Traffic via Social Media in 1 step!

You already have a site + content + really really good content + free stuff to give away and you are blogging daily, still no traffic?
Well here is where i’ll help you get a kick start on your web site, going social!

Using the power of social networks and social networking sites is something that takes up alot of your time and I agree it really does but look at the benefits of it, it gets you alot of targeted traffic, for free!

Here is a list of sites that i have created which are free and easy to use.

Twitter

Jaiku

Pownce

Facebook

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How Webmaster Networking Can Help You Gain Exposure

The following post is Guest Blogged by Scot Hughes of Philosophy Forums.

In business, you must focus on your customers. For webmasters, this generally means your website users. Nonetheless, networking with other webmasters can help you get more customers.

Firstly, making friends with other webmasters will help you get more exposure. The other webmasters may decide to link to you or blog about you. Generally, you want your customers and visitors to tell their friends about your website and your great services. If you make webmaster friends, then they will tell a lot of people when they choose to spread the word about something because they can post about it on their website.

Networking with other webmasters will also open up the opportunity for joint ventures. By joint ventures, I refer to when one or more webmasters work together on a project. By combining their resources, they can usually do something extra great, and it will usually help give both webmasters more exposure. One example of a joint venture is a contest.

Another benefit of networking with other webmasters is that you can share expertise. Other webmasters can give you tips and offer you advice. They might be able to give you a heads up about current events that will affect you.

Maybe best of all, if you have other webmaster friends, you can ask them for reviews. If you have a product or service, you can offer them a free trial in exchange for a review. If you already have a preexisting relationship, they will be more open to making deals such as that. Also, they will be more inclined to put effort into trying your product. Even if you do not have a product, you can have them review your website or a part of your website.

For bloggers, networking with other bloggers is especially important. Other bloggers will likely add you to their blogroll if you build relationship with them. Additionally, bloggers often make a habit of reading blogs and subscribing to RSS feeds. There is a very good chance other bloggers will regularly read your blog if you befriend them. Then they will post on their blog about a post on yours whenever they read something that interests them on your blog. This can be great promotion for your own blog.

In conclusion, if you have a great website or blog and you want to help get it to the next level, I recommend you try networking with other webmasters.

Digg it, Asking for someone to promote your blog.

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Tell all your friends, send the links to everybody in your FaceBook/MySpace/Social Network of choice, paint yourself purple and dance naked in the streets carrying a placard saying ‘READ TimK’s BLOGS ON BLUEVERSE’. There I’ve said it, this is difficult for me because I am an Englishman, and we are not good a self promotion, it is not the done thing. Generations of my countrymen have fought battles in which limbs have been blown off to return to the old country saying to all concerned, ‘Pish, tis but a scratch.’ Or from hunting down a man eating tiger with barely a word, ‘it was nothing’ is to the Englishman, what cheese is to the French, sacred. I believe this clip should let you know what I mean, and it is bloody funny as well.

Yet, being a blogger I naturally want to reach as many people as I can, not necessarily for profit, although I have to admit that I want my reputation to precede me in both paid and unpaid blogging circles. So I must ask you, constant reader, to Digg me, to promote me, to recommend me to all your friends. Am I wrong to do so? Well, it is a question I have asked myself, in the interests of maintaining the ever important integrity of my blogs, and I have reached the following conclusion. I believe that we all as bloggers and readers of blogs act as editors, we constantly review and compare and contrast all of the blogs we read, and often the only time we act is in a negative way (even if we do not read that blog again it is negative effect), it is rarer to act in a positive manner, this is just human nature. Therefore it is my new years resolution to actively Digg and promote the things I deem good in this community in any way I can, and I ask you to do the same. Promote what you enjoy, if I provide amusement or relevant comment take the time to Digg my articles, or even just send them to your friends. Happy Trails.