How to Market Your Business Using Social Networking - page 2

by Jinger Jarrett, 9/22/2006

2. Building backlinks

The search engines are constantly spidering these sites. Want to get your site spidered? Then building a profile on these sites will help the search engines find you and then ultimately, your customers can find you.

Remember, though, don't blatantly sell on these sites. Create a profile that tells everyone about you and your products or services. Include links to your website, or if you have more than one site, all of your sites.

Make your profile keyword rich with keywords from your topic.

3. Branding yourself

Whether you are a writer, or you are simply selling your own products and services, you will need to resort to shameless promotion if you want to make the sale. When you brand yourself, you are attaching yourself to a specific topic. You become an expert on the topic.

Writing articles and posting them on your blog on these social networking sites can help others become aware of your products and services. This builds value, and by contributing to these sites, you are not only building value for them, you are building value for you.

What's key is to use a soft sell approach. Establish your credibility and expertise. Get others to trust you and believe in your products. Then you will make the sale.

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Jinger Jarrett is the author of "1001 High Traffic Sites to Market Your Business for Free". Get your business on high traffic sites like Google, Yahoo, and MSN News for free. http://www.askjinger.com

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