When you use social media tools to try to increase your chances of making more sales, you can take informration in these tools and use them to your advantage. A lot of hype is spread around about monetizing Facebook, MySpace and Twitter but new marketers often don’t know how to mine these systems for information that can help them.  Here are some tips:

Search for keywords

Twitter Search is a tool that can help you in internet marketing if you’re using it to its full potential.  A good way to use it is to search for people you can market to. If you sell widgets, you can search for others that have tweeted about widgets or that use widgets in their profile and add them to your friend list. From there, you can establish yourself as a guru in that niche and you could develop more subscribers, clients and people who’ll buzz about you on the social marketing scene.

Search for groups

Some of these tools such as MySpace and FaceBook have common interest groups. By joining those groups, you increase your ability to find people interested in your subject matter..

Make the most of your profile

Use the profile on these sites to maximize your potential for followers and for success. You need to look like a valuable member of the community and not just another person trying to sell something.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

The more links you have pointing at your money making websites, the better.  Why not utilise some free services to give yourself some link love and positively impact your SEO?  There are loads of ways to use free services to your advantage and today’s post will give you some great linking strategy ideas.

Write blog posts or articles with appropriately anchored keywords and long tail phrases on free sites. These sites that get human and internet traffic and can be very beneficial to you. Here are some examples of tools you can use:

1. Open a MySpace account and use the blog on it.  You could even open two if you have more than one e-mail account.
2. Open a Blogger account
3. Open a Wordpress account
4. Write HubPages and Squidoo Lenses
5. Try Tumblr and post regular updates with links to your work and articles
6. Add websites to community forum signature lines and free online profiles

Ping and social bookmark your posts on all the above sites!

Not only can you anchor keywords to your other sites within these free services but don’t forget to put your many sites (free and paid sites) on all the blogrolls.  Consider making a list of links to your free sites, hubs and other online pages so you can use the same blogroll wherever you go. This way, you create a big network of your own work which can positively impact your search engine optimisation and if people like what they see one of your blogs, chances are they’ll visit other blogs too so if you work in multiple niches you can refer people to your other sites ,especially where services are complimentary.   Happy linking!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Being an active member of an online community such as MySpace can take up valuable amounts of time each week. Some people end up getting sucked into spending more time on these sites than they do promoting their business and figuring out how they can sell more online. There’s a point when social marketing and Web 2.0 can turn into a time waster.

Too Many Online Communities?

That’s where you need to be wary of how many online communities you join. There is no definite number, and what one person finds to be unmanageable might be just the right amount for someone else.

The key to getting the most out of your own online communities is to find out what your happy number is. If you get to the stage where keeping up with them all is getting difficult – and your work is suffering as a result – then you know you’ve got too many.

It can also depend on how particular online communities are set up. Some are much easier to understand and use than others, and by their very nature it’s going to be the easy to use ones that will get to stay if you find you need to start paring down your efforts in this area.

Get the Best Response

But you should also consider which sites get you the best response, and funnel the largest amount of traffic over to your website. Those will ultimately be the ones that should stay, since they are bringing in the largest volume of interested people.

Social networking has great potential when it comes to locating the target audience for whatever you are selling. When the sites don’t allow you to advertise directly to other members, you can still make a name for yourself because people will start looking for you and your website.

So choose your online communities wisely. Sometimes less really can be more.

Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Increasing the number of backlinks to your site is a great way to increase your SEO and get better indexing in the search engines.  Beyond getting other people to link to you and going on a blog commenting spree, here are some other tips to help you get more links to your websites and blogs so that you can make more money online.

Blogs

Start a MySpace account and other free blog accounts and write regularly in those blogs to promote your self. Anchor your desired keywords to your sites and blogs in this blog. Google seems to love MySpace for indexing so creating links that point to your new website or blog from this social networking tool can be helpful. People also browse through their friends’ lists regularly so adding ‘friends’ on these sites can help you as well.

Article Directories

Submit to sites like Ezinearticles and create alternate pen names or even just resource boxes that can help you to get more links pointing to your online homes. Search engines take notice and so do people who might read your articles and visit your sites.

Online Communities

Post your site URL on forums in your auto signature and in your profiles on online sites as well such as Plurk, Twitter and others. People will visit and search engines will as well. If you post often on a community forum, every post could equate to a link to your website. Some prolific posters on high ranking online forums will even offer signature links for sale because it can equate to great SEO results.

Every Little Bit Helps!

In terms of SEO and online marketing, every little effort can help a little bit in getting you more traffic and making you more money!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008