How to Build a Big List Using Social Networking

[MySpace.com - Facebook.com - LinkedIn.com - Friendster.com - Twitter.com]

You’ve likely heard some of these sites and possibly you’ve taken a look at some of their home pages or even signed up for a free account. But tell me this:

Are you generating a ton of qualified leads using these sites yet?

If you’re not pulling in traffic using these sites, you’re certainly not alone.  Plenty of marketers haven’t even touched the social networking scene yet. And many of those that have ventured out into this relatively new territory aren’t matching their strategy or their message to the medium.

You see, you can’t just post a profile on MySpace and talk TO your audience.

These are social networking sites, meaning you talk WITH your audience. In other words, it’s a two-way conversation. And if you try to make it into a static, one-way conversation, you’ll find very few people interested in what you have to say.

To that end, here’s what you need to do to start making the most out of social networking sites:

1) Join and Set Up Your Profile

Stay away from setting up a jumbled profile with lots of images, colors and fonts that make it hard to read.
If people have to struggle to read it, they won’t. And you’ll lose a potential prospect.

On the flip side, don’t make your profile into a “clinical white” corporate-type site. People don’t visit other people’s profiles to read about companies. If they want to look at a business page at all, it’s because they want to find solutions to their problems.

In other words, your profile isn’t really about you. It’s about your prospect.

2) Contribute Good Content

Social networking sites aren’t for blasting out one commercial message after another. And in fact, doing so can get you banned.

However, you can use these sites to establish yourself as an expert in your niche, as well as to attract qualified leads to your site. And to do that, you need to contribute good content on your social networking blog, on the forums and elsewhere on the site as appropriate.

Doing so starts the conversation with like-minded others – and networking is the key to using these sites successfully.

3) Start Now

Today is the time to get started. And that’s because social networking is not only hot today, it’s the future of the web. We’re seeing this evolution right now – and if you start using social
networking sites immediately, you’ll be rewarded handsomely in new customers, new leads, new sales … and plenty of money!

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Submitting Your Article to EzineArticles

Step #1

If you don’t already have an account, create an account at EzineArticles: join

Step #2

Login to your account and go to the article submission area:

Step #3

Fill in the following details:

• Category and sub-category (your main category is going to be”Internet and Businesses Online”, and your sub-category will depend on the specific article you are submitting)
• Article title
• Summary of the article (just use the first paragraph of the article)
• The article itself
• Keywords. EzineArticles will give you ones to choose from based on your article. Don’t skip this one!  I find that EzineArticles is more inclined to accept an article if it has a few keywords inserted in this area. It might have just been a coincidence, but they only take you a few clicks of the mouse to add, so why not do it?
• The resource box – we have this already made for you!

This is how you use them:

First, you must have a domain that redirects to your affiliate link (it has to be a redirect from the domain level. You can’t just post your affiliate link, and you can’t post a redirect that is a page or folder withing your site. It has to be a redirect from the domain level, just like I show you how to get here).

Next, you have to switch the text that says “yourdomain” with your actual domain name, and “Text” with the text you want to appear as the link.

For example, if you registered mypushbuttonwealth.info, this is what you should do:

Are you tired, frustrated, and just want to start making money? Click here -> <a href=”yourdomain”>Text</a>

Stop moving around in circles and discover the online marketing secrets the gurus don’t want you to know -> <a href=”yourdomain”>Text</a>

Turns into:

Are you tired, frustrated, and just want to start making money already? Click here -> <a href=”mypushbuttonwealth.info”>MyPushButtonWealth.info</a>

Stop moving around in circles and discover the online marketing secrets the gurus don’t want you to know -> <a href=”mypushbuttonwealth.info”>MyPushButtonWealth.info</a>

Note: Notice that in the text area I just put the domain name itself while capitalizing acronyms letters and word beginning letters. That is just how I prefer to do it, but you can use regular text in there, like “Push Button Marketer” or “Push Button Wealth”.

Step #4

Review and submit

Now you can review your article and make sure that everything is in check, and then you can submit it.

