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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
