Social Bookmarking for Increased traffic

Jun 04

Marketing yourself through social networks is a great way to get business, traffic, and new projects. Its a way to put yourself out into the world so that more people can find out about you or your company.

One of the easies ways to sell yourself is promoting your work or site on social networks. Because thousands of people are using these site everyday some every hour of the day. Advertising your site on a social network can draw in almost 50% more traffic.

Social Networks

Facebook

Adverting with facebook through a facebook groups or fan pages, is a great way for people to follow your updates and bring in more traffic. You can take advantage of the discussion boards, add/invite member,post images/videos which will send an update to all member each time to make a change. Great way to keep user interested!

Myspace

Another popular social network is myspace which works as a secondary personal site all in itself. Users can go to your exact custom url and view your work, music, and videos.You can customize your page to suit your personal style and there are templates for the ones who don’t know html and css but still have a creative mind frame and you can do all of this for free.

Flickr

Flickr is a different type of social network it mostly a image bookmarking system that allows viewer to search by tags. This a great way to bring in traffic to your site because thousand of people across the world can view your artwork just by search a category. And if you add your portfolio url in the description once user see flickr work they can also access your portfolio site all at once.

Twitter

Twitter is the new social network sweeping the nation with the simple question “What are you doing?” It a status feed that other can subscribe(follow) to keep up with what your your doing. You can post updates about changes on your site, get people to test out bugs, or just simply say what your doing. And thousand of people will be able to follow you.