After your article gets accepped, that is when you take things to the next level by linking to it from social booknarking and content sharing sites, and helping it rank higher in the search engine for your chosen keyword phrase.

Ready-made resource boxes:

Resource box#1:

How would you like to automate your whole internet marketing business? Then you should go to -> <a href=”YOURDOMAINNAME”>Text</a>

This piece of magic software will do absolutely everything for you easily. Check it out -> <a href=”YOURDOMAINNAME”>Text</a>

Resource box #2:

Have you ever dreamed of automating your internet business? Then check this out -> <a href=”YOURDOMAINNAME”>Text</a>

This one piece of software can easily change your life. What have you got to lose? -> <a href=”YOURDOMAINNAME”>Text</a>

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How to Use SocialMarker.com to Get Backlinks to Your Article (And Help it Rank Higher in the Search Engines)

Submitting to Social Marker

Step #1

Fill in the details of your article in the “Bookmark details” section:

Step #2

Now you need to choose the social bookmarking sites that you want to bookmark your site to.

Just press the “Dofollow” button to choose only the sites that proide your article with do-follow links (a “no-follow” link is a link that is marked with the “no-follow” tag, which means that google and the other search engines don’t give value to that link. Many web 2.0 sites mark their links with the no-follow tag). Although I have seen where I actually get credited a link from NOFOLLOW sites)

Note: Your article title will be the anchor text of that link.  The anchor text is very important to your ranking.

The search engines look at the anchor text of the links that come into a page to determine its rankings. For example: If you have a link with the anchor text “Blue widgets”, it will help your page to rank for the search term “blue widgets” whenever someone does a search for that term. BUT… Do NOT have all your links say the same thing. keep about 30% of your bookmarks with the exact same keyord that you want to rank for as the anchor text, and the remaining links with an anchor text that similiar to it.

For example, if you want your article to rank for the phrase: “how to make money online easily” 30% of your titles should be “how to make money online easily” while the other 70% of your titles should say stuff like: “making money online easily”, “how you can make money online the easy way” etc. This is very easy to do with Social Marker, as you will see for yourself when you do it.

The same goes for your other linking efforts. Never link too much to the same page with the same anchor text. The search engines will see right through that. You don’t want it to appear like you are “manufactoring” links.

Step #3

Now it’s time to bookmark your article. After you press the submit button, you will be take throgh each one of the sites that you chose to bookmark your article with. If you do not have an account with them, you will have to create one.

Step #4

Once you have begun the submitting process, an area will appear at the bottom of the page with all the details that you just filled in. You can drag and drop that information into the appropriate fields when you submit a bookmark.

Step #5

When you are done with one site, continue to the next one by pressing the “Next” button.

You’re Done! Now you will have some backlinks going to your article giving it a little “push” in the search engines and helping it rank higher. Now it’s time to go to the next linking strategy, which is much more powerful than the one I just showed you (although it does take a bit more time.)

In the next training module I will show you how you can make an article “spin-ready”, so you can easily have unique content to post to content sharing sites with a link back to your main article. (if you don’t know what article “spinning” is, don’t worry, I show you everything you need to know about it in the next training module.)

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How to Post Your Unique Content to Web 2.0 Sites

Posting to Web 2.0 sites is very easy.  Just copy one of the spun versions of your article and submit it to the different sites.

Let’s look at how we can do it manually, but effectively, and even before that, let’s look at a couple of guidelines you should keep in mind:

Since you will be posting 250-350 word articles to these sites, it would be best if you only place up to 2 links in each post (If your articles are 400 or bigger, you can post 3 links). If you do have more than one link on a webpage, have the links go to different articles that you want to promote (having more than one link one a page go to another webpage is a poor use of a link).

DO NOT use the same anchor text every time you link to an article. Use the 30%/70% percent rule. The anchor text of 30% of your links should be the keyword that you are trying to rank for, while the remaining 70% should be similiar keywords.

Now to the actual article submission:

First of all, you need to open up an account with each one of these sites. Remember, you will only have to do this once, so it’s ok if it’s a bit time consuming.

