Tuesday 21 December 2010

How to use social networking

This post explains how to use social networking to get traffic to your website, build your social network follower lists and increase sales.

What is Social Networking?

Social networking can be defined as linking your website / blog to relevant forums and social platforms, which will create away of getting your message or brand seen by the masses. Doing this, you will start creating a list of followers who are interested in your brand and the masses will find you. Eventually, who will have a database of followers who are linking to your blog feed / website, which will enable you to market your product instantly.

Social networking and link popularity

Social networking also helps in link popularity, which helps to get your website / blog up the rankings of google. By having link backs from your social networking profile page to your blog / website helps to boast your google rankings and this is defined as closed loop networking. Ideally, you want to get your followers linking to your website / blog, which will also increase your linking popularity. To do this, you must give them a reason to link to you and that is why blogs and social networking go hand in hand.

Blogs and Social Networking

A blog is a powerful tool to use for social networking, but you must give a reason for a social network follower to link to or visit your blog. That is why your blog must be informative, useful and gives relevant information. A blog is a powerful entity on its own as long as the search engine optimizartion(SEO) is managed well for each post. When you start linking your blog to other social networks gives you a massive marketing platform. For example, by submitting your posts to twitter or to Digg, gets your brand in front of the social masses.

To find out more about social networking and how to get your message or brand seen by the masses, I recommend the following book:

33 Million People in the Room: How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking

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