There is no doubt that social networking sites are becoming ever more popular by the day. But can you convert this popularity into cold hard cash?
The answer is yes, so long as you go about it in the right way. The key thing to remember is that every site works in a slightly different way, so it’s important to become familiar with each one before you start using it.
But if you have a website or a blog that you would like to promote, this is definitely the way you should go to do it – free of charge.
So where do we begin? The first thing to bear in mind is that you cannot make money directly from the social media sites. If you read through the rules of each one you will notice that they frown on directly touting for business in this way.
But that doesn’t stop you from finding people on these sites who fit it with your customer profile and encouraging them to visit your website. All of these sites allow you to post your website address – most of them even provide a space especially to put it in – and if you take some time to build up a profile and a presence on each site you will soon start seeing some traffic going to your website.
The trick to attracting the right kind of people is to build your profile to reflect what your site is all about. So if your website is focused on selling DVDs for example, you could position yourself as a DVD freak who collects all kinds of different titles. This would attract the kind of people who will be most likely to actually buy DVDs themselves. Get the idea? All you need to do is make sure they can buy DVDs from your website, whether you mail them out yourself or you simply have loads of affiliate links leading to websites which will make you a commission every time someone buys something.
The best way to drive the biggest amount of traffic to your site is by joining as many social networking sites as you can manage and linking them all together. For example if you join Twitter you can post a message asking people to see your profile on MySpace, or wherever else you have an online presence.
The same goes for social bookmarking sites, where you can share your bookmarks with everyone else online. Make sure you bookmark your own website wherever possible – on sites like Digg and del.icio.us – to ensure you get more publicity to promote your website with.
One of the key points to remember in all this is to try and insert relevant keywords to your area of interest in your profile at each site. So for example if you have a blog at MySpace make sure you blog about relevant issues and pop some good keywords in there while you’re at it. Once you’ve had some practice you will find you can do it quite casually without it seeming like a sales spiel – which is exactly what you don’t want.
It can take some time to build up a decent following on the social networking sites but there is no doubt that it’s worth the effort if you do it right. It is more responsive than a lot of paid advertising you could do online, and you have a lot more control over it too.
But before you go and sign up to MySpace, Twitter and all the rest, leave a comment for us by using the form below. Many thanks!
i was not known about these method of making money and it nice to make money through social medias in the web.But i don’t know to which extent these are true.
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This is interesting. People are starting to get tired of the usual advertising process. And some of the advertising methods are beginning to become suspicious. Thank you for the suggestion.
I don’t agree with this statement though: “The first thing to bear in mind is that you cannot make money directly from the social media sites.”
I think the presence of Peoplestring makes this statement false.
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I’m not yet sure whether this website is legitimate or not (since I only joined recently) but this is what they claim:
“Most of us are loyal Facebook users and enjoy the social aspects of the social networks. The games the forms and everything else that come with it. We all love to use Twitter and to be honest in the beginning I had no clue how to work Twitter and I did not understand it. The fact of the matter is that social networks are the way of the future and the way most people are communicating nowadays. People are spending less time emailing each other and more time leaving messages on each others wall. Theses companies are exploding in popularity and are estimated to worth in the billions of dollars.
There is only one problem. These companies do not pay their members for all of the traffic and the advertising revenue that they generate. This is why PeopleString has exploded onto the scene in less than a year to being ranked in the top 1500 on the Alexa.com ranking. PeopleString is a social network that pays you and shares 70% of the advertising revenue with its members. You literally make money simply by using the website.”
I asked for a payment proof from person who referred me and I’m satisfied with the screenshot he provided.
I think your method will also work well. This is just another option.
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This just goes to show that Internet Marketing strategies are becomming more and more covert and it’s time to step up your tactics.
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