Now, open a new account with any one of the social bookmarking site. I like delicious. Social bookmark each one of the sites that you are going to post your content on (you’l see why we do this in a second).

Now, lets say that you want to submit a new article. Open up the social bookmarking account where you bookmarked all of the web 2.0 properties where you will post your article.

Next, right click on each one of them and open them in a new tab. Post your article in the site that’s in the open tab and then close that tab. Repeat with all the web 2.0 properties you want to post your content to.

Like with the article writing and spinning, our aim here is to do things as streamlined, automatic and fast as possible, making the work itself require the least amount of conscious thought and effort.
Taking it Up a Notch

What does SEnuke do? Everything I taught you to do… and more…

It creates accounts at all the social bookmarking and content sharing sites… automatically.

It bookmarks pages… automatically.

It submits “spin-ready” articles (placing a unique article on each site)… automatically

It saves the addresses of the pages that it created so it can bookmark them (adding more link power to your network)… automatically…

It submits the RSS feeds of all the pages that it created for you (pushing yet even MORE link power and search engine attention to your pages and articles)… automatically.

It submits videos… automatically.

Oh… I almost forgot… did I mention it does everything for you automatically?

This is becoming a bit too much like a sales pitch, but it’s just that I really love this piece of software. You can get SO MUCH accomplished with this software and end up with so much more money in your bottom line by using this tool.

It is a bit pricey… $127 a month (ouch!), but to me it’s totally worth it.

There is a free trial, though. You can take it for a spin for 7 days.

In fact, I suggest that you submit several articles to EzineArticles and once they are approved, then sign up for your free 7 day trial and use those 7 days to promote these articles. If you only promote 2 articles a day (write a spin-ready version of that article and submit it through SEnuke) you will be able to get a few of them to rank high in the search engines, and sending you affiliate sales on autopilot, month after month, as long as they stay up there.

(IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are going to do this way, make sure that you sign up to the free trial AFTER you had articles accepted to EzineArticles. They usually take 7-10 days to accept an article, so if you submit your articles and then sign up, you won’t have any page out there to actually promote using the power of SEnuke, and you will waste your 7 day trial).

With the 7 days of SEnuke and just 2 hours of work a day, you can easily create the monthly income you can use to pay the monthly fees of the software.

I truly believe that SEnuke must be a part of your long-term strategy. It’s just such a big time and headache saver, and in the end, the only resource you have a limited amount of is time. By investing in SEnuke you are exchanging cash for time – time that you can then exchange for more cash. Time is money. Time is leverage. Your time is too important to spend it on filling out forms and submitting articles, even if you’re doing it the fast and efficient way that I showed you.

Besides, SEnuke does more than what I showed you in this series (stuff like bookmarking the articles that you submit and submitting RSS feedds). The reason I didn’t show you everything is because I don’t want to encumber you with to much stuff – I wanted to hand you an actionable and easy to execute plan you can take right away and start working at it, get traffic, and generate sales.

Another reason I didn’t show you everything, is because I don’t believe that extra stuff is worth your time compared to the results that they give you. But when you have SEnuke to do it for you, it’s definitely going to give you that extra “edge” that you need to get more attention and traffic from the search engines.
Resources:

Roboform

SEnuke

Delicious

List of content sharing sites:

Squidoo -(The most powerful one and the only site that isn’t included in SEnuke. You should take the time to post there manually)
Hubpages
Zimbio
Wikispaces
Google Knol
Blogspot
Wetpaint
Goarticles
Quizilla
MSN Spaces
Webs
Vox
LiveJournal
Xanga
Blog.com
Ning
Friendster
Jimdo
Zoho
Gather
OnSugar
Blogetery
EasyJournal
Nexo
ZoomGroups
ZoomShare
InsaneJournal
Terapad
DiaryLand
Thoughts
SOS Blog
Bravejournal
Edublogs
Blogher
HPage
Wikidot
Webspawner
Article Dashboard
Article Base
Article Alley
Article Click
Amazines
Easy Articles
Carolina Articles
Article Pool

How important is a list?

How important is a list, your very own personalized list, when you are building an on-line business?

