MySpace
Marketing on the web’s #1 Social networking site is a lot like how you remember High
School; the rules are different, it’s all about competing in a Popularity contest!
In fact, you may notice that it seems the majority of MySpace members are pretty young… So why does everyone obsess about using MySpace to market with these days? Simply because they’ve already got the traffic there.
MySpace.com is at this moment the world’s 6th most popular website according to Alexa.com. YouTube.com and it had been closely competing for the #5 spot for half a year until Microsoft’s ‘Live’ search got between them. (YouTube, which I review later in this eBook, is even better for marketing purposes than MySpace.) Still, getting a website all about you on the #6 website worldwide is an opportunity you shouldn’t pass up.
Getting your own profile there is free, you can make it link to any off-site (no illegal) websites that you’d like, and of course your profile page should include some type of non-spammy-sounding content on your niche subject matter that other people may want to link to.
Since it’s easy to linkswap (they call it ‘inviting friends’) with other MySpace members, a full link campaign inside MySpace takes only minutes instead of months. Of course not everyone there will accept the invitation.
You can search for link swap opportunities by simply popping your niche keywords into a MySpace search box and you’ll get all the matching member pages as results. From there it’s just about having a nice page yourself that they’ll want to swap links with (accepting the invitation) and if you get enough MySpace ‘friends,’ your MySpace page can have a really impressive stream of traffic… Which of course you’ll want to have linked to your own primary website.
Although you won’t get any traffic worth mentioning if you don’t make a nice page and invite every friend in your niche there, one nice thing about it is that many MySpace members surf member pages randomly, so you’re almost sure to get a visit or two daily, even with a blank page.
It won’t be very targeted, however, so don’t count on it to bring you much reward. Also, since it’s so much of a popularity contest, it can be difficult to convince individual members into accepting your invitation.
Your best bet: Use a Popularity submission tool like Friend Laser. It’s not free, but it can drastically improve your page views because it seeks out just the ‘profitable’ friends to submit add friend requests to… That way you don’t build a list of thousands of friends there just to find that none of them have ever been back to MySpace since the day they signed up.
It also make sure you’re only submitting comments on pages that have a lot of views, which is the hardest thing about MySpace marketing. Unfortunately there is no free way to do that part, so the best you can do without any cash on MySpace is just to manually make sure that you submit to only people who appear active, on topic, and have lots & lots of friends.
MySpace.com is at this moment the world’s 6th most popular website according to Alexa.com. YouTube.com and it had been closely competing for the #5 spot for half a year until Microsoft’s ‘Live’ search got between them. (YouTube, which I review later in this eBook, is even better for marketing purposes than MySpace.) Still, getting a website all about you on the #6 website worldwide is an opportunity you shouldn’t pass up.
Getting your own profile there is free, you can make it link to any off-site (no illegal) websites that you’d like, and of course your profile page should include some type of non-spammy-sounding content on your niche subject matter that other people may want to link to.
Since it’s easy to linkswap (they call it ‘inviting friends’) with other MySpace members, a full link campaign inside MySpace takes only minutes instead of months. Of course not everyone there will accept the invitation.
You can search for link swap opportunities by simply popping your niche keywords into a MySpace search box and you’ll get all the matching member pages as results. From there it’s just about having a nice page yourself that they’ll want to swap links with (accepting the invitation) and if you get enough MySpace ‘friends,’ your MySpace page can have a really impressive stream of traffic… Which of course you’ll want to have linked to your own primary website.
Although you won’t get any traffic worth mentioning if you don’t make a nice page and invite every friend in your niche there, one nice thing about it is that many MySpace members surf member pages randomly, so you’re almost sure to get a visit or two daily, even with a blank page.
It won’t be very targeted, however, so don’t count on it to bring you much reward. Also, since it’s so much of a popularity contest, it can be difficult to convince individual members into accepting your invitation.
Your best bet: Use a Popularity submission tool like Friend Laser. It’s not free, but it can drastically improve your page views because it seeks out just the ‘profitable’ friends to submit add friend requests to… That way you don’t build a list of thousands of friends there just to find that none of them have ever been back to MySpace since the day they signed up.
It also make sure you’re only submitting comments on pages that have a lot of views, which is the hardest thing about MySpace marketing. Unfortunately there is no free way to do that part, so the best you can do without any cash on MySpace is just to manually make sure that you submit to only people who appear active, on topic, and have lots & lots of friends.
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