everything else you can think of.
Your search results will consist with a group of targeted people, and you can
start adding them. This is very time consuming, but it is worth it!
Another great way to search for like-minded people is in the Forums.
There are many of them to choose from, so you should be able to find one
that cover your interest.
The procedure here is the same, start adding friends like a maniac!
You can also join some of the Groups; the most popular of them has
over 30.000 members.
When you are adding new people, you will notice that some of them
have over 10.000 friends, a few got 20.000, and I have even seen one
guy with over 41.000 friends in his network.
And here is where it is getting really interesting. You can post bulletins to all
your friends.
Let's say that you have 5000 friends in your network. When you send a
bulletin with your offer and website link, this bulletin will end up on the
page of all your 5000 friends.
This means 5000 backlinks to your webpage, and it's pure Search Engine
Food!!
As you can see, doing this correctly will increase your search engine rankings!
In the end I want to tell you my experience with MySpace.
As I said earlier, using MySpace is time consuming. But, it did not take many
days before I saw results.
I started to heavily promote a free terrific report called Affiliate Cash Secrets:
www.instantaffiliatecash.com
This is a lead capture page, (the product is damn good too) and it only took a day
or two before my subscriber rate started to increase dramatically.
Not only that; since I have links to some of my other websites, my
PPC earnings has increased too. And it is still increasing since I'm adding
new friends everyday.
This is the results with only 600 friends, and I just can't wait till I get 10.000!
I hope you learned something new from this article. You owe it to yourself
to try this method.
It is free; your only investment is a few hours of your time!
Good luck!
Rolf Arne Trondhjem
Rolf Arne Trondhjem has been marketing online for several years now, and
has been studying the power of Social Networking
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