Think about this one.  Are you more likely to open an email that has a sender’s email address and name that you identify or a sender’s email address and name that you do not?

If you subscribe to a newsletter and you are given an informative newsletter once a week or every few days, are you more or less likely to open an email from the sender of that newsletter than one from someone you don’t know?

That is for sure – and other people online behave much as you do.

So if you grow a list of your own, sending emails to subscribers who recognize your return email address as one that sends educational useful advice, will your emails be opened at a stronger rate than they would if you bought a “safelist” or rented someone else’s list?

I think the answer should be clear.  Your own list wins every time.

Keep in mind, when you procure a list, it is most probably being mooted to numerous others.

So the recipient not only gets your email but 30 or 50 others, all from email addresses they do not trust.

You must grow your own list.

So how do you do it?

At the very least, you need a web site.  It does not have to be anything elaborate, just a landing page for interested individuals, where you will put your opt-in script.  There are plenty of zero cost ones out there that you can just fill in the blanks.  I recommend this do it yourself website builder.  It really is point and go.

You must have an autoresponder account. You will use the autoresponder account to supply messages that help you build a association with your potential prospects.

Your emails must be informative and useful in order to keep them getting read.  If you give useful and informative material, people will look forward to your email as often as you send it.  If you do not provide useful information, your emails will not get read.

You must have perseverance.  You will not build a huge list over night.  But as you grow your list, you will be putting together a business.  A long-term business, with repeat buyers.

One note to the sensible:  Be sure you use the “double opt-in” feature you will receive with your autoresponder.  This ensures that anyone who opts in to your list will have to click through to a confirmation link before they receive any emails from you.  This helps protect you from SPAM complaints.

A word of warning to those who really want to buy a “safelist” and simply email your offer to the email addresses on that list.  Is it worth a one-time mailing to get your web site suspended for spam activity?

Don’t do it!

Build your own high-quality list and cultivate a strong, long-term relationship with those leads.

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The right way of spinning articles

So, what is the correct way to spin articles so you get the maximum benefit for your efforts in terms of the results that you get and the amount of time and effort that you put into it?

You simply rewrite each sentence twice (having a total of 3 variations for each sentence). Not having to worry for each individual phrase while writing what comes to mind (while keeping the flow of the article) saves you a lot of time and effort. It really does make the process much less tedious, and you will be surprised at how fast you get used to doing it.

Two important things to remember:

1.You don’t need to rewrite the sentence to say the exact same thing each time.

You just need to write a sentence that makes sense in the flow of the article. We aren’t trying to impress any reader here. You probably won’t be getting any readers for these articles. (Remember – these are just to put links in.The only article that’s supposed to gain traffic from this process is your main EzineArticles article.

The only reason why we are doing this instead of just posting gibberish to the web 2.0 sites is because the search engines DO know how to recognize “real” content (don’t ask me how because I don’t know myself) and because the more important web 2.0 sites have human reviewers that will just kick your article out of their site if it’s just nonesense, so you do need an article that flows well.)

For example: “We live in hard economic times” and “In this day and age everyone is yearning for some extra cash” might say different things, but in 99% percent of the time, they could easily replace each other in an article without anyone ever noticing the swith, and they are completely different, making each variation of your article more unique.

2. Try to use different words with each variation that you write for a single sentence (but don’t sweat too much over it).

While it will make your article more unique and you should definitely give it a little thought, you really shouldn’t let this strain you.

After you’re done “spinning” the article, you can now go to JetSpinner and create unique variations of that article.

• Step #1: Create a free account with JetSpinner
• Step #2: Click on “Articles” – Then click on “Add Jetspinner Article”
• Step #3: Fill in the article title (should also be in a spin ready syntax), insert your spin ready article in the “Body” box, pick the number of articles you want to create (I normally pick 40), and then press the “Create” button:
• Step #4: Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and press the “Download Zip File of XX Spun Articles” button:

Now all you have to do is submit these articles to the web 2.0 sites, just like I show you in the next post.

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Social Bookmarking: Traffic Generator or Time Waster?

Today, we’re going to talk about Social bookmarking.

