Social Media Optimization Techniques

SMO or social media optimization is a system in which by using the attributes of
search engine optimizations your web site is optimized amongst the most
happening online communities. This can either be done by strewing links all
across the community website to facilitate backlinking or by strengthening the
interaction podium by writing numerous blogs and constantly updating their
content. This will serve to recreate interest in your blogs amongst your regular
visitors and have them coming back for more; though with additional company.
This therefore is a more effective method of drawing traffic to your website.
So by now it is clear that if you have to popularize your brand you need to
popularize your website. The guidelines below will simply help you a little in that
endeavor.
Join a social media platform, for example---Digg, Delicious, twitter, facebook or
Technorati. Besides the obvious advantage that your website will be looked up
as a very ‘in-thing’ it will also improve the ranking and stature of your page in the
tech community.

Tag your article in the correct way to increase visibility. Don’t be stupid enough,
to tag an article as Acne when it deals with the more specific issue of acne scars.
Make your voice heard and opinion counted, by the tactful use of tagging.

Focus on quantity as much as you would on quality. Keep on adding articles and
white pages so that you give your visitors more than enough to chew on. If you
do not update your website regularly they will soon lose interest to visit your site
in the long run. This tactic therefore assists in adding to the linkability of your
website.

The most significant requirement is to provide for methods that simplify ‘tagging’
and ‘bookmarking’ for your customers. This can be done if you provide easy
quick buttons or ‘add to del.icio.us’. Allow for tag lists and notes for links to
cumulate visibility.

Reward the incoming links as a sort of inducement to make them come back for
more. This will not only bring in the existing customers but also pull in more
traffic, who would want to get rewarded as well.

Offer downloadable files from your website in the forms of downloadable pdf. files
,audio and video files and make them available to your customer either for free or
at a negligible cost. An additional propaganda mechanism can be by sending
their copies to various other websites.

Social media optimization has immense potential of escalating the ranking of
your website to great heights. Let us now move over to the other technique of
social media marketing.
So I hope by now you’re convinced of the power of social media marketing and
also what’s it and how it works. If you’re determined to make it big this 2009, you
must make full use of social media optimization. Indeed there are several social
network sites only but in the next chapters, I have discussed about the top 7
social media namely – Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Myspace, linkedin, Squidoo,
podcasts and how you can use each of these and generate more traffic to your
business.

Social Media Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing means earning commissions from companies or business owners by referring people to their products or services. This means every time someone order a product as a result of your referral, you will earn a commission from the product owner.

In affiliate marketing all you have to do is to encourage people to use these products or services either by writing reviews about them in forums or by directly inviting people to use them on social networks like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.

A better way to refer people is to use your own website or blog if you have any, in this case you will have to be picky about the kind of products you are trying to promote because they better be related to the niche of your website.

So where to find these affiliate programs ?

An easy way to find good affiliate programs that you might like to promote is to join affiliate networks like "ClickBank". Once you join these affiliate networks you will find a huge number of merchants offering commissions for people who can refer others to buy their products or services, you can also sell your own products there like eBooks and DVDs

All you have to do by then is browse through these merchants and pick the products that you can promote, you will get an affiliate link that can be traced back to you when someone use your link to buy the product you were promoting.