One thing an internet marketer can definitely use more of is friends.  Friends can help you be more successful. Online friends that you network with can do a lot for you. You can have a sort of symbiotic relationship that does well for you both.  Beyond regular brainstorming sessions and getting insider secrets and leads about the next greatest money making options, there is also the potential for collaborative projects and scratching one another’s backs by social networking  for one another. Here are some tips:

Digg and Stumble Club

Follow your friends’ friend feeds and when they post something new, Tweet, Plurk, Stumble, Digg or Buzz it for them.  This can make a great difference in traffic levels and they will likely reciprocate which can bring you traffic and new visitors.

Blog Commenting

When your online friends comment on your blog, return the favour.If they write a great post, Digg it. Not only will you get a link but your witty and charming comment could bring you new customers as well.  You can have symbiotic online friendships that can make a great different in your social marketing efforts!

Not only can you find a few friends to do this with, consider making it a regular effort. There are networking clubs and social networking circles all over the web that can help one another by taking turns giving link love, guest posting, social bookmarking and more.

Can’t find a social networking club in your niche? Why not start your own? Tomorrow we’ll explore how to do it.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

Social networking can make a huge difference in your success online but there is a bit of a fine line between marketing or networking and spamming.  Let’s look at some examples:

E-mail Marketing

Marketers build e-mail lists and market selectively. Spamming would include many tactics such as anonymous email blasts, ignoring those who try to opt out or selling lists. If you want to build an e-mail list, consider giving away something for free, having a valuable newsletter or doing something else to build a list of people who are likely going to be interested in what you’re selling.

Article Marketing

Valuable articles will give the reader some information and may direct them some place they can go to in order to find out more information. They don’t generally contain affiliate links and they do provide value. If you try to spam through article marketing you probably won’t get very far because most e-zine sites have requirements and terms of service that prohibit spam.

Blogging or Splogging

While it’s perfectly fine to do advertising on your blog, you want valuable information there as well otherwise it’s considered a splog (spam blog) and you won’t have too many repeat visitors. Visitors who do arrive probably won’t buy anything or return again. Give people value and you’ll have more chances of making sales and having them do some of your marketing for you through social bookmarking.

Social Media: Don’t Be One Sided

If you’re constantly asking people on social networking tools and forums to Digg or Stumble your entry but never do it in return and never participate in discussions in a reciprocal way, eventually everyone will just ignore you. Reciprocate a little in your online marketing efforts and you’ll find a bit difference in how people receive you.

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Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

Welcome to SeanSEO.com

I have moved address from my previous Internet Marketing Blog at the Wealth Creation Affiliate website. It was time to take the whole Social Media concept a bit more serious and start providing some consistent, quality content for the readers (you). Considering my next target is to become the number one internet marketer in AustralAsia, I better start putting my money where my mouth is.

My aim is to provide you with a blog that gives you content without the “Big Sell”. That means:

• No Adsense
• No Blatant Ads
• No In-Your-Face affiliate links
• No insulting your intelligence

Blogging should be about giving away quality information online and the readers have every right to click away at any time they get bored. My aim is for you to come back, every day. Let’s hope I can do that!

You will see my latest books that I come up with but they will be available, casually in the sidebar. You will notice that most of the stuff I do is given away for free, anyway.

Every Day Content

Starting next week (June 2008), we will post articles about internet marketing every day of the week. I have joined forces with Dana Prince to make sure the postings happen every day. Enjoy the upcoming articles about SEO, Google, Yahoo, Marketing, Online Business and much more…

I’m Sean Rasmussen and my SeanSEO co-writer is Dana Prince.

We will see you back here very soon.

Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009