You’ve probably heard alot about it and maybe you’ve even tried it yourself a time or two.

You maybe have come to the same conclusion that alot of other people have come to — that it is a load of old tosh and not worth the hassle!.

And yet you keep hearing the gurus boast about how much traffic they get from these sites.  They talk about getting hundreds or even thousands of visitors in an insane short amount of time.

They warn you that social bookmarking sites and other social media sites are the future – and if you don’t start using these sites now, you’ll be left behind.

Is that true?

To be blunt: Yes.

And that’s why I want you to know how to use social bookmarking sites.

These sites are easy to use, you get instant traffic and the traffic is targeted and warm to your messages.

Here’s how to do it:

1) Join the Top Social Bookmarking Sites

Run a search for “social bookmarking” sites in Google, and you’ll uncover plenty of sites.  You’ll need to focus on two types of sites:

1) the main sites (listed below) that get the most traffic and
2) those sites that are tightly focused on your niche.

Here are some the best social bookmarking sites (that you should join ASAP):

Del.icio.us
Digg.com
StumbleUpon.com
Reddit.com
Del.icio.us

2) Participate, Network, Contribute, Network

You can’t just join these sites, bookmark your own pages and expect a rush of traffic.

Think of it this way: If a stranger came up to you on the street and said “visit this site,” would you?

Maybe.
Maybe not.

But you certainly wouldn’t feel compelled to do so.

Now what if your friend emails you and says, “check out this site.”  Would you?
Probably!  And that’s because you know this person and trust his judgement.

Likewise, that’s why social bookmarking sites are so powerful.  Namely, bookmarked pages have a better chance of being seen by thousands of eager visitors IF some of the well respected members of the community rate them as good sites first.

That means you need to network and become friends with the influential members who are in your niche. And that means you must also become one of these respected members by first voting and commenting thoughtfully on other people’s content.

3) Submit “Buzz Worthy” Content

Once you’ve networked with influential members on these sites and built up your own reputation, it’s time to start submitting some of your own content.

But here’s the catch – you can’t trot out some dusty old content that can be found in a thousand other places online.

It needs to be fresh, engaging and “edgy”.  In short, it needs to be worth sharing – something that people want to read about and pass on to others.

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Why Spin Articles?

The search engines love unique content, and they like to see that the links that are coming to your pages are placed inside unique content.  But you can’t possibly produce so much unique content. That is where spinning comes into play.

Spinning articles is a method of creating unique articles so that you get the most value out of every link that you point to your article without writing a unique article every time that you post a new piece of content on the web.

Why Most People Are Doing it WRONG

There’s a lot of software out there that lets you spin words withing your article with a click of a button. You just press a word or phrase, and the software gives you a couple of different alternatives you can use to replace that word or phrase.

It might soud great on paper (just press your mouse button and poof! you’ve got a spin-ready article), but in reality that’s a horrible way of spinning articles!

Why is this?  Well -

1. It’s inefficient and slow

It may seem easy and fast because you don’t have to write anything for yourself, but the process itself doesn’t flow well at all. You see, with this process, you have to stop and think with every word!

Every time you click a word, a buch of options will appear for the word or phrase that can replace it, and you will need to stop and think which words make sense in that context… and that takes thought, and let me tell you something: Thinking is the most strenuous activity there is.

At the end of the article, you will just feel beat… and you will notice that it took you very long to get that one article done, with all of the stopping that you did. Remember this key concept that you should apply whenever you want to get things done fast (and especially things you need to do over and over again): Conscious thought is your enemy.

It will drain you of your energy and it will slow you down. You need to make the article spinning activity as streamlined and “automatic” as possible.
2. It’s Ineffective

It just doesn’t get the job done. The search engines like to see an article that’s at least 30% unique, and this way of doing things usually gets it to the 15% range. That’s just not good enough if you want to get the maximum value for every link that you create.

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Social Networks And Your Business

One of the hottest things right now in the Internet marketing world is a social network. Some of the bigger names are MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter.

These are fast becoming places where more and more people are turning for their Internet marketing endeavours. 

Why? Plain and simple — Traffic.

These social networks have a very big traffic base and many members may be interested in what you are selling.

The more people that you can reach, the better chance you have to sell your products. Marketing, though to these social networks, is not easy and must be handled in the right way or you will be banned instantly.

One of the easiest steps is to become a member of these social networks and interact with the people of the network.

Just don’t jump in with the idea of sell, sell, sell first or you will be banned so quickly your head may spin.

Secondly, make sure you join plenty of groups and talk with others and update your page often. The more pages you visit, the more people will come to you.

Make friends along the way, as they will in turn help you out more than you thought possible. Friends tell other friends about you and thus, traffic comes your way.

Slowly ease into selling your business or product. You will find out with social networking the hard sell never works and always backfires very quickly.

Social networks can’t be ignored any more, as the possibilities are virtually endless at what they can do for your business.  It could take years to drive the traffic that is possible to get there.

Many times people don’t realize the goldmines that these are. As more people do, they will find out that social marketing can be very profitable if you go about it the right way.

If you do not, it can be a waste of your time. It depends on which way you go about it. This will determine what degrees of success you will have.

Starting your own group is one smart way to go. This way, as other people join, you can slowly tell them about what you have to sell once you build heir trust.

Trust is a very big factor when talking about social networking, so don’t overlook this important aspect of marketing.

When someone trusts you, they are more likely to believe what you have to say than if you are not trustworthy.

The key to success with social networks is to take your time and don’t rush into selling mode.

Building trust and contacts through social networks can be done, but must be done slowly if it’s going to last (or if you are going to be successful).

Once you start to see some success, you can then add other ways to grow that success. Just remember to build trust and you will be fine.

People from social networks are just everyday people and they are receptive to new ideas as long as it’s not shoved down their throats.

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How to Make Your Article “Spin-Ready”

What is a “Spin-Ready” Article?

A “spin-ready” article is an article that is structured in a format where sentences or words within the article are written in certain variations and in a certain syntax, that when ran through a special software, will produce unique versions of the article.

Confused a bit? Let me give you an example:

Let’s say the first sentence of my article is: “I’m a short man and I carry a few extra pounds”.  Now, if I want to use this article over and over again, and I would like to “spin” it, when I create my spin-ready article, that sentence will look like this:

{I’m a short man|I am not a tall person} and {I carry a few extra pounds|I’m a bit overweight}.

The squiggly brackets surround the text that you want to spin, and the dividing line divides the different variations of the text you want to spin.

Note: This specific sytax is used by a free spinning software called JetSpinner. Other software may use a different syntax (but this is actually the most common one).

Now, If I actually take this sentence and run it through JetSpinner, I will get these 4 different variations:

• I’m a short man and I carry a few extra pounds
• I’m a short man and I’m a bit overweight
• I am not a tall person and I carry a few extra pounds
• I am not a tall person and I’m a bit overweight

If you take a full article and “spin” it you will end up with a very unique piece of content.

Now if you really wanted to put more variations into the above sentence you could add them in quite easily.  Here’s an example:

{{I’m|I am} a short man|{I am|I’m} not a tall person} and {I carry a few extra pounds|{I am|I’m} a {bit|little} overweight}.

With this method of changing you can get many more variations

• I’m a short man and I carry a few extra pounds
• I’m a short man and I’m a bit overweight
• I am not a tall person and I carry a few extra pounds
• I am not a tall person and I’m a bit overweight
• I am a short man and I carry a few extra pounds
• I am a short man and I’m a bit overweight
• I am a short man and I’m a little overweight

• I’m a short man and I carry a few extra pounds
• I’m a short man and I’m a bit overweight
• I’m a short man and I’m a little overweight
• I’m not a tall person and I carry a few extra pounds
• I’m not a tall person and I’m a bit overweight
• I’m not a tall person and I’m a little overweight

Now I don’t know about you but this is a lot better and easier to do.  This way you can go through your article and make lots of changes and also have about 5 or 100 different articles (well in Google’s eyes anyway).

Now go and get yourself spinning articles and submit them.

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