What would happen if one of your friends tells about your newest
blog to her five friends and they, in turn, tell their friends and it
goes on like this? Pretty soon you will have all the traffic you need
for a comfortable income from your new-found writing careers. Is it
possible to to achieve this kind of success using the virality of the
social web, or does it sound like a pyramid scheme?
The emergence of social web provides opportunities for viral
marketing that never existed before. Face to face talk or talk over the
phone has its limitations in reaching your audience. The Web 1.0
offered forums for a limited viral marketing opportunity. The social
web has opened up avenues manyfolds expanded online reach. This article
describes seven techniques for using the social web to achieve virality.
1. Before jumping to social websites to launch your viral adventure,
make your site social web friendly. Provide a link on your site for
users to invite their friends. When someone joins your site through an
invitation, reward points to the inviter. Announce a contest on your
site and reward the top inviter with e-books or a t-shirt with your
site logo.
2. Spend sometime at Digg. This is a community based news popularity
web site. If your blog article hits the front page of Digg, you will
get thousands of visitors and some of them will eventually become your
regulars. Study the types of articles that end up on the front page of
Digg. Write your blog articles targeted to Digg users.
3. MySpace is the ultimate social website because of its sheer size
in terms of visitors. If you have lots of friends who have their
MySpace pages, create a niche network community in MySpace with common
interests. Post teasers of your interesting blog articles in your
MySpace page with links to your full article. Ask your friends to write
comments on your blog postings.
4. Take a look at Delicious. Google Delicious to get the url because
it is not a dot-com domain. It is a social bookmarking site to store
your bookmarks online. You should build a network of friends at this
site and study their bookmarkings to assess the type of articles they
prefer to bookmark. Tailor your blog articles to mimic the article
style your network appreciates.
5. Visit a site called Squidoo. At Squidoo you create
“lenses” (a Web page) about any topic. You can create as
many lenses as you want and you can embed external links in your
lenses. Squidoo lenses also have a good search engine credibility. So,
your sites will get some good external in-bound links for free.
6. LinkedIn is an online community of experienced professionals.
Create your account at LinkedIn and network with professionals in your
fields. Offer some free services for other professionals in your
network and solicit their recommendations. All recommendations appear
in your profile. LinkedIn provides great opportunity for someone to
find your business or services.
7. YourElevatorPitch provides a free online spot to announce your
business and services. User rates your ad pitches. This site also
allows you to link back to your site.
Other sites worth exploring for viral opportunities are Flickr and
YouTube. Both the sides accept multimedia (photos for Flickr and videos
for YouTube) contents. These sites are good for establishing your brand
by regular posting of theme oriented humorous contents.
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Distributed by Hasan Shrek, independence blogger. Also run online business , matrix, internet marketing solution , online store script .
Beside he is writing some others blogs for notebook computer , computer training , computer software and personal computer
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