When trying to make money online, who you know can often impact your success levels. If you have online friendships, make the most of them! Here are some things you can do:

1. Ask for a blogroll exchange. You link to them, they link to you.
2. Ask for Stumbles, Diggs, etc. when you write a great post.
3. Consider doing a joint venture where you work together to promote a product and split profits.
4. Ask them to Tweet about you on Twitter. Re-tweeting your tweets or telling people you’re a great person to follow can be helpful.
5. Ask for a testimonial for your sales page  and / or review of your product on their site linking back to your site.

As you can see there are a lot of things your online friends can do for you. They can also share tips and advice and be a sounding board for you at times as well. Don’t forget to reciprocate and do things for them as well. Through mutual back scratching with online friends we can all be more successful.  The more online friendships you have, the better! Need to make more online friends? We’ll talk about that tomorrow!

Have a most outstanding day.

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

Do you want to have more subscribers on Twitter?  Do you want to maximise your marketing impact in the Twitterverse? Your Twitter people, a.k.a your “Tweeps” are interested in following like minded people and / or very interesting people.  If you try to sign up with the sole purpose of link baiting, you’re not going to get very far with this tool.  In order to maximise the impact of Twitter for internet marketing you have to treat it like a social marketing tool that requires both give and take.

Here are some Twitter tips:

-Don’t push out a link in every Tweet. More than 75% of your Tweets should be interesting rather than product related.

-Do reply to your followers who ask you a question or comment on one of your statuses via the replies button. If you don’t check this and ignore those trying to converse with you, you’ll get ‘un-followed’.

-Tweet unto others as you’d have Tweeted unto you.  That means that if you want people re-tweeting you, do that for them. Social bookmark for them, tell your followers that @user is a great person to follow, etc.   Social media is very much a tool built on quid pro quo.

Happy Tweeting!

Have a most outstanding day.

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

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

Making friends online can do a lot for those aspiring to make money on the internet.  Not only can friends help you learn about internet marketing related stuff  that can help you be more successful and share frustrations but they can also follow you, tell people about you and do some promoting for you as well.

Here are some friend finding and perhaps even more importantly, friend keeping tips:

• Find friends more experienced than you so you can watch and learn
• Find friends less experienced than you so you can pay it forward
• Look for people with common interests as it’ll help your marketing efforts
• Make friends with potential customers
• Reciprocate!

What do I mean by reciprocate?

If you make friends and politely ask people to Digg your great new post or stop by and let you know what they think of your new salesletter or site design, be prepared to return the favour. Stop by and comment on their blog, Stumble their site, tweet their username on Twitter and tell all your followers how fab they are and how much they should be followed! No one likes a selfish internet friend and if you’re guilty of it you’ll eventually get ignored.  Online relationsihps need a bit of nurturing just like your offline ones